The Goldilocks effect: Human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kidd, Celeste ^a   Piantadosi, Steven T ^a   Aslin, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION;

ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861368059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036399     Document Type: Article

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