Young children combine sensory cues with learned information in a statistically efficient manner: But task complexity matters.

ABSTRACT: Human adults are adept at mitigating the influence of sensory uncertainty on task performance by integrating sensory cues with learned prior information, in a Bayes-optimal fashion. Previous research has shown that young children and infants are sensitive to environmental regularities, and that the ability to learn and use such regularities is involved in the development of several cognitive abilities. However, it has also been reported that children younger than 8 do not combine simultaneously available sensory cues in a Bayes-optimal fashion. Thus, it remains unclear whether, and by what age, children can combine sensory cues with learned regularities in an adult manner. Here, we examine the performance of 6- to 7-year-old children when tasked with localizing a 'hidden' target by combini

SUBMITTER: Bejjanki VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7153990 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature