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Smith, Linda B. |
Location
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Indiana University |
Primary Field
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Psychological and Cognitive Sciences |
Secondary Field
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Computer and Information Sciences |
Election Citation
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Smith employs wearable sensors, including head-mounted eye trackers, to study how young learners select and generate sensory inputs for learning.
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Research Interests
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Linda Smith's laboratory takes a complex systems approach to understanding the interdependencies among perceptual, motor and cognitive development during the first two years of post-natal life. Using wearable sensors, including head-mounted eye-trackers and motion sensors, the laboratory studies how the young learner's own behavior selects and generate the sensory inputs for learning and how changing motor abilities during the first two years of post-natal life define an ordered curriculum of expected experiences and tasks. Using head-cameras and audio recorders embedded in hats, the laboratory also captures and analyzes large corpora of infants' and toddlers' everyday visual and auditory experiences at home. The work has led to novel insights about the natural statistics of developmental environments as well as the learning mechanisms that exploit those statistics. These insights are also being explored through collaborations in robotics and artificial intelligence. |
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