Infants Segment Continuous Events Using Transitional Probabilities

Autor/inn/en	Stahl, Aimee E.; Romberg, Alexa R.; Roseberry, Sarah; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn
Titel	Infants Segment Continuous Events Using Transitional Probabilities
Quelle	In: Child Development, 85 (2014) 5, S.1821-1826 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12247
Schlagwörter	Infants; Theory of Mind; Cues; Schemata (Cognition); Intention; Motion; Learning Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Stichwort; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Bewegungsablauf; Learning process; Lernprozess
Abstract	Throughout their 1st year, infants adeptly detect statistical structure in their environment. However, little is known about whether statistical learning is a primary mechanism for event segmentation. This study directly tests whether statistical learning alone is sufficient to segment continuous events. Twenty-eight 7- to 9-month-old infants viewed a sequence of continuous actions performed by a novel agent in which there were no transitional movements that could have constrained the possible upcoming actions. At test, infants distinguished statistically intact units from less predictable ones. The ability to segment events using statistical structure may help infants discover other cues to event boundaries, such as intentions, and carve up the world of continuous motion in meaningful ways. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10