婴儿好奇心的个体差异与早期儿童的认知能力有关
Eline R de Boer1, Francesco Poli1,2, Marlene Meyer1
1Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Developmental science
|November 7, 2025
概括
婴儿的好奇心,通过他们对学习机会的关注来衡量,预测了未来的认知发展. 高度好奇的婴儿表现出更好的认知结果,突出了早期探索的长期影响.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 婴儿研究婴儿研究
背景情况:
- 婴儿天生很好奇,并寻求学习经验.
- 婴儿的注意力是如何被信息获取所引导的,存在个体差异.
- 早期的注意力差异可能会影响以后的认知发展.
研究的目的:
- 研究婴儿对信息获取的敏感性与以后的认知发展之间的纵向联系.
- 为早期好奇心和认知结果之间的联系提供经验证据.
- 探索婴儿学习行为中的个体差异如何影响长期认知功能.
主要方法:
- 一项纵向研究追踪了60名婴儿 (50%是女性).
- 利用眼睛追踪来测量婴儿对刺激的注意力,提供8个月的信息获取.
- 评估了参与者在3.5岁时的智商分数.
主要成果:
- 8个月的婴儿对信息获取的敏感性与3.5岁的智商得分有显著的关系.
- 在婴儿时表现出更大的好奇心的孩子往往具有更高的认知发育.
- 在好奇心驱动的探索中,早期的个体差异会产生持久的影响.
结论:
- 早期对获取信息的注意偏见与以后的认知能力有关.
- 婴儿的好奇心可能会作为对认知功能发展的促进作用.
- 早期学习行为中的个体差异对认知发展具有重大长期影响.
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