Developmental research of emergence of domain-general causal cognition in infancy
Project/Area Number |
25380984
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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Research Institution | Shizuoka University of Art and Culture |
Principal Investigator |
Kosugi Daisuke 静岡文化芸術大学, 文化政策学部, 准教授 (80399013)
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Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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Keywords | 乳児 / 認知発達 / 因果性 / 目標指向性 / 社会性 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Two experiments examined 6- to 7-month-old infants’ perception of physical causality and sensitivity to goal-directed action, and relation between them. In Experiment 1, I examined infants’ perception of causality in Michottian type launching events. This experiment replicated previous studies showing that by 6-7 months, infants begin to respond to the interaction of the events on the basis of causality. In Experiment 2, infants tended to interpret the actions of a self-propelled object as goal-directed. Moreover, it was suggested that infants who responded to the events on the basis of causality in Experiment 1 performed better in Experiment 2 than infants who did not.
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Report
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Research Products
(4 results)