Joint Attention
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Joint Attention
Basic Characteristics
- Description
Joint Attention refers to the process of alerting one person to a stimulus through nonverbal cues such as finger pointing or gazing. It is one of the first signs of the development of a theory of mind in babies and serves as an important step in later language development.
- History
British psychologist Donald Broadbent was the first to identify what he called selective attention and distinguished between 'automatic' and 'controlled' processes in the 1950s. It wasn't until 1975, however, that US psychologist Michael Posner coined the term cognitive control.
- Joint Attention and Autism Spectrum Disorder
- References
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External Resources
- Links out:
- Wikipedia: Cognitive Control
- Google: Cognitive Control
- PubMed: Cognitive Control
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