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...01; Spelke & von Hofsten, 2001; von Hofsten, Kochukhova, & Rosander, 2007) or to blink or otherwise avoid objects approaching the face before contact (Kayed & van der Meer, 2007; Nanez & Yonas, 1994; =-=Schmuckler, Collimore, & Dannemiller, 2007-=-; Yonas, 1981). Furthermore, whether infants appreciate the animate motion from point-light displays likely relies on the processing of the temporal flow rate of the set of point lights rather than in...

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...akeuchi (1997) showed better detection for expanding targets among contracting objects than for the inverse. Similarly, Cole and Liversedge (2006) found that expanding objects were less susceptible to change blindness than were contracting objects. Furthermore, Lin, Franconeri, and Enns (2008) found that participants identified objects more rapidly when they moved on a collision path than on a near-miss trajectory. An analogous finding has been reported in 4-5-month-old infants, in which collision-bound objects elicited a larger number of blink responses than did their near-miss counterparts (Schmuckler, Collimore, & Dannemiller, 2007). Thus the manner in which even perceptually naive infants respond suggests that sensitivity to looming motion may be hardwired, although recent evidence has suggested that the neural networks for registering impending collision become fully developed only by 10-11 months of age (van der Weel & van der Meer, 2009). Although the evidence for neural specialization to looming motion is compelling, the issue of whether such motion can automatically attract attention has generated considerable debate. Indeed, much of the evidence cited above concerns responses to looming motion that is already att...

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...ck, 2010); turn their bodies to steer through narrow openings (Franchak & Adolph, 2012) or circumvent an obstacle in the path (Vallis & McFadyen, 2005); retract their heads to dodge a looming object (=-=Schmuckler, Collimore, & Dannemiller, 2007-=-); move their hand to catch a ball (Kayed &Van der Meer, 2009; van Hof, van der Kamp, & Savelsbergh, 2008); and avoid getting hit by a car when crossing the road (Grechkin, Chihak, Cremer, Kearney, & ...

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... observer’s direction Previous studies have shown that when an attended appears to loom, that object triggers an automatic beh response in infants and monkeys (e.g., Schiff, Caviness, & Gibson, 1962; =-=Schmuckler, Collimore, & Dannemiller, 2007-=-). Franconeri and Simons (2003) further showed that attention is automatically directed towards objects exhibiting looming motion even when attention is initially directed elsewhere. They proposed a b...