TY  - JOUR
AB  - According to natural pedagogy theory, infants are sensitive to particular ostensive cues that communicate to them that they are being addressed and that they can expect to learn referential information. We demonstrate that 6-month-old infants follow others' gaze direction in situations that are highly attention-grabbing. This occurs irrespective of whether these situations include communicative intent and ostensive cues (a model looks directly into the child's eyes prior to shifting gaze to an object) or not (a model shivers while looking down prior to shifting gaze to an object). In contrast, in less attention-grabbing contexts in which the model simply looks down prior to shifting gaze to an object, no effect is found. These findings demonstrate that one of the central pillars of natural pedagogy is false. Sensitivity to gaze following in infancy is not restricted to contexts in which ostensive cues are conveyed.
DA  - 2014
DO  - 10.1038/srep05304
KW  - Human behavior
KW  - Attention
LA  - eng
IS  - 1
PY  - 2014
SN  - 2045-2322
T2  - Scientific Reports
TI  - Is ostension any more than attention?
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-26818930
Y2  - 2024-11-22T01:02:47
ER  -