Children's imitation of causal action sequences is influenced by statistical and pedagogical evidence

Cognition

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 331-340

  Buchsbaum, Daphna ^a   Gopnik, Alison ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^a   Shafto, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Causal inference; Cognitive development; Imitation; Pedagogy; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSAL MODELING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; PEDAGOGICS; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHER;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEACHING;

EID: 79959800839     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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