The Perception of Causality in Infants

By Alan M. Leslie. 1982

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence (2020, neutral): “Leslie, A. M. (1982).”
Causal Reasoning from Meta-reinforcement Learning (2019, background): “Causal reasoning may be an essential component of natural ∗ Corresponding author: ishitadasgupta@g.harvard.edu intelligence and is present in human babies, rats, and even birds (Leslie, 1982; Gopnik et al., 2001; 2004; Blaisdell et al., 2006; Lagnado et al., 2013).”
Reasoning: Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic versus Analytic Cognition (2008, unknown): “Naïve theories of mechanics and physics (Baillargeon, 1995; Carey & Spelke, 1994; Leslie, 1982; Spelke, 1988; Spelke, 1990), naïve theories of biology (Atran, 1990; Atran, 1995; Berlin, 1992; Berlin, Breedlove, & Raven, 1973; Gelman, 1988) and naïve theory of mind (Asch, 1952; D'Andrade, 1987;…”
How to build a baby: II. Conceptual primitives. (1992, background): “It is probably no accident that Leslie used films of balls being launched that look similar to the sketch shown in Graphic 7 and contrasted them with films that looked much like Graphic 8. Launching is a paradigm case of causal motion, and the image-schema underlying it may be used as the foundation”
The Existential Theory of Mind (2002, background): “…have investigated whether young infants are “surprised” by the ostensibly animate behavior of inanimate objects (Golinkoff, Harding, Carlson-Luden, & Sexton, 1984; Leslie, 1982); the data suggest that they are, insofar as patterns of dishabituation are accurate measures of violated expectations.”
Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach. (1998, background): “Research by Leslie (1982, 1984) confirms that infants understand one aspect of grasping events, namely, the fact that hands must be in contact with objects in order to move them.”
Intuitions About Origins: Purpose and Intelligent Design in Children's Reasoning About Nature (2005, background): “Contrary to Piaget’s assertion of profound child–adult incommensurability, contemporary findings based on developmentally sensitive methods now suggest that children reason in physical–causal terms from infancy (Baillargeon, Spelke, & Wasserman, 1985; Leslie, 1982; Shultz, 1982; Spelke, 1991) and th”
Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction (1998, background): “…from nonbiological motion (Bertenthal, 1993; Bertenthal, Profªtt, & Cutting, 1984) and their ability to distinguish caused from noncaused motion (Leslie, 1982, 1988; and see Leslie & Keeble, 1987, for results on 6-month-old infants) and that the 8-to 10-month-old infant's ability to distinguish…”
Things and Places: How the Mind Connects with the World (2007, background): “For example it provides a mechanism, available even in 6 month old infants, for recognizing causal sequences (this is the mechanism that was initially studied in adults by Michotte and explored in infants by Alan Leslie, e.g., Leslie, 1982).”
On seeing human: a three-factor theory of anthropomorphism. (2007, background): “…intentions and causal agency widely to the simplest and most abstract of nonhuman stimuli (Dasser, Ulbaek, & Premack, 1989; Gergely, Nádasdy , Csibra, & Bíró, 1995; S. C. Johnson, Booth, & O'Hearn, 2001; Leslie, 1982; Leslie & Keeble, 1987; Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000; Shimizu & Johnson, 2004).”
Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition. (2001, background): “Naive theories of mechanics and physics (Baillargeon, 1995; Carey & Spelke, 1994; Leslie, 1982; Spelke, 1988, 1990), naive theories of biology (Atran, 1990, 1995; Berlin, 1992; Berlin, Breedlove, & Raven, 1973; Gelman, 1988) and naive theory of mind (Asch, 1952; D'Andrade, 1987; Leslie, 1994; Wellma”
Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age. (1995, result): “This hypothesis is in line with Leslie's (1993) proposal which suggests”
Developmental origin of the animate-inanimate distinction. (2001, background): “He found that 4- and 7- month-old infants showed surprise when a hand appeared to move a doll without contact (Leslie, 1982).”