Statistical Learning

The Developing Infant Creates a Curriculum for Statistical Learning

New efforts are using head-cameras and eye-trackers worn by infants to capture everyday visual environments from the infant learner’s point of view. From this vantage point, the training sets for statistical learning develop as the infant’s sensory-motor abilities develop, yielding a series of ordered data sets for visual learning that differ in content and structure between time points but are highly selective at each time point. These changing environments may constitute a developmentally ordered curriculum that optimizes learning across many domains.