Although infants’ cognitions about the world must be influenced by experience, little research has directly assessed the relation between everyday experience and infants’ visual cognition in the laboratory. Eye-tracking procedures were used to measure 4-month-old infants’ eye movements as they visually investigated a series of images. Infants with pet experience (N = 27) directed a greater proportion of their looking at the most informative region of animal stimuli—the head—compared with infants without such experience (N = 21); the two groups of infants did not differ in their scanning of images of human faces or vehicles. Thus, infants’ visual cognitions are influenced by everyday experience, and theories of cognitive development in infancy must account for the effect of experience on development.

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注意力的体验和分配：宠物接触和婴儿对动物图像的扫描


尽管婴儿对世界的认知必然受到经验的影响，但很少有研究在实验室直接评估日常经验与婴儿视觉认知之间的关系。眼动追踪程序用于测量 4 个月大婴儿在目视观察一系列图像时的眼球运动。与没有养宠物经验的婴儿（N = 21）相比，有养宠物经验的婴儿（N = 27）将更多的注意力集中在动物刺激信息最丰富的区域——头部；两组婴儿在扫描人脸或车辆图像方面没有差异。因此，婴儿的视觉认知受到日常经验的影响，婴儿期认知发展理论必须考虑经验对发展的影响。