The Goldilocks Effect: Infants' preference for stimuli that are neither too predictable nor too surprising
@inproceedings{Kidd2010TheGE, title={The Goldilocks Effect: Infants' preference for stimuli that are neither too predictable nor too surprising}, author={Celeste Kidd and Steven T. Piantadosi and Richard N. Aslin}, year={2010} }
The Goldilocks Effect: Infants’ preference for stimuli that are neither too predictable nor too surprising Celeste Kidd (ckidd@bcs.rochester.edu) Steven T. Piantadosi (piantado@mit.edu) Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Meliora Hall Rochester, NY 14627 USA Brain & Cognitive Sciences, 43 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Richard N. Aslin (aslin@cvs.rochester.edu) Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Meliora Hall Rochester, NY 14627 USA Abstract Even before birth, infants attend to the statistical…
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