Joint attention : its origins and role in development / edited by Chris Moore and Phil Dunham; with a foreword by Jerome Bruner.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Moore, Chris, 1958- Dunham, Philip J.
Language:	English
Published:	Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995.
Subjects:	Attention in infants. Attention in children. Interpersonal communication in infants. Interpersonal communication in children. Cognition in infants. Cognition in children. Attention > in infancy & childhood. Cognition > in infancy & childhood. Communication > in infancy & childhood. Child Development.
Physical Description:	viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

From joint attention to the meeting of minds : an introduction / Jerome Bruner
Current themes in research on joint attention / Philip J. Dunham and Chris Moore
Origins of mind in perception and action / George Butterworth
The Eye Detection Detector (EDD) and the Shared Attention Mechanism (SAM) : two cases for evolutionary psychology / Simon Baron-Cohen
Development of joint visual attention in infants / Valerie Corkum and Chris Moore
Two perspectives on pointing in infancy / Stéphen Desrochers, Paul Morissette, and Marcelle Ricard
Joint attention as social cognition / Michael Tomasello
Understanding the link between joint attention and language / Dare A. Baldwin
Optimal social structures and adaptive infant development / Philip J. Dunham and Frances Dunham
Joint attention across contexts in normal and autistic children / Marian Sigman and Connie Kasari
Joint attention, affect, and culture / Lauren B. Adamson and Duncan McArthur
The development of joint attention in premature low birth weight infants : effects of early medical complications and maternal attention-directing behaviors / Susan H. Landry
Factors influencing joint attention between socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescent mothers and their infants / C. Cybele Rave and Bonnie J. Leadbeater.