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8 - Infants’ Physical Reasoning and the Cognitive Architecture that Supports It

from Subpart II.1 - Infancy: The Roots of Human Thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

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Yi Lin ,
Maayan Stavans  and
Renée Baillargeon
Edited by
Olivier Houdé  and
Grégoire Borst
Olivier Houdé
Affiliation:
Université de Paris V
Grégoire Borst
Affiliation:
Université de Paris V
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Traditionally, research on early physical reasoning has focused on the simple types of physical events our distant human ancestors routinely observed and produced as they interacted with objects. These types include, for example, occlusion, containment, support, and collision events. Over the first two years of life, infants become increasingly sophisticated at reasoning about these events. How is this sophistication achieved? In this chapter, we describe three successive waves of infancy research that each brought to light critical components of the cognitive architecture that supports early physical reasoning and its development.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development , pp. 168 - 194
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Print publication year: 2022

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