Constructing Interaction: The Development of Gaze Dynamics | Zendy

Nomikou Iris | Zendy; Leonardi Giuseppe | Zendy; Rohlfing Karharina J. | Zendy; RączaszekLeonardi Joanna | Zendy

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Constructing Interaction: The Development of Gaze Dynamics

Author(s) -

Nomikou Iris,

Leonardi Giuseppe,

Rohlfing Karharina J.,

RączaszekLeonardi Joanna

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

infant and child development

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.87

H-Index - 57

eISSN - 1522-7219

pISSN - 1522-7227

DOI - 10.1002/icd.1975

Subject(s) - gaze , psychology , dynamics (music) , interdependence , social relation , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , joint attention , social psychology , autism , psychoanalysis , pedagogy , political science , law

Gaze is one of the first and most important means of communication and coordination in parent–infant dyads. In the present paper we used a novel method, designed to discover patterns in time‐series, to investigate the dynamics of gaze in dyads and its developmental change. Using a longitudinal corpus of natural interactions, mutual mother–infant gaze was coded when the infants were 3, 6, and 8 months old and subjected to recurrence analysis. The cross‐recurrence profiles obtained for the three time points show systematic differences: While the engagement in mutual gaze decreases with age, the behaviour becomes more tightly coupled as a more regular temporal structure emerges. We suggest that this stronger interdependency of gaze behaviour may indicate the development of a social feedback loop enabling engagement in interaction. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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