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Are blind babies delayed in achieving social understanding?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Carol Slater
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology. Alma College, Alma, MI 43801; cslater@alma.edu

Abstract

Barresi & Moore's account predicts that infants deprived of visual input will be delayed in achieving social understanding, a hypothesis that receives some support from studies of language use. by blind children. It is proposed that recently developed false belief and appearance/reality tasks be used to explore this issue further. Three possibly distracting conceptual issues are also discussed.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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