Eleven-month-old infants learn a new object-sound mapping after a surprising core knowledge violation but not after an expected outcome¶

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q2 i? Infants who saw the expected outcome of solidity or spatiotemporal continuity events failed to learn a hidden auditory property, whereas infants who saw the surprising outcome successfully learned it. → Stahl Aimee E. 2019

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Stahl Aimee E. 2019¶

Stahl Aimee E., Feigenson Lisa. (2019). Violations of Core Knowledge Shape Early Learning. Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12389

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Lab experiment in which 11-month-olds saw an expected or surprising solidity or spatiotemporal continuity event, then were taught that the ball had a hidden squeaking property and tested on mapping sound to object. Only the surprising-outcome groups learned.

"infants who saw the expected outcome of either event failed to learn the new information – as predicted, because we had designed the one-shot-learning task to be hard. In contrast, infants who saw the surprising outcome of either event successfully learned the object's hidden property"

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