Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds

Some time around their first birthday most infants begin to engage in behaviour that is designed to bring it about — by means of pointing or gaze-following, for instance — that their own and another person's attention are focused on the same object. The capacity for joint attention, as manifested in such behaviour, has become the subject of intensive research among developmentalists and primatologists over the past decade. More recently, work on joint attention has also begun to attract the attention of philosophers. This book brings together, for the first time, philosophical and psychologica ... More