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What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior.

Karen E AdolphMark A Schmuckler
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2024)
Researchers must infer "what babies know" based on what babies do. Thus, to maximize information from doing, researchers should use tasks and tools that capture the richness of infants' behaviors. We clarify Gibson's views about the richness of infants' behavior and their exploration in the service of guiding action - what Gibson called "learning about affordances."
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