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Elizabeth S. Spelke
63 works
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· 4 institutions
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ORCID 0000-0002-6925-3618
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What Babies Know
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2022
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1 author
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book
260
citations
Origins of the concepts cause, cost, and goal in prereaching infants
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2019
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3 authors
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Open access
89
citations
Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions
Science
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2017
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4 authors
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Open access
230
citations
Human infants’ understanding of social imitation: Inferences of affiliation from third party observations
Cognition
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2017
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2 authors
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Open access
135
citations
Mind Games: Game Engines as an Architecture for Intuitive Physics
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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2017
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4 authors
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review
234
citations
Six-month-old infants expect agents to minimize the cost of their actions
Cognition
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2016
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2 authors
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Open access
122
citations
The Infancy of the Human Brain
Neuron
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2015
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2 authors
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review
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Open access
262
citations
Two Randomized Trials Provide No Consistent Evidence for Nonmusical Cognitive Benefits of Brief Preschool Music Enrichment
PLoS ONE
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2013
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4 authors
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Open access
169
citations
Preverbal infants identify emotional reactions that are incongruent with goal outcomes
Cognition
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2013
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2 authors
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Open access
121
citations
First-person action experience reveals sensitivity to action efficiency in prereaching infants
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2013
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3 authors
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Open access
127
citations
Preverbal infants expect members of social groups to act alike
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2013
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2 authors
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Open access
298
citations
Where Perceiving Ends and Thinking Begins: The Apprehension of Objects in Infancy
Psychology Press eBooks
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2013
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1 author
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chapter
93
citations
Melting Lizards and Crying Mailboxes: Children's Preferential Recall of Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts
Cognitive Science
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2013
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3 authors
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Open access
95
citations
What Exactly do Numbers Mean?
Language Learning and Development
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2013
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3 authors
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Open access
149
citations
Children's Use of Social Categories in Thinking About People and Social Relationships
Journal of Cognition and Development
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2013
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3 authors
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Open access
214
citations
The development of reasoning about beliefs: Fact, preference, and ideology
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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2012
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4 authors
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121
citations
Language-based Social Preferences among Children in South Africa
Language Learning and Development
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2012
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3 authors
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Open access
105
citations
Infants’ Developing Understanding of Social Gaze
Child Development
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2012
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2 authors
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Open access
123
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‘Native’ Objects and Collaborators: Infants' Object Choices and Acts of Giving Reflect Favor for Native Over Foreign Speakers
Journal of Cognition and Development
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2012
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3 authors
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Open access
110
citations
Do infants show social preferences for people differing in race?
Cognition
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2011
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2 authors
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Open access
239
citations
The double-edged sword of pedagogy: Instruction limits spontaneous exploration and discovery
Cognition
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2011
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6 authors
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Open access
732
citations
Social categories guide young children’s preferences for novel objects
Developmental Science
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2009
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3 authors
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Open access
265
citations
Accent Trumps Race in Guiding Children's Social Preferences
Social Cognition
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2009
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4 authors
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Open access
542
citations
Social Information Guides Infants' Selection of Foods
Journal of Cognition and Development
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2009
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4 authors
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Open access
203
citations
Foundations of cooperation in young children
Cognition
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2008
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2 authors
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586
citations
Sex, Math, and Science.
American Psychological Association eBooks
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2007
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2 authors
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chapter
29
citations
Thinking of Things Unseen
Psychological Science
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2007
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4 authors
85
citations
The native language of social cognition
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2007
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3 authors
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Open access
908
citations
Core systems in human cognition
Progress in brain research
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2007
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2 authors
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chapter
141
citations
Core knowledge
Developmental Science
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2006
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2 authors
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review
1,098
citations
Conceptual precursors to language
Nature
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2004
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2 authors
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Open access
421
citations
What Makes Us Smart? Core Knowledge and Natural Language
The MIT Press eBooks
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2003
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1 author
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chapter
406
citations
Infants' ability to connect gaze and emotional expression to intentional action
Cognition
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2002
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3 authors
364
citations
Initial knowledge and conceptual change: space and number
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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2001
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2 authors
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chapter
175
citations
Core knowledge.
American Psychologist
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2000
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1 author
526
citations
Perception and understanding of effects of gravity and inertia on object motion
Developmental Science
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1999
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2 authors
95
citations
Unity and Diversity in Knowledge
Psychology Press eBooks
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1999
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1 author
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chapter
1
citations
Perceiving and reasoning about objects: Insights from infants
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1999
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2 authors
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chapter
106
citations
Nativism, empiricism, and the origins of knowledge
Infant Behavior and Development
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1998
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1 author
341
citations
Nativism, empiricism, and the development of knowledge.
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1998
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3 authors
130
citations
Science and Core Knowledge
Philosophy of Science
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1996
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2 authors
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Open access
418
citations
Infants’ knowledge of object motion and human action
Oxford University Press eBooks
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1996
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3 authors
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chapter
503
citations
Spatiotemporal continuity, smoothness of motion and object identity in infancy
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
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1995
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4 authors
462
citations
Object perception, object-directed action, and physical knowledge in infancy
The Cognitive Neurosciences
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1995
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4 authors
109
citations
Domain-specific knowledge and conceptual change
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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1994
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2 authors
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chapter
673
citations
Initial knowledge: six suggestions
Cognition
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1994
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1 author
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review
834
citations
Early knowledge of object motion: continuity and inertia
Cognition
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1994
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5 authors
149
citations
Origins of knowledge.
Psychological Review
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1992
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4 authors
1,420
citations
Infants' sensitivity to effects of gravity on visible object motion.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
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1992
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1 author
96
citations
Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms
Cognition
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1991
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3 authors
719
citations
The Child's Theory of Mind
The MIT Press eBooks
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1990
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3 authors
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book
2,502
citations
Haptic perception of objects in infancy
Cognitive Psychology
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1988
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2 authors
93
citations
Infant Perception of Object Unity from Translatory Motion in Depth and Vertical Translation
Child Development
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1986
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3 authors
132
citations
Les origines du concept d'objet
Psychologie Française
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1986
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2 authors
74
citations
Object permanence in five-month-old infants
Cognition
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1985
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3 authors
977
citations
Object perception and object-directed reaching in infancy.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
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1985
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2 authors
140
citations
Perception of partly occluded objects in infancy
Cognitive Psychology
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1983
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2 authors
803
citations
What Preschoolers know about Animate and Inanimate Objects
Springer eBooks
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1983
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3 authors
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chapter
97
citations
The development of thoughts about animate and inanimate objects: Implications for research in social cognition
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1981
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3 authors
162
citations
Dividing attention without alternation or automaticity.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
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1980
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5 authors
302
citations