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SUBMITTER: Cesana-Arlotti N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7691498 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cesana-Arlotti Nicolò N Kovács Ágnes Melinda ÁM Téglás Ernő E
Nature communications 20201126 1
When perceptually available information is scant, we can leverage logical connections among hypotheses to draw reliable conclusions that guide our reasoning and learning. We investigate whether this function of logical reasoning is present in infancy and aid understanding and learning about the social environment. In our task, infants watch reaching actions directed toward a hidden object whose identity is ambiguous between two alternatives and has to be inferred by elimination. Here we show tha ...[more]