Do humans start life with the capacity to detect and mentally represent the objects around them? Or is our object knowledge instead derived only as the result of prolonged experience with the external world? Are we simply able to perceive objects by watching their actions in the world, or do we have to act on objects ourselves in order to learn about their behavior? Finally, do we come to know all aspects of objects in the same way, or are some aspects of our object understanding more epistemol

First Author: Hood, Bruce; Santos, Laurie
Attributed to:  Learning to combine sense and experience for optimal perceptual judgements funded by ESRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: The Origins of Object Knowledge (2009)

Page Reference: 227-261

ISBN: 9780199216895