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Understanding the link between joint attention and language.
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The article was published on 1995-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 551 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Joint attention & Social learning.read more
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Social Cognition, joint attention and communicative Competence from 9 to 15 months of age
TL;DR: It was found that two measures--the amount of time infants spent in joint engagement with their mothers and the degree to which mothers used language that followed into their infant's focus of attention--predicted infants' earliest skills of gestural and linguistic communication.
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Gaze cueing of attention: visual attention, social cognition, and individual differences.
TL;DR: This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of past and current research into the perception of gaze behavior and its effect on the observer, including gaze-cueing paradigm that has been used to investigate the mechanisms of joint attention.
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Do the eyes have it? Cues to the direction of social attention.
TL;DR: Evidence from recent neurophysiological studies that suggests that the eyes constitute a special stimulus in at least two senses is reviewed, suggesting that the structure of the eyes is such that it provides us with a particularly powerful signal to the direction of another person's gaze.
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Constructing an understanding of mind : the development of children's social understanding within social interaction
TL;DR: Evidence suggesting that children's understanding of mind develops gradually in the context of social interaction is reviewed, and a theory of development is needed that accords a fundamental role to social interaction, yet does not assume that children simply adopt socially available knowledge but rather that children construct an understanding ofMind within social interaction.
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Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e)
Patricia K. Kuhl,Barbara T. Conboy,Sharon Coffey-Corina,Denise Padden,Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola,Tobey Nelson +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that native language phonetic performance is indicative of neural commitment to the native language, while non-native phoneticperformance reveals uncommitted neural circuitry.