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      Infants tailor their attention to maximize learning

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      Creators
      Poli, F.
      Serino, G.
      Mars, R.B.
      Hunnius, S.
      Date of Archiving
      2020
      Archive
      Radboud Data Repository
      DOI
      https://doi.org/10.34973/11gh-7337
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      Infants tailor their attention to maximize learning  
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      Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2066/221851   https://hdl.handle.net/2066/221851
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      Audience(s)
      Life sciences
      Languages used
      English
      Key words
      Infant; Learning
      Abstract
      Infants’ remarkable learning abilities allow them to rapidly acquire many complex skills. It has been suggested that infants achieve this by optimally allocating their attention to relevant stimuli in the environment, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we modelled infants’ looking behavior during a learning task through an ideal learner that quantified the informational structure of environmental stimuli. We show that saccadic latencies, looking time, and time spent engaged with a stimulus sequence are explained by the properties of the learning environments, including the stimulus surprise, the overall predictability of the environment, and the progress in learning the environmental structure. These findings reveal the factors that shape infants’ advanced learning, emphasizing their predisposition to seek out stimuli that maximize learning.
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