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- Title
Infants Segment Continuous Events Using Transitional Probabilities.
- Authors
Stahl, Aimee E.; Romberg, Alexa R.; Roseberry, Sarah; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh‐Pasek, Kathryn
- 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.
- Subjects
INFANT psychology; HUMAN information processing in children; PERCEPTION in infants; COGNITION in infants; PROMPTS (Psychology); LEARNING
- Publication
Child Development, 2014, Vol 85, Issue 5, p1821
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12247