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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Infant Vision Research

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  • Infants aged 6-10 months typically shift visual focus from eyes to mouth when viewing faces.
  • This shift is influenced by stimulus characteristics and infant's prior experience with faces and languages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how stimulus characteristics and infants' experience affect visual attention to faces.
  • To examine eye movements in a diverse infant sample viewing different racial groups.

Main Methods:

  • Eye tracking was used on 98 infants (7.5-10.5 months) viewing silent videos of women reciting nursery rhymes.
  • A multiverse analysis approach was employed to ensure robustness of findings across different gaze measures.
  • Infants' visual attention patterns were analyzed in relation to stimulus race and infant's linguistic/racial exposure.

Main Results:

  • Infants generally preferred looking at the lower facial regions (mouth area).
  • This mouth preference was stronger in infants with more diverse racial experiences and those exposed to multiple languages.
  • Preference varied based on specific stimulus characteristics, indicating nuanced visual processing.

Conclusions:

  • Infant visual exploration of faces is dynamic and influenced by both visual input and environmental factors.
  • Early exposure to diverse faces and languages shapes how infants process and attend to facial features.
  • Eye tracking data provides rich insights into the developmental trajectory of face perception in infants.