ABSTRACT
Using sophisticated ways to question infants, researchers have acquired a good understanding of many basic capabilities of infants. We described our understanding of infant perceptual sensitivities and cognitive competencies in the preceding chapters. Developmentalists now do much more than ask whether or not the senses function in infancy, or even whether infants think, in seeking to identify more sophisticated infant mental and social capacities. One of the most significant of these is mental representation, first discussed in Chapter 7 and explored in more detail here.
