Three-month-old infants can learn abstract relations before language comprehension

Three-month-old babies cannot understand words and are just learning to roll over, yet they are already capable of learning abstract relations. In a new study, Northwestern University researchers show for the first time that 3-month-old infants can learn same and different relations. “Recent theories have suggested that humans’ fluency in relational learning—our ability to make comparisons between objects, events or […]

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