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Quantitative Linking Hypotheses for Infant Eye Movements 1 2 3 Daniel Yurovsky *, Shohei Hidaka , Rachel Wu 1 Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan, 3 Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America Abstract The study of cognitive development hinges, largely, on the analysis of infant looking. But analyses of eye gaze data require the adoption of linking hypotheses: assumptions about the relationship between observed eye movements and underlying cognitive processes. We develop a general framework for constructing, testing, and comparing these hypotheses, and thus for producing new insights into early cognitive development. We first introduce the general framework – applicable to any infant gaze experiment – and then demonstrate its utility by analyzing data from a set of experiments investigating the role of attentional cues in infant learning. The new analysis uncovers significantly more structure in these data, finding evidence of learning that was not found in standard analyses and showing an unexpected relationship between cue use and learning rate. Finally, we discuss general implications for the construction and testing of quantitative linking hypotheses. MATLAB code for sample linking hypotheses can be found on the first author’s website. Citation: Yurovsky D, Hidaka S, Wu R (2012) Quantitative Linking Hypotheses for Infant Eye Movements. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47419. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0047419 Editor: Jan Lauwereyns, Kyushu University, Japan Received June 25, 2012; Accepted September 13, 2012; Published October 26, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Yurovsky et al.