Learning non-adjacent rules and non-adjacent dependencies from human actions in 9-month-old infants.

ABSTRACT: Seven month old infants can learn simple repetition patterns, such as we-fo-we, and generalize the rules to sequences of new syllables, such as ga-ti-ga. However, repetition rule learning in visual sequences seems more challenging, leading some researchers to claim that this type of rule learning applies preferentially to communicative stimuli. Here we demonstrate that 9-month-old infants can learn repetition rules in sequences of non-communicative dynamic human actions. We also show that when primed with these non-adjacent repetition patterns, infants can learn non-adjacent dependencies that involve memorizing the dependencies between specific human actions-patterns that prior research has shown to be difficult for infants in the visual domain and in speech. We discuss several possible me

SUBMITTER: Lu HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189460 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature