Effects of Experience on the Behavior of the Young Infant

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Abstract
An overview of recently documented facts about experiential effects on infant development is presented. The sensory and learning capacities of the young infant, even the newborn, are rather remarkable and, at least with respect to certain kinds of learning, the child may never again in its life be as skilled as during the newborn period. This precocity of infants, in contrast to previously held impressions of them, raises interesting issues and problems, particularly about the environment instrumented for them, even in the hospital during the first few days of life.