• Can 16-month-old infants make transitive inferences? 

    Mou, Yi (Psychologist) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    Researchers have long been interested in the emergence of transitivity (e.g., if A>B and B>C, then A>C). However, it is not clear at what age children start to make transitive inferences successfully. In addition, nonhuman ...
  • Do infants selectively imitate a transitive and an intransitive agent? 

    Weng, Qiaochu (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Previous research showed that in imitative learning, infants seemed to care about the reliability of the model marked by group membership or conventionality ...
  • Perspective taking and language comprehension : a comparison between Korean and English infants 

    Choi, You-Jung (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Previous research has shown that infants in their first year of life have primitive perspective-taking skills: they can consider an agent's incomplete ...