The Acquisition of Physical Knowledge in Infancy: A Summary in Eight Lessons

By R. Baillargeon. 2007

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Subfields: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Object Individuation and Physical Reasoning in Infancy: An Integrative Account (2012, background): “To illustrate the EBL process, consider how infants identify the category of occlusion events, prior to 2.5 months of age (e.g., Aguiar & Baillargeon, 1999; Luo & Baillargeon, 2005).”
Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense (2020, background): “[176] Renée Baillargeon, The acquisition of physical knowledge in infancy: A summary in eight lessons, Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development 1 (46-83) (2002) 1.”
Visual Stability Prediction and Its Application to Manipulation (2016, background): “More blocks in the scene generally leads to higher scene structure and hence higher difficulty in perception. b) Block Size (Uni. vs. NonUni.)”
Internal physics models guide probabilistic judgments about object dynamics (2011, background): “Intuitive physics is a core domain of common-sense reasoning, developing early in infancy and central in adult thought (Baillargeon, 2007).”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “…to study the infant’s object concept, developmental psychologists have demonstrated that infants even a few months old have a substantial amount of ‘‘initial knowledge’’ about objects, in domains such as physics and arithmetic (for reviews see Baillargeon, 2002; Spelke et al., 1995a; Wynn, 1998).”
The scope of formal explanation (2017, background): “An important question for future investigation concerns the relation of the formal explanatory knowledge embodied in kind representations to core systems of knowledge and to implicit explanatory knowledge in infancy (Baillargeon, 2002; Spelke & Kinzler, 2007).”
On the nature and origin of intuitive theories : learning, physics and psychology (2015, background): “Some avenues of research then suggest how new rules and decision-nodes can be acquired, accounting for shifts in infant judgments as they grow older [159, 3].”
Learning physics from dynamical scenes (2014, background): “While some aspects of this capacity are likely innate (Baillargeon, 2002), learning also occurs at multiple levels from infancy into adulthood.”