Shannon Klotz
@shannonmklotz.bsky.social
she/her
UC Davis Psychology Ph.D. student
Interested in how 👶 use their 🧠 and 👀 to understand the world
UC Davis Psychology Ph.D. student
Interested in how 👶 use their 🧠 and 👀 to understand the world
3) Importantly, the influence of orientation was modulated by visual clutter—it had stronger predictive power in less cluttered scenes.
These findings suggest that while infants’ attention is still influenced by low-level salience, not all features are equal—and their use evolves with development.
These findings suggest that while infants’ attention is still influenced by low-level salience, not all features are equal—and their use evolves with development.
April 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
3) Importantly, the influence of orientation was modulated by visual clutter—it had stronger predictive power in less cluttered scenes.
These findings suggest that while infants’ attention is still influenced by low-level salience, not all features are equal—and their use evolves with development.
These findings suggest that while infants’ attention is still influenced by low-level salience, not all features are equal—and their use evolves with development.
1) Infants’ fixations were strongly predicted by orientation, and this effect grew with age.
2) Color and intensity did not reliably predict gaze overall, though color was slightly predicting the fixation locations of the youngest infants.
2) Color and intensity did not reliably predict gaze overall, though color was slightly predicting the fixation locations of the youngest infants.
April 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
1) Infants’ fixations were strongly predicted by orientation, and this effect grew with age.
2) Color and intensity did not reliably predict gaze overall, though color was slightly predicting the fixation locations of the youngest infants.
2) Color and intensity did not reliably predict gaze overall, though color was slightly predicting the fixation locations of the youngest infants.
We examined how 4-12-month-olds allocate attention while viewing scenes, using the Graph-Based Visual Salience (GBVS) model to break salience into its component features: orientation, color, and intensity. Across two experiments with over 160 infants, we found that:
April 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We examined how 4-12-month-olds allocate attention while viewing scenes, using the Graph-Based Visual Salience (GBVS) model to break salience into its component features: orientation, color, and intensity. Across two experiments with over 160 infants, we found that:
NEW PAPER
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation?
A: Orientation!
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation?
A: Orientation!
April 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
NEW PAPER
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation?
A: Orientation!
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation?
A: Orientation!
"A photographer took pictures of people before and after she called them b̵e̵a̵u̵t̵i̵f̵u̵l̵ a Master of Arts"
August 6, 2024 at 7:28 PM
"A photographer took pictures of people before and after she called them b̵e̵a̵u̵t̵i̵f̵u̵l̵ a Master of Arts"
It's official! Maritza Miramontes has been elected as a CDS Student Board Member!
I highly recommend meeting her (she's one of my favorite people in the world!) and checking out her poster today (P3-89)
#CDS2024
I highly recommend meeting her (she's one of my favorite people in the world!) and checking out her poster today (P3-89)
#CDS2024
March 23, 2024 at 4:07 PM
It's official! Maritza Miramontes has been elected as a CDS Student Board Member!
I highly recommend meeting her (she's one of my favorite people in the world!) and checking out her poster today (P3-89)
#CDS2024
I highly recommend meeting her (she's one of my favorite people in the world!) and checking out her poster today (P3-89)
#CDS2024
Older infants looked more at meaningful regions, aligning with prior research predicting a shift from relying on stimulus-driven factors to higher-level cognitive processes. This transition contributes to a more adult-like gaze behavior over the first year of life.
January 16, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Older infants looked more at meaningful regions, aligning with prior research predicting a shift from relying on stimulus-driven factors to higher-level cognitive processes. This transition contributes to a more adult-like gaze behavior over the first year of life.
We found that infants preferentially fixated regions high in local meaning, physical salience, and closer the the center of the screen.
Interestingly, meaning had a greater impact on infants' fixations than saliency, similar to findings in adults during natural scene viewing.
Interestingly, meaning had a greater impact on infants' fixations than saliency, similar to findings in adults during natural scene viewing.
January 16, 2024 at 1:52 AM
We found that infants preferentially fixated regions high in local meaning, physical salience, and closer the the center of the screen.
Interestingly, meaning had a greater impact on infants' fixations than saliency, similar to findings in adults during natural scene viewing.
Interestingly, meaning had a greater impact on infants' fixations than saliency, similar to findings in adults during natural scene viewing.
We wanted to know whether infants look to regions high in meaning but, just as importantly, whether they avoid regions with low meaning. To investigate, we compared infants' fixated locations to simulated non-fixated locations in terms of meaning, saliency, and center proximity.
January 16, 2024 at 1:48 AM
We wanted to know whether infants look to regions high in meaning but, just as importantly, whether they avoid regions with low meaning. To investigate, we compared infants' fixated locations to simulated non-fixated locations in terms of meaning, saliency, and center proximity.
NEW PAPER:
doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Q: Adults attend to locally meaningful regions in naturalistic scenes. Do infants?
A: Yes! 🧵
doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Q: Adults attend to locally meaningful regions in naturalistic scenes. Do infants?
A: Yes! 🧵
January 16, 2024 at 1:31 AM
NEW PAPER:
doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Q: Adults attend to locally meaningful regions in naturalistic scenes. Do infants?
A: Yes! 🧵
doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Q: Adults attend to locally meaningful regions in naturalistic scenes. Do infants?
A: Yes! 🧵