Fig. 2. The right-skewed frequency distribution of objects in 8- 10-month-old infants’ first-person views of meal time.

(a) The frequency of common objects in head camera images show and extremely skewed distribution. The most frequent objects (cup, spoon, bowl) are very frequent but most objects in the images rare. This creates a select set of highly frequent visual categories. These high frequency objects all have common names are normatively the first nouns that children acquire (black dots). The many more rarer objects in these scenes have names normatively acquired later in infancy (early words) or in childhood (later nouns). (b) Example images show the clutter characteristic of 8- to 10-month old infant’s first person view and illustrates the many different and but repeated experiences of a high-frequency object (cup) that infants encounter in their everyday experiences.