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Doherty, Martin J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-7892, Anderson, James R. and Howieson, Lynne
(2009)
The rapid development of explicit gaze judgment ability at 3 years.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104 (3).
pp. 296-312.
ISSN 0022-0965
Abstract
Two studies examined development of the ability to judge what another person is looking at. In Study 1, 54 2- to 4-year-olds judged where someone was looking in real-life, photograph, and drawing formats. A minority of 2-year-olds, but a majority of older children, passed all tasks, suggesting that the ability arises at around 3 years of age. Study 2 examined the fine-grained gaze judgment of 76 3- to 6-year-olds and 15 adults using gaze differences of 10° and 15°. Development of gaze judgment was gradual, from chance at 3 years of age to near adult-level performance at 6 years of age. Although performance was better when a congruent head turn was included, 3-year-olds were still at chance on 10° head turn trials. The findings suggest that the ability to explicitly judge gaze is novel at 3 years of age and develops slowly thereafter. Therefore, the ability does not develop out of earlier gaze following. General implications for the evolution and development of gaze processing are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2015 12:00 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2023 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54873 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.06.004 |
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