The role of local meaning in infants' fixations of natural scenes

IF 2 2区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-06 DOI:10.1111/infa.12582

Lisa M. Oakes, Taylor R. Hayes, Shannon M. Klotz, Katherine I. Pomaranski, John M. Henderson

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Abstract

As infants view visual scenes every day, they must shift their eye gaze and visual attention from location to location, sampling information to process and learn. Like adults, infants' gaze when viewing natural scenes (i.e., photographs of everyday scenes) is influenced by the physical features of the scene image and a general bias to look more centrally in a scene. However, it is unknown how infants' gaze while viewing such scenes is influenced by the semantic content of the scenes. Here, we tested the relative influence of local meaning, controlling for physical salience and center bias, on the eye gaze of 4- to 12-month-old infants (N = 92) as they viewed natural scenes. Overall, infants were more likely to fixate scene regions rated as higher in meaning, indicating that, like adults, the semantic content, or local meaning, of scenes influences where they look. More importantly, the effect of meaning on infant attention increased with age, providing the first evidence for an age-related increase in the impact of local meaning on infants' eye movements while viewing natural scenes.

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局部意义在婴儿固定自然场景中的作用。

婴儿每天都要观看视觉场景，他们必须将目光和视觉注意力从一个位置转移到另一个位置，抽取信息进行处理和学习。与成人一样，婴儿观看自然场景（即日常场景的照片）时的注视也会受到场景图像物理特征的影响，而且一般会偏向于看场景的中心位置。然而，婴儿观看此类场景时的注视如何受到场景语义内容的影响，目前尚不得而知。在此，我们测试了局部意义对 4 至 12 个月大婴儿（92 人）观看自然场景时眼睛注视的相对影响，同时控制了物理显著性和中心偏向。总体而言，婴儿更倾向于定格在意义较高的场景区域，这表明与成人一样，场景的语义内容或局部意义会影响他们的视线。更重要的是，意义对婴儿注意力的影响会随着年龄的增长而增加，这首次证明了在观看自然场景时，局部意义对婴儿眼球运动的影响会随着年龄的增长而增加。

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Infancy PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

CiteScore

4.00

自引率

7.70%

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期刊介绍： Infancy, the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, emphasizes the highest quality original research on normal and aberrant infant development during the first two years. Both human and animal research are included. In addition to regular length research articles and brief reports (3000-word maximum), the journal includes solicited target articles along with a series of commentaries; debates, in which different theoretical positions are presented along with a series of commentaries; and thematic collections, a group of three to five reports or summaries of research on the same issue, conducted independently at different laboratories, with invited commentaries.