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Infants actively seek and transmit knowledge via communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

Marina Bazhydai Open the ORCID record for Marina Bazhydai [Opens in a new window]  and
Paul L. Harris
Marina Bazhydai
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Psychology Department, Fylde College, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK m.bazhydai@lancaster.ac.uk
Paul L. Harris
Affiliation:
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. paul_harris@gse.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Supporting the central claim that knowledge representation is more basic than belief representation, we focus on the emerging evidence for preverbal infants' active and selective communication based on their representation of both knowledge and ignorance. We highlight infants' ontogenetically early deliberate information seeking and information transmission in the context of active social learning, arguing that these capacities are unique to humans.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e142
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