A study that questioned earlier findings
Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Linette Kunin, Sabrina Hsiao-Ling Piccolo, Rebecca R. Saxe, Shari Liu · 2024 · Nature Human Behaviour
- Children
- About 1,900 babies in 76 studies
- Where
- Mostly North America and Western Europe
- Ages
- 3 to 12 months
- How
- A study that pulled together lots of looking studies
- What it found
- Babies did look a little longer at impossible scenes overall, but the difference was small, and studies of older babies found smaller differences.
- Limits
- Mixed signs that studies with clearer results were more likely to be published. It reports group results, not ages for individual babies.