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A Model of Infant Causal Perception and its Development Harold Henry Chaput (chaput@cs.utexas.edu) Department of Computer Sciences, Taylor Hall 2.124 [C0500] The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA Leslie B. Cohen (cohen@psy.utexas.edu) Department of Psychology, Mezes Hall 330 [B3800] The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 USA Chaput, H. H. Cohen, L. B. (2001). A Model of Infant Causal Perception and its Developement. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 182-187). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Abstract the causality of the event. That is, infants habituated to The acquisition of infant causal perception has been a causal event would dishabituate to a non-causal event the center of considerable debate, and some have (e.g. from direct to gap), or vice versa. But infants attributed this phenomenon to an innate causal would not dishabituate to the same degree if the module. Recent studies, however, suggest that causal causality remained constant (e.g. from delay to gap). knowledge may develop in infants through Leslie then claimed that these results, since they came experience with the environment. We prese