Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers' causal inferences

Adults' causal representations integrate information about predictive relations and the possibility of effective intervention; if one event reliably predicts another, adults can represent the possibility that acting to bring about the first event might generate the second. Here we show that alt...

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Main Authors: Bonawitz, Elizabeth (Contributor), Saxe, Rebecca R. (Contributor), Gopnik, Alison (Author), Meltzoff, Andrew N. (Author), Woodward, James (Author), Schulz, Laura E. (Contributor), Ferranti, Darlene (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2012-04-13T19:40:34Z.
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