Symbolic Systems Forum - Natasha Kirkham, Psychology Department

Natasha Kirkham, Psychology Department

Making sense of it all: Pattern prediction in infancy

Abstract:

We learn about regularly-occurring events in the perceptual environment

by ascertaining associations among temporally adjacent stimuli in input

sequences. Recent research has shown that infants are remarkably adept

at learning the input statistics of auditory, visual, and multimodal

sequences. I will be discussing this research in terms of a learning

mechanism that supports infants' understanding of their perceptual

environment.