Infants have innate knowledge about the world and when their expectations are defied, they learn best, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found.
In a paper for the journal Science, cognitive psychologists Aimee E. Stahl and Lisa Feigenson demonstrate for the first time that babies learn new things by leveraging the core information they are born with. When something surprises a baby, like an object not behaving the way a baby expects it to, the baby not only focuses on that object, but ultimately learns more about it than from a similar yet predictable object.
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Video by: Len Turner, Deirdre Hammer and Dave Schmelick, Johns Hopkins University Office of Communications. video@jhu.edu
7 окт 2024