Goal attribution without agency cues: The perception of 'pure reason' in infancy

Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 237-267

  Csibra, Gergely ^a   Gergely, György ^b,c   Bíró, Szilvia ^c,d   Koós, Orsolya ^c   Brockbank, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goal attribution; Rational action; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; MODEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 0033607310     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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