TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of attentional behaviours on infant visual preferences and object choice
AU - Ishikawa, Mitsuhiko
AU - Yoshimura, Mina
AU - Sato, Hiroki
AU - Itakura, Shoji
N1 - Funding Information:
Young Fellowship grants to M.I from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Grants to S.I from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#25245067 and #16H06301) supported the research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Marta Olivetti Belardinelli and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - Many developmental studies have examined the effects of joint attention. However, it has been difficult to compare effects of initiating joint attention and responding to joint attention in infants. Here, we compared the effects of initiating joint attention and responding joint attention on object information processing, object preference, and facial preferences in infants. Thirty-seven infants (10 to 12 months of age) were shown stimuli in which a female gazed towards or away from an object. Participants were assigned to initiating joint attention condition or responding joint attention condition. Results suggest that initiating joint attention promoted object information processing, whereas responding joint attention did not. Both joint attention conditions affected the facial preference for the person who engaged joint attention. In addition, after initiating joint attention, infants chose objects gazed by other person more often than after responding joint attention. It appears that attentional behaviours that precede the perception of certain stimuli affect infants’ cognitive responses to those stimuli.
AB - Many developmental studies have examined the effects of joint attention. However, it has been difficult to compare effects of initiating joint attention and responding to joint attention in infants. Here, we compared the effects of initiating joint attention and responding joint attention on object information processing, object preference, and facial preferences in infants. Thirty-seven infants (10 to 12 months of age) were shown stimuli in which a female gazed towards or away from an object. Participants were assigned to initiating joint attention condition or responding joint attention condition. Results suggest that initiating joint attention promoted object information processing, whereas responding joint attention did not. Both joint attention conditions affected the facial preference for the person who engaged joint attention. In addition, after initiating joint attention, infants chose objects gazed by other person more often than after responding joint attention. It appears that attentional behaviours that precede the perception of certain stimuli affect infants’ cognitive responses to those stimuli.
KW - Eye gaze
KW - Initiating joint attention
KW - Object choice
KW - Responding joint attention
KW - Visual preferences
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U2 - 10.1007/s10339-019-00918-x
DO - 10.1007/s10339-019-00918-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 30955152
AN - SCOPUS:85064502131
SN - 1612-4782
VL - 20
SP - 317
EP - 324
JO - Cognitive Processing
JF - Cognitive Processing
IS - 3
ER -