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The social-cognitive basis of infants’ reference to absent entities

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Date
08/2018
Author
Bohn, Manuel
Zimmermann, Luise
Call, Josep
Tomasello, Michael
Funder
European Research Council
Grant ID
609819
Keywords
Communication
Displacement
Common ground
Pointing
Social cognition
BF Psychology
DAS
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Abstract
Recent evidence suggests that infants as young as 12 month of age use pointing to communicate about absent entities. The tacit assumption underlying these studies is that infants do so based on tracking what their interlocutor experienced in a previous shared interaction. The present study addresses this assumption empirically. In three experiments, 12-month-old infants could request additional desired objects by pointing to the location in which these objects were previously located. We systematically varied whether the adult from whom infants were requesting had previously experienced the former content of the location with the infant. Infants systematically adjusted their pointing to the now empty location to what they experienced with the adult previously. These results suggest that infants’ ability to communicate about absent referents is based on an incipient form of common ground.
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Bohn , M , Zimmermann , L , Call , J & Tomasello , M 2018 , ' The social-cognitive basis of infants’ reference to absent entities ' , Cognition , vol. 177 , pp. 41-48 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.03.024
Publication
Cognition
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.03.024
ISSN
0010-0277
Type
Journal article
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.03.024
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Manuel Bohn was supported by a scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation and Josep Call was supported by the “SOMICS” ERC-Synergy grant (nr. 609819).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17470

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