Infants’ agent individuation: It’s what’s on the insides that counts
| Autor: | Hernando Taborda-Osorio, Erik W. Cheries |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Linguistics and Language Property (philosophy) Concept Formation Cognitive Neuroscience 05 social sciences Infant Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Event (philosophy) 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Individuation Cognition Developmental and Educational Psychology Identity (object-oriented programming) Humans Female 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Comprehension Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognition. 175:11-19 |
| ISSN: | 0010-0277 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.01.016 |
| Popis: | Adults and preschool-aged children believe that internal properties are more important than external properties when determining an agent's identity over time. The current study examined the developmental origins of this understanding using a manual-search individuation task with 13-month-old infants. Subjects observed semi-transparent objects that looked and behaved like animate agents placed into box that they could reach but not see into. Across trials infants observed objects with either the same- or different-colored insides placed into the box. We found that infants used internal property differences more than external property differences to determine how many agents were involved in the event. A second experiment confirmed that this effect was specific to the domain of animate entities. These results suggest that infants are biased to see an agent's 'insides' as more important for determining its identity over time than its outside properties. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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