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TL;DR: It is shown that adults and 7-month-olds automatically encode others” beliefs, and that, surprisingly, others’ beliefs have similar effects as the participants’ own beliefs.

TL;DR: The model explains infants’ statistical expectations and classic qualitative findings about object cognition in younger babies, not originally viewed as probabilistic inferences.

TL;DR: It is shown that 12-month-olds have rational expectations about the future based on estimations of event possibilities, without the need of sampling past experiences, and this suggests that at the onset of human decision processes the mind contains an intuition of elementary probability that cannot be reduced to the encountered frequency of events or elementary heuristics.

TL;DR: This work addresses the question whether non-verbal communicative demonstration of the functional use of artifacts makes young infants represent such objects in terms of their kinds and suggests that information on artifact function was used as an indicator of kind membership, and infants expected one specific function to define one specific artifact kind.

TL;DR: In two experiments, an adult reacted to 12-month-olds' pointing gestures by exhibiting 'informing' or 'sharing' behavior, and infants pointed more frequently across trials in the informing than in the sharing condition, suggesting that the feedback that contained new information matched infants' expectations more than mere attention sharing.