{"pk":28140,"title":"Postural developments modulate children’s visual access to social information","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The ability to process social information is a critical compo-nent of children’s early language and cognitive development.However, as children reach their first birthday, they begin tolocomote themselves, dramatically affecting their visual ac-cess to this information. How do these postural and locomotorchanges affect children’s access to the social information rele-vant for word-learning? Here, we explore this question by us-ing head-mounted cameras to record 36 infants’ (8-16 monthsof age) egocentric visual perspective and use computer visionalgorithms to estimate the proportion of faces and hands in in-fants’ environments. We find that infants’ posture and orienta-tion to their caregiver modulates their access to social informa-tion, confirming previous work that suggests motoric develop-ments play a significant role in the emergence of children’s lin-guistic and social capacities. We suggest that the combined useof head-mounted cameras and the application of new computervision techniques is a promising avenue for understanding thestatistics of infants’ visual and linguistic experience.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"social cognition; face-perception; infancy; loco-motion; head-cameras; deep learning"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0m82h0gp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alessandro","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sanchez","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""},{"first_name":"Bria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Long","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""},{"first_name":"Allison","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Kraus","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"C","last_name":"Frank","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28140/galley/17799/download/"}]}