Eye Tracking for babies

I recently found an interesting New York Times article about eye-tracking for infants and how technological advances in tracking applications are finally allowing scientists to study an infant’s eye movement. As you can imagine, babies haven’t been the most cooperative subjects. Researchers are using eye-tracking to analyze what babies look at when someone is talking to them. The mouth? The eyes? Studies like these help us to understand how infants learn about language and other objects in their world.

With recent advancements in the way eye-tracking is done, scientists can effectively track infant gaze patterns and specific points of a baby’s focus. The article focuses on how new studies are challenging assumptions that scientists once had about a baby’s sense of permanance – that by tracking the trajectory of a baby’s eye movement, they could tell that the baby was not predicting the reappearance of an object sliding behind another object.

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