Gradual sensory maturation promotes abstract representation learning

Abstract excerpt

Human infants begin life with limited visual capacities, such as low acuity and poor color sensitivity, due to gradual sensory maturation. In contrast, machine learning models are trained on high-fidelity inputs from the outset, often leading to shortcut learning and overfitting to spurious correlations. Here, we show that early sensory immaturity plays a critical role in shaping bias-resistant, abstract visual re...

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• Brain
• Child, Preschool
• Cognition
• Genotype
• Infant
• Learning
• Models, Neurological
• Social Environment

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Literature Corpus work

5e8ce116-5222-5be1-b2b5-1f8838d553e9

DOI

10.1101/2025.06.24.661295