Gaze following and joint attention are impotant ways that infants in their first year of life begin to understand that other people have intentions.
Gaze following is a motor skill that we have to be able to control where we look. We will develop this ability in the first 2-3 months of life. In infants this will help them to be able to follow an object with their eyes, to start with the movements of the hand to grasp an object and to use the gaze to search for information about an object.
Regarding joint attention, it is one of the first nuances of communication seen in the infant, where the infant and the adult share the gaze and interaction with an object, such as looking at a story or playing with an object in a shared way. Then the infant will follow the gaze towards the object and will make the focus of attention of the adult change to it.
Therefore, we can confirm that gaze following and joint attention are impotant ways that infants in their first year of life begin to understand that other people have intentions.
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