Making sense of the world
- 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.
Author details: | Moritz KösterORCiD, Ezgi KayhanORCiDGND, Miriam LangelohORCiDGND, Stefanie HöhlORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619895071 |
ISSN: | 1745-6916 |
ISSN: | 1745-6924 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32167407 |
Title of parent work (English): | Perspectives on Psychological Science |
Subtitle (English): | Infant learning from a predictive processing perspective |
Publisher: | Sage |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/03/13 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2024/04/23 |
Tag: | cognition; infant development; neuroscience; perception; social cognition |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 10 |
First page: | 562 |
Last Page: | 571 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 864 |