Twelve-month-olds' comprehension and production of pointing
Twelve-month-olds' comprehension and production of pointing
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DOI：
10.1111/j.2044-835x.2011.02043.x
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发表时间：
2012-09-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Tomasello, Michael
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作者：
Behne, Tanya;Liszkowski, Ulf;Tomasello, Michael
本研究探讨了12个月大的婴儿是否已经认识到指向手势的交际功能。婴儿参加了一项任务，要求他们理解一个成年人的信息指向一个隐藏的玩具的位置的手势。他们大多成功地完成了这项任务，这要求他们推断出成年人试图将他们的注意力引向一个位置是有原因的，因为她想让他们知道那里藏着一个玩具。在同一个游戏中，许多婴儿也互换了角色，并为成年人做出了适当的指向手势。事实上，这两者之间存在着相关性，即大多数情况下，模仿者都是制作者。这些发现表明，到12个月大的婴儿开始表现出双向理解的沟通指向。
This study explored whether infants aged 12 months already recognize the communicative function of pointing gestures. Infants participated in a task requiring them to comprehend an adult's informative pointing gesture to the location of a hidden toy. They mostly succeeded in this task, which required them to infer that the adult was attempting to direct their attention to a location for a reason because she wanted them to know that a toy was hidden there. Many of the infants also rueversed roles and produced appropriate pointing gestures for the adult in this same game, and indeed there was a correlation such that comprehenders were for the most part producers. These findings indicate that by 12 months of age infants are beginning to show a bidirectional understanding of communicative pointing.