Young infants' eye movements over “natural” scenes and “experimental” scenes

▶ Eye movements of 30 4-month-olds were tracked as infants viewed animals and vehicles in “natural” scenes and, for comparison, in homogeneous “experimental” scenes. ▶ Infants showed equivalent looking time preferences for natural and experimental scenes overall. ▶ Infants fixated natural scenes and objects in natural scenes more than experimental scenes and objects in experimental scenes. ▶ Infants shifted fixations between objects and contexts more in natural than in experimental scenes. ▶ Infants treat objects and contexts in natural scenes and more commonly used experimental scenes differently.