The Visual Expectation Paradigm (M. M. Haith et al, 1988) was modified to assess the role that picture content plays in the spatiotemporal expectations of 2- and 3-mo-old infants. Infants watched pictures of 700-msec duration that appeared in left–right alternation with a 1,000-msec interstimulus interval. The same picture occurred repeatedly on one side, in alternation …