Joint Attention
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Joint Attention

Its Origins and Role in Development

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Joint Attention

Its Origins and Role in Development

About this book

It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that all of what is intrinsically human experience is grounded in its shared nature. Joint attention to objects and events in the world provides the initial means whereby infants can start to share experiences with others and negotiate shared meanings. It provides a context for the development of both knowledge about the world and about others as experiencers. It plays a central role in the development of the young child's understanding of both the social and nonsocial worlds and in the development of the communicative interplay between child and adult. The first devoted to this important topic, this volume explores how joint attention first arises, its developmental course, its role in communication and social understanding, and the ways in which disruptions in joint attention may be implicated in a variety of forms of abnormal development including autism.

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Yes, you can access Joint Attention by Chris Moore, Philip J. Dunham, Chris Moore,Philip J. Dunham,Phil Dunham, Chris Moore, Philip J. Dunham, Phil Dunham in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Developmental Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Psychology Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780805814378
eBook ISBN
9781317781066
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Developmental Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Foreword From Joint Attention to the Meeting of Minds: An Introduction
  8. 1 Current Themes in Research on Joint Attention
  9. 2 Origins of Mind in Perception and Action
  10. 3 The Eye Direction Detector (EDD) and the Shared Attention Mechanism (SAM): Two Cases for Evolutionary Psychology
  11. 4 Development of Joint Visual Attention in Infants
  12. 5 Two Perspectives on Pointing in Infancy
  13. 6 Joint Attention as Social Cognition
  14. 7 Understanding the Link Between Joint Attention and Language
  15. 8 Optimal Social Structures and Adaptive Infant Development
  16. 9 Joint Attention Across Contexts in Normal and Autistic Children
  17. 10 Joint Attention, Affect, and Culture
  18. 11 The Development of Joint Attention in Premature Low Birth Weight Infants: Effects of Early Medical Complications and Maternal Attention-Directing Behaviors
  19. 12 Factors Influencing Joint Attention Between Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescent Mothers and Their Infants
  20. Author Index
  21. Subject Index