Object processing during a joint gaze following task

Carolin Theuring, Gustaf Gredebäck, Petra Hauf

European Journal of Developmental Psychology · 2007 · 39 citations · 22 references

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Abstract

To investigate object processing in a gaze following task, 12-month-old infants were presented with 4 movies in which a female model turned and looked at one of two objects. This was followed by 2 test trials showing the two objects alone without the model. Eye movements were recorded with a Tobii-1750 eye tracker. Infants reliably followed gaze and displayed longer looking times towards the attended object when the model was present. During the first test trial infants displayed a brief novelty preference for the unattended object. These findings suggest that enhanced object processing is a temporarily restricted phenomenon that has little effect on 12-month-old infants' long-term interaction with the environment.

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