Fig 1.
Example stimuli used in the experimental tasks.
(A) Real pictures of scenes with a clear foreground and a clear background. (B) Abstract pictures, comprised of artificial objects (e.g., greebles and geons) and artworks or fractals as background. (C) Two of the four optical illusions used for the optical illusion task (left panel: Müller-Lyer illusion; right panel: Ebbinghaus illusion). The black arrows indicated, which red element could be adjusted. In the control condition the red elements were shown without gray context elements.
Table 1.
Context-sensitivity scores of parent and child.
Fig 2.
Temporal course of participants’ visual attention.
Context-sensitivity in the eye-tracking task throughout the 5 s of stimulus presentation. The object score indicates the relative number of fixations made to the focal object, relative to all fixations on the picture (object and background), in 100 ms time bins. Separate lines indicate the object focus for parents and children on real and abstract scenes (see Fig 1).
Table 2.
Correlations among context-sensitivity scores of the parents.
Table 3.
Correlations among context-sensitivity scores of the children.
Fig 3.
Relation between parents’ and children’s context-sensitivity assessed in the picture description task for the object score (A) and relations (B) The results of the correlational analyses are displayed in the graph, with one-sided p-values. FDR adjusted p-values are both p = .053.