PMID- 37748360
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20231216
LR  - 20231216
IS  - 1878-9307 (Electronic)
IS  - 1878-9293 (Print)
IS  - 1878-9293 (Linking)
VI  - 64
DP  - 2023 Dec
TI  - Infant embodied attention in context: Feasibility of home-based head-mounted eye 
      tracking in early infancy.
PG  - 101299
LID - S1878-9293(23)00104-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101299 [doi]
LID - 101299
AB  - Social communication emerges from dynamic, embodied social interactions during 
      which infants coordinate attention to caregivers and objects. Yet many studies of 
      infant attention are constrained to a laboratory setting, neglecting how 
      attention is nested within social contexts where caregivers dynamically scaffold 
      infant behavior in real time. This study evaluates the feasibility and 
      acceptability of the novel use of head-mounted eye tracking (HMET) in the home 
      with N = 40 infants aged 4 and 8 months who are typically developing and at an 
      elevated genetic liability for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Results suggest 
      that HMET with young infants with limited independent motor abilities and at an 
      elevated likelihood for atypical development is highly feasible and deemed 
      acceptable by caregivers. Feasibility and acceptability did not differ by age or 
      ASD likelihood. Data quality was also acceptable, albeit with younger infants 
      showing slightly lower accuracy, allowing for preliminary analysis of 
      developmental trends in infant gaze behavior. This study provides new evidence 
      for the feasibility of using in-home HMET with young infants during a critical 
      developmental period when more complex interactions with the environment and 
      social partners are emerging. Future research can apply this technology to 
      illuminate atypical developmental trajectories of embodied social attention in 
      infancy.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
FAU - Bradshaw, Jessica
AU  - Bradshaw J
AD  - University of South Carolina, 1800 Gervais St., Columbia, SC 29201, USA; Carolina 
      Autism and Neurodevelopment Research Center, University of South Carolina, USA. 
      Electronic address: jbradshaw@sc.edu.
FAU - Fu, Xiaoxue
AU  - Fu X
AD  - University of South Carolina, 1800 Gervais St., Columbia, SC 29201, USA; Carolina 
      Autism and Neurodevelopment Research Center, University of South Carolina, USA.
FAU - Yurkovic-Harding, Julia
AU  - Yurkovic-Harding J
AD  - University of South Carolina, 1800 Gervais St., Columbia, SC 29201, USA; Carolina 
      Autism and Neurodevelopment Research Center, University of South Carolina, USA.
FAU - Abney, Drew
AU  - Abney D
AD  - University of Georgia, 125 Baldwin St., Athens, GA 30602, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230923
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Dev Cogn Neurosci
JT  - Developmental cognitive neuroscience
JID - 101541838
SB  - IM
MH  - Infant
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Autism Spectrum Disorder
MH  - Eye-Tracking Technology
MH  - Feasibility Studies
MH  - Social Interaction
MH  - Social Environment
PMC - PMC10522938
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Attention
OT  - Autism
OT  - Eye tracking
OT  - Infancy
OT  - Social attention
COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2023/09/26 00:41
MHDA- 2023/12/17 09:43
PMCR- 2023/09/23
CRDT- 2023/09/25 18:07
PHST- 2023/03/16 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/08/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/09/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/12/17 09:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/09/26 00:41 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/09/25 18:07 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/09/23 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S1878-9293(23)00104-4 [pii]
AID - 101299 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101299 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2023 Dec;64:101299. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101299. Epub 2023 
      Sep 23.