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    "pk": 32729,
    "title": "Optimal Control Methods for Simulating the Perception of Causality in Young Infants",
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    "abstract": "There is a growing debate among developmental theorists concerning the perception of causality in young infants. Some theorists advocate a top-down view, e.g., that infants reason about causal events on the basis of intuitive physical principles. Others argue instead for a bottom-up view of infant causal knowledge, in which causal perception emerges from a simple set of associative learning rules. In order to test the limits of the bottom-up view, we propose an optimal control model (OCM) of infant causal perception. OCM is trained to find an optimal pattern of eye movements for maintaining sight of a target object. We first present a series of simulations which illustrate OCM's ability to anticipate the outcome of novel, occluded causal events, and then compare OCM's performance with that of 9-month-old infants. The implications for developmental theory and research are discussed.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Long Papers",
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        {
            "first_name": "Matthew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schlesinger",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Computer Science; University of Massachusetts",
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        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Barto",
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            "institution": "Department of Computer Science; University of Massachusetts",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1999-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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