{"pk":21618,"title":"Communication-based belief attribution: Do infants encode better others' beliefs induced via communication or the ones induced via visual cues?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Studies suggest that infants track others' beliefs based on visual information (Scott & Baillargeon, 2017 but see Dörrenberg, Rakoczy, Liszkowski, 2018). However, research targeting whether infants understand that others' beliefs can be induced via communication is scarce, although most of the human belief-repertoire is acquired via communication. We presented eighteen-month-olds (Experiment1:N=34; Experiment2-replication:N=35) with a false belief (FB) scenario where the initial belief was induced via communication, aiming to measure their informative pointing (for an agent mistaken about a toy's location compared to a true belief scenario). Instead of more pointing to the toy's current location, in the FB condition we found an unexpected ‚Äòaltercentric' effect: infants pointed more to the empty location where the agent falsely believed the object to be). Next, we asked whether infants show different altercentric effects for visually induced beliefs (Experiment3: N=35). Results replicated the altercentric effect, suggesting a potentially stronger encoding of visually induced beliefs.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Cognitive development; Social cognition; Theory of Mind; Gesture analysis"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mn8x1ft","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bartug","middle_name":"","last_name":"Celik","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""},{"first_name":"Agnes","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kovacs","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T12:00:00-06:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21618/galley/11217/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21618/galley/14526/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21618/galley/22015/download/"}]}