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SUBMITTER: Wang Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3281887 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Quan Q Bolhuis Jantina J Rothkopf Constantin A CA Kolling Thorsten T Knopf Monika M Triesch Jochen J
PloS one 20120217 2
Infants' poor motor abilities limit their interaction with their environment and render studying infant cognition notoriously difficult. Exceptions are eye movements, which reach high accuracy early, but generally do not allow manipulation of the physical environment. In this study, real-time eye tracking is used to put 6- and 8-month-old infants in direct control of their visual surroundings to study the fundamental problem of discovery of agency, i.e. the ability to infer that certain sensory ...[more]