Simulating Infants’ Gaze Patterns during the Development of Perceptual Completion
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چکیده
We have recently used a multi-channel, imagefiltering model to study the development of visual selective attention in human infants (Schlesinger, Amso, & Johnson, 2007). In the current study, we employ the same model to simulate infants’ gaze patterns during a perceptual completion task. The model not only succeeds in capturing the gaze patterns produced by young infants, but also provides support for the idea that a single neural mechanism may help to account for changes in visual selective attention and perceptual completion during early infancy.
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