When do toddlers point during mealtime?: Pointing in the second year of life in everyday situations.

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to gain insight into the development of the infant's awareness of others' attention that takes place in everyday contexts. We examined the relation between the toddler's pointing, the toddler's visual attention to the caregiver, and the context of the action of the caregiver in the same child-caregiver dyads at two time points (13 and 17 months of age) during lunchtime at a Japanese daycare center, in which toddlers ate lunch with the help of caregivers. Specifically, we focused on the question of whether the timing of the toddler's pointing reflected the ongoing context of the action of the caregiver, based on the analysis of what the caregiver was doing when a toddler exhibited pointing behavior. Our analysis revealed several interrelated results. First, the toddl

SUBMITTER: Kasuya J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9909215 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature