TY  - JOUR
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.09.002
SP  - 293
TI  - Semantic content outweighs low-level saliency in determining children's and adults' fixation of movies
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  -  Psychology
KW  -  Developmental
KW  -  Psychology
KW  -  Experimental
KW  -  Psychology
KW  -  Eye movements
KW  -  Visual attention
KW  -  Development
KW  -  Gaze
KW  -  Dynamic
KW  -  Faces
KW  -  Saliency
KW  -  Eye-Movements
KW  -  Visual-Attention
KW  -  Tracking
KW  -  Gaze
KW  -  Scenes
KW  -  Faces
KW  -  Infants
KW  -  Search
KW  -  System
KW  -  Immaturity
ID  - discovery10024316
SN  - 1096-0457
N1  - © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
EP  - 309
JF  - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
AV  - public
N2  - To make sense of the visual world, we need to move our eyes to focus regions of interest on the high-resolution fovea. Eye movements, therefore, give us a way to infer mechanisms of visual processing and attention allocation. Here, we examined age-related differences in visual processing by recording eye movements from 37 children (aged 6?14 years) and 10 adults while viewing three 5-min dynamic video clips taken from child-friendly movies. The data were analyzed in two complementary ways: (a) gaze based and (b) content based. First, similarity of scanpaths within and across age groups was examined using three different measures of variance (dispersion, clusters, and distance from center). Second, content-based models of fixation were compared to determine which of these provided the best account of our dynamic data. We found that the variance in eye movements decreased as a function of age, suggesting common attentional orienting. Comparison of the different models revealed that a model that relies on faces generally performed better than the other models tested, even for the youngest age group (<10 years). However, the best predictor of a given participant?s eye movements was the average of all other participants? eye movements both within the same age group and in different age groups. These findings have implications for understanding how children attend to visual information and highlight similarities in viewing strategies across development.
VL  - 166
Y1  - 2018/02//
PB  - ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
A1  - Rider, AT
A1  - Coutrot, A
A1  - Pellicano, E
A1  - Dakin, SC
A1  - Mareschal, I
ER  -