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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2015 Nov 4;88(3):449–460. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.010

Figure 4.

Figure 4

A: Example display from Kidd, Piantadosi, & Aslin (2012). Each display featured 3 unique boxes hiding 3 unique objects that revealed themselves one at a time according to one of 32 sequences of varying complexity. The sequence continued until the infant looked away for 1-second. B: Infant look-away data plotted by complexity (information content) as estimated by an ideal observer model over the transitional probabilities. The U-shaped pattern indicates that infants were least likely to look away at events with intermediate information content. Infants probability of looking away was greatest to events of either very low information content (highly predictable) or very high information content (highly surprising), consistent with an attentional strategy that aims to maintain intermediate rates of information absorption.