How infant-directed actions enhance infants' attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13259
Abstract: When teaching infants new actions, parents tend to modify their movements. Infants prefer these infant-directed actions (IDAs) over adult-directed actions and learn well from them. Yet, it remains unclear how parents' action modulations capture infants'… read more here.
Keywords: infants attention; infant directed; directed actions; attention ... See more keywords
Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade4083
Abstract: In language, grammatical dependencies often hold between items that are not immediately adjacent to each other. Acquiring these nonadjacent dependencies is crucial for learning grammar. However, there are potentially infinitely many dependencies in the language… read more here.
Keywords: cues enhance; sensitivity nonadjacent; infants sensitivity; enhance infants ... See more keywords