Origins of the Human Pointing Gesture: A Training Study

Autor/inn/en	Matthews, Danielle; Behne, Tanya; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	Origins of the Human Pointing Gesture: A Training Study
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 15 (2012) 6, S.817-829 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01181.x
Schlagwörter	Socialization; Social Cognition; Control Groups; Language Acquisition; Play; Infants; Musical Instruments; Parents; Foreign Countries; Eye Movements; Nonverbal Communication; Attention; Toys; Correlation; Human Body; Puppetry; Parent Child Relationship; Regression (Statistics); Music Activities; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Socialisation; Sozialisation; Soziale Kognition; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Spiel; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Musikinstrument; Eltern; Ausland; Augenbewegung; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Aufmerksamkeit; Toy; Spielzeug; Korrelation; Menschlicher Körper; Puppenspiel; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Musikalische Aktion; Großbritannien
Abstract	Despite its importance in the development of children's skills of social cognition and communication, very little is known about the ontogenetic origins of the pointing gesture. We report a training study in which mothers gave children one month of extra daily experience with pointing as compared with a control group who had extra experience with musical activities. One hundred and two infants of 9, 10, or 11 months of age were seen at the beginning, middle, and end of this one-month period and tested for declarative pointing and gaze following. Infants' "ability" to point with the index finger at the end of the study was not affected by the training but was instead predicted by infants' prior ability to follow the gaze direction of an adult. The "frequency" with which infants pointed indexically was also affected by infant gaze following ability and, in addition, by maternal pointing frequency in free play, but not by training. In contrast, infants' ability to monitor their partner's gaze when pointing, and the frequency with which they did so, was affected by both training and maternal pointing frequency in free play. These results suggest that prior social cognitive advances, rather than adult socialization of pointing per se, determine the developmental onset of indexical pointing, but socialization processes such as imitation and adult shaping subsequently affect both infants' ability to monitor their interlocutor's gaze while they point and how frequently infants choose to point. (Contains 10 tables, 4 figures, and 7 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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