Developmental and computational perspectives on infant social cognition
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Hamlin, Kiley
Wynn, Karen
Bloom, Paul
Lucas, Chris G.
Griffiths, Thomas L.
Xu, Fei
Fawcett, Christine
Tamar, Kushnir
Wellman, Henry
Gelman, Susan
Date Issued
2010
Journal
32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2010
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Cognitive Science Society
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Goodman, Noah D. et al. "Developmental and computational perspectives on infant social cognition." 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2010, August 11-14 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA, Cognitive Science Society, 2010 © 2010 Cognitive Science Society
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Abstract
Adults effortlessly and automatically infer complex pat-
terns of goals, beliefs, and other mental states as the causes
of others’ actions. Yet before the last decade little was known
about the developmental origins of these abilities in early
infancy. Our understanding of infant social cognition has
now improved dramatically: even preverbal infants appear
to perceive goals, preferences (Kushnir, Xu, & Wellman, in
press), and even beliefs from sparse observations of inten-
tional agents’ behavior. Furthermore, they use these infer-
ences to predict others’ behavior in novel contexts and to
make social evaluations (Hamlin, Wynn, & Bloom, 2007). Keywords:
Social cognition; Cognitive Development;
Computational Modeling; Theory of Mind
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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