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SUBMITTER: Kidd C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3359326 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kidd Celeste C Piantadosi Steven T ST Aslin Richard N RN
PloS one 20120523 5
Human infants, like immature members of any species, must be highly selective in sampling information from their environment to learn efficiently. Failure to be selective would waste precious computational resources on material that is already known (too simple) or unknowable (too complex). In two experiments with 7- and 8-month-olds, we measure infants' visual attention to sequences of events varying in complexity, as determined by an ideal learner model. Infants' probability of looking away wa ...[more]