During social interactions, people's eyes convey a wealth of information about their direction
of attention and their emotional and mental states. This review aims to provide a …

The onset of locomotion heralds one of the major life transitions in early development and
involves a pervasive set of changes in perception, spatial cognition, and social and …

When infants and adults communicate, they exchange social signals of availability and
communicative intention such as eye gaze. Previous research indicates that when …

The coordination of visual attention among social partners is central to many components of
human behavior and human development. Previous research has focused on one pathway …

How people assign mental states to others and how they represent or conceptualize such
states in the first place are topics of interest to philosophy of mind, developmental …

Many theories of early word learning begin with the uncertainty inherent to learning a word
from its co-occurrence with a visual scene. However, the relevant visual scene for infant …

Adults with Asperger syndrome can understand mental states such as desires and beliefs
(mentalizing) when explicitly prompted to do so, despite having impairments in social …

The use of the pointing gesture is one of the first ways to communicate with the world. This
gesture emerges before the second year of life and it is assumed to be the first form of …

Humans are extremely sensitive to ostensive signals, like eye contact or having their name
called, that indicate someone's communicative intention toward them [1–3]. Infants also pay …

We examined the ontogeny of gaze following by testing infants at 9, 10 and 11 months of
age. Infants (N= 96) watched as an adult turned her head toward a target with either open or …