ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the form perception of infants and finds that there is significant variability between infants' scanning patterns. Human infants are faced with the task of appreciating a complex environment with what appears to be a limited set of resources. Vision is obviously one of these resources and infants can be observed actively scanning their environment with organized sequences of eye movements and fixations within minutes after birth. The calibration algorithm estimates fixation coordinates for each reference point by calculating, separately for X and Y, a mean and variance of all the points in the set. Existing research on infant scanning has focused mainly on simple geometric forms viewed by newborn infants. Salapatek presents computer plotted records, which appear to be quite different from the corresponding hand drawn records, but no further analyses are presented for the digitized, computer plotted records.
