Do the eyes have it? A systematic review on the role of eye gaze in infant language development

M Çetinçelik, CF Rowland, TM Snijders - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Eye gaze is a ubiquitous cue in child–caregiver interactions, and infants are highly attentive
to eye gaze from very early on. However, the question of why infants show gaze-sensitive …

It does not matter who you are: fairness in pre-schoolers interacting with human and robotic partners

C Di Dio, F Manzi, S Itakura, T Kanda… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The relationship between humans and robots is increasingly becoming focus of interest for
many fields of research. The studies investigating the dynamics underpinning the human …

The development of social learning: from pedagogical cues to selective learning

M Ishikawa, S Itakura - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Learning new information from others, called social learning, is one of the most fundamental
types of learning from infancy. Developmental studies show that infants likely engage in …

Ostension affects infant learning more than attention

Y Okumura, Y Kanakogi, T Kobayashi, S Itakura - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
A recent controversy in infants' social learning has revolved around whether ostensive cues
have an effect beyond simply grabbing infants' attention: natural pedagogy theory vs …

Transition from crawling to walking changes gaze communication space in everyday infant-parent interaction

H Yamamoto, A Sato, S Itakura - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Acquisition of walking changes not only infants' locomotion itself but also infants' exploratory
behavior and social interaction, such as gaze communication. To understand the ecological …

Observing others' joint attention increases 9-month-old infants' object encoding.

M Thiele, R Hepach, C Michel… - Developmental Psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
In direct interactions with others, 9-month-old infants' learning about objects is facilitated
when the interaction partner addresses the infant through eye contact before looking toward …

TANGO: A reliable, open-source, browser-based task to assess individual differences in gaze understanding in 3 to 5-year-old children and adults

JC Prein, S Kalinke, DBM Haun, M Bohn - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
Traditional measures of social cognition used in developmental research often lack
satisfactory psychometric properties and are not designed to capture variation between …

The impact of perceived emotions on toddlers' word learning

L Ma, K Twomey, G Westermann - Child Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Others' emotional expressions affect individuals' attention allocation in social interactions,
which are integral to the process of word learning. However, the impact of perceived …

Gaze following in infancy: Five big questions that the field should answer

K Astor, G Gredebäck - Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Though much is known about the emergence and development of gaze following in infancy,
there are large disagreements in some critical areas and major uncertainties within others …

Opposing sex-dependent effects of oxytocin on the perception of gaze direction

Y Shi, J Liu, Z Hu, S Gao - Psychopharmacology, 2020 - Springer
Background Gaze direction is an important cue of the eye region. Previous studies have
revealed that oxytocin (OXT) increases orienting to the eye region of face. However, little has …