TY - JOUR
T1 - Detecting impossible changes in infancy
T2 - a three-system account
AU - Wang, Su hua
AU - Baillargeon, Renée
N1 - Funding Information:
The redaction of this review was supported by a Junior Scholar Grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and a Special Research Grant from the University of California, Santa Cruz, to S.W., and by a grant from NICHD (HD-21104) to R.B. We thank Jie Li, Amy Needham, Dan Simons and four anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - Can infants detect that an object has magically disappeared, broken apart or changed color while briefly hidden? Recent research suggests that infants detect some but not other 'impossible' changes; and that various contextual manipulations can induce infants to detect changes they would not otherwise detect. We present an account that includes three systems: a physical-reasoning, an object-tracking, and an object-representation system. What impossible changes infants detect depends on what object information is included in the physical-reasoning system; this information becomes subject to a principle of persistence, which states that objects can undergo no spontaneous or uncaused change. What contextual manipulations induce infants to detect impossible changes depends on complex interplays between the physical-reasoning system and the object-tracking and object-representation systems.
AB - Can infants detect that an object has magically disappeared, broken apart or changed color while briefly hidden? Recent research suggests that infants detect some but not other 'impossible' changes; and that various contextual manipulations can induce infants to detect changes they would not otherwise detect. We present an account that includes three systems: a physical-reasoning, an object-tracking, and an object-representation system. What impossible changes infants detect depends on what object information is included in the physical-reasoning system; this information becomes subject to a principle of persistence, which states that objects can undergo no spontaneous or uncaused change. What contextual manipulations induce infants to detect impossible changes depends on complex interplays between the physical-reasoning system and the object-tracking and object-representation systems.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2007.10.012
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2007.10.012
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18078778
AN - SCOPUS:37549007189
SN - 1364-6613
VL - 12
SP - 17
EP - 23
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
IS - 1
ER -