The Evolution of Joint Attention: A Review and Critique

Racine, Timothy P.; Wereha, Tyler J.; Vasileva, Olga; Tafreshi, Donna; Thompson, Joseph J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02669-5_7

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“…Specifically, emotion is expressed during social engagements early in life (Bard, 2005; van Lawick‐Goodall, 1968), engagements with objects occurs early in the first half of year of life (Bard, Bakeman, et al, 2014; Goodall, 1986; Lonsdorf, 2005), and triadic engagements, including gestures and social referencing, appear around 12 months (Bard, 2017; Bard, Bakeman, et al, 2014; Bard, Dunbar, 2014; Lonsdorf, 2005; C. L. Russell et al, 1997; van Lawick‐Goodall, 1968). Bard, Dunbar, et al (2014) argue that chimpanzee infants share a similar developmental pathway to triadic joint attention (e.g., secondary intersubjectivity) as is found in human infants (e.g., Racine et al, 2014; Trevarthen & Hubley, 1978).…”

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Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio‐Ecological Contexts

Bard¹,

Keller

Ross

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Monographs Society Res Child

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Joint attention (JA) is an early manifestation of social cognition, commonly described as interactions in which an infant looks or gestures to an adult female to share attention about an object, within a positive emotional atmosphere. We label this description the JA phenotype. We argue that characterizing JA in this way reflects unexamined assumptions which are, in part, due to past developmental researchers' primary focus on western, middleclass infants and families. We describe a range of cultural variations in caregiving practices, socialization goals, and parenting ethnotheories as an essential initial step in viewing joint attention within inclusive and contextualized perspectives.We begin the process of conducting a decolonized study of JA by considering the core construct of joint attention (i.e., triadic connectedness) and adopting culturally inclusive definitions (labeled joint engagement [JE]). Our JE definitions allow for attention and engagement to be expressed in visual and tactile modalities (e.g., for infants experiencing distal or proximal caregiving), with various social partners (e.g., peers, older siblings, mothers), with a range of shared topics (e.g., representing diverse socialization goals, and socio-ecologies with and without toys), and with a range of emotional tone (e.g., for infants living in cultures valuing calmness and low arousal, and

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Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio‐Ecological Contexts

Bard¹,

Keller

Ross

et al. 2021

Monographs Society Res Child

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“…For example, Tomasello (1999) has been a strong advocate of a discontinuity between primary and secondary intersubjectivity. As evidence, he cites a “9-month cognitive revolution” in which infants acquire shared intentionality, the motivation to share attention with others (see Racine et al, 2014 ). That includes the ability to perceive that another is attending to the same object as the self.…”

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Intersubjectivity and the Emergence of Words

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Intersubjectivity refers to two non-verbal intersubjective relations infants experience during their first year that are precursors to the emergence of words. Trevarthen, a pioneer in the study of intersubjectivity, referred to those relations as primary and secondary intersubjectivity. The former, a dyadic coordination between the infant and her caregiver, begins at birth. The latter, a triadic coordination that develops around 9 months, allows the infant and a caregiver to share attention to particular features of the environment. Secondary intersubjectivity is crucial for an infant’s ability to begin to produce words, at around 12 months. Much research on the social and cognitive origins of language has focused on secondary intersubjectivity. That is unfortunate because it neglects the fact that secondary intersubjectivity and the emergence of words are built on a foundation of primary intersubjectivity. It also ignores the evolutionary origins of intersubjectivity and its uniquely human status. That unique status explains why only humans learn words. This article seeks to address these issues by relating the literature on primary intersubjectivity, particularly research on bi-directional and contingent communication between infants and mothers, to joint attention and ultimately to words. In that context, we also discuss Hrdy’s hypothesis about the influence of alloparents on the evolution of intersubjectivity.

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“…Ontogenetic research encompassing brain imaging studies (Christiansen and Chater 2016) and comparative psychological research on normal and pathological human beings; 7. Comparative primatological sciences (Gontier and Pina 2014;Leavens et al 2005;Matsuzawa 2001;Racine et al 2014); 8. Computational simulations (Tamariz and Kirby 2016;Kirby 2016;Steels 2011) and in vivo experiments on iterated learning (Tamariz and Kirby 2016) and transmission chain studies (Mesoudi and Whiten 2008); 9.…”

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“…Examples of the latter include specific genes such as the FOXP2 or MICROCEPHALIN gene (Jackson et al 2002;Lai et al 2000Lai et al , 2001Vargha-Khadem et al 2005); the anatomy of orofacial muscles (Gaspar et al 2014), hand bones (Marzke 1999), and the supra-laryngeal vocal tract (Fitch 2000;Lieberman 2007), that, respectively, permit facial expressions, gesturing and articulate speech; brain regions such as Broca and Wernicke's area and specific neurons such as mirror neurons (Fadiga et al 2000); neurocognitive capacities including memory, planning, theory of mind, and empathy (Christiansen and Chater 2016; Corballis 2002); individual and sociocultural behavioral patterns such as pointing, imitation, mimesis, pantomime, or learning and teaching (Dor 2015; Leavens et al 2005;Racine et al 2014;Goldin Meadow 2007;Zlatev 2014); and properties of human languages, including grammar (enabled by recursion), and the lexicon (characterized by displacement) (Chomsky 1965).…”

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What are the Units of Language Evolution?

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2017

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The Evolution of Joint Attention: A Review and Critique

Cited by 5 publications

References 46 publications

Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio‐Ecological Contexts

Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio‐Ecological Contexts

Intersubjectivity and the Emergence of Words

What are the Units of Language Evolution?

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