Infants attribute goals even to biomechanically impossible actions

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1059-1069

  Southgate, Victoria ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Efficiency; Goal attribution; Infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION;

EID: 42249095070     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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