Recent Findings

We recently completed a study on how 9-month-old babies can be taught a new concept through visual observations.

In this study, infants watched a series of teaching events and then received a manual search task. Infants typically fail in this task until about 12 months of age. However, with the help of the teaching events, the majority of 9-month-old infants succeeded. We are examining the robustness of this teaching effect in the current ongoing studies. For example, will infants still remember what they learned a week before? If not, can they be reminded of what they learned?

For more information about this completed teaching project, see the poster presented at the 2005 SRCD Biennial Meeting PDF