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Individual differences and the development of joint attention in infancy

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Mundy, Peter, Block, Jessica, Delgado, Christine, Pomares, Yuly, Van Hecke, Amy Vaughan, Parlade, Meaghan Venezia·2007·Child Development

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This study examined the development of joint attention in 95 infants assessed between 9 and 18 months of age. Infants displayed significant test-retest reliability on measures of following gaze and gestures (responding to joint attention, RJA) and in their use of eye contact to establish social attention coordination (initiating joint attention, IJA). Infants displayed a linear, increasing pattern of age-related growth on most joint attention measures. However, IJA was characterized by a significant cubic developmental pattern. Infants with different rates of cognitive development exhibited different frequencies of joint attention acts at each age, but did not exhibit different age-related patterns of development. Finally, 12-month RJA and 18-month IJA predicted 24-month language after controlling for general aspects of cognitive development.

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  • Early exhibition of joint attention is strongly associated with later language ability.

    “In fact, early exhibition of joint attention is strongly associated with later language ability (Morales et al. 2000; Mundy et al. 2007), and atypical development of the initiation of joint attention (IJA) is strongly indicative of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (Bruinsma et al. 2004).”

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Authors
Mundy, P., Block, J., Delgado, C., Pomares, Y., Van Hecke, A. V., & Parlade, M. V.
Affiliations
  • University of Miami (US)
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
Corresponding author
Mundy, Peter
Venue
Child Development
Published
2007-05-01
Volume
78
Issue
3
Pages
938-954
ISSN
  • 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8624
OpenAlex
W2164157912
Cited by
637
References
90
Citations by year
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FWCI
30.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD38052, R01HD038052)
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 › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
joint attention, infancy, individual differences, gesture, eye contact, cognitive development, language development, test-retest reliability, developmental trajectories
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Attention, Cooperative Behavior, Female, Humans, Infant, Language, Male, Infant Behavior

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