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SUBMITTER: Ishikawa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6408611 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20190201 1896
According to the natural pedagogy theory, infant gaze following is based on an understanding of the communicative intent of specific ostensive cues. However, it has remained unclear how eye contact affects this understanding and why it induces gaze following behaviour. In this study, we examined infant arousal in different gaze following contexts and whether arousal levels during eye contact predict gaze following. Twenty-five infants, ages 9-10 months participated in this study. They watched a ...[more]