… Even in young infants, a simple act of pointing can serve as a … approximate location of infant
gestures, labeled by keystrokes … not expect infants to look towards caregivers only about half …

… To explore these possibilities, we presented object-directed … The caregiver’s ostensive
cues not only cause the infant to … generalize the object-directed emotion when responding to …

… the responses of 18-month-olds to successful and failed demonstrations of an object-directed …
immediately when infants are born [59], but this behavior is first labeled ‘prereaching’ as …

… for novel labels when these are presented in response to the infant’s 79 pointing gesture (…
At the lab, infants either sat on their caregiver’s lap (77%) 207 or in a high-chair (23%), …

… words as whole object labels and interpret subsequent … to pointing at a book page; and
receiving a contingent immediate response from the touchscreen device is similar to caregivers’ …

… Fourth, caregivers are prone to view infant pointing as a request for information, especially
… respond with more labels than did fathers but the bias to offer a label in response to an infant …

… To answer this, we assessed parent-report vocabulary … : Informationseeking pointing gestures
facilitate learning labels and … strategies in relation to infants’ object-directed actions in real …

… circular reaction” is then followed by a phase where infants become … during the performance
of an object-directed action and when that same … We labeled these as teleomusical acts. We …

… interest as infants begin to use gestures (ie, pointing) to … The gesture coding labels are
organized in terms of our proposed … that infants learn this behavior through caregiver-child play. …