Cross-sectional and longitudinal observations of pointing gestures by infants and their caregivers in Japan

Kishimoto, Takeshi

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.06.001

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“…Liszkowski et al (2012) found that the numbers of contingent responsive points between parents and infants were highly interrelated, revealing a strong effect of responsiveness on referential communication. Kishimoto (2017) further found that caregivers' contingent responsive points to infants' points developmentally predicted the increase in infant pointing across the second year. In a recent study, Ger et al (2018) found that specifically those responses by parents to infant pointing which contained referential uptake-in contrast to any other contingent response-were longitudinally predictive of an increase in the amount of pointing from ten to twelve months of age.…”

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Ontogenetic Origins of Infant Pointing

Liszkowski¹

2021

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Human pointing is foundational to language acquisition and sociality. The current chapter explores the ontogenetic origins of the human pointing gesture in infancy. First, the authors define infant pointing in terms of function, cognition, motivation, and morphology. Then, the authors review current evidence for predictors of infant pointing on child and caregiver levels, because any predictors provide insights into the basic developmental factors. From this review, the authors introduce and discuss a number of pertinent accounts on the emergence of pointing: social shaping accounts (pointing-from- reaching; pointing-from-non-communicative pointing) and social cognition accounts (pointing-from-imitation; pointing-from-gaze-following). The authors end by presenting a synthesis, which holds that child-level cognitive factors, specifically directedness andsocial motivation, interact with caregiver-level social factors, specifically responsiveness and assisting actions relevant to infants’ directed activity. The interaction of these factors creates social goals and formats that scale up to pointing acts expressing triadic relations between infant, caregiver, and entities at a distance in the context of joint activity and experience.

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Section: Responsivenessmentioning

confidence: 87%

Ontogenetic Origins of Infant Pointing

Liszkowski¹

2021

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“…Finally, the caregiver‐to‐child pointing production ratio showed significant differences in the ratios of index finger pointing between the ASD and the control groups, with the parents of children with autism producing overwhelmingly more deictic pointing gestures than their children in comparison to the parents and children in the control group. Using the same experimental paradigm, Kishimoto [2017] demonstrated that caregivers produced more index‐finger points than younger children, while the production ratio becomes more balanced, as the children grow older and mature. Taken together, these results and the instrumental gesture results above, indicate that the participating children with autism do not easily pattern their behavior after the parents, neither by producing more instrumental gestures , nor by copying the frequent index finger pointing of the parents.…”

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Different Ways of Making a Point: A Study of Gestural Communication in Typical and Atypical Early Development

2020

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Deictic pointing is among the most impaired gestures in children with autism. Research on typical development demonstrates that contact with the referent and handshape when pointing, are associated with different communicative intentions and developmental stages. Despite their importance, the morphological features of pointing remain largely unexplored in autism. The aim of the present study was to map out pointing production in autism with a focus on handshape and contact with the referent. Participants (age range = 1–6 years old) with ASD (n = 16), at high risk for autism (n = 13) and typically developing children (n = 18) interacted with their caregivers in a gesture elicitation task. Results showed that children with ASD produced fewer pointing gestures overall and fewer index finger pointing without contact with the referent compared to the typically developing children. Lay Summary Children with autism produce less gestures than typical children, and pointing gestures appear to be more affected than other gesture types. Whether children point using their index finger or the palm, and whether they touch or not the referent is crucial for understanding communicative intentions. This is the first study to document experimentally exactly how pointing gestures differ in autism in comparison to typical development. We found important qualitative differences in the communicative patterns of children with autism and at risk for autism, that may serve to identify potential new markers for early diagnosis. Autism Res 2021, 14: 984–996. © 2020 The Authors. Autism Research published by International Society for Autism Research and Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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“…Here are some specific examples of each type of hypothesis that our subsequent VAR will test in this paper: (1) Maternal pointing gestures are important in vocabulary acquisition ( Pan et al, 2005 ). Indeed, a plausible reading of the literature suggests that during the first 8–10 months, maternal pointing aids the development of infant pointing ( Kishimoto, 2017 ). Thereafter, infant pointing, an action one set of authors refer to as an epistemic request ( Kovács et al, 2014 ), leads to maternal speech that teaches vocabulary.…”

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Using Vector Autoregression Modeling to Reveal Bidirectional Relationships in Gender/Sex-Related Interactions in Mother–Infant Dyads

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Vector autoregression (VAR) modeling allows probing bidirectional relationships in gender/sex development and may support hypothesis testing following multi-modal data collection. We show VAR in three lights: supporting a hypothesis, rejecting a hypothesis, and opening up new questions. To illustrate these capacities of VAR, we reanalyzed longitudinal data that recorded dyadic mother-infant interactions for 15 boys and 15 girls aged 3 to 11 months of age. We examined monthly counts of 15 infant behaviors and 13 maternal behaviors (Seifer et al., 1994). VAR models demonstrated that infant crawling predicted a subsequently close feedback loop from mothers of boys but a subsequently open-ended, branched response from mothers of girls. A different finding showed that boys' standing independently predicted significant later increases of four maternal behaviors: rocking/jiggling, lifting, affectionate touching, and stimulation of infant gross-motor activity. In contrast, crawling by girls led mothers to later decrease the same maternal behaviors. Thus, VAR might allow us to identify how mothers respond differently during daily interactions depending on infant gender/sex. The present work intends to mainly showcase the VAR method in the specific context of the empirical study of gender/sex development.

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal observations of pointing gestures by infants and their caregivers in Japan

Cited by 16 publications

References 36 publications

Ontogenetic Origins of Infant Pointing

Ontogenetic Origins of Infant Pointing

Different Ways of Making a Point: A Study of Gestural Communication in Typical and Atypical Early Development

Using Vector Autoregression Modeling to Reveal Bidirectional Relationships in Gender/Sex-Related Interactions in Mother–Infant Dyads

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