Visual segmentation of complex naturalistic structures in an infant eye-tracking search task.

ABSTRACT: An infant's everyday visual environment is composed of a complex array of entities, some of which are well integrated into their surroundings. Although infants are already sensitive to some categories in their first year of life, it is not clear which visual information supports their detection of meaningful elements within naturalistic scenes. Here we investigated the impact of image characteristics on 8-month-olds' search performance using a gaze contingent eye-tracking search task. Infants had to detect a target patch on a background image. The stimuli consisted of images taken from three categories: vegetation, non-living natural elements (e.g., stones), and manmade artifacts, for which we also assessed target background differences in lower- and higher-level visual properties. Our res

SUBMITTER: Schlegelmilch K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8975119 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature