Can anyone with great imagination "see" what I am pointing to in "A Human Ethogram ..." ? : In particular: I point to perceptual/attentional shifts as the manifestation of innate action patterns that almost assuredly (and necessarily) occur at points during ontogeny, directing (and providing for and/or greatly influencing) some major new learnings that occur as the qualitative cognitive (stage) shifts, during child development (especially, in 4 stages between 2-18 y.o.); DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY SPECIFIC INSIGHTS into what these "look like" more specifically and in particular **? (This will provide much better guidance for others [(not me)] in using and analyzing data from eye-tracking research on children of different ages, towards the actual discovery of these phenomenon. ***)
If you have any such insights and can write about them, please do so. It would be greatly appreciated.
** FOOTNOTE: While I do have regrets I could not (and cannot) do this myself, I could only do what I could at the time (it was 1982-1985, I was about 30 y.o. and the technology to do such research did not exist -- only very recently has the needed eye-tracking technology and computer-analysis software existed to permit the needed research; if I had seen this technology and especially if I had seen it in use, it is possible I could have had the needed insights I am now seeking from others).
*** FOOTNOTE: I am now retired and, even if I was clever enough (which I find doubtful), I now cannot pursue any such research myself. (I don't even know what eye-tracking technology looks like or how it needs to be set up; I DO KNOW it is powerful enough to make the needed discoveries -- based on how it has already been used.)
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