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The Animate-Inanimate Distinction in Infancy: Developing Sensitivity to Constraints on Human Actions
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Direct linkMolina, Michele; Van de Walle, Gretchen A.; Condry, Kirsten; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
Infants aged 4 and 6 months were presented with events in which a person acted so as to set another person, or an inanimate object, in motion. In one condition, the actor spoke to the person (natural) or inanimate object (unnatural); in the other condition, the actor grasped and manipulated the person (unnatural) or object (natural). Six-month-old…
Descriptors: Human Body, Interaction, Object Manipulation, Mobility
