TY - JOUR
T1 - Abstract rule learning for visual sequences in 8- and 11-month-olds
AU - Johnson, Scott P.
AU - Fernandes, Keith J.
AU - Frank, Michael C.
AU - Kirkham, Natasha
AU - Marcus, Gary
AU - Rabagliati, Hugh
AU - Slemmer, Jonathan A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The experiments reported here investigated the development of a fundamental component of cognition: to recognize and generalize abstract relations. Infants were presented with simple rule-governed patterned sequences of visual shapes (ABB, AAB, and ABA) that could be discriminated from differences in the position of the repeated element (late, early, or nonadjacent, respectively). Eight-month-olds were found to distinguish patterns on the basis of the repetition, but appeared insensitive to its position in the sequence; 11-month-olds distinguished patterns over the position of the repetition, but appeared insensitive to the nonadjacent repetition. These results suggest that abstract pattern detection may develop incrementally in a process of constructing complex relations from more primitive components.
AB - The experiments reported here investigated the development of a fundamental component of cognition: to recognize and generalize abstract relations. Infants were presented with simple rule-governed patterned sequences of visual shapes (ABB, AAB, and ABA) that could be discriminated from differences in the position of the repeated element (late, early, or nonadjacent, respectively). Eight-month-olds were found to distinguish patterns on the basis of the repetition, but appeared insensitive to its position in the sequence; 11-month-olds distinguished patterns over the position of the repetition, but appeared insensitive to the nonadjacent repetition. These results suggest that abstract pattern detection may develop incrementally in a process of constructing complex relations from more primitive components.
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U2 - 10.1080/15250000802569611
DO - 10.1080/15250000802569611
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:59249085771
SN - 1525-0008
VL - 14
SP - 2
EP - 18
JO - Infancy
JF - Infancy
IS - 1
ER -