Infants organize their learning process based on the same or different informants.

ABSTRACT: From the preverbal period, infants can distinguish different informants in social interactions and adjust their engagement accordingly. Yet little is known about whether these informant-based adaptations take shape during infants' initial knowledge acquisition, before their manifestation in behaviours. To address this question, we conducted two gaze-contingent experiments to examine how infants organize their learning process according to the identities of informants in social interactions. In each experiment, infants were randomly assigned to learn two kinds of knowledge (e.g., Experiment 1: shape of "Chimo" and shape of "Wasa"; Experiment 2: shape of "Chimo" and color of "Heku") either from different informants or from the same informant. Infants' attention to the informant and pupil dil

SUBMITTER: Ling R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12521531 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature