Looking represents choosing in toddlers: Exploring the equivalence between multimodal measures in forced‐choice tasks.

In the two‐alternative forced‐choice (2AFC) paradigm, manual responses such as pointing have been widely used as measures to estimate cognitive abilities. While pointing measurements can be easily collected, coded, analyzed, and interpreted, absent responses are often observed particularly when adop...

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Publicado en:Infancy Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 148 - 168
Autores principales: Hagihara, Hiromichi, Ienaga, Naoto, Terayama, Kei, Moriguchi, Yusuke, Sakagami, Masa‐aki
Formato: equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2021
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          Hagihara, Hiromichi
          Ienaga, Naoto
          Terayama, Kei
          Moriguchi, Yusuke
          Sakagami, Masa‐aki
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          Infant Behavior
          Task Performance and Analysis In Infancy and Childhood
          Visual Perception In Infancy and Childhood
          Nonverbal Communication In Infancy and Childhood
          Infant
          Videorecording
          Body Language
          Language Development
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          Models, Theoretical
          Facial Expression
          Infant: 1-23 months
      ab: In the two‐alternative forced‐choice (2AFC) paradigm, manual responses such as pointing have been widely used as measures to estimate cognitive abilities. While pointing measurements can be easily collected, coded, analyzed, and interpreted, absent responses are often observed particularly when adopting these measures for toddler studies, which leads to an increase of missing data. Although looking responses such as preferential looking can be available as alternative measures in such cases, it is unknown how well looking measurements can be interpreted as equivalent to manual ones. This study aimed to answer this question by investigating how accurately pointing responses (i.e., left or right) could be predicted from concurrent preferential looking. Using pre‐existing videos of toddlers aged 18–23 months engaged in an intermodal word comprehension task, we developed models predicting manual from looking responses. Results showed substantial prediction accuracy for both the Simple Majority Vote and Machine Learning‐Based classifiers, which indicates that looking responses would be reasonable alternative measures of manual ones. However, the further exploratory analysis revealed that when applying the created models for data of toddlers who did not produce clear pointing responses, the estimation agreement of missing pointing between the models and the human coders slightly dropped. This indicates that looking responses without pointing were qualitatively different from those with pointing. Bridging two measurements in forced‐choice tasks would help researchers avoid wasting collected data due to the absence of manual responses and interpret results from different modalities comprehensively.
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