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Andres H. Mendez; Chen Yu; Linda B. Smith – Developmental Science, 2024
Traditionally, the exogenous control of gaze by external saliencies and the endogenous control of gaze by knowledge and context have been viewed as competing systems, with late infancy seen as a period of strengthening top-down control over the vagaries of the input. Here we found that one-year-old infants control sustained attention through head…
Descriptors: Infants, Eye Movements, Attention, Visual Learning
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Jayaraman, Swapnaa; Fausey, Caitlin M.; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Recent evidence from studies using head cameras suggests that the frequency of faces directly in front of infants "declines" over the first year and a half of life, a result that has implications for the development of and evolutionary constraints on face processing. Two experiments tested 2 opposing hypotheses about this observed…
Descriptors: Infants, Age Differences, Visual Perception, Hypothesis Testing