Head and eyes: Looking behavior in 12- to 24-month-old infants.

ABSTRACT: This study demonstrates evidence for a foundational process underlying active vision in older infants during object play. Using head-mounted eye-tracking and motion capture, looks to an object are shown to be tightly linked to and synchronous with a stilled head, regardless of the duration of gaze, for infants 12 to 24 months of age. Despite being a developmental period of rapid and marked changes in motor abilities, the dynamic coordination of head stabilization and sustained gaze to a visual target is developmentally invariant during the examined age range. The findings indicate that looking with an aligned head and eyes is a fundamental property of human vision and highlights the importance of studying looking behavior in freely moving perceivers in everyday contexts, opening new questi

SUBMITTER: Borjon JI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8375006 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature