The study by Bristol University, which claims to be the first of its kind to map how and when pretence evolves, found that some babies can understand what pretending is from as young as four months.
Babies recognise when others are pretending and around half of children can pretend themselves by the age of 12 months, according to the research.
The study follows how and when children start to pretend from the age of four-to 47 months. The findings are based on results from a survey of 900 parents of children aged from birth to nearly four years old from the UK, US, Australia, and Canada.
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