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New study determines when infants can think of out-of-sight objects
One of the most distinctive characteristics of humans is probably one you don't think of very often -- the capacity to learn based merely on what someone tells you. Researchers from Boston University are attempting to discover when when we become capable of revising our mental representations of objects or situations based solely on what someone tells us.
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