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Baillargeon, Renée |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Psychological and Cognitive Sciences |
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Baillargeon's elegant experiments with infants reveal remarkably early knowledge of object persistence over space and time and the causal principles governing their behavior, as well as the contrasting properties of animate objects that move with intent. These findings demonstrate the origins of human knowledge and their course of development. |
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Research Interests
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Renée Baillargeon's laboratory studies infants' causal reasoning in four core domains: physical, psychological, biological, and sociomoral reasoning. In each domain, they seek to uncover the skeletal framework of principles and concepts that shapes how infants reason and learn about events. In the physical domain, they have shown that principles of persistence, gravity, and inertia guide early expectations about how events will unfold. These principles also contribute to infants' acquisition of |
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