Patterns of fixation in the young infant.

Abstract

Thirty-two 24-two-week-old infants each received 2 types of visual stimulation while observers recorded their fixation patterns. 5 measures were obtained: total fixation time, longest fixation, first fixation, number of fixations, and latency to first fixation. The results indicate that longest and first fixations were better indexes of discrimination than was total fixation. Human faces evoked 1 or 2 long fxations, while designs elicited many short fixations. Finally, there were sex differences in fixation patterns.