3-month-olds are rational?! And can represent others' goals?! (with Brandon Woo)

In this jam-packed episode, we chat with Dr. Brandon Woo about a recent study of his published in Developmental Science that was designed to examine whether 3-month-olds, who are not yet able to reach for and grab things on their own, can nonetheless infer the goal of another person's actions! We also get to chat with Dr. Woo about his journey in cognitive scientist and get to hear about what he'd be doing if he weren't a developmental cognitive scientist! Deon and Jenny also go back and forth a bit about how best to interpret these data! A great episode all around!

Links

Woo, B. M., Liu, S., & Spelke, E. S. (2024). Infants rationally infer the goals of other people's reaches in the absence of first‐person experience with reaching actions. Developmental Science, 27(3), e13453. Link