Abstract:The question whether infants have a sense of agency has puzzled developmental scientists and philosophers alike. The central claim of our review is that control is a necessary feature of agency that has been neglected by empirical research so far. We review influential experimental paradigms on infants’ agency which have predominantly focused on infants’ detection of multi-sensory contingencies (e.g., the mobile paradigm). We argue that these paradigms show infants’ ability to integrate multi-sensory informati… Show more
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