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Driven from distraction: how infants respond to parents' attempts to elicit and re-direct their attention.
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In: Deák, Gedeon O; Walden, Tedra A; Kaiser, Marygrace Yale; & Lewis, Audra. (2008). Driven from distraction: how infants respond to parents' attempts to elicit and re-direct their attention. Infant Behav Dev, 31(1), 34 - 50. UC San Diego: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/78j0h6df (2008)
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Driven from distraction: How infants respond to parents' attempts to elicit and re-direct their attention
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In: Deák, Gedeon O; Walden, Tedra A; Yale Kaiser, Marygrace; & Lewis, Audra. (2008). Driven from distraction: How infants respond to parents' attempts to elicit and re-direct their attention. Infant Behavior and Development, 31(1), 34 - 50. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.06.004. UC San Diego: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3z73796j (2008)
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Abstract:
This experiment examined how parents’ verbal and non-verbal behavioral cues cause infants to shift and share attention within environments where many objects compete for infants’ attention. Fifteen- and 21-month-old infants played with toys while their parent periodically shifted attention to a distal object within a larger array. Parents’ attention-shifts were indicated by a change in direction of gaze, a pointing gesture, and/or verbalizations. Verbalizations were either attention-eliciting or attention-directing. In some trials parents covered their eyes to occlude line-of-gaze. Both ages seldom followed simple gaze shifts, but frequently followed gaze with-points or gaze-with-directing verbalizations. Attention-eliciting verbalizations increased infants’ looks to the parent. Gaze occlusion reduced infants’ responses to directing verbalizations. Responses to eliciting verbalizations increased with age. Infant receptive vocabulary did not predict attention-sharing, even when parents named objects (i.e., directing verbalizations). Implications for development of attention-sharing, language and understanding of visual attention are discussed.
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Attention-shifts; Gaze perception; Infant social development; Infant vision; Language development; Non-verbal communication; Pointing; Pragmatic development; Shared attention; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Visual search
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URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3z73796j
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