2- Infant Perception

Question 1

Pre linguistic communication

Answer 1

-children produce language around their first year
-Eye gaze, vocalisations, facial expressions

Question 2

Mechanisms of early communication

Answer 2

Turn-taking, ostension, joint-attention

Question 3

Turntaking

Answer 3

Foundational infrastructure of communication, proto-conversations

Question 4

Zimmer + Hoehl 2023

Answer 4

Care-giver and infant brain synchrony, 4-6 month olds, higher turn-taking but only at the start

-turn-taking seen in primates which suggests primate ancestral origin

Question 5

Ostension

Answer 5

Showing, panting or exhibiting rather than verbally

Eye contact, calling someone’s name

Question 6

Kano 2018

Answer 6

Ostension increased overall attention not to target of communication

Question 7

Joint attention

Answer 7

1. Dyadic interaction/primary intersubjectivity (1 month)
2. Triadic joint attention (1 year)
3. Perspective- taking (level 1 practical- 1.5 years) (level 2 theoretical- 4 to 5 years) fundamental for later ability to take different perspectives

Question 8

Carpenter 1988

Answer 8

-perceiving objects together by seeing or hearing them
-panting? To objects with goal to share attention
-repeating actions in recognition of

Question 9

Thiele 2023

Answer 9

-used a violation of expecting paradigm and eye-tracking
-joint attention in 9 month old infants
-infants looked longer at identity change