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Do infants understand that external goals are internally represented?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Josef Perner  and
Martin Doherty
Josef Perner*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Centre of Neurocognitive Research, University of Salzburg, A-5020Salzburg, Austriahttp://www.sbg.ac.at/psy/people/perner/index.htm
Martin Doherty*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, StirlingFK9 4BR, Scotland
*
josef.perner@sbg.ac.at
m.j.doherty@stir.ac.uk
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Abstract

Evidence for infants' sensitivity to behavior being goal oriented leaves it open as to whether they see such behavior as being designed to lead to an external goal or whether they see it, in addition, as being directed by an internal representation of the goal. We point out the difficulty of finding possible criteria for how infants or children view this matter.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , October 2005 , pp. 710 - 711
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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