Young children do not require perceptual-motor feedback to solve Aesop’s Fable tasks

Aesop’s Fable tasks—in which subjects drop objects into a water-filled tube to raise the water level and obtain out-of-reach floating rewards —have been used to test for causal understanding of water displacement in both young children and non-human animals. However, a number of alternative explanat...

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Main Authors: Rachael Miller, Sarah A. Jelbert, Elsa Loissel, Alex H. Taylor, Nicola S. Clayton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-07-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3484.pdf