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Description: In this conceptual replication study, we used a screen-based violation of expectation (VOE) paradigm to investigate whether 9-month-old infants process different information about novel objects when an object is introduced in a communicative referential versus non-communicative referential context (Yoon, Johnson, & Csibra et al., 2008; Okumura, Kobayashi, & Itakura, 2016; but see Silverstein, Gliga, Westermann, & Parise, 2018). In 12 test trial videos, an object was shown together with one adult (action phase). We manipulated the communicative context depicted in the videos such that the adult either looked at the object after looking in the direction of the infant (communicative context) or the actor looked at the object individually without addressing the infant at all (non-communicative). After each video, the scene was occluded before it revealed one of three different outcomes: the object infants had just seen in the action phase (no change, baseline), the object they had just seen but at a novel position (location change), or a new object (identity change). By manipulating both the communicative context and features of the object in the subsequent outcome phase, we aimed to conceptually replicate the previous finding that observed communicative context may bias infants to encode surface features which support learning about object kinds (i.e., object identity) over spatial-temporal information (i.e., object location). In contrast to previous studies examining this effect, we used a study setup and data processing procedure allowing us to automatically extract infants’ looking response using eye tracking technology instead of manually coding infants’ looking behavior. Note: In the overall study (published in Open Mind: https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00114) we refer to this project as “Experiment 1”. This OSF project is directly linked to the OSF project "Investigating the Communication-Induced Memory Bias in the Context of Third-Party Social Interactions" (https://osf.io/mp9td/).