Infants' Transitions toward Adult-like Scanning
- 1 October 1994
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Child Development
- Vol. 65 (5), 1243-1261
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1994.tb00815.x
Abstract
Visual scanning patterns of 6-13-week-old infants are derived from some 50 half-minute assessments in which the infants viewed static geometric figures. Measures include fixation dwell-times, saccade lengths, and the choices and sequences of saccadic targets. From the patterns of change across 3 age periods, it appears that as infants grow older an initial salience-guided scanning increasingly is replaced by volitional control over the choice of saccadic targets. The change tentatively is attributed to neural developments within later stages of the infant visual system.Keywords
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