Table 1: A brief glimpse into the variability of procedures used within infant eye-tracking studies.
Studies | Participants | Methodology | General Findings |
Jones & Klin (2013) [13] | 110 infants | Car seat or reclined bassinet | Decline in eye fixation in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder |
2-24 months | 5-point calibration1 | ||
Videos of people | |||
Lui, et al. (2011) [47] | 23 infants | Car seat | Whole face stimuli showed no differences |
4-9 months | 5-point calibration4 | Over time, decreased fixation duration on internal features of other race faces | |
Videos of same and other race faces | |||
Hunnius & Geuze (2004) [33] | 10 infants | Infant chair | Adapted gaze behavior to stimuli characteristics |
12-26 weeks | 2-point calibration3 | Direct attention to mother's eyes and mouth. | |
Dynamic stimuli of mother | |||
Hunnius, Wit, Vrins & Von Hofsten (2011) [48] | 31 infants: 4 months | Parent lap | Demonstrated avoidant looking at threat based emotional expressions |
29 infants: 7 months | |||
9-point calibration4 | |||
Faces of people | |||
Frank, Vul & Saxe (2011) [44] | 129 infants | Parent lap | Over time, attention directed to parts of complex scenes that are socially intriguing. |
3-30 months | 2-point calibration1 | ||
Live action videos | |||
Gredeback, Fikke, & Melinder (2010) [49] | 40 infants | Experimenter lap | Infants followed the gaze of unfamiliar individual rather than mother |
2-8 months | 2-point calibration2 | ||
Visuals of people engaging in a task |
Methodology for data analysis used: 1MATLAB; 2Tobii Studio; 3Author designed; 4Not documented.