Automated gaze-contingent objects elicit orientation following in 8-month-old infants.
Automated gaze-contingent objects elicit orientation following in 8-month-old infants.
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DOI：
10.1037/a0025659
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发表时间：
2011-11
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Csibra G
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作者：
Deligianni F;Senju A;Gergely G;Csibra G
目前的研究测试了纯非模态的偶然事件线索是否会引发 8 个月大婴儿的行为定向。我们向 8 个月大的婴儿展示了没有人类特征的自动化物体，这些物体对眼动仪记录的婴儿注视情况有或没有偶然反应。我们发现，只有当一个物体表现出与凝视相关的交互性时，婴儿才会做出反应，而该物体偶尔朝向外围目标的定向才会得到一致的视觉定向的回报。我们的发现表明，婴儿的目光跟随行为并不取决于人类的存在。研究结果与这样的观点是一致的，即检测到的偶然反应，就像其他交流信号一样，本身就能在 8 个月大的婴儿身上引发一种被解决的错觉。
The current study tested whether the purely amodal cue of contingency elicit orientation following behaviour in 8-months-old infants. We presented 8-month-old infants with automated objects without human features that did or did not react contingently to the infants' fixations recorded by an eye-tracker. We found that an object's occasional orientation towards peripheral targets was reciprocated by a congruent visual orientation following response by infants only when it had displayed gaze-contingent interactivity. Our finding demonstrates that infants' gaze following behaviour does not depend on the presence of a human being. The results are consistent with the idea that the detection of contingent reactivity, like other communicative signals, can itself elicit the illusion of being addressed in 8-months-old infants.