Infants can infer the presence of hidden objects from referential gaze information
Infants can infer the presence of hidden objects from referential gaze information
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DOI：
10.1348/026151007x185987
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Volein, Agnes
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作者：
Csibra, Gergely;Volein, Agnes
婴儿在注视跟随任务中的明显失败通常被解释为缺乏对注视的参照性的理解。在目前的研究中，8个月和12个月大的婴儿跟随模特的目光来到两个被封堵器隐藏的位置中的一个。当遮挡物被移除时，一个物体要么在模型观察的位置，要么在模型的另一边。这两个年龄段的婴儿看空位置的时间都更长，这是因为模特的注视行为表明了这一点，即使他们在凝视之后的第一次注视被打折了，这种效果仍然有效。这一结果表明，即使是年幼的婴儿，当他们跟随他人的凝视并相应地推断隐藏物体的位置时，也会有参考期望。
Infants' apparent failure in gaze-following tasks is often interpreted as a sign of lack of understanding the referential nature of looking. In the present study, 8- and 12-month-old infants followed the gaze of a model to one of two locations hidden from their view by occluders. When the occluders were removed, an object was revealed either at the location where the model had looked or at the other side. Infants at both ages looked longer at the empty location when it had been indicated by the model's looking behaviour, and this effect held up even when their first look after gaze following was discounted. This result demonstrates that even young infants hold referential expectations when they follow others' gaze and infer the location of hidden objects accordingly.