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ToolsAnderson, Erin M., Candy, T. Rowan, Gold, Jason M. and Smith, Linda B. (2024) An edge-simplicity bias in the visual input to young infants. Science Advances, 10 (19). ISSN 2375-2548
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Abstract
The development of sparse edge coding in the mammalian visual cortex depends on early visual experience. In humans, there are multiple indicators that the statistics of early visual experiences has unique properties that may support these developments. However, there are no direct measures of the edge statistics of infant daily-life experience. Using head-mounted cameras to capture egocentric images of young infants and adults in the home, we found infant images to have distinct edge statistics relative to adults. For infants, scenes with sparse edge patterns—few edges and few orientations—dominate. The findings implicate biased early input at the scale of daily life that is likely specific to the early months after birth and provide insights into the quality, amount, and timing of the visual experiences during the foundational developmental period for human vision.
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2024 the Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. no claim to original U.S. Government Works. distributed under a creative commons Attribution license 4.0 (cc BY). Data and materials availability: The original head-camera videos and images cannot be openly shared because they show participants’ homes, family members, friends, and community. All deidentified datasets, analysis scripts, and some sample images are available in the following repositories: Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/PNWYPZ) and OSF (https://osf.io/5pkuz/?view_only=1b02cbbf3ab945cdb7f3fae94f93a728). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | general ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1000 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2026 15:05 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2026 14:53 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103468 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.adj8571 |
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