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ERIC Number: EJ1488477
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Nov
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
EISSN: EISSN-1467-8624
Available Date: 2025-07-25
Infants in Control--Evidence for Agency in 6- to 10-Months-Old Infants in a Gaze-Contingent Eye Tracking Paradigm
Child Development, v96 n6 p1968-1977 2025
The ability to control movement is a core element of agency. Previous studies of infant agency have focused on responses to sensory contingencies but neglected the importance of infants' control as a necessary indicator of agency. Here, we test whether infants flexibly control their eye movements with a gaze-contingent eye tracking paradigm. Infants aged 6-10 months (N = 45, 18 female, recruited in a city of about 600.000 inhabitants in Germany in 2022) were presented images hidden under a unicolored surface, which they could scratch free by gazing over the screen. Results show that infants flexibly directed their gaze to areas with most information in the underlying image. This indicates that infants can flexibly adjust their gaze to changing circumstances.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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Author Affiliations: 1Research Group Milestones of Early Cognitive Development, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; 2Department of Philosophy, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany; 3School of Psychology, Auckland, New Zealand; 4Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; 5Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Technology Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany