Minimal Cues of Possession Transfer Compel Infants to Ascribe the Goal of Giving

Human infants’ readiness to interpret impoverished object-transfer events as acts of giving suggests the existence of a dedicated action schema for identifying interactions based on active object transfer. Here we investigated the sensitivity of this giving schema by testing whether 15-month-olds wo...

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Main Authors: Denis Tatone, Mikołaj Hernik, Gergely Csibra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2019-05-01
Series:Open Mind
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Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/opmi_a_00024