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Substances as a core domain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2024

Susan J. Hespos Open the ORCID record for Susan J. Hespos [Opens in a new window]  and
Lance J. Rips Open the ORCID record for Lance J. Rips [Opens in a new window]
Susan J. Hespos*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Rips@northwestern.edu; https://sites.northwestern.edu/ripslab/ MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia S.Hespos@westernsydney.edu.au; https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/babylab/people/researchers/professor_susan_hespos
Lance J. Rips
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Rips@northwestern.edu; https://sites.northwestern.edu/ripslab/
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Abstract

Central to What Babies Know (Spelke, 2022) is the thesis that infants' understanding is divided into independent modules of core knowledge. As a test case, we consider adding a new domain: core knowledge of substances. Experiments show that infants' understanding of substances meets some criteria of core knowledge, and they raise questions about the relations that hold between core domains.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 47 , 2024 , e131
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