Addyman, Caspar and Mareschal, Denis. 2013. Local Redundancy Governs Infants' Spontaneous Orienting to Visual-Temporal Sequences. Child Development, 84(4), pp. 1137-1144. ISSN 0009-3920 [Article]

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Two experiments demonstrate that 5-month-olds are sensitive to local redundancy in visual-temporal sequences. In Experiment 1, 20 infants saw 2 separate sequences of looming colored shapes that possessed the same elements but contrasting transitional probabilities. One sequence was random whereas the other was based on bigrams. Without any prior exposure, infants looked longer at the random sequence. In Experiment 2, 17 infants looked equally long at bigram- and trigram-based sequences. However, an analysis of local redundancy revealed that in both experiments disengagement from the sequences was governed by local repetitions rather than by global sequence statistics. This finding suggests that a spontaneous sensitivity to stimulus complexity helps orient infants to sequences they can learn from.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12060
Keywords:	Analysis of Variance, Attention, Attention: physiology, Discrimination Learning, Discrimination Learning: physiology, Female, Fixation, Humans, Infant, Male, Ocular, Ocular: physiology, Orientation, Orientation: physiology, Pattern Recognition, Photic Stimulation, Random Allocation, Serial Learning, Time Factors, Visual, Visual Perception, Visual Perception: physiology, Visual: physiology
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 2013 Published
Item ID:	16123
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2016 13:32
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2017 12:48
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/16123

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