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The Ghosts in the Computer: The Role of Agency and Animacy Attributions in “Ghost Controls”

Three studies evaluated the role of 4-year-old children's agency- and animacy-attributions when learning from a computerized ghost control (GC). In GCs, participants observe events occurring without an apparent agent, as if executed by a “ghost” or unobserved causal forces. Using a touch-screen...

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Autores principales: Subiaul, Francys, Vonk, Jennifer, Rutherford, M. D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22073165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026429