How do we know what babies know? The limits of inferring cognitive representations from visual fixation data
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21591726 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaac Davis (0000-0001-6180-3905, Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 182-209 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09515089.2020.1837358 |
| OpenAlex | W3096689570 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 52 |
Most infant cognitive studies use visual fixation time as the measure of interest. There are, however, some serious methodological and theoretical concerns regarding what these studies reveal about infant cognition and how their results ought to be interpreted. We propose a Bayesian modeling framework which helps address these concerns. This framework allows us to more precisely formulate hypotheses about infants’ cognitive representations, formalize “linking hypotheses” that relate infants’ visual fixation behavior with stimulus complexity, and better determine what questions a given experiment can and cannot answer
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Categorization, perception, and language · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Neuroscience · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation
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| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |