{"_id":"2nENCsxZh6Xw7AHcx","bibbaseid":"lewkowicz-berent-sequencelearningin4montholdinfantsdoinfantsrepresentordinalinformation-2009","author_short":["Lewkowicz, D. J.","Berent, I."],"bibdata":{"bibtype":"article","type":"article","author":[{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Lewkowicz"],"firstnames":["David","J."],"suffixes":[]},{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Berent"],"firstnames":["Iris"],"suffixes":[]}],"journal":"Child Dev","title":"Sequence learning in 4-month-old infants: do infants represent ordinal information?","year":"2009","number":"6","pages":"1811–1823","volume":"80","abstract":"This study investigated how 4-month-old infants represent sequences: Do they track the statistical relations among specific sequence elements (e.g., AB, BC) or do they encode abstract ordinal positions (i.e., B is second)? Infants were habituated to sequences of 4 moving and sounding elements-3 of the elements varied in their ordinal position while the position of 1 target element remained invariant (e.g., ABCD, CBDA)-and then were tested for the detection of changes in the target's position. Infants detected an ordinal change only when it disrupted the statistical co-occurrence of elements but not when statistical information was controlled. It is concluded that 4-month-olds learn the order of sequence elements by tracking their statistical associations but not their invariant ordinal position.","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01369.x","institution":"Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA. lewkowic@fau.edu","keywords":"Attention; Auditory Perception; Child Psychology; Concept Formation; Discrimination (Psychology); Female; Generalization, Stimulus; Habituation, Psychophysiologic; Humans; Infant; Male; Motion Perception; Orientation; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Problem Solving; Serial Learning","language":"eng","medline-pst":"ppublish","pmid":"19930353","timestamp":"2012.07.10","bibtex":"@Article{Lewkowicz2009,\n author = {Lewkowicz, David J. and Berent, Iris},\n journal = {Child Dev},\n title = {Sequence learning in 4-month-old infants: do infants represent ordinal information?},\n year = {2009},\n number = {6},\n pages = {1811--1823},\n volume = {80},\n abstract = {This study investigated how 4-month-old infants represent sequences:\n\tDo they track the statistical relations among specific sequence elements\n\t(e.g., AB, BC) or do they encode abstract ordinal positions (i.e.,\n\tB is second)? Infants were habituated to sequences of 4 moving and\n\tsounding elements-3 of the elements varied in their ordinal position\n\twhile the position of 1 target element remained invariant (e.g.,\n\tABCD, CBDA)-and then were tested for the detection of changes in\n\tthe target's position. Infants detected an ordinal change only when\n\tit disrupted the statistical co-occurrence of elements but not when\n\tstatistical information was controlled. It is concluded that 4-month-olds\n\tlearn the order of sequence elements by tracking their statistical\n\tassociations but not their invariant ordinal position.},\n doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01369.x},\n institution = {Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA. lewkowic@fau.edu},\n keywords = {Attention; Auditory Perception; Child Psychology; Concept Formation; Discrimination (Psychology); Female; Generalization, Stimulus; Habituation, Psychophysiologic; Humans; Infant; Male; Motion Perception; Orientation; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Problem Solving; Serial Learning},\n language = {eng},\n medline-pst = {ppublish},\n pmid = {19930353},\n timestamp = {2012.07.10},\n}\n\n","author_short":["Lewkowicz, D. J.","Berent, I."],"key":"Lewkowicz2009","id":"Lewkowicz2009","bibbaseid":"lewkowicz-berent-sequencelearningin4montholdinfantsdoinfantsrepresentordinalinformation-2009","role":"author","urls":{},"keyword":["Attention; Auditory Perception; Child Psychology; Concept Formation; Discrimination (Psychology); Female; Generalization","Stimulus; Habituation","Psychophysiologic; Humans; Infant; Male; Motion Perception; Orientation; Pattern Recognition","Visual; Problem Solving; Serial Learning"],"metadata":{"authorlinks":{}}},"bibtype":"article","biburl":"http://endress.org/publications/ansgar.bib","dataSources":["xPGxHAeh3vZpx4yyE","TXa55dQbNoWnaGmMq"],"keywords":["attention; auditory perception; child psychology; concept formation; discrimination (psychology); female; generalization","stimulus; habituation","psychophysiologic; humans; infant; male; motion perception; orientation; pattern recognition","visual; problem solving; serial learning"],"search_terms":["sequence","learning","month","old","infants","infants","represent","ordinal","information","lewkowicz","berent"],"title":"Sequence learning in 4-month-old infants: do infants represent ordinal information?","year":2009}