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

Human infants, like immature members of any species, must be highly selective in sampling information from their environment to learn efficiently. Failure to be selective would waste precious computational resources on material that is already known (too simple) or unknowable (too complex). In two e...

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Main Authors: Celeste Kidd, Steven T Piantadosi, Richard N Aslin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22649492/?tool=EBI