“…There is considerable evidence that during the first months of life human infants perceive objects as bound physical entities that move as wholes on continuous paths and continue to exist even when they disappear from sight (Aguiar & Baillargeon, 1999;Leslie & Keeble, 1987;Spelke, 1990). Adherence to some of these principles is observed also in newborn human infants (Valenza, Leo, Gava, & Simion, 2006), primates (Call, 2000;Hall-Haro, Johnson, Price, Vance, & Kiorpes, 2008;Natale, Antinucci, Spinozzi, & Poti, 1986;Santos, 2004) and chicks (Regolin & Vallortigara, 1995). In human infants the notion of objects does therefore not appear to require visual, physical or even human specific experience with actual objects to emerge (Baillargeon, 2002;Spelke, Breinlinger, Macomber, & Jacobson, 1992).…”