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ArticleCognitive science2010

How Infants Learn About the Visual World.

Scott P Johnson

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Article in Cognitive science, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Fundamental Themes in Social-Emotional Learning: A Theoretical Framework for Inclusivity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024
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  20. Development of Three-Dimensional Completion of Complex Objects.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Scott P JohnsonUniversity of California, Los Angeles.
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Origins of Object KnowledgeR01HD040432 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI JOHNSON, SCOTT P · 2002 to 2010
$1.8M
Sequence Induction in Infancy: A systematic approachR01HD048733 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI JOHNSON, SCOTT P · 2006 to 2009
$1.1M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD040432NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD048733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The visual world of adults consists of objects at various distances, partly occluding one another, substantial and stable across space and time. The visual world of young infants, in contrast, is often fragmented and unstable, consisting not of coherent objects but rather surfaces that move in unpredictable ways. Evidence from computational modeling and from experiments with human infants highlights three kinds of learning that contribute to infants' knowledge of the visual world: learning via association, learning via active assembly, and learning via visual-manual exploration. Infants acquire knowledge by observing objects move in and out of sight, forming associations of these different views. In addition, the infant's own self-produced behavior-oculomotor patterns and manual experience, in particular-are important means by which infants discover and construct their visual world.

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PMID21116440
PMCPMC2992385
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