Developmental Changes in Pointing as a Function of Attentional Focus

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12- and 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others (2006, background): “…claimed that infants’ early declarative pointing is not intentionally communicative until somewhat later in development (Desrochers, Morissette, & Ricard, 1995) and that it serves initially not to direct or share attention but instead to obtain attention to the self (Moore & D’Entremont, 2001).”
How joint is the joint attention of apes and human infants (2013, background): “Similarly, we have tested whether infants are pointing simply to gain rewarding positive emotions to the self (Bates et al., 1975; Moore & D’Entremont, 2001) or just so that the adult sees the object for herself, rather than to share attention about the object.”
Joint action: bodies and minds moving together. (2006, background): “In infants, joint attention develops around the age of 12‐18 months [ 8 ,9].”