Recent Publications & Presentations
Fisher-Thompson, D. (2014). Exploring the emergence of side-biases and novelty preferences from the real-time dynamics of infant looking. Infancy, 19, 227-261.
Fisher-Thompson, D. (2017). Contributions of look duration and gaze shift patterns to infants’ novelty preferences. Infancy, 22, 190-222.
Fisher-Thompson, D. (2018, July). Contributions of Look Duration to Novelty Preferences Throughout the First Year. Poster presented at theInternational Conference on Infant Studies,Philadelphia, PA.
Fisher-Thompson, D. (2019, March). Perseverative looking and orienting effects during the first year. Poster presentedat the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Fisher-Thompson, D. (2017). Contributions of look duration and gaze shift patterns to infants’ novelty preferences. Infancy, 22, 190-222.
Fisher-Thompson, D. (2018, July). Contributions of Look Duration to Novelty Preferences Throughout the First Year. Poster presented at theInternational Conference on Infant Studies,Philadelphia, PA.
Fisher-Thompson, D. (2019, March). Perseverative looking and orienting effects during the first year. Poster presentedat the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Sample Data
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Data are from 4-month-old infants who participated in a novelty preference study. Each dot in the scatterplots display data from one infant; colors differ based on whether the infant saw adult faces (black dots) or moving geometric shapes. All infants saw one “familiar” stimulus that reappeared on every trial paired with novel stimuli that appeared only once during the session. Percent novel was computed by dividing overall time looking at novel stimuli by total time looking (looking at novel stimuli plus looking at the familiar stimulus). To compute ratio scores, the duration of looks to novel stimuli were divided by the duration of looks to the familiar stimulus (left scatterplot); ratio scores comparing the number of looks directed at novel vs. familiar stimuli are in the right scatterplot. Regression analyses indicated that look duration accounted for 54% of the variance in percent novel with look number accounting for only 12% of the variance. Thus, infants already at 4-months were adjusting look duration based on stimulus novelty. Infants who looked substantially longer at novel stimuli than at familiar ones had the strongest novelty preferences. Where infants looked during the task, however, was less dependent on stimulus novelty and more a reflection of visual exploration. For details about this study, see Fisher-Thompson (2017).
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