Latest Joint attention Stories

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Whether it be hand gestures, written words, or verbal phrases, communication is an important link between people. From one person to the next, communication passes on necessary messages. However, for children with autism, communication is much more difficult and autistic patients tend to have less interactions with those around them. With this in mind, researchers from the University of Miami (UM) decided to look more closely at...

Children as young as five months old will follow the gaze of an adult towards an object and engage in joint attention, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council. The findings, published Jan. 26 in the Royal Society's journal Biology Letters, suggests that the human brain develops this important social skill surprisingly early in infancy.Joint attention "“ where two people share attention to the same object "“ is a vital human social skill...