One-year-old infants use teleological representations of actions productively

Cognitive Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 111-133

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Infancy; Teleological reasoning; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037238589     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0364-0213(02)00112-X     Document Type: Article

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