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Apr 1, 2020 01:43
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As early as we can test

Non-PRO English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters As early as we can test
As early as we can test, decide to look twice as long at the magic or the unexpected event.

It's not very high-tech experiment, but it's extremely powerful because as early as we can test, infants have this expectation that an unsupported object should fall.

I know that's "as early as" used usually for dates and time, to means not before this hour or date, but I didn't get the meaning here. Babies age is 4 months old.

Thanks in advance,

Discussion

S.J (asker) Apr 6, 2020:
Thank you all.
B D Finch Apr 2, 2020:
@Asker Babies haven't studied Newton; they don't "know about gravity", but they expect objects to fall, presumably on the basis of observation (e.g. experience of dropping their dummies and teddies out of their cots).
S.J (asker) Apr 2, 2020:
So it means the youngest age that we could test, showed us that they know about gravity?
B D Finch Apr 1, 2020:
Not a precise age Babies vary in their development, so some babies could be tested at a younger age than others. So, your text is saying that, as early as it is possible to test any particular baby's reaction, that reaction will indicate surprise that the apparently unsupported object does not fall.
Tina Vonhof (X) Apr 1, 2020:
Before the age of 4 months (most) babies do not yet exhibit this behaviour. So 4 months is the earliest age at which it makes sense to do the test.
Tomasso Apr 1, 2020:
Only a sugestion, Just as a starting point, propose this possibility and it does fill in lacunae of thought..


At the earliest age at which we can test, children are inclined to look twice as long at events that seem to be magical or unexpected .

It's not very high-tech experiment, but it's extremely powerful because the earliest age of infants at which we can observe or test this theory, infants seem to have this expectation that an unsupported object should fall.

Reference comments

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Reference:

early infancy,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142767/

Quote ;Research on infants’ reasoning abilities often rely on ****looking times, ****which are longer to surprising and **unexpected ***visual scenes compared to unsurprising and expected ones. Few researchers have examined more precise visual scanning patterns in these scenes, and so, here, we recorded 8- to 11-month-olds’ gaze with an eye tracker as we presented a sampling event whose outcome was either surprising, neutral, or ***unsurprising***

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Peer comments on this reference comment:

neutral D. I. Verrelli : I thought your Discussion Box comment was clearer: "At the earliest age at which we can test"
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