Publications by authors named "Catherine Odin"
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- Understanding social events involves automatically assigning roles (agent vs. patient) to participants based on visual cues, which seems to happen effortlessly.
- A study tested this by having participants view images of male and female actors in different postures (dynamic vs. static) and responded to the position of a target actor.
- Results showed that when the role assignment switched between trials, participants were slower to respond, indicating that they automatically processed the actors' roles based on visual relational information, regardless of changing postures or positions.
Infants' thoughts are classically characterized as iconic, perceptual-like representations. Less clear is whether preverbal infants also possess a propositional language of thought, where mental symbols are combined according to syntactic rules, very much like words in sentences. Because it is rich, productive, and abstract, a language of thought would provide a key to explaining impressive achievements in early infancy, from logical inference to representation of false beliefs.
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