Position:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rank:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Contact information
Building:
Vienna, Quellenstrasse 51
Room:
C509
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My research investigates how infants explore their environment and whether they adapt their learning and exploration to the changing environment.
In my recent study, toddlers aged 18 to 36 months were either allowed to actively control their exploration (Active condition) or presented with the same information that they could only passively observe (Yoked condition). They were then tested in a preferential-looking paradigm in which familiar versus novel stimuli were presented in pairs. Evidence from eye-movement patterns indicates that toddlers have better recognition memory when given active control over the learning experience.