Traditionally, research on early physical reasoning has focused on the simple types of
physical events our distant human ancestors routinely observed and produced as they …

Adults possess a great deal of knowledge about the physical world, and developmental
researchers have long been interested in uncovering the roots of this knowledge in infancy …

As adults, we possess a great deal of knowledge about the physical world: for example, we
realize that an object continues to exist when hidden, that a wide object can fit inside a wide …

ABsrRAcr How do infants learn about the physical world? Current research on the
development of infants' reasoning about various types of physical phenomena (eg, support …

Over the past ten years, there have been at least two distinct trends in the research on
infants' understanding of the physical world. Spelke and her colleagues (eg, see Spelke …

Investigations of infants' physical world over the past 20 years have revealed two main
findings. First, even very young infants possess expectations about physical events. Second …

As adults we possess a great deal of knowledge about the physical world. For example, we
realize that an object continues to exist when placed behind a nearer object, that a wide …

This study explores the ways in which infants reason about human action. Although recent
research supports the view that young infants' reasoning about object physics is guided by a …

The last 10 years have been an exciting period for researchers studying the development of
infant cognition. New work has established that young infants appear to possess a core of …

The notion of innate ideas has long been the subject of intense debate in the fields of
philosophy and cognitive science. Over the past few decades, methodological advances …