SchaferAutismReport: Looking This Way and That, and Learning to Adapt to the World

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Looking This Way and That, and Learning to Adapt to the World

By Q. Choi, NY Times xrl.in/641u

Miles Byrin Tani, 14

months, is

fitted with a camera system

in an N.Y.U.

lab. Todd

Heisler/The New York Times

The infants and toddlers resemble

cyborgs as they waddle and crawl around the playroom with backpacks

carrying wireless transmitters and cameras strapped to their heads.

Each has one camera aimed at the right eye and another at the field of

view, and both send video to monitors nearby. When the video feeds are

combined, the result is a recording in which red cross hairs mark the

target of a child’s gaze.

Scientists are using the eye-tracking

setup to learn how children look at the world as they figure out how to

interact with it. In the lab, children 5 months and older crawl and

walk up, down and over an obstacle course of adjustable wooden slopes,

cliffs, gaps and steps. And to add to the challenge, the subjects are

sometimes outfitted with Teflon-coated shoes or lead-weighted vests.

It may seem like the set for a new

reality television show, but there are no prizes, except perhaps for

the researchers. They hope to understand what prompts one child to

respond to another, how infants coordinate their gaze with their hands

and feet to navigate around obstructions or handle objects, and how

these very young children adapt to changes, like those brought on by

slippery footwear.

The findings provided by these

eye-trackers so far (the first light enough for children to wear)

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