Across space and time: infants learn from backward and forward visual statistics.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates whether infants are sensitive to backward and forward transitional probabilities within temporal and spatial visual streams. Two groups of 8-month-old infants were familiarized with an artificial grammar of shapes, comprising backward and forward base pairs (i.e. two shapes linked by strong backward or forward transitional probability) and part-pairs (i.e. two shapes with weak transitional probabilities in both directions). One group viewed the continuous visual stream as a temporal sequence, while the other group viewed the same stream as a spatial array. Following familiarization, infants looked longer at test trials containing part-pairs than base pairs, although they had appeared with equal frequency during familiarization. This pattern of looking time was evide

SUBMITTER: Tummeltshammer K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5392435 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature