TY - GEN A1 - Köster, Moritz A1 - Kayhan, Ezgi A1 - Langeloh, Miriam A1 - Hoehl, Stefanie T1 - Making sense of the world T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - For human infants, the first years after birth are a period of intense exploration-getting to understand their own competencies in interaction with a complex physical and social environment. In contemporary neuroscience, the predictive-processing framework has been proposed as a general working principle of the human brain, the optimization of predictions about the consequences of one's own actions, and sensory inputs from the environment. However, the predictive-processing framework has rarely been applied to infancy research. We argue that a predictive-processing framework may provide a unifying perspective on several phenomena of infant development and learning that may seem unrelated at first sight. These phenomena include statistical learning principles, infants' motor and proprioceptive learning, and infants' basic understanding of their physical and social environment. We discuss how a predictive-processing perspective can advance the understanding of infants' early learning processes in theory, research, and application. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 864 KW - cognition KW - infant development KW - neuroscience KW - perception KW - social cognition Y1 - 2020 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51371 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-513717 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 3 ER -