Abstract:
The viewing object size is associated with infant object looking and word learning. Infants tended to maintain longer attention when the object was relatively dominant, a...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
The viewing object size is associated with infant object looking and word learning. Infants tended to maintain longer attention when the object was relatively dominant, and its viewing size remained stable during exploration. However, many contextual characteristics other than the target object, such as the visual properties of competing objects or people in the background, may also influence the bottom-up processing over attention. Thus, there is much to learn about the dynamics of scene saliency according to infant object looking. The present study characterized infants' egocentric viewing during an interactive parent-infant object play by using a head-mounted eye tracker. We estimated the visual size of the attended object and its corresponding momentary saliency value of the infants' scenery frame. The viewing object size was influenced by the way the object was manipulated, particularly by the individual interacting with it. The scene saliency was significantly higher when the viewing object size was large. Furthermore, infants tended to maintain longer attention as a joint function of increasing saliency changes and a large viewing size. These findings highlight the significance of the visual properties of egocentric scenes in driving bottom-up attention to target objects in an interactive context. The relationship between viewing object size and scene saliency is discussed.
Date of Conference: 20-23 May 2024
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 27 August 2024
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