This afternoon, Kira participated in another UCLA study:
"The rapidity with which infants come to understand language and events in their surroundings has prompted speculation concerning the learning mechanisms that guide language acquisition and object knowledge in infancy. Research has shown that by 8 months of age infants are able to pick out individual words from fluent speech based solely on the statistical relationships between neighboring speech sounds (Saffran et. al, 1996). At the UCLA Baby Lab we have shown that infants as young as 2 months of age are able to detect statistically predictable patterns in visual stimuli as well, such as in sequences of basic shapes (Kirkham, Slemmer & Johnson, 2002). These findings suggest that mechanisms designed to detect structure inherent in the environment may play a role in infants' cognitive development. We are currently conducting further research to investigate infants' ability to detect and learn from various types of statistical probabilities in their environment and how this ability may develop over time." -Lauren Krogh
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