The power of human gaze on infant learning - PubMed (original) (raw)
Comparative Study
. 2013 Aug;128(2):127-33.
doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.03.011. Epub 2013 May 11.
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.03.011
Comparative Study
The power of human gaze on infant learning
Yuko Okumura et al. Cognition. 2013 Aug.
Abstract
Social learning enables infants to acquire information, especially through communication. However, it is unknown whether humans are the prime source of information for infant learning. Here we report that humans have a powerful influence on infants' object learning compared with nonhuman agents (robots). Twelve-month-old infants were shown videos in which a human or a robot gazed at an object. The results demonstrated that the infants followed the gaze direction of both agents, but only human gaze facilitated their object learning: Infants showed enhanced processing of, and preferences for, the target object gazed at by the human but not by the robot. Importantly, an extended fixation on a target object without the orientation of human gaze did not produce these effects. Together, these findings show the importance of humanness in the gazer, suggesting that infants may be predisposed to treat humans as privileged sources of information for learning.
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