Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants.
Social cues in interaction with others enable infants to extract useful information from their environment. Although previous research has shown that infants process and retain different information about an object depending on the presence of social cues, the effect of eye contact as an isolated in...
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| author | Yuko Okumura Tessei Kobayashi Shoji Itakura |
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| description | Social cues in interaction with others enable infants to extract useful information from their environment. Although previous research has shown that infants process and retain different information about an object depending on the presence of social cues, the effect of eye contact as an isolated independent variable has not been investigated. The present study investigated how eye contact affects infants' object processing. Nine-month-olds engaged in two types of social interactions with an experimenter. When the experimenter showed an object without eye contact, the infants processed and remembered both the object's location and its identity. In contrast, when the experimenter showed the object while making eye contact with the infant, the infant preferentially processed object's identity but not its location. Such effects might assist infants to selectively attend to useful information. Our findings revealed that 9-month-olds' object representations are modulated in accordance with the context, thus elucidating the function of eye contact for infants' object representation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1ed8b40d2364295918c035e176b8dd62022-12-22T01:39:28ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032016-01-011110e016514510.1371/journal.pone.0165145Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants.Yuko OkumuraTessei KobayashiShoji ItakuraSocial cues in interaction with others enable infants to extract useful information from their environment. Although previous research has shown that infants process and retain different information about an object depending on the presence of social cues, the effect of eye contact as an isolated independent variable has not been investigated. The present study investigated how eye contact affects infants' object processing. Nine-month-olds engaged in two types of social interactions with an experimenter. When the experimenter showed an object without eye contact, the infants processed and remembered both the object's location and its identity. In contrast, when the experimenter showed the object while making eye contact with the infant, the infant preferentially processed object's identity but not its location. Such effects might assist infants to selectively attend to useful information. Our findings revealed that 9-month-olds' object representations are modulated in accordance with the context, thus elucidating the function of eye contact for infants' object representation.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5077079?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Yuko Okumura Tessei Kobayashi Shoji Itakura Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants. PLoS ONE |
| title | Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants. |
| title_full | Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants. |
| title_fullStr | Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants. |
| title_short | Eye Contact Affects Object Representation in 9-Month-Old Infants. |
| title_sort | eye contact affects object representation in 9 month old infants |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5077079?pdf=render |
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