Look Who's Talking: Pre-Verbal Infants’ Perception of Face-to-Face and Back-to-Back Social Interactions

Frontiers in Psychology

Else-Marie Augusti¹ 

关键词: infants;    social cognition;    gaze following;    social interaction;    eye tracking;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00161

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Four-, 6-, and 11-month old infants were presented with movies in which two adult actors conversed about everyday events, either by facing each other or looking in opposite directions. Infants from 6 months of age made more gaze shifts between the actors, in accordance with the flow of conversation, when the actors were facing each other. A second experiment demonstrated that gaze following alone did not cause this difference. Instead the results are consistent with a social cognitive interpretation, suggesting that infants perceive the difference between face-to-face and back-to-back conversations and that they prefer to attend to a typical pattern of social interaction from 6 months of age.

【 授权许可】

CC BY