Violations of expectation trigger infants to search for explanations.
Jasmin Perez,Lisa Feigenson +1 more
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This article found that infants look longer and explore more following violations of expectation, but the reasons for these surprise-induced behaviors are unclear, although one possibility is that expectancy violations heighten arousal generally, thereby increasing infants' post-surprise activity.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 2022-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 16 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surprise & Expectancy theory.read more
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Explanation-seeking curiosity in childhood
Emily Liquin,Tania Lombrozo +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that explanation-seeking curiosity (ESC) is triggered by first-person cues such as novelty or surprise, thirdperson cues (such as a knowledgeable adults' surprise or question), and future-oriented cues (e.g., expectations about information gain or future value) and is satisfied by an adequate explanation, typically obtained through causal intervention or question asking.
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Learning in Infancy Is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on the Prefrontal Cortices
TL;DR: This work presents an integrative account of infant minds and brains, in which the infant PFC represents multiple intrinsic motivations, which are leveraged for active learning.
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Online measures of looking and learning in infancy.
TL;DR: A series of online protocols that replicate classic laboratory findings and suggest that, with some adjustments, testing infants online is a feasible and promising approach for cognitive development research.
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Preverbal infants' reactions to third-party punishments and rewards delivered toward fair and unfair agents.
Alessandra Geraci,Luca Surian +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that infants look longer when they saw a bystander delivering a corporal punishment to a "fair distributor", who distributed some windfall resources equally to the possible recipients, rather than to an "unfair distributor," who distributed the resources unequally.
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Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition
Angela Falciatore,Roshni Vara +1 more
TL;DR: The violation-of-expectation method has been used in thousands of studies examining the breadth and depth of preverbal infants' knowledge and cognitive capacities as mentioned in this paper , which has been shown to reveal infants' expectations, produces reliable results across study designs and stimuli, and is grounded in theories of learning.
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