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1、AModelofInfantCausalPerceptionanditsDevelopmentHaroldHenryChaput(chaput@cs.utexas.edu)DepartmentofComputerSciences,TaylorHall2.124[C0500]TheUniversityofTexasatAustinAustin,TX78712-1188USALeslieB.Cohen(cohen@psy.utexas.edu)DepartmentofPsychology,MezesHall330[B3800]TheUniversityofTexasatAustinAustin
2、,TX78712USAChaput,H.H.&Cohen,L.B.(2001).AModelofInfantCausalPerceptionanditsDevelopement.ProceedingsoftheTwenty-ThirdAnnualConferenceoftheCognitiveScienceSociety(pp.182-187).Mahwah,NJ:LawrenceErlbaum.Abstractthecausalityoftheevent.Thatis,infantshabituatedtoTheacquisitionofinfantcausalperceptionhas
3、beenacausaleventwoulddishabituatetoanon-causaleventthecenterofconsiderabledebate,andsomehave(e.g.fromdirecttogap),orviceversa.Butinfantsattributedthisphenomenontoaninnatecausalwouldnotdishabituatetothesamedegreeifthemodule.Recentstudies,however,suggestthatcausalcausalityremainedconstant(e.g.fromde
4、laytogap).knowledgemaydevelopininfantsthroughLesliethenclaimedthattheseresults,sincetheycameexperiencewiththeenvironment.Wepresentafromsuchyounginfants,weretheproductofaninnatecomputationalmodelofcausalknowledgeacquisitionbuiltusingtheConstructivistLearning“causalmodule”.Architecture,ahierarchical
5、self-organizingsystem.Thissystemdoesaremarkablygoodjobofdevelopingcausalperceptionfromacomponentviewtoaholisticviewinawaythatmirrorsdatafromhabituationstudieswithhumaninfants.CausalPerceptioninInfantsCausalperceptionhasbeenthefocusofphilosophicalinquiryforcenturies,butitreceiveditsfirstnotablepsyc
6、hologicalinvestigationbyMichotte(1963).HeFigure1:Fourdifferentlaunchingevents.presentedadultswithasceneinwhichonebilliardballstruckanotherstationaryball,resultinginthelaunchingRecentstudies,though,havecastdoubtonanativistofthestationaryball,andthehaltingofthemovingviewofcausalperception.CohenandAm
7、sel(1998)ranball.Thesubjects,naturally,describedthissceneasaasimilarexperimenton61/4-month-oldinfants,and“causal”event.Butbymanipulatingthecausaleventre-affirmedtheirabilitytodiscriminatecausalevents(alongspatial
