Infants’ understanding of the point gesture as an object-directed action

By A. Woodward, Jose J. Guajardo. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Infants track action goals within and across agents. (2007, unknown): “... Gergely, Bekkering, & Kiraly, 2002; Meltzoff, 1995; Repacholi & Gopnik, 1997; Tomasello & Haberl, 2003), and infants’ visual responses to observed events (Csibra, Gergely, Biro, Koos, & Brockbank, 1999; Gergely, Nasady, Csibra, & Biro, 1995; Phillips, Wellman, & Spelke, 2002; Kuhlmeier, Wynn, & ”
Is agency skin-deep? Surface attributes influence infants' sensitivity to goal-directed action (2004, background): “To start, when 9-month-olds view gaze alone or gaze accompanied by a pointing gesture, they follow the actor's line of regard, but do not seem to encode the actor–object relation (Woodward, 2003; Woodward & Guajardo, 2002).”
Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions. (2005, background): “A second study found a similar relation for the production and interpretation of points as object-directed (17).”
Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, background): “…have found that 7- to 8-month-olds, who typically have not yet learned the communicative function of pointing gestures (e.g., Carpenter, Nagell, et al., 1998; Morissette, Ricard, & Decarie, 1995), fail at two-object tasks involving pointing (e.g., Kim & Song, 2008; Woodward & Guajardo, 2002).”
Image schemata in the brain (2005, background): “…then, at nine months they can distinguish between a hand grasping an object and a hand resting upon it (Woodward 1999); while at twelve months infants are able to selectively attend to objects by following changes in the direction that a caregiver points or looks (Woodward and Guajardo 2002).”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, result): “Woodward has found similar results for infants’ understanding of the point gesture, though at slightly later ages (Woodward & Guajardo, 2002).”
Infants' Understanding of Looking, Pointing, and Reaching as Cues to Goal-Directed Action (2004, background): “A developmental lag between infants’ understanding of reaching and grasping and their encoding of the pointing gesture has also been reported by Woodward and Guajardo (2002), when relational encoding, not prediction of subsequent action, was thedependentmeasure.”
Getting the point: Tracing worked examples enhances learning (2015, background): “Advances in young children’s hand movements, such as grasping or pointing, are related to their interest in the physical world, which leads to advances in their cognition (see Fogel, Dedo, & McEwen, 1992; Needham, 2000; Woodward & Guajardo, 2002).”
Socio-Pragmatics and Attention: Contributions to Gesturally Guided Word Learning in Toddlers (2008, background): “Given that infants appreciate that touching and grasping are relevant to reference within their first year (Woodward, 1998; Woodward & Guajardo, 2002), it seems likely that early word learning would benefit from these pedagogical accommodations.”
Infants’ developing understanding of the link between looker and object (2003, background): “Our prior findings indicated that infants’ propensity to orient in response to an action could be distinguished from their representation of the relational structure of the action (Woodward, 1998, 1999; see also Woodward & Guajardo, 2002 ).”