Infants are superior in implicit crossmodal learning and use other learning mechanisms than adults

During development internal models of the sensory world must be acquired which have to be continuously adapted later. We used event-related potentials (ERP) to test the hypothesis that infants extract crossmodal statistics implicitly while adults learn them when task relevant. Participants were pass...

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Main Authors: Sophie Rohlf, Boukje Habets, Marco von Frieling, Brigitte Röder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-09-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/28166