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    "pk": 31801,
    "title": "Infants' Expectations about the Motion of Animate versus Inanimate Objects",
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    "abstract": "This study explores the ways in which infants reason\nabout h u m a n action. Although recent research\nsupports the view that young infants' reasoning about\nobject physics is guided by a set of core principles.\nthere is little evidence for early principles of this sort\nin infants' reasoning about human action. T o explore\nthis issue, a habituation study was done comparing 7-\nmonth-olds' reasoning about simple causal sequences\ninvolving people to their reasoning about those\ninvolving inanimate objects. Our findingssuggest\nthat although 7-month-olds expect that the motion of\ninanimate objects will be constrained by the principle\nof contact (an object affects the motion of another\nobject if and only if the two objects come into\ncontact), they do not expect human motion to be\nconstrained in this way. These findings provide\npreliminary evidence diat infants have principled\nexpectations to guide their reasoning and learning\nabout human action.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Amanda",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Woodward",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Cornell University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ann",
            "middle_name": "T.",
            "last_name": "Phillips",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Cornell University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Elizabeth",
            "middle_name": "S.",
            "last_name": "Speike",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Cornell University",
            "department": ""
        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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