» Babies can tell when a tableau has changed. I'm not sure I'll go with the conclusion that they can detect arithmetic errors, though. I'm sharing it primarily for the picture of the baby wearing the gaudy brain-sensor bathing cap.
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Babies can detect errors at a young age
[ 08.10.06 ]
It seems like that study was done using 1 or 2 dolls. I'm not sure why they call that arithmetic. Is'nt that just simple binary logic, i.e. the expectation difference based on the presence of a 1 or 2.
Infants can discern basic pattern differences and that is quite well known in literature(commonly known as pop-out occuring during the pre-attentive stage of the Human Visual System).
I agree 'arithmetic errors' is taking it a bit too far :). The baby with the bathing cap is a riot !