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What's the point? Infants' and adults' perception of different pointing gestures

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2024
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Ger, E., Wermelinger, S., de Ven, M., & Daum, M. M. (2024). What’s the point? Infants’ and adults’ perception of different pointing gestures. Infancy, 29(2), 251–270. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12579

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Adults and infants as young as 4 months old follow pointing gestures. Although adults are shown to orient faster to index-finger pointing compared to other hand shapes, it is not known whether hand shapes influence infants' following of pointing. In this study, we used a spatial cueing paradigm on an eye tracker to investigate whether and to what extent adults and 12-month-old infants orient their attention in the direction of pointing gestures with different hand shapes: index finger, whole hand, and pinky finger. Results revealed th

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29

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2

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251

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270

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2024-03-01

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1525-0008

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Ger, E., Wermelinger, S., de Ven, M., & Daum, M. M. (2024). What’s the point? Infants’ and adults’ perception of different pointing gestures. Infancy, 29(2), 251–270. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12579

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