Joint Attention

It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that all of what is intrinsically human experience is grounded in its shared nature. Joint attention to objects and events in the world provides the initial means whereby infants can start to share experiences with others and negotiate shared meanings. It provides a context for the development of both knowledge about the world and about others as experiencers. It plays a central role in the development of the young child's understanding of both the social and nonsocial worlds and in the development of the communicative interplay between child and adult. The first devoted to this important topic, this volume explores how joint attention first arises, its developmental course, its role in communication and social understanding, and the ways in which disruptions in joint attention may be implicated in a variety of forms of abnormal development including autism.

ISBN 080581437X   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780805814378 (What's this?)   Pages 296 Publisher Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc   Volumes 1 Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc   Weight (grammes) 544 Format Hardback   Published in NJ Publication date 12 Apr 1995   Height (mm) 229 Writer of foreword Jerome S. Bruner   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress BF720.A85J   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 155.422   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Foreword: From Joint Attention to the Meeting of Minds: An Introduction by Jerome Bruner		1
1		Current Themes in Research on Joint Attention by Philip J. Dunham and Chris Moore		15
2		Origins of Mind in Perception and Action by George Butterworth		29
3		The Eye Detection Detector (EDD) and the Shared Attention Mechanism (SAM): Two Cases for Evolutionary Psychology by Simon Baron-Cohen		41
4		Development of Joint Visual Attention in Infants by Valerie Corkum and Chris Moore		61
5		Two Perspectives on Pointing in Infancy by Stephen Desrochers and Paul Morissette and Marcelle Ricard		85
6		Joint Attention as Social Cognition by Michael Tomasello		103
7		Understanding the Link Between Joint Attention and Language by Dare A. Baldwin		131
8		Optimal Social Structures and Adaptive Infant Development by Philip J. Dunham and Frances Dunham		159
9		Joint Attention Across Contexts in Normal and Autistic Children by Marian Sigman and Connie Kasari		189
10		Joint Attention, Affect, and Culture by Lauren B. Adamson and Duncan McArthur		205
11		The Development of Joint Attention in Premature Low Birth Weight Infants: Effects of Early Medical Complications and Maternal Attention-Directing Behaviors by Susan H. Landry		223
12		Factors Influencing Joint Attention Between Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescent Mothers and Their Infants by C. Cybele Raver and Bonnie J. Leadbeater		251
		Author Index		273
		Subject Index		283

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