ArticleScience advances2024
An edge-simplicity bias in the visual input to young infants.
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- Visual Sensitivities in Toddlers' Hands Provide a Foundation for Shape Perception.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Self-supervised learning yields representational signatures of category-selective cortex.Communications biology · 2026Article
- What have we learned about infant visual attention in the first 25 years of the 21st century?Infant behavior & development · 2025Review
- Natural visually guided behavior.Brain research · 2025Article
- Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children.Science advances · 2025Article
- Approaches to understanding natural behavior.Journal of vision · 2025Review
- The edge orientation entropy of natural scenes is associated with infant visual preferences and adult aesthetic judgements.PloS one · 2025Article
- The Predictive Ability of GBVS Feature Channels on Infants' Fixations of Natural Scenes.Visual cognition · 2024Article
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Abstract
The development of sparse edge coding in the mammalian visual cortex depends on early visual experience. In humans, there are multiple indicators that the statistics of early visual experiences has unique properties that may support these developments. However, there are no direct measures of the edge statistics of infant daily-life experience. Using head-mounted cameras to capture egocentric images of young infants and adults in the home, we found infant images to have distinct edge statistics relative to adults. For infants, scenes with sparse edge patterns-few edges and few orientations-dominate. The findings implicate biased early input at the scale of daily life that is likely specific to the early months after birth and provide insights into the quality, amount, and timing of the visual experiences during the foundational developmental period for human vision.
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