The Role of Dyadic Coordination in Organizing Visual Attention in 5-Month-Old Infants

Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
Gina M MasonMichael H Goldstein

Abstract

In human infants, the ability to share attention with others is facilitated by increases in attentional selectivity and focus. Differences in early attention have been associated with socio-cognitive outcomes including language, yet the social mechanisms of attention organization in early infancy have only recently been considered. Here, we examined how social coordination between 5-month-old infants and caregivers relate to differences in infant attention, including looking preferences, span, and reactivity to caregivers' social cues. Using a naturalistic play paradigm, we found that 5-month-olds who received a high ratio of sensitive (jointly focused) contingent responses showed strong preferences for objects with which their caregivers were manually engaged. In contrast, infants whose caregivers exhibited high ratios of redirection (attempts to shift focus) showed no preferences for caregivers' held objects. Such differences have implications for recent models of cognitive development, which rely on early looking preferences for adults' manually engaged objects as a pathway toward joint attention and word learning. Further, sensitivity and redirectiveness predicted infant attention even in reaction to caregiver responses tha...Continue Reading

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Dec 12, 2019·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology·Alisa EgotubovNoa Gueron-Sela
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