%0 Journal Article
%A Moll, Henrike
%A Tomasello, Michael
%+ Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T 12- and 18-month-old infants follow gaze to spaces behind barrier : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-04C5-D
%F EDOC: 117406
%R 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00315.x
%7 2004-01-16
%D 2004
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Infants follow the gaze direction of others from the middle of the first year of life. In attempting to determine how infants understand the looking behavior of adults, a number of recent studies have blocked the adult's line of sight in some way (e.g. with a blindfold or with a barrier). In contrast, in the current studies an adult looked behind a barrier which blocked the child's line of sight. Using two different control conditions and several different barrier types, 12- and 18-month-old infants locomoted a short distance in order to gain the proper viewing angle to follow an experimenter's gaze to locations behind barriers. These results demonstrate that, contra Butterworth, even 12-month-old infants can follow gaze to locations outside of their current field of view. They also add to growing evidence that 12-month-olds have some understanding of the looking behaviors of others as an act of seeing.
%J Developmental Science
%V 7
%N 1
%& F1
%P F1 - F9