Autonomy in action: linking the act of looking to memory formation in infancy via dynamic neural fields

Sammy Perone; John P Spencer

doi:10.1111/cogs.12010

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Autonomy in action: linking the act of looking to memory formation in infancy via dynamic neural fields

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Autonomy in action: linking the act of looking to memory formation in infancy via dynamic neural fields

Sammy Perone and John P Spencer

Cognitive science, Vol.37(1), pp.1-60

01/2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12010

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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/106700

PMCID: PMC3815444

PMID: 23136815

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Abstract

Visual Perception - physiology

Humans

Infant

Memory, Short-Term - physiology

Reaction Time - physiology

Retention (Psychology) - physiology

Brain - physiology

Nerve Net - physiology

Recognition (Psychology) - physiology

Psychology, Child

Attention - physiology

Exploratory Behavior - physiology

Neural Inhibition - physiology

Animals

Stochastic Processes

Habituation, Psychophysiologic - physiology

Comprehension - physiology

Memory - physiology

Neural Networks (Computer)

Looking is a fundamental exploratory behavior by which infants acquire knowledge about the world. In theories of infant habituation, however, looking as an exploratory behavior has been deemphasized relative to the reliable nature with which looking indexes active cognitive processing. We present a new theory that connects looking to the dynamics of memory formation and formally implement this theory in a Dynamic Neural Field model that learns autonomously as it actively looks and looks away from a stimulus. We situate this model in a habituation task and illustrate the mechanisms by which looking, encoding, working memory formation, and long-term memory formation give rise to habituation across multiple stimulus and task contexts. We also illustrate how the act of looking and the temporal dynamics of learning affect each other. Finally, we test a new hypothesis about the sources of developmental differences in looking.

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Title: Autonomy in action: linking the act of looking to memory formation in infancy via dynamic neural fields
Creators: Sammy Perone - Department of Psychology and Delta Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. sammy-perone@uiowa.edu
John P Spencer
Publication Details: Cognitive science, Vol.37(1), pp.1-60
Academic Unit: Human Development, Department of
Publisher: United States
Grant note: R01 MH062480 / NIMH NIH HHS R01MH62480 / NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH062480-08 / NIMH NIH HHS
Identifiers: 99900546706901842
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article