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Traeuble, Birgit. and Pauen, Sabina. "Do 7-months-old infants pay attention to causality in ambigue dynamic events?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan, Jun 19, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p94000_index.html>

Traeuble, B. and Pauen, S. , 2006-06-19 "Do 7-months-old infants pay attention to causality in ambigue dynamic events?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p94000_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Poster Abstract: Background and aims: Using the „Ambiguity Paradigm” (Pauen & Traeuble, 2002), it has been shown that 7 months old infants attribute self-initiated nonlinear motion to animals but not to inanimate objects: After being presented with an ambiguous motion event showing a toy-animal and a ball moving together in a self-initiated nonlinear way, infants show a clear looking preference for the animal compared to the ball; no such preference was found before the motion event. A follow-up study showed that the introduction of an external cause for the motion (animal and ball were moved by a human hand), did not evoke any preference. To further clarify whether such a negative result can be ascribed to infants’ knowledge about the causal role of the human hand, the present study was conducted. Procedure: The animal and the ball describe the same motion-pattern as in the first experiment (moving together, self-initiated, nonlinear). Additionally, the human hand is presented in parallel motion but without having contact to the other two objects. The rationale of the study was as follows: If infants’ preferences for the animal in the first study (after watching the animal and the ball in common motion) and the lack of a corresponding preference in study 2 (hand moving both objects) is actually due to an early attention to causal properties of dynamic events, then infants should prefer to look at the animal because the human hand is no longer causally involved in the motion event. Preliminary results: (including 48 infants) show that infants differentiate between causal and non-causal involvement of the human hand: If the human hand is not causally involved in the motion-event, infants show a looking preference for the animal as they did in the first study where only the animal and the ball (without hand) were shown in a common animate-like motion. Whether this early attention to causal properties of dynamic events is due to domain-specific knowledge about the movement behaviour of animates and inanimates and/or to an early attention to specific spatio-temporal event-characteristics will be discussed. Reference: Pauen, S. & Träuble, B. (2002). Causal attribution of animate motion in 7 months olds. Vortrag gehalten auf der 13. International Conference on Infant Studies ICIS, Toronto, Can.

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