Bottom line: We didn't find evidence that was the case but it was not detrimental. So sign with your kid if you have fun doing it but do not expect anything. (of course we are only talking about typically developing kids with no hearing issues).

My personal take on this is we tend to be much more conservative with the interpretation we give to animals' behaviour than human infants. Being fair is part of the journey!

But this calls onto question the robustness of the role reversal paradigm into tapping onto these concepts and/or the ability to attribute agent/patient relations in very impoverished 2d animations. Pick your choice.

That does not say that they don't represent agent and patient relations! There is recent evidence that infants do with social stim (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) and that baboons do as well in chasing events using a very different design (our very own work: doi.org/10.1177/0956...)

*none* of them showed evidence of attributing agent and patient roles to causal Michottean launches. Oops.

Perfect summary !

This is really cool! I think we need that in France too at the moment. #todo

Yes it seems that this is a topic that leads to this type of situation. She has been doing those experiments we were talking about back then (and more), cool stuff