The rapid development of explicit gaze judgment ability at 3 years |
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Authors: | Martin J. Doherty James R. Anderson Lynne Howieson |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK |
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Abstract: | Two studies examined development of the ability to judge what another person is looking at. In Study 1, 54 2- to 4-year-olds judged where someone was looking in real-life, photograph, and drawing formats. A minority of 2-year-olds, but a majority of older children, passed all tasks, suggesting that the ability arises at around 3 years of age. Study 2 examined the fine-grained gaze judgment of 76 3- to 6-year-olds and 15 adults using gaze differences of 10° and 15°. Development of gaze judgment was gradual, from chance at 3 years of age to near adult-level performance at 6 years of age. Although performance was better when a congruent head turn was included, 3-year-olds were still at chance on 10° head turn trials. The findings suggest that the ability to explicitly judge gaze is novel at 3 years of age and develops slowly thereafter. Therefore, the ability does not develop out of earlier gaze following. General implications for the evolution and development of gaze processing are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Joint attention Gaze following Gaze judgment Engagement Theory of mind Understanding of attention |
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