Joint attention, self-recognition, and neurocognitive function in toddlers

Infancy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-51

  Nichols, Kate E ^a   Fox, Nathan ^a   Mundy, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SELF MONITORING; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 17244368744     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0701_4     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Bahrick, L. E. (1995). Intermodal origins of self-perception. In P. Rochat (Ed.), Self in infancy: Theory and research (pp. 349-373). Amsterdam: North-Holland/Elsevier Science.
2. Bahrick, L. E., Moss, L., & Fadil, C. (1996). Development of visual self-recognition in infancy. Biological Psychology, 8, 189-208.
3. Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Mindblindness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
4. Bates, E., Benigni, L., Bretherton, I., Camaioni, L., & Volterra, V. (1979). The emergence of symbols: Cognition and communication in infancy. New York: Academic.
5. Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Damasio, A. R., & Lee, G. P. (1999). Different contributions of the human amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex to decision-making. The Journal of Neuroscience, 19 5473-5481.
6. Brooks-Gunn, J., & Lewis, M. (1984). The development of early visual self-recognition. Developmental Review, 4, 215-239.
7. Brothers, L. A. (1990). The social brain: A project for integrating primate behavior and neurophysiology in a new domain. Concepts in Neuroscience, 1, 27-51.
8. Bush, G., Luu, P., & Posner, M. I. (2000). Cognitive and emotional influences in the anterior cingulate cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 215-222.
9. Caplan, R., Chugani, H., Messa, C., Guthrie, D., Sigman, M., Traversay, J., et al. (1993). Hemispherectomy for early onset intractable seizures: Presurgical cerebral glucose metabolism and post surgical nonverbal communication patterns. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 35, 574-581.
10. Carpenter, M., Nagell, K., & Tomasello, M. (1998). Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9 to 15 months of age. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 63, 176.
11. Charman, T., Baron-Cohen, S., Swettenham, J., Baird, G., Cox, A., & Drew, A. (2001). Testing joint attention, imitation, and play infancy precursors to language and theory of mind. Cognitive Development, 15, 481-498.
12. Claussen, A. H., Mundy, P. C., & Mallik, S. A. (2002). Joint attention and disorganized attachment status in infants at risk. Developmental and Psychopathology, 14, 279-291.
13. Courage, M. L., & Howe, M. L. (2002). From infant to child: The dynamics of cognitive change in the second year of life. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 250-277.
14. Craik, F., Moroz, T., Moscovich, M., Stuss, D., Winocur, G., Tulving, E., et al. (1999). In search of the self: A positron emission tomography study. Psychological Science, 10, 26-34.
15. Damasio, H. (1994). Descartes error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. New York: Putnam.
16. Dawson, G., & McKissick, F. C. (1984). Self-recognition in autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 14 383-394.
17. Dawson, G., Munson, J., Estes, A., Osterling, J., McPartland, J., Toth, K., et al. (2002). Neurocognitive function and joint attention abilities in young children with autism spectrum disorder versus developmental delay. Child Development, 73, 345-358.
18. Dawson, G., Osterling, J., Rinaldi, R., Carver, L., & McPartland, J. (2001). Brief report: Recognition memory and stimulus-reward associations: Indirect support for the role of the ventromedial prefrontal dysfunction in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31, 337-341.
19. Diamond, A. (2002). Normal development of prefrontal cortex from birth to young adulthood: Cognitive functions, anatomy, and biochemistry. In D. T. Stuss & R. T. Knight (Eds.), Principles of frontal lobe function (pp. 467-503). New York: Oxford University Press.
20. Diamond, A., & Goldman-Rakic, P. A. (1989). Successful performance by monkeys with lesions of the hippocampal formation on AB and object retrieval, two tasks that mark developmental changes in human infants. Behavioral Neuroscience, 103, 527-537.
21. Diamond, A., Towle, C., & Boyer, K. (1994). Young children's performance on a task sensitive to the memory functions of the medial temporal lobe in adults - the delayed nonmatching-to-sample task - reveals problems that are due to non-memory-related task demands. Behavioral Neuroscience, 108, 659-680.
22. Flanagan, P. J., Coppa, D. F., Riggs, S. G., & Alario, A. J. (1994). Communication behaviors of infants and teen mothers: An exploratory study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 15, 169-175.
23. Frith, C., & Frith, U. (1999). Interacting minds: A biological basis. Science, 286, 1692-1695.
24. Frith, U., & Frith, C. (2001). The biological basis of social interaction. Current Directions in Psychologic Science, 10, 151-155.
25. Gallese, V., & Goldman, A. (1998). Mirror neurons and the simulation theory of mind-reading. Trends in Cognitive Science, 2, 493-501.
26. Gallup, G. G. (1970). Chimpanzees: Self-recognition. Science, 167, 86-87.
27. Goldsmith, D. F., & Rogoff, B. (1997). Mothers' and toddlers' coordinated joint focus of attention: Variations with maternal dysphoric symptoms. Developmental Psychology, 33, 113-119.
28. Harding, C. C., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1979). The origins of intentional vocalizations in prelinguistic infants. Child Development, 50, 33-40.
29. Henderson, L., Yoder, P., Yale, M., & McDuffie, A. (2002). Getting the point: Electrophysiological correlates of protodeclarative pointing. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 20, 449-458.
30. Jeannerod, M. (1994). The representing brain: Neural correlates of motor intention and imagery. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 187-245.
31. Jeannerod, M. (2003). The mechanism of self-recognition in humans. Behavioural Brain Research, 142, 1-15.
32. Jones, S. S., & Hong, H. (2001). Onset of voluntary communication: Smiling looks to mother. Infancy, 2, 353-370.
33. Johnson, S., Baxter, L., Wilder, L., Pipe, J., Heiserman, J., & Prigatano, G. (2002). Neural correlates of self-reflection. Brain, 125, 1808-1814.
34. Kowalska, D., Bachevalier, J., & Mishkin, M. (1991). The role of the inferior prefrontal convexity in performance of delayed nonmatching-to-sample. Neuropsychologia, 29, 583-600.
35. Lewis, M., & Ramsay, D. (1999). Intentions, consciousness, and pretend play. In P. D. Zelazo, J. W. Astington, & D. R. Olson (Eds.), Developing theories of intention: Social understanding and self-control (pp. 77-94). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
36. Lewis, M., Sullivan, M. W., Stanger, C., & Weiss, M. (1989). Self development and self-conscious emotions. Child Development, 60 146-156.
37. Loveland, K. A. (1986). Discovering the affordances of a reflective surface. Developmental Review, 6, 1-24.
38. Meltzoff, A. N., & Moore, M. K. (1997). Explaining facial imitation: A theoretical model. Early Development and Parenting, 6 3), 179-192.
39. Mundy, P. (1995). Joint attention and social-emotional approach behavior in children with autism. Development and Psychopathology, 7, 63-82.
40. Mundy, P. (2003). Annotation: The neural basis of social impairments in autism: The role of the dorsal medial-frontal cortex and anterior cingulate system. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 793-809.
41. Mundy, P., Card, J., & Fox, N. A. (2000). EEG correlates of the development of infant joint attention skills. Developmental Psychobiology, 36, 325-338.
42. Mundy, P., Hogan, A., & Doehring, P. (1996). A preliminary manual for the abridged early social-communication scales. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami.
43. Mundy, P., Kasari, C., & Sigman, M. (1992). Joint attention, affective sharing, and intersubjectivity. Infant Behavior and Development, 15, 377-381.
44. Mundy, P. C., Seibert, J. M., & Hogan, A. E. (1983). Relationship between sensorimotor and early communication abilities in developmentally delayed children. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 30, 33-48.
45. Mundy, P., & Sigman, M. (1989). The theoretical implications of joint-attention deficits in autism. Development and Psychopathology, 3, 173-183.
46. Mundy, P., Sigman, M., & Kasari, C. (1993). The theory of mind and joint attention deficits in autism. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Understanding others minds: Perspectives from autism (pp. 181-203). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
47. Mundy, P., Sigman, M., Ungerer, J., & Sherman, T. (1986). Defining the social deficits of autism: The contribution of nonverbal communication measures. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 27 657-669.
48. Mundy, P., & Willoughby, J. (1998). Nonverbal communication, affect, and social emotional development. In A. Wetherby, S. Warren, & J. Reichle (Eds.), Transitions in prelinguistic communication: Preintentional to intentional and presymbolic to symbolic (pp. 111-134). Baltimore: Brookes.
49. Neuman, C. J., & Hill, S. D. (1978). Self-recognition and stimulus preference in autistic children. Developmental Psychobiology, 11, 571-578.
50. Overman, W. H., Bachevalier, J. B., & Sewell, J. D. (1993). A comparison of children's performance on two recognition memory tasks: Delayed nonmatch-to-sample versus visual paired-comparison. Developmental Psychobiology, 26, 345-357.
51. Pipp-Siegel, S., & Foltz, C. (1997). Toddlers' acquisition of self/other knowledge: Ecological and interpersonal aspects of self and other. Child Development, 68, 69-79.
52. Rizzolatti, G., & Arbib, M. (1998). Language within our grasp. Trends in Neuroscience, 21, 188-194.
53. Rizzolatti, G., Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., & Gallese, V. (2002). From mirror neurons to imitation: Facts and speculations. In A. N. Meltzoff & P. Wolfgang (Eds.), The imitative mind: Development, evolution, and brain bases (pp. 247-266). New York: Cambridge University Press.
54. Rogers, S. J., Hepburn, S. L., Stackhouse, T., & Wehner, E. (2003). Imitation performance in toddlers with autism and those with other developmental disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 44, 763-781.
55. Rolls, E. T. (1990). A theory of emotion, and its application to understanding the neural basis of emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 4 161-190.
56. Rolls, E. T., Harnak, J., Wade, D., & McGrath, J. (1994). Emotion-related learning in patients with social and emotional changes associated with frontal lobe damage. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 57, 1518-1524.
57. Seibert, J. M., Hogan, A. E., & Mundy, P. C. (1982). Assessing interactional competencies: The early social-communication scales. Infant Mental Health Journal, 3, 244-245.
58. Stich, S., & Nichols, S. (1992). Folk psychology: Simulation versus tactic theory. Mind and Language, 7, 29-65.
59. Stuphorn, V., Taylor, T., & Schall, J. (2000). Performance monitoring by the supplementary eye field. Nature, 408, 857-860.
60. Tomasello, M. (1995). Joint attention as social cognition. In C. Moore & P. Dunham (Eds.), Joint attention: Its origins and role in development (pp. 103-130). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
61. Uzgiris, I. C., & Hunt, J. M. (1989). Assessment in infancy: Ordinal scales of psychological development. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
62. Wolf, N. S., Gales, M. E., Shane, E., & Shane, M. (2001). The developmental trajectory from amodal perception in empathy and communication: The role of the mirror neurons in this process. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 21, 94-112.