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Statistical learning of multiple speech streams: A challenge for monolingual infants.

Author(s): Benitez VL, Bulgarelli F, Byers-Heinlein K, Saffran JR, Weiss DJ

Dev Sci. 2020 03;23(2):e12896 Authors: Benitez VL, Bulgarelli F, Byers-Heinlein K, Saffran JR, Weiss DJ

Article GUID: 31444822
Selective social learning in infancy: looking for mechanisms.

Author(s): Crivello C, Phillips S, Poulin-Dubois D

Dev Sci. 2018 05;21(3):e12592 Authors: Crivello C, Phillips S, Poulin-Dubois D

Article GUID: 28856760
Probing the depth of infants' theory of mind: disunity in performance across paradigms.

Author(s): Poulin-Dubois D, Yott J

Dev Sci. 2018 Jul;21(4):e12600 Authors: Poulin-Dubois D, Yott J

Article GUID: 28952180
Reverse production effect: children recognize novel words better when they are heard rather than produced.

Author(s): Zamuner TS, Strahm S, Morin-Lessard E, Page MPA

Dev Sci. 2018 07;21(4):e12636 Authors: Zamuner TS, Strahm S, Morin-Lessard E, Page MPA

Article GUID: 29143412
Knowing who knows: Metacognitive and causal learning abilities guide infants' selective social learning.

Author(s): Kuzyk O, Grossman S, Poulin-Dubois D

Dev Sci. 2019 Sep 13;:e12904 Authors: Kuzyk O, Grossman S, Poulin-Dubois D

Article GUID: 31519037
What do bilingual infants actually hear? Evaluating measures of language input to bilingual-learning 10-month-olds

Author(s): Orena AJ; Byers-Heinlein K; Polka L;

Examining how bilingual infants experience their dual language input is important for understanding bilingual language acquisition. To assess these language experiences, researchers typically conduct language interviews with caregivers. However, little is k...

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Infants attribute false beliefs to a toy crane

Author(s): Burnside K; Severdija V; Poulin-Dubois D;

The mentalistic view of early theory of mind posits that infants possess a robust and sophisticated understanding of false belief that is masked by the demands of traditional explicit tasks. Much of the evidence supporting this mentalistic view comes from i...

Article GUID: 31309631
Bilingual toddlers' comprehension of mixed sentences is asymmetrical across their two languages.

Author(s): Potter CE, Fourakis E, Morin-Lessard E, Byers-Heinlein K, Lew-Williams C

Dev Sci. 2018 Dec 23;:e12794 Authors: Potter CE, Fourakis E, Morin-Lessard E, Byers-Heinlein K, Lew-Williams C

Article GUID: 30582256
Title:Knowing who knows: Metacognitive and causal learning abilities guide infants' selective social learning.
Authors:Kuzyk O,  Grossman S,  Poulin-Dubois D
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31519037?dopt=Abstract
DOI:10.1111/desc.12904
Category:Dev Sci
PMID:31519037
Dept Affiliation: CONCORDIA
1 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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Knowing who knows: Metacognitive and causal learning abilities guide infants' selective social learning.

Dev Sci. 2019 Sep 13;:e12904

Authors: Kuzyk O, Grossman S, Poulin-Dubois D

Abstract

Given the widespread interest in the development of children's selective social learning, there is mounting evidence suggesting that infants prefer to learn from competent informants (Poulin-Dubois & Brosseau-Liard, 2016). However, little research has been dedicated to understanding how this selectivity develops. The present study investigated whether causal learning and precursor metacognitive abilities govern discriminant learning in a classic word-learning paradigm. Infants were exposed to a speaker who accurately (reliable condition) or inaccurately (unreliable condition) labeled familiar objects and were subsequently tested on their ability to learn a novel word from the informant. The predictive power of causal learning skills and precursor metacognition (as measured through decision confidence) on infants' word learning was examined across both reliable and unreliable conditions. Results suggest that infants are more inclined to accept an unreliable speaker's testimony on a word learning task when they also lack confidence in their own knowledge on a task measuring their metacognitive ability. Additionally, when uncertain, infants draw on causal learning abilities to better learn the association between a label and a novel toy. This study is the first to shed light on the role of causal learning and precursor metacognitive judgments in infants' abilities to engage in selective trust.

PMID: 31519037 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]