{"pk":29837,"title":"Active Vision in the Perception of Actions: An Eye Tracking Study in Naturalistic\nContexts","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Infants’ ability to attend actively and selectively to naturalistic\nstimuli is critical to early learning. Most studies on infant visual\nattention use screen-based paradigms wherein infants view\nstimuli on computer screens. Little is known about how infants\nobserve others’ activities in everyday contexts. Using head-\nmounted eye-tracking, this study examined how infants\ndistributed attention when observing their parents perform an\neveryday task – making peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches –\nin a home-like environment. Infant observers attended to\nparents’ activities less than adult observers in the same\nsituation. However, when infants were engaged in action\nobservation, their gaze patterns were distributed on task-\nrelevant objects similarly to adult observers, suggesting they\nactively obtained rich visual input in this free-viewing\nsituation. Moreover, infant-parent dyads coordinated visual\nattention during the food preparation task in similar ways as\nobserved in other everyday tasks, such as toy play, suggesting\nsensorimotor processes play a critical role in coordinated\nattention.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"action observation; coordinated attention; eye-\ntracking; parent-child interaction; selective attention"}],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3149s3rd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ryan","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Peters","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Dian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Petersen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Chen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29837/galley/19691/download/"}]}