Information from multiple modalities helps 5-month-olds learn abstract rules.

摘要: By 7 months of age, infants are able to learn rules based on the abstract relationships between stimuli (Marcus et al., 1999), but they better do so when exposed speech than some other classes stimuli. In current experiments we ask whether multimodal stimulus information will aid younger in identifying rules. We habituated 5-month-olds simple patterns (ABA or ABB) instantiated coordinated looming visual shapes and sounds (Experiment 1), alone 2), accompanied by uninformative 3). Infants showed evidence rule learning only presence informative cues. hypothesize that additional present these displays was responsible for success rules, congruent with both a Bayesian account Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis.