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Infants' representations of causation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2011
Abstract
It is consistent with the evidence in The Origin of Concepts to conjecture that infants' causal representations, like their numerical representations, are not continuous with adults', so that bootstrapping is needed in both cases.
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