TY - JOUR
T1 - Eye-tracking methodology for the assessment of social function in infancy
AU - Gillespie-Smith, Karri
AU - Boardman, James
AU - Murray, Ian
AU - Norman, Jane
AU - O'Hare, Anne
AU - Fletcher-Watson, Sue
N1 - RIS file
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Background: Eye-tracking has provided new insights into the development of infant cognition and is currently being explored as a potential way to identify early biomarkers of later difficulty1,2. We aimed to assess social cognitive ability across levels of stimulus complexity in infancy. Methods: Participants were 32 typically-developing (TD) infants aged 6-12 months, recruited with ethical approval. We measured 3 aspects of social cognition using stimuli of increasing complexity: attention distributed across faces; attention to faces in a grid-like array; and attention to faces embedded in naturalistic scenesResults: In each task we found evidence of longer fixation duration on socially informative content compared with other regions (i.e. eyes versus mouths, faces versus other objects; all p
AB - Background: Eye-tracking has provided new insights into the development of infant cognition and is currently being explored as a potential way to identify early biomarkers of later difficulty1,2. We aimed to assess social cognitive ability across levels of stimulus complexity in infancy. Methods: Participants were 32 typically-developing (TD) infants aged 6-12 months, recruited with ethical approval. We measured 3 aspects of social cognition using stimuli of increasing complexity: attention distributed across faces; attention to faces in a grid-like array; and attention to faces embedded in naturalistic scenesResults: In each task we found evidence of longer fixation duration on socially informative content compared with other regions (i.e. eyes versus mouths, faces versus other objects; all p
U2 - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306576.123
DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306576.123
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
SN - 1359-2998
VL - 99
JO - Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition
JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition
IS - Supplement 1
ER -