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ERIC Number: EJ739702
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Aug
Pages: 8
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
Five-Month-Old Infants Know Humans Are Solid, Like Inanimate Objects
Saxe, Rebecca; Tzelnic, Tania; Carey, Susan
Cognition, v101 n1 pB1-B8 Aug 2006
Infants know that humans are exempt from some of the principles that govern the motion of inanimate objects: for instance, humans can be caused to move without being struck. In the current study, we report that infants nevertheless do apply some of the same principles to both humans and objects, where appropriate. Five-month-old infants expect humans, like all material objects, to be solid.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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