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Twelve‐month‐olds point to share attention and interest
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Infants point for various motives. Classically, one such motive is declarative, to share attention and interest with adults to events. Recently, some researchers have questioned whether infants have this motivation. In the current study, an adult reacted to 12‐month‐olds’ pointing in different ways, and infants’ responses were observed. Results showed that when the adult shared attention and interest (i.e. alternated gaze and emoted), infants pointed more frequently across trials and tended to prolong each point – presumably to prolong the satisfying interaction. However, when the adult emoted to the infant alone or looked only to the event, infants pointed less across trials and repeated points more within trials – presumably in an attempt to establish joint attention. Results suggest that 12‐month‐olds point declaratively and understand that others have psychological states that can be directed and shared.
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“Infants expect their caregivers to respond with gaze alternation and contingent comments (i.e., joint attention) to their shows + gives and points from at least 10 and 12 months of age respectively, which suggests that infants produce these gestures with the goal to share attention and interest with others (Boundy et al., 2019; Liszkowski et al., 2004).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., Henning, A., Striano, T., & Tomasello, M.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Liszkowski, Ulf
- Venue
- Developmental Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-05-17
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 297-307
- ISSN
- 1363-755X (ISSN-L)
- 1467-7687
- OpenAlex
- W2158517877
- Cited by
- 567
- References
- 33
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- FWCI
- 34.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- Developmental Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Keywords
- infant pointing, joint attention, gaze alternation, infant social cognition, theory of mind, 12-month-old infants, social interaction
- MeSH terms
- Analysis of Variance, Attention, Child Development, Discrimination Learning, Emotions, Facial Expression, Humans, Infant, Orientation, Pilot Projects, Time Factors, Visual Perception
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