| Effects of gesture and target on 12- and 18-month-olds' joint visual attention to objects in front of or behind them. | |
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PMID: 10902702 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Factors affecting joint visual attention in 12- and 18-month-olds were investigated. In Experiment 1 infants responded to 1 of 3 parental gestures: looking, looking and pointing, or looking, pointing, and verbalizing. Target objects were either identical to or distinctive from distractor objects. Targets were in front of or behind the infant to test G. E. Butterworth's (1991b) hypothesis that 12-month-olds do not follow gaze to objects behind them. Pointing elicited more episodes of joint visual attention than looking alone. Distinctive targets elicited more episodes of joint visual attention than identical targets. Although infants most reliably followed gestures to targets in front of them, even 12-month-olds followed gestures to targets behind them. In Experiment 2 parents were rotated so that the magnitude of their head turns to fixate front and back targets was equivalent. Infants looked more at front than at back targets, but there was also an effect of magnitude of head turn. Infants' relative neglect of back targets is partly due to the "size" of adult's gesture. |
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Authors:
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G O Deák; R A Flom; A D Pick |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Developmental psychology Volume: 36 ISSN: 0012-1649 ISO Abbreviation: Dev Psychol Publication Date: 2000 Jul |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2000-11-21 Completed Date: 2000-11-21 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0260564 Medline TA: Dev Psychol Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 511-23 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, USA. deak@cogsci.ucsd.edu |
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Adult Age Factors Attention* Cues Female Gestures* Humans Imitative Behavior* Infant Infant Behavior* Male Orientation* Parent-Child Relations Space Perception Visual Perception* |
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