Title :
Manual object exploration and learning about object features in human infants
Author :
Oakes, L.M. ; Baumgartner, H.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Psychol., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
Motor activity is central both to cognitive and perceptual development in human infants and to learning in robots. Here we investigated how the quality of 6- to 7-month-old human infants´ (N = 60) manual activity with objects is related to their learning about objects in general. Infants´ object exploration during a toy play context was related to their learning of the features of dynamic audio-visual events. We found that not only was the amount of activity with objects predictive of infants´ learning, but the quality of their motor actions was related to what infants learned about audio-visual events. These findings extend previous work and begin to uncover how infants interact with objects can reflect their developing abilities to learn about objects in other contexts.
Keywords :
cognition; hearing; learning (artificial intelligence); visual perception; cognitive development; dynamic audio-visual events; human infants; infant object exploration; manual object exploration; motor activity; object feature learning; perceptual development; robot learning; toy play context; Context; Correlation; Humans; Manuals; Monitoring; Observers; Robots; development; human infants; learning; motor activity;
Conference_Titel :
Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4964-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4963-5
DOI :
10.1109/DevLrn.2012.6400819
