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The beginnings of domain-specific reasoning in infancy| old_uid | 7759 |
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| title | The beginnings of domain-specific reasoning in infancy |
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| start_date | 2009/12/04 |
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| schedule | 11h-13h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | rdc |
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| details | Dans le cadre du Colloquium du DEC |
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| summary | Philosophers as well as developmental psychologists are highly interested in the beginnings of human thinking. Together, we try to figure out what might be the basic constraints on human knowledge acquisition. In recent years, infant researchers have developed methods to investigate the emergence of reasoning skills at a preverbal age. Different lines of research contribute to this endeavour: One fruitful approach is to explore what kind of categorical distinctions infants start with and how their object knowledge develops before language comes into play. Another approach is to better understand how causal and functional reasoning develop. Results from both lines of research point to the conclusion that infants might start with a global animate-inanimate distinction based not only upon features related to the appearance of objects but also upon causal and functional features. My talk will give an overview over corresponding studies – addressing the more general question whether innate knowledge exists or not. |
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| responsibles | Spector, Tiziana + |
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