Infants’ perception of chasing
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Two significant questions in cognitive and developmental science are first, whether objects and events are selected for attention based on their features (featural processing) or the configuration of their features (configural processing), and second, how these modes of processing develop. These questions have been addressed in part with experiments focused on infants' perception of faces, human body shapes, and biological motion of individual agents. Here, we investigate 4- and 10-month-old infants' (N=192) attention to social motions, specifically to chasing-a ubiquitous, ancient, and fitness-relevant mode of interaction. We constructed computer-generated animations of chasing that had three properties: acceleration, high turning rates, and attraction ("heat-seeking"). In the first experiment we showed chasing side-by-side with a control display of inanimate, billiard-ball-like motions. Infants strongly preferred attending to chasing. In the next three studies, we systematically investigated the effect of each property in turn (acceleration, turning, and attraction) by showing a display of that property side-by-side with the control display. Infants preferentially attended to acceleration, and to attraction, but not to turning. If infants preferred chasing for its configuration, then the sum of the effect sizes of individual properties should be smaller than their combined effects. That is not what we found: instead, on three measures of visual behavior, the summed effects of individual properties equaled (or exceeded) that of chasing. Moreover, although attraction drew little attention and turning no attention at all, acceleration drew (nearly) as much attention as chasing. Our results thus provide evidence that infants preferred chasing because of its features, not its configuration.
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Even infants as young as 4 months are adept at visually recognizing chasing, possibly because it constitutes part of an innate, survival-based, action schema.
“Even infants as young as 4 months are adept at visually recognizing chasing, possibly because it constitutes part of an innate, survival-based, action schema (140).”
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The Results (§2.2) report that infants, including 4-month-olds, looked longer at a chasing display than at a control display. But a looking preference does not establish that they are adept at recognizing chasing. The General Discussion (§4.1) proposes a possibly ancient attentional filter; it does not establish an innate, survival-based action schema. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Frankenhuis, W. E., House, B., Clark Barrett, H., & Johnson, S. P.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Frankenhuis, Willem E.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-02
- Volume
- 126
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 224-233
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3529835
- OpenAlex
- W2013056855
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 8.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
- Hungarian Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD040432, R01HD048733, R01HD073535)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- infant attention, pursuit, featural processing, configural processing, acceleration, turning, attraction, biological motion, visual preference, social cognition development
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Child Development, Cognition, Concept Formation, Eye Movements, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Motion Perception, Photic Stimulation
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