Multiple pathways to developmental continuity in infant cognition

Published on June 14, 2023

In their provocative opinion piece, Blumberg and Adolph (B&A) [1] argue that inferences regarding cognitive development in infancy that are based on young infants’ motor behaviors are misleading. They assert that the motor behaviors, including eye movements and looking-time measures traditionally used to characterize cognition between birth and 4 months, are mediated by subcortical mechanisms and, therefore, that this disconnect between the cortex and motor behaviors ‘does not support claims of developmental continuity between early infant and adult cognition’.

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