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Detecting Agents, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
 









Abstract: This paper reviews a recent set of behavioural studies that examine
the scope and nature of the representational system underlying theory-of-mind
development. Studies with typically developing infants, adults and children with
autism all converge on the claim that there is a specialized input system that
uses not only morphological cues, but also behavioural cues to categorize novel
objects as agents. Evidence is reviewed in which 12- to 15-month-old infants
treat certain non-human objects as if they have perceptual/attentional
abilities, communicative abilities and goal-directed behaviour. They also seem
to use a novel object's environmentally directed behaviour to determine its
perceptual/attentional orientation (...).
Source: Detecting Agents[
http://haly.ingentaselect.com/vl=550936/cl=51/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=rsl&reqidx=/catchword/rsl/09628436/v358n1431/s11/p549
], S. C. Johnson, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1237, Mar. 2003
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