Infant Understanding of the Referential Nature of Looking

By S. C. Butler, A. J. Caron, Rechele Brooks. 2000

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Comprehension of the Referential Intent of Looking and Pointing Between 12 and 15 Months (2002, methodology): “However, because such a directional cueing hypothesis, as already noted, is at odds with our 12/13-month and Butler et al.’s (2000) 14/15-month visual obstruction data, we are left with two alternative possibilities: (1) that the addition of pointing to looking enables young infants to make referent”
The Interface of Language and Theory of Mind. (2007, background): “But in other studies, infants below 18 months do not seem to take into account when line of sight is interrupted by an opaque barrier for another person but not for them (Butler et al., 2000).”
Infants Determine Others' Focus of Attention by Pragmatics and Exclusion (2006, background): “They also understand that an opaque screen blocks someone’s vision ( Butler, Caron, & Brooks, 2000; Caron, Kiel, Dayton, & Butler, 2002; Dunphy-Lelii & Wellman, 2004) and that when an adult is looking to a location behind a barrier or behind the infant’s body, that adult is seeing something that th”
Infants can infer the presence of hidden objects from referential gaze information (2008, result): “One possible interpretation of these results is that young infants follow others’ gaze shifts without conceiving those actions in referential terms, that is, without interpreting gaze as ‘object-directed’ (Butler et al., 2000).”