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  • Cognitive Science
  • Infant Studies

Background:

  • Children's learning from testimony is crucial for acquiring knowledge about unobservable phenomena.
  • Limited research has explored the foundational capacities for testimony learning in infancy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the foundations of learning from testimony can be observed in infancy.
  • To examine infants' sensitivity to emotional expressions and non-verbal communication.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing research on infants' sensitivity to emotional expressions.
  • Analysis of infants' capacity to understand information exchange via non-verbal gestures and vocalizations.

Main Results:

  • Infants show sensitivity to emotional expressions of others.
  • Infants demonstrate an understanding of information exchange through non-verbal cues.
  • A grasp of bi-directional information exchange is evident early in the second year of life.

Conclusions:

  • Foundational capacities for learning from testimony are present in infancy.
  • Early understanding of emotional and non-verbal communication underpins testimony learning.
  • Further cross-cultural research is needed to explore these developmental trajectories.