What is it about?
This longitudinal study of preterm infants investigates whether two types of joint-attention skills—initiating and responding—predict verbal and nonverbal IQ through middle childhood.
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Why is it important?
Findings indicate that initiation of joint attention uniquely contributes to later nonverbal IQ, independent of biomedical risk and infant sensory-motor development.
Perspectives
This study provides information about joint-attention skills and their association with cognitive outcomes. The data indicate that infants' initiation of joint attention with another person is more clearly associated with later IQ than their response to another person's attempt at joint attention. The study supports the view that initiating joint-attention behavior plays an important role in human cognition, specifically in coordinating shared focus on objects or events.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: The Role of Joint Attention in Later Development Among Preterm Children: Linkages Between Early and Middle Childhood, Social Development, May 2003, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00230.
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