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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019

No Evidence That Abstract Structure Learning Disrupts Novel-Event Learning in 8- to 11-Month-Olds.

Rachel Wu, Ting Qian, Richard N Aslin

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 authors.

Rachel WuDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States.
Ting QianDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States.
Richard N AslinHaskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, United States.

Funding

Visual statistical learning in human infantsR01HD037082 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI ASLIN, RICHARD N., NEWPORT, ELISSA L · 1999 to 2022
$6.1M
Optimal neural and behavioral markers for learning to learn during infancyF32HD070537 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI WU, RACHEL · 2012 to 2014
$148k
NICHD NIH HHS F32 HD070537NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD037082
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although infants acquire specific information (e.g., motion of a specific toy) and abstract information (e.g., likelihood of events repeating), it is unclear whether extraction of abstract information interferes with specific learning. In the present study, 8- to 11-month-old infants were shown four audio-visual movies, either with a mixed or uniform presentation structure. Learning of abstract information was operationally defined as the looking time to changes in presentation structure of the movies (mixed vs. uniform blocks), and learning of specific information was defined as the looking time to changes in content in the four movies (object properties and identities). We found evidence of both specific and abstract learning, but did not find evidence that extraction of the presentation structure (i.e., abstract learning) impacts specific learning of the events. We discuss the implications of the costs and benefits of the interaction between abstract and specific learning for infants.

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eye-trackinginfancylearningobject learningsequence learning

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PMID30906275
PMCPMC6418032

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