What is moving where? Infants' visual attention to dynamic objects may assist with processing of spatial relations.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A central question in infant spatial cognition concerns how infants form abstract categories of spatial relations such as support (on) and containment (in). Prior work suggests two different possibilities regarding the role of attention to objects in infants' formation of abstract categories of spatial relations: Attention to objects may compete with (and thus hamper) attention to the spatial relations between them, or assist with encoding of the spatial relation information. Using eye-tracking, we examined how infants' visual attention to objects related to their successful formation of an abstract category of support relations (i.e., an object on another).

Methods

Thirty-eight 8-month-old infants' eye movements were recorded during

SUBMITTER: Choi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10830844 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature