10-month-old infants' inference of invisible agent: Distinction in causality between object motion and human action

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-24

  Kosugi, Daisuke ^a   Ishida, Hiraku ^a   Fujita, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agency; Causal cognition; Cognitive development; Infants; Making inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037241240     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.00029     Document Type: Article

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