ArticleTopoi : an international review of philosophy2014
Infants Understand How Testimony Works.
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- Majority rules: how good are we at aggregating convergent opinions?Evolutionary human sciences · 2019Review
- Obstacles to the spread of unintuitive beliefs.Evolutionary human sciences · 2019Article
- Does intention matter? Relations between parent pointing, infant pointing, and developing language ability.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2019Article
- Communicative mind-reading in preverbal infants.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Young children communicate their ignorance and ask questions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- How language shapes the cultural inheritance of categories.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- The Developmental Origins of Selective Social Learning.Current directions in psychological science · 2016Article
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Abstract
Children learn about the world from the testimony of other people, often coming to accept what they are told about a variety of unobservable and indeed counterintuitive phenomena. However, research on children's learning from testimony has paid limited attention to the foundations of that capacity. We ask whether those foundations can be observed in infancy. We review evidence from two areas of research: infants' sensitivity to the emotional expressions of other people; and their capacity to understand the exchange of information through non-verbal gestures and vocalization. We conclude that a grasp of the bi-directional exchange of information is present early in the second year. We discuss the implications for future research, especially across different cultural settings.
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