Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads: Sharing looks cannot be reliably identified by naïve third-party observers.

Joint attention, or sharing attention with another individual about an object or event, is a critical behaviour that emerges in pre-linguistic infants and predicts later language abilities. Given its importance, it is perhaps surprising that there is no consensus on how to measure joint attention in...

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Main Authors: Kirsty E Graham, Joanna C Buryn-Weitzel, Nicole J Lahiff, Claudia Wilke, Katie E Slocombe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255241