Toddlers' gaze following through attention modulation: Intention is in the eye of the beholder

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Title:	Toddlers' gaze following through attention modulation: Intention is in the eye of the beholder
Author(s):	Bordes, P.F. de; Cox, R.F.A. ; Hasselman, F.W. ; Cillessen, A.H.N.
Publication year:	2013
Source:	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 116, iss. 2, (2013), pp. 443-452
Number of Pages:	10 p.
ISSN:	0022-0965
DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.09.008
Publication type:	Article / Letter to editor
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item : http://hdl.handle.net/2066/119529
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Subject:	Social Development
Organization:	SW OW PWO [owi] SW OZ BSI ON
Journal title:	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume:	vol. 116
Issue:	iss. 2
Page start:	p. 443
Page end:	p. 452
Abstract:	We investigated 20-month-olds' (N = 56) gaze following by presenting toddlers with a female model that displayed either ostensive or no ostensive cues before shifting her gaze laterally toward an object. The results indicated that toddlers reliably followed the model's gaze redirection after mutual eye contact was established but did so equally reliably after the model's eyes had been made salient nonostensively. Moreover, both conditions elicited gaze following more prominently than when children’s attention was initially directed away from the eyes either by specifically accentuating the mouth or by covering the entire face before the model redirected her eyes laterally. These findings suggest that gaze following by toddlers is more likely to be driven by general attention mechanisms than by their appreciation of somebody else’s communicative intent through perceiving eye contact.