Babies’ Attention Choices Fall within Goldilocks Zone

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It’s a treacherous universe for babies. To make clarity of it, they demeanour for <span>intellectual stimulation</span>. But they’re usually meddlesome if what they demeanour during is not too tough to comprehend—or boringly easy. Researchers call it a Goldilocks effect, in a investigate in a biography <em>Public Library of Science One</em>. [<span>Celeste Kidd</span>, <span>Steven T. Piantadosi</span> and <span>Richard N. Aslin</span>, " "]</p>
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Seventy-two seven- and eight-month-old babies had their eye movements tracked as they watched videos. They sat on their parents’ laps for security—but a grown-ups wore visors and headphones, so they couldn’t see a videos and give subconscious cues.
In a videos, objects seemed behind or in boxes. When a video became too boring—exactly a same thing happened all a time—the babies mislaid seductiveness and looked away.</p>
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But when a videos got...