Why is joint attention a pivotal skill in autism?

By T. Charman. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Early vocabulary development: The importance of joint attention and parent-child book reading (2012, background): “The findings of a number of studies support the role of joint attention in facilitating language and communication development for typically developing children, children with specific language impairment, and children with autism (Charman, 2003; Charman et al., 2003; Farrant, Maybery, & Fletcher, 2”
Minds Made for Sharing: Initiating Joint Attention Recruits Reward-related Neurocircuitry (2010, background): “Ontogenetically, JA has been considered an important precursor for the emergence of social cognitive capacities (Charman, 2003) while impairments thereof have been associated with autistic spectrum disorders (Dawson et al., 2002).”
A Typical Participation of Visual Cortex during Word Processing in Autism: An fMRI Study of Semantic Decision. (2007, background): “Pragmatic impairments characteristic of ASD reduce interactive learning experiences (Charman, 2003;Hobson & Lee, 1998;Loveland & Tunali, 1991;Ozonoff & Miller, 1996).”
Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition (2005, background): “One is the habituation work by Csibra et al. (1999), in which 9- and 12-month-olds, but not 6-month-olds, responded with longer looks when a computer-animated dot moved in an “irrational” way.”
Cognitive theories of autism (2007, background): “This is already being done (e.g., Berger, Aerts, van Spaendonck, Cools, & Teunisse, 2003; Charman, 2003; Charman et al., 2005; Sigman & Ruskin, 1999) largely thanks to early screening measures like the Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT, Baird et al.”
The Empathy Imbalance Hypothesis of Autism: A Theoretical Approach to Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Autistic Development (2009, background): “Davis (1996) distinguished between the parallel and the reactive affective outcomes of empathy.”
Merging second-person and first-person neuroscience (2013, neutral): “Yet, they are distinct from triadic interactions (see Figure 1), which emerge in humans only at the end of the first year and are considered to play a pivotal role in the development of human social cognition (Baron-Cohen 2005, Charman 2003).”
Attachment in children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review (2017, background): “Associated joint attention behaviours emerge as joint attention skills develop, including showing, taking, and giving objects and responding to names ( Charman, 2003; Mundy, Sigman, & Kasari, 1990). For all children, secure attachments were associated with improved basic and associated joint attenti”