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Two experiments investigated 6- and 10-month-old infants' perception of launching events. According to Michotte (1963), spatial and temporal features of such events define them as either causal or noncausal. These features should cue the direct perception of causality early in life. The present experiments examined the development of the perception of these features and the encoding of events as either causal or noncausal. In Experiment ...