title: Infants' processing of causal and noncausal events at 3.5 months of age.
abstract: Infants' processing of causal (direct launching) and noncausal (delayed reaction, launching without collision) events was investigated with 30 infants who were 3.5 months old. The habituation-dishabituation technique was used. Results showed that the infants did not process direct launching as causal. However, their pattern of responding revealed a tendency to key on the spatial and temporal properties of the events. Those findings are discussed in terms of their compatibility with a modular, an information-processing, and a Piagetian framework.
authors.affiliation: Université Laval, Québec, Canada. stephan.desrochers@psy.ulaval.ca
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Desrochers
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011897:Random Allocation