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Who put the cog in infant cognition? Is rich interpretation too costly?

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Abstract

The basic topic of my address today concerns how much of cognition is in the head of the infant and how much in the mind of the theoretician. My general stance is that we are being treated to an interpretive flavor of infant behavior that is much too rich.

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    Marshall Haith, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2155 South Race Street, Denver, CO 80208, USA

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