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Automated gaze-contingent objects elicit orientation following in 8-month-old infants
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Developmental Psychology
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47
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6
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/8431
Abstract
The current study tested whether the purely amodal cue of contingency elicit orientation following behaviour in 8-months-old infants. We presented 8-month-old infants with automated objects without human features that did or did not react contingently to the infants' fixations recorded by an eye-tracker. We found that an object's occasional orientation towards peripheral targets was reciprocated by a congruent visual orientation following response by infants only when it had displayed gaze-contingent interactivity. Our finding demonstrates that infants' gaze following behaviour does not depend on the presence of a human being. The results are consistent with the idea that the detection of contingent reactivity, like other communicative signals, can itself elicit the illusion of being addressed in 8-months-old infants.
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Journal article
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2011
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0025659