Selective Changes in Complexity of Visual Scanning for Social Stimuli in Infancy.

ABSTRACT: In the 1st year of life, infants gradually gain the ability to control their eye movements and explore visual scenes, which support their learning and emerging cognitive skills. These gains include domain-general skills such as rapid orienting or attention disengagement as well as domain-specific ones such as increased sensitivity to social stimuli. However, it remains unknown whether these developmental changes in what infants fixate and for how long in naturalistic scenes lead to the emergence of more complex, repeated sequences of fixations, especially when viewing human figures and faces, and whether these changes are related to improvements in domain-general attentional skills. Here we tested longitudinally the developmental changes in the complexity of fixation sequences at 5.5 and 1

SUBMITTER: Tomalski P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8593402 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature