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Babies Can Make "Common Sense" Predictions In New Situations (3 of 7)

Caption: Here the occlusion is 0.04 seconds long, and one object from the more represented class exits the container. Its position before occlusion is close to the exit, so infants should expect it to exit. This video relates to an article that appeared in the May 27, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Erno Téglás of Central European University and the Hungarian Academy of Science in Budapest, Hungary, and colleagues was titled, "Pure Reasoning in 12-Month-Old Infants as Probabilistic Inference."

Credit: L. Bonatti and E. Téglás

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