Young infants' actions reveal their developing knowledge of support variables: converging evidence for violation-of-expectation findings.

By Susan J. Hespos, R. Baillargeon. 2008

118 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Gary Lupyan
2. Di Wu
3. Peipei Setoh
4. R. Baillargeon
5. Josh Tenenbaum
6. Tomer D. Ullman
7. Peter Carruthers
8. Patricia A. Alexander

In Social Psychology

1. Gary Lupyan
2. Di Wu
3. Peipei Setoh
4. R. Baillargeon
5. Josh Tenenbaum
6. Tomer D. Ullman
7. Patricia A. Alexander
8. Richard E. Mayer

Citations in the corpus

• Object Individuation and Physical Reasoning in Infancy: An Integrative Account (2012, background): “As infants come across some of these incorrect predictions, they revise their flawed rule through the identification of relevant variables (e.g., Baillargeon, Needham, & DeVos, 1992; Hespos & Baillargeon, 2008; Kotovsky & Baillargeon, 1998; Wang, Baillargeon, & Paterson, 2005).”
• The Centrality of Language in Human Cognition (2016, background): “…show sensitivity to notions of spatial relations such as top/bottom/front/back (E. V. Clark, 1980; Kuczaj & Maratsos, 1975; Levine & Carey, 1982) and notions of physical support and containment (Hespos & Baillargeon, 2008; Hespos & Spelke, 2004) before they fully know the corresponding words.”