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Tracking the Actions and Possessions of Agents
dc.contributor.authorGelman, Susan A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorNoles, Nicholaus S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorStilwell, Sarahen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-04T16:35:47Z
dc.date.availableWITHHELD_12_MONTHSen_US
dc.date.available2014-11-04T16:35:47Z
dc.date.issued2014-10en_US
dc.identifier.citationGelman, Susan A.; Noles, Nicholaus S.; Stilwell, Sarah (2014). "Tracking the Actions and Possessions of Agents." Topics in Cognitive Science 6(4): 599-614.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1756-8757en_US
dc.identifier.issn1756-8765en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109337
dc.description.abstractWe propose that there is a powerful human disposition to track the actions and possessions of agents. In two experiments, 3‐year‐olds and adults viewed sets of objects, learned a new fact about one of the objects in each set (either that it belonged to the participant, or that it possessed a particular label), and were queried about either the taught fact or an unrelated dimension (preference) immediately after a spatiotemporal transformation, and after a delay. Adults uniformly tracked object identity under all conditions, whereas children tracked identity more when taught ownership versus labeling information, and only regarding the taught fact (not the unrelated dimension). These findings suggest that the special attention that children and adults pay to agents readily extends to include inanimate objects. That young children track an object's history, despite their reliance on surface features on many cognitive tasks, suggests that unobservable historical features are foundational in human cognition.en_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.subject.otherChildrenen_US
dc.subject.otherArtifactsen_US
dc.subject.otherConceptsen_US
dc.subject.otherEssentialismen_US
dc.subject.otherLabelingen_US
dc.subject.otherOwnershipen_US
dc.subject.otherObject Trackingen_US
dc.titleTracking the Actions and Possessions of Agentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelNeurology and Neurosciencesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/109337/1/tops12106.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/tops.12106en_US
dc.identifier.sourceTopics in Cognitive Scienceen_US
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