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Direct linkJung, Yaelan; Walther, Dirk B.; Finn, Amy S. – Developmental Science, 2021
Statistical learning allows us to discover myriad structures in our environment, which is saturated with information at many different levels--from items to categories. How do children learn different levels of information--about regularities that pertain to items and the categories they come from--and how does this differ from adults? Studies on…
Descriptors: Children, Incidental Learning, Classification, Adults
Meder, Björn; Wu, Charley M.; Schulz, Eric; Ruggeri, Azzurra – Developmental Science, 2021
Are young children just random explorers who learn serendipitously? Or are even young children guided by uncertainty-directed sampling, seeking to explore in a systematic fashion? We study how children between the ages of 4 and 9 search in an explore-exploit task with spatially correlated rewards, where exhaustive exploration is infeasible and not…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Discovery Processes, Children, Child Development
Naigles, Letitia R.; Bavin, Edith L.; Smith, Melissa A. – Developmental Science, 2005
Toddlers' (MA = 22 and 27 months) ability to extend newly taught verbs to new situational and sentential contexts was investigated. Children were interactively taught two novel verbs, presented in only the transitive frame (e.g. "You're lorping the ball"), in a playroom setting. They then viewed the verb actions presented on side-by-side monitors…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Toddlers, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
