Pure reasoning in 12-month-old infants as probabilistic inference

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6033, 2011, Pages 1054-1059

  Téglás, Erno ^a,b   Vul, Edward ^c   Girotto, Vittorio ^d,e   Gonzalez, Michel ^e   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^f   Bonatti, Luca L ^g  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COGNITION; KNOWLEDGE; NEONATE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; PROBABILITY;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; INFANCY; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PURE REASONING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

BAYES THEOREM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79957593455     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1196404     Document Type: Article

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