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SYNCHRONIZATION OF VISUAL ATTENTION IN MOTHER‐INFANT PAIRS
Author(s) -
Collis G. M.,
Schaffer H. R.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1975.tb00365.x
Subject(s) - psychology , orientation (vector space) , developmental psychology , salient , object (grammar) , visual attention , visual perception , cognitive psychology , communication , perception , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , geometry , mathematics , computer science
Summary The visual behaviour of sixteen infants and their mothers was recorded in a novel situation containing a number of salient stimuli. There was a general tendency for mother and infant to look together toward the same object rather than toward different objects. Further, this visual co‐orientation was found to result from mothers following the directions of the infant's spontaneous looking behaviour. These observations indicate one way in which the mother's behaviour becomes synchronized with that of the infant.