Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes.
Journal
Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
ISSN: 1532-7078
Titre abrégé: Infancy
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 100890607
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2023
05 2023
Historique:
revised:
18
11
2022
received:
11
04
2021
accepted:
25
11
2022
medline:
11
4
2023
pubmed:
2
2
2023
entrez:
1
2
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Infants encounter new objects and learn about object features in relation to a rich and detailed visuospatial context. Using a contextual cueing task, recent work showed that 6- and 10-month-old infants search more efficiently for target objects in repeated rather than novel visuospatial contexts (i.e., arrays of shapes on a blank background). Here, we investigate whether infants' sensitivity to visuospatial context scales up to more complex and potentially more distracting, naturalistic scenes. In an eye-tracking task, 8-month-olds searched for a novel target object in colorful photographs of everyday environments (e.g., bedrooms and kitchens). Repeated ("Old") contexts co-varied with target locations, such that the target object appeared in exactly the same location on the same scene, while varying ("New") contexts contained target objects placed in different counterbalanced locations across a variety of scenes. Infants exhibited faster search times, more anticipation of target animation, and longer looking at targets that appeared in Old relative to New contexts. In a subsequent memory test, infants showed better recognition of label-object pairings for target objects that had appeared in Old, rather than New, contexts. These results indicate that infants can use visuospatial contextual information in complex naturalistic scenes to facilitate memory-guided attention and learning of object-paired labels.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
634-649Subventions
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : F32 MH108278
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R21 MH113870
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
© 2023 International Congress of Infant Studies.
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