The social-cognitive basis of infants' reference to absent entities
| Autor: | Michael Tomasello, Luise Zimmermann, Josep Call, Manuel Bohn |
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| Přispěvatelé: | European Research Council, University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Linguistics and Language BF Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience Concept Formation BF Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Tacit assumption 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Cognition Social cognition Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Nonverbal Communication Social Behavior Communication 05 social sciences Common ground Infant DAS Displacement Displacement (psychology) Pointing Infant Behavior Female Psychology Social cognitive theory 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognition. 177 |
| ISSN: | 1873-7838 |
| Popis: | Manuel Bohn was supported by a scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation and Josep Call was supported by the “SOMICS” ERC-Synergy grant (nr. 609819). Recent evidence suggests that infants as young as 12 month of age use pointing to communicate about absent entities. The tacit assumption underlying these studies is that infants do so based on tracking what their interlocutor experienced in a previous shared interaction. The present study addresses this assumption empirically. In three experiments, 12-month-old infants could request additional desired objects by pointing to the location in which these objects were previously located. We systematically varied whether the adult from whom infants were requesting had previously experienced the former content of the location with the infant. Infants systematically adjusted their pointing to the now empty location to what they experienced with the adult previously. These results suggest that infants’ ability to communicate about absent referents is based on an incipient form of common ground. Postprint |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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