Nine-month-olds' shared visual attention as a function of gesture and object location.

By Ross A. Flom, Gedeon O. Deák, Christina Phill, A. Pick. 2004

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Recognizing Communicative Intentions in Infancy (2010, background): “Ostensive signals have been shown to induce gaze following in older infants as well (e.g. Johnson et al., 1998), and such a response is more likely to occur if the gaze shift is accompanied by further communicative signals, such as verbalization and pointing (Flom et al., 2004).”
Social learning and social cognition: The case for pedagogy (2006, background): “Studies have shown that the accuracy of finding the target object of a referential act, whether it is looking or pointing, is developing slowly during the first 18 months (Butterworth & Jarrett, 1991), especially if the referent is in a distal position or it is outside of the baby's visual field ( F”
Infants can infer the presence of hidden objects from referential gaze information (2008, background): “Nine-month-old infants tend to stop at the first object that they find when they follow the gaze of others (Flom et al., 2004), and would follow the head turn of the model even when her eyes are closed (Brooks & Meltzoff, 2005 ).”