Questions related to van Renswoude, D. R., Visser, I., Raijmakers, M. E. J., Tsang, T., & Johnson, S. P. (2019). Realworld scene perception in infants: What factors guide attention allocation? Infancy, 24(5), 693-717. https://doiorg.ezproxy.tru.ca/10.1111/infa.12308.

1)In adults, four main factors guide visual attention during static scene viewing: Scene characteristics, individual differences in attentional control, task demands, and central vs. horizontal biases.

Go beyond section 1 which lists these (1.1 -1.4 further describe these factors) and describe how these factors play a role in the visual attention of adults.

What developments do the authors predict we may observe in infancy with respect to these factors?

2)Be able to define the following terminology used in this article/study. (Why are these relevant to consider according to the authors?):

Free-viewing (FV) vs. Visual Search (VS) tasks (How might these relate to visual attention?)

"Salience-view" vs. "object-view" of visual attention (What is the evidence with respect to these in adulthood?)

Ambient-mode vs. focal-modes of processing information

Spatial orienting vs. Selective attention (how were these measured in infants in this study?)

Spatial Negative Priming (SNP)

Center Bias (CB)

Perceptual Salience (PS)

Adult Fixations (AF)

3)Look over the results section for Fixation location:

The results suggest main effects for CB, PS, and AF. How do they relate to the visual fixations of infants?

What 2 interaction effects were found with respect to visual fixations?

What summary conclusions can be made?

4)Look over the results section for Fixation duration:

What was the main effect found? What 2 interaction effects were found?

What summary conclusions can be made?

5)What specific insight does this study provide in regards to the WHERE and WHEN of infants' attention to static real-world scenes? (See Discussion)

How does this study extend previous findings?

6) Why is this understanding of infant attention important to further understanding the cognitive development of infants?

7)What are some limitations/problems in the current study that these authors take note of?