Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "infants"
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Core Social Cognition
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Research on human infants and young children has provided evidence for five systems of core knowledge: knowledge of objects and their motions; of agents and their goal-directed actions; of number and the operations of ... -
An Examination of the Own-Race Preference in Infancy
(2012-10-31)The goal of this dissertation was to better characterize the nature of infants’ visual preference for own-race faces, and to test two theories regarding its origin. Chapters I and II assessed whether the race bias in infancy ... -
Number-Space Mapping in Human Infants
(Association for Psychological Science, 2010)Mature representations of number are built on a core system of numerical representation that connects to spatial representations in the form of a mental number line. The core number system is functional in early infancy, ... -
Surprise-induced exploration as a tool for learning: A comparative approach with human infants and non-human primates
(2022-09-13)Upon witnessing a surprising event, young humans will often explore the target of that surprise, appearing to seek an explanation (eg: Bonawitz et al., 2012; Chandler & Lalonde, 1994; Perez & Feigenson, 2022; Stahl & ...