Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants.

ABSTRACT: Social cues in interaction with others enable infants to extract useful information from their environment. Although previous research has shown that infants process and retain different information about an object depending on the presence of social cues, the effect of eye contact as an isolated independent variable has not been investigated. The present study investigated how eye contact affects infants' object processing. Nine-month-olds engaged in two types of social interactions with an experimenter. When the experimenter showed an object without eye contact, the infants processed and remembered both the object's location and its identity. In contrast, when the experimenter showed the object while making eye contact with the infant, the infant preferentially processed object's identit

SUBMITTER: Okumura Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5077079 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature