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5- And 8-Month-Olds’ Visual Exploration Of 2d Scenes: The Relative Impact Of Object Size, Object Detail, And Depth Cue On Infants’ Visual Attention, Yu Guan May 2013

5- And 8-Month-Olds’ Visual Exploration Of 2d Scenes: The Relative Impact Of Object Size, Object Detail, And Depth Cue On Infants’ Visual Attention, Yu Guan

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How infants visually explore complex scenes containing objects varying in size, depth cues, and amount of detail is still an open question. When infants are presented with a complex scene, we do not know which dimensions of the scene are more likely to catch their attention first, and which are more likely to sustain their looking duration the most. This study aimed to investigate how infants’ explore 2D displays containing different combinations of object size, depth cues, and detail.

In experiment 1, forty infants (twenty of 5 months old and twenty of 8 months old) were presented with stimuli containing …