Goal attribution to inanimate agents by 6.5-month-old infants.

By Gergely Csibra. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Genetics, Social Psychology, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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What can the brain teach us about building artificial intelligence? (2016, background): “Beyond these low-level cues, infants also expect agents to act contingently and reciprocally, to have goals, and to take efficient actions towards those goals subject to constraints (Csibra, 2008; Csibra, B́ıró, Koós, & Gergely, 2003; Spelke & Kinzler, 2007).”
The posterior superior temporal sulcus is sensitive to the outcome of human and non-human goal-directed actions. (2011, background): “The ability of human infants to infer intentions from observed physical actions (Meltzoff, 1995; Woodward, 1998; Csibra et al., 1999; Csibra, 2008; Southgate et al., 2008; Hamlin et al., 2009; Sommerville and Crane, 2009) and the failure to do so in autism (Pelphrey et al., 2005a; Klin and Jones,…”
On the nature and origin of intuitive theories : learning, physics and psychology (2015, background): “Infants are also sensitive to self-propelled motion [146, 132], efficient movement towards goals given possible actions, and social responsiveness [33, 52].”
Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, background): “Recall that Woodward (1998) found that 5- to 9-month-olds failed at two-object tasks in which the human agent’s arm was replaced with a rod, an arm-shaped screen, or a mechanical claw; that Csibra et al. (1999) found that 9but not 6-month-olds succeeded at a detour task in which a small circle appro”
To belief or not belief: Children’s theory of mind (2014, background): “…instance, Sootsman Buresh and Woodward (2007) claim, ‘‘(i)t is an open question whether infants understand individual goals as mental states’’ (p. 310), Csibra (2008) interprets his findings into ‘‘goal prediction’’ as evidence for a teleological bias in infants, that is, that infants predict the…”
Object Individuation and Physical Reasoning in Infancy: An Integrative Account (2012, background): “…representation of an event includes categorical information about the objects in the event; early categorical descriptors include ontological and functional descriptors (e.g., Csibra, 2008; Hespos & Baillargeon, 2001b; Johnson et al., 2007; Luo et al., 2009; Saxe et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2005).”