Microanalytic Methods for Studying Attention in Infants (Tè del 24 novembre 2000)

Microanalytic Methods for Studying Attention in Infants

Summary

When presented with analogous versions of possible and impossible causal events, young infants often attend preferentially to the impossible event. The goal of the current project is to relate infants' preferential-looking to these events with their moment-to-moment changes in visual expectations. A recent computational model of visuomotor control in infants is used to predict where and when infants will attend to specific portions of physically possible and impossible events, and a gaze-direction analysis system is implemented to verify these predictions. The long-term goal of this research is to develop an eye-tracking system which will enable infant cognition researchers to relate changes in infants' attention across multiple spatiotemporal scales (e.g., scanpaths, gaze shifts, looking time).

References
- Matthew Schlesinger & Andy Barto (1999). Optimal control methods for simulating the perception of causality in young infants. In M. Hahn & S.C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 625-630). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

- Matthew Schlesinger & Domenico Parisi (To appear). The agent-based approach: A new direction for computational models of development. Developmental Review

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