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2007 May-Jun;78 (3): 938-54.

Individual differences and the development of joint attention in infancy.

Peter Mundy, Jessica Block, Christine Delgado, Yuly Pomares, Amy Vaughan Van Hecke, Meaghan Venezia Parlade
Author Information
  1. Peter Mundy: University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA. pmundy@miami.edu
PMID: 17517014 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01042.x

Abstract

This study examined the development of joint attention in 95 infants assessed between 9 and 18 months of age. Infants displayed significant test-retest reliability on measures of following gaze and gestures (responding to joint attention, RJA) and in their use of eye contact to establish social attention coordination (initiating joint attention, IJA). Infants displayed a linear, increasing pattern of age-related growth on most joint attention measures. However, IJA was characterized by a significant cubic developmental pattern. Infants with different rates of cognitive development exhibited different frequencies of joint attention acts at each age, but did not exhibit different age-related patterns of development. Finally, 12-month RJA and 18-month IJA predicted 24-month language after controlling for general aspects of cognitive development.

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Grants

  1. R01 HD038052/NICHD NIH HHS
  2. R01 HD038052-05/NICHD NIH HHS
  3. HD38052/NICHD NIH HHS

MeSH Term

Age Factors
Attention
Cooperative Behavior
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant Behavior
Language
Male
Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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