Infants can infer the presence of hidden objects from referential gaze information

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Recognizing Communicative Intentions in Infancy (2010, background): “In ostensive contexts, infants do not just follow others' gaze but expect to find a referent (Csibra and Volein, 2008), interpret verbal labels as co-referring to the deictically highlighted object (Gliga and Csibra, 2009), and find hidden objects”
Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, background): “Csibra and Volein (2008) examined whether young infants also expect an agent to act in a manner consistent with what she sees.”
Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing (2017, background): “From early childhood, mentalizing is useful not only in explaining people’s behaviour, but also in learning about unobserved aspects of the world by observing other actors and inferring what they must have seen and believed in order to explain the way they acted 5,15,22,23,25,37,38 .”
Two problems of intersubjectivity (2009, background): “Even an infant at 8 months follows the direction of gaze behind a barrier — it understands that the agent is seeing something that it does not see (Csibra & Volein, 2008; Frischen et al., 2007).”