Infant joint attention, neural networks and social cognition.
Not exact matches
Researchers have found that an
infant's development of
joint visual
attention is very important for later learning.
(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all
infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due
attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the
attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the
joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to
infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;
Joint attention — the ability and motivation to both guide and follow someone else's gaze — develops early in
infants.
In «
Joint Attention Without Gaze Following: Human
Infants and Their Parents Coordinate Visual
Attention to Objects Through Eye - Hand Coordination,» published in the online journal PLOS ONE, the researchers demonstrate how hand - eye coordination is much more common, and the parent and toddler interact as equals, rather than one or the other taking the lead.
Morales, M., 2005, Individual differences in
infant attention skills,
joint attention, and emotion regulation behavior, International Journal of Behavioral Development 29: 259 ~ 263
Flom, R., 2003, Verbal encouragement and
joint attention in 18 - month - old
infants,
Infant Behavior and Development 26: 121 ~ 134
Claussen, A. H., 2002,
Joint attention and disorganized attachment status in
infants at risk, Development and Psychopathology 14: 279 ~ 292
E., 2004, The role of
joint attention in the development of
infants» play with objects, Developmental Science 7: 518 ~ 526
This hypothesis was examined in a longitudinal study of attachment and
joint attention skill development in a sample of
infants at risk for developmental — behavioral morbidity.
These data suggest that a disturbance in the tendency to initiate episodes of
joint attention with others may be indicative of early social — cognitive and social — emotional disturbance among
infants affected by disorganized attachment status.
Exploring
Infant Gesture and
Joint Attention as Related Constructs and as Predictors of Later Language.
Individual Differences in
Infants»
Joint Attention Behaviors With Mother and a New Social Partner.
Interactions Between Depressed Mothers and Their
Infants: Maternal Verbal
Joint Attention and its Effect on the
Infant's Cognitive Development.
Development of Coordinated
joint attention in infancy: Looking through attentional state and pointing behavior in mother -
infant interaction