Teleological reasoning in 4-month-old infants: Pupil dilations and contextual constraints

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Gredebäck, Gustaf ^a   Melinder, Annika ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MYDRIASIS; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEOLOGICAL REASONING;

COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PUPIL;

EID: 80054793129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026487     Document Type: Article

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