Rules infants look by: Testing the assumption of transitivity in visual salience.

ABSTRACT: What drives infants' attention in complex visual scenes? Early models of infant attention suggested that the degree to which different visual features were detectable determines their attentional priority. Here, we tested this by asking whether two targets - defined by different features, but each equally salient when evaluated independently - would drive attention equally when pitted head-to-head. In Experiment 1, we presented 6-month-old infants with an array of gabor patches in which a target region varied either in color or spatial frequency from the background. Using a forced-choice preferential-looking method, we measured how readily infants fixated the target as its featural difference from the background was parametrically increased. Then, in Experiment 2, we used these psychometri

SUBMITTER: Kibbe MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5898438 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature