Our hypothesis is that object indexes (Leslie et al., 1998) represent location necessarily, but identity only optionally (Kibbe & Leslie, 2011), so indexes should be able to carry uncertainty about identity but not about location.
New from me and @esranur.bsky.social! In two exps with 3-4-year-olds, we find no differences in kids' reasoning about possible outcomes of an event in different temporal contexts; kids perform the same under physical and epistemic uncertainty psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #devpsy #psychscisky
