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Seeing is Believing: Infants' and Toddlers' Social Learning from Visual Cues

Sat, March 25, 11:30am to 12:15pm, Salt Palace Convention Center, Floor: 2, Meeting Room 250 B

Session Type: Flash Talk Session

Abstract

Presenters in this flash talk session will discuss how gaze following, imitation, and observation behaviors shape different aspects of social learning during infancy and toddlerhood. Paper 1 investigated whether 3- and 6-month-old infants followed the gaze of social robots, finding that 6-, but not 3-, month old infants followed the gaze of a "Furhat robot". Paper 2 explored how emotional cues from multiple sources informed toddlers visual exploration, finding that toddlers' visual exploration was affected by both the valence and consistency of emotional feedback from others. Paper 3 tested the role of direct observation in 3-year-olds' understanding of others’ beliefs, finding that directly observing someone interacting with an object facilitated children's understanding of others’ beliefs above and beyond testimonial or inferential information. And Paper 4 examined the effect of the Infant Behavior Program (IBP; a home-based intervention) on parent and infant imitation, finding that IBP led to a short-term increase in parent imitation.

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