The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.

Human infants, like immature members of any species, must be highly selective in sampling information from their environment to learn efficiently. Failure to be selective would waste precious computational resources on material that is already known (too simple) or unknowable (too complex). In two e...

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Autores principales:	Celeste Kidd, Steven T Piantadosi, Richard N Aslin
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e034737ef6504081ad7ba7e3a5a918d62021-11-18T07:17:45ZThe Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0036399https://doaj.org/article/e034737ef6504081ad7ba7e3a5a918d62012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22649492/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Human infants, like immature members of any species, must be highly selective in sampling information from their environment to learn efficiently. Failure to be selective would waste precious computational resources on material that is already known (too simple) or unknowable (too complex). In two experiments with 7- and 8-month-olds, we measure infants' visual attention to sequences of events varying in complexity, as determined by an ideal learner model. Infants' probability of looking away was greatest on stimulus items whose complexity (negative log probability) according to the model was either very low or very high. These results suggest a principle of infant attention that may have broad applicability: infants implicitly seek to maintain intermediate rates of information absorption and avoid wasting cognitive resources on overly simple or overly complex events.Celeste KiddSteven T PiantadosiRichard N AslinPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 5, p e36399 (2012)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Celeste Kidd Steven T Piantadosi Richard N Aslin The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
description	Human infants, like immature members of any species, must be highly selective in sampling information from their environment to learn efficiently. Failure to be selective would waste precious computational resources on material that is already known (too simple) or unknowable (too complex). In two experiments with 7- and 8-month-olds, we measure infants' visual attention to sequences of events varying in complexity, as determined by an ideal learner model. Infants' probability of looking away was greatest on stimulus items whose complexity (negative log probability) according to the model was either very low or very high. These results suggest a principle of infant attention that may have broad applicability: infants implicitly seek to maintain intermediate rates of information absorption and avoid wasting cognitive resources on overly simple or overly complex events.
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author	Celeste Kidd Steven T Piantadosi Richard N Aslin
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title	The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
title_short	The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
title_full	The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
title_fullStr	The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
title_full_unstemmed	The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
title_sort	goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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url	https://doaj.org/article/e034737ef6504081ad7ba7e3a5a918d6
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The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.

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