Infant shifting attention from an adult's face to an adult's hand: A precursor of joint attention

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-80

  Amano, Sachiko ^a   Kezuka, Emiko ^b   Yamamoto, Atsuko ^a  

^a KAGAWA NUTRITION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA PREFECTURAL WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult infant interaction; Joint attention; Moving head; Orientation to the hand; Shifting attention from face to hand; Three and four month olds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0742285319     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2003.06.005     Document Type: Article

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