creators_name: Schlesinger, Matthew creators_name: Casey, Patrick editors_name: Prince, Christopher G. editors_name: Berthouze, Luc editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Bullock, Daniel editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confpaper datestamp: 2004-02-12 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:25 metadata_visibility: show title: Visual Expectations in Infants: Evaluating the Gaze-Direction Model ispublished: pub subjects: appl-cog-psy subjects: comp-sci-mach-vis full_text_status: public keywords: infant eye movement, formal model, Baillargeaon car study, violation-of-expectation abstract: Schlesinger (in press) recently proposed a model of eye movements as a tool for investigating infants’ visual expectations. In the present study, this gaze-direction model was evaluated by (a) generating a set of predictions concerning how infants distribute their attention during possible and impossible events, and (b) testing these predictions in a replication of Baillargeon’s "car study" (1986; Baillargeon & DeVos, 1991). We find that the model successfully predicts general features of infants’ gaze direction, but not specific differences obtained during the possible and impossible events. The implications of these results for infant cognition research and theory are discussed. date: 2003 date_type: published volume: 101 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 115-122 refereed: TRUE citation: Schlesinger, Matthew and Casey, Patrick (2003) Visual Expectations in Infants: Evaluating the Gaze-Direction Model. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/3338/1/Schlesinger.pdf