Lecture 3.1: Liz Spelke - Cognition in Infancy (Part 1)

MIT RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course, Summer 2015
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Instructor: Liz Spelke
Behavioral methods to study cognitive development in infants, probing infants' evolving understanding of objects and their physical behaviors, and understanding of agents who engage in goal-directed activity and initiate social interactions.
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I got intrigued wether adults display the same behaviour of looking longer to what is new... and what about animals? Do animals display this behaviour? Since monkeys and dogs seem to be confused/surprised with magic tricks, I would assume that making this sort of inferences about how objects interact with eachother in the world is also present in animals.