Infants’ processing of information about
the world around them has generally been believed to be limited
to the here and now. That is, their processing of information
is fleeting in that they have little memory for the past and
even less expectations for the future. However, recent work at
the Centre on the cognitive abilities of very young infants has
determined that they do, in fact, remember information about
previously experienced events and form expectations for events
that have yet to occur. The goal of the Centre for Early Cognition,
therefore, is to construct a better understanding of how very
young infants attend and perceive information about the world
around them, what type of information they attend to and perceive,
how this information is stored and retrieved from memory, and
how memory for previously experienced event information enables
the formation of expectations for future events. |
