Rule learning (RL) refers to infants’ ability to extract high‐order, repetition‐based rules from a sequence of elements and to generalize them to new items. RL has been demonstrated in both the auditory and the visual modality, but no studies have investigated infants’ transfer of learning across these two modalities, a process that is fundamental for the development of many complex cognitive skills. Using a visual habituation procedure within a cross‐modal RL task, we tested 7‐month‐old infants’ transfer of learning both from speech to vision (auditory‐visual—AV—condition) and from vision to speech (visual‐auditory—VA—condition). Results showed a transfer of learning in the AV condition, but only for those infants who were able to efficiently extract the rule during the learning (habituation) phase. In contrast, in the VA condition infants provided no evidence of RL. Overall, this study indicates that 7‐month‐old infants can transfers high‐order rules across modalities with an advantage for transferring from speech to vision, and that this ability is constrained by infants’ individual differences in the way they process the to‐be‐learned rules.

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7 个月大婴儿跨语言和视觉模式的规则学习迁移

规则学习 (RL) 是指婴儿从一系列元素中提取高阶、基于重复的规则并将其推广到新项目的能力。强化学习已在听觉和视觉模式中得到证实，但没有研究调查婴儿在这两种模式之间的学习转移，这一过程对于许多复杂认知技能的发展至关重要。在跨模态强化学习任务中使用视觉习惯程序，我们测试了 7 个月大的婴儿从语音到视觉（听觉-视觉-AV-条件）和从视觉到语音（视觉-听觉-VA）的学习转移-状况）。结果显示在 AV 条件下学习转移，但仅适用于那些能够在学习（习惯）阶段有效提取规则的婴儿。相比之下，在 VA 条件下，婴儿没有提供 RL 的证据。总体而言，这项研究表明，7 个月大的婴儿可以跨模态转移高阶规则，并具有从言语转移到视觉的优势，并且这种能力受到婴儿处理未来事物方式的个体差异的限制。 - 学习规则。