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Authors
Cesana-Arlotti, NicolóMartín, Ana
Téglás, Ernő
Vorobyova, Liza
Cetnarski, Ryszard
Bonatti, Luca L.
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SciencePublication Volume
359Publication Issue
6351Date
2018
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Infants are able to entertain hypotheses about complex events and to modify them rationally when faced with inconsistent evidence. These capacities suggest that infants can use elementary logical representations to frame and prune hypotheses. By presenting scenes containing ambiguities about the identity of an object, here we show that 12- and 19-month-old infants look longer at outcomes that are inconsistent with a logical inference necessary to resolve such ambiguities. At the moment of a potential deduction, infants’ pupils dilated, and their eyes moved toward the ambiguous object when inferences could be computed, in contrast to transparent scenes not requiring inferences to identify the object. These oculomotor markers resembled those of adults inspecting similar scenes, suggesting that intuitive and stable logical structures involved in the interpretation of dynamic scenes may be part of the fabric of the human mind.Publisher link
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6381/1263identifiers
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aao3539ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aao3539
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