Catastrophic individuation failures in infancy: A new model and predictions.

ABSTRACT: Comparison of infant findings from the physical-reasoning and object-individuation literatures reveals a contradictory picture. On the one hand, physical-reasoning results indicate that young infants can use featural information to guide their actions on objects and to detect interaction violations (when objects interact in ways that are not physically possible) as well as change violations (when objects spontaneously undergo featural changes that are not physically possible). On the other hand, object-individuation results indicate that young infants typically cannot use featural information to detect individuation violations (when the number of objects revealed at the end of an event is less than the number of objects introduced during the event). In this article, we attempt to reconcile

SUBMITTER: Stavans M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6600085 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature