Do six-month-old infants perceive causality?

1987/04/01 by Alan M. Leslie, Stephanie Keeble · 1,061 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Action Observation and Synchronization #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Habituation #Humanities #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Psychology #Stimulus (psychology)

paper · doi:10.1016/s0010-0277(87)80006-9

published in Cognition 25(3), 265-288 (Elsevier BV)

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