Even Six-Month-Old Babies Have a Sense of Probability (image)

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Caption

The babies preferred to look at the basket mainly filled with yellow balls (left red square) in comparison to the other one (right red square)--presumably because they were surprised that it was just made up of the rare yellow balls and that it was therefore a very improbable event.

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Max Planck Institute fur Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS)

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