Information pick-up by infants: what is it, and how can we tell?
Young infants spend the better portion of their 1st year merely looking around, and what they notice can have critical cognitive consequences. Although looking measures are commonly used to predict what information infants pick up about objects and/or their relationship to other objects, these predictions are often ambiguous. Ultimately, that knowledge can be unambiguously revealed only by giving infants an opportunity to directly act on or use it.
Rovee-Collier
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Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, USA. rovee@rci.rutgers.edu
D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010465:Perception; D011582:Psychological Theory