幼儿战略性地调整他们的信息搜索搜索
Francesco Poli1,2, Yi-Lin Li3, Pravallika Naidu3
1Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. francesco.poli@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.
Nature communications
|July 10, 2024
概括
幼儿从24个月开始,发展适应性信息搜索技能. 他们的探索性搜索策略变得比以前理解的更复杂,更适应任务结构.
科学领域:
- 认知发展 认知发展
- 人与计算机的交互
- 行为科学 行为科学
背景情况:
- 复杂环境中的有效导航需要适应性的信息搜索.
- 了解这些技能的早期出现对于发展心理学至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 研究幼儿适应性信息搜索策略的早期发展.
- 为了比较幼儿和成人之间的信息搜索行为.
主要方法:
- 采用了一种视线随机眼睛跟踪范式.
- 参与者 (年龄在18-36个月的幼儿和成年人) 学习了概率信息结构.
- 使用眼动数据和马尔科夫模型分析了探索性搜索行为.
主要成果:
- 从24个月起的幼儿表现出比成年人更具探索性的行为.
- 幼儿表现出能够根据环境信息结构调整他们的搜索策略的能力.
- 在幼儿中观察到复杂信息搜索的早期迹象.
结论:
- 幼儿比以前认为的更早地发展出适应性信息搜索能力.
- 幼儿的搜索策略表现出独特的特征,与成人模式不同.
- 这项研究突出了早期探索性行为背后的复杂认知过程.
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