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Author Spotlight: Deciphering the Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Gesture in Communication

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Curiosity constructs communicative competence through social feedback loops.

Julia A Venditti¹, Emma Murrugarra¹, Celia R McLean¹

¹Department of Psychology, Cornell University, 270 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY, United States.

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Infants learn language by babbling and receiving contingent caregiver responses. This social feedback loop guides attention and refines vocal development for communication.

Keywords:

Contingency Curiosity Curiosity-driven learning Prelinguistic vocalizations Social feedback Vocal learning

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Background:

Infants face challenges in managing attention and information acquisition amidst novel stimuli.
Altricial species' infants may use contingency detection to filter learning relevant to their immature behaviors.

Approach:

Proposes a contingency filter mechanism for infant attention and learning.
Examines prelinguistic vocal learning as a model for socially guided information acquisition.
Reviews how caregiver contingent responses to infant babbling facilitate vocal learning.

Key Points:

Contingent caregiver responses to infant babbling provide learnable information (feedback).
Social interactions with responsive caregivers promote exploration and socially guided learning.
Infants actively use predictions about social behavior consequences to refine attention and vocalizations.

Conclusions:

Caregiver contingency shapes infant attention and learning, particularly in vocal development.
Contingent social interactions are crucial for developing communication skills.
Infant predictions about social interactions drive vocal maturation and attention allocation.