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ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2024

Developmental Changes in How Head Orientation Structures Infants' Visual Attention.

John M Franchak, Linda Smith, Chen Yu

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The world through infant eyes: Evidence for the early emergence of the cardinal orientation bias.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. Toward a Causal Science of Early Play?Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
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3 authors.

John M FranchakDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0751-2864
Linda SmithDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Chen YuDepartment of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN INTEGRATIVE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESST32HD007475 · NICHD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI Daniel Patrick Kennedy, LINDA B. SMITH · 1995 to 2026
$9.5M
Infants' self-generated visual statistics support object and category learningR01HD104624 · NICHD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, LINDA B. · 2021 to 2025
$2.9M
What you see is what you learn: Visual attention in statistical word learningR01HD093792 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI YU, CHEN · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
Sensorimotor Dynamics of Parent-Child Interactions Build Word Learning SkillsR01HD074601 · NICHD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI YU, CHEN · 2013 to 2017
$1.6M
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentNational Science FoundationNICHD NIH HHS R01 HD074601NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD093792NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD104624NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007475NIH HHS T32 HD07475
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most studies of developing visual attention are conducted using screen-based tasks in which infants move their eyes to select where to look. However, real-world visual exploration entails active movements of both eyes and head to bring relevant areas in view. Thus, relatively little is known about how infants coordinate their eyes and heads to structure their visual experiences. Infants were tested every 3 months from 9 to 24 months while they played with their caregiver and three toys while sitting in a highchair at a table. Infants wore a head-mounted eye tracker that measured eye movement toward each of the visual targets (caregiver's face and toys) and how targets were oriented within the head-centered field of view (FOV). With age, infants increasingly aligned novel toys in the center of their head-centered FOV at the expense of their caregiver's face. Both faces and toys were better centered in view during longer looking events, suggesting that infants of all ages aligned their eyes and head to sustain attention. The bias in infants' head-centered FOV could not be accounted for by manual action: Held toys were more poorly centered compared with non-held toys. We discuss developmental factors-attentional, motoric, cognitive, and social-that may explain why infants increasingly adopted biased viewpoints with age.

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AttentionChild DevelopmentEye MovementsEye-Tracking TechnologyVisual PerceptionChild, PreschoolFemaleHeadHead MovementsHumansInfantMaleattention developmenteye trackingface perceptionsustained attentionvisual attention

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PMID39192662
PMCPMC11481040

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