Building blocks of joint attention: Early sensitivity to having one’s own gaze followed

Rayson, Holly; Bonaiuto, James; Ferrari, Pier Francesco; Chakrabarti, Bhismadev; Murray, Lynne

doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100631

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“…This assertion stems from numerous observations. First, research suggests that gaze processing mechanisms appear to contribute to differences in the development of face detection and face processing (25,(136)(137)(138). Indeed, the early cortical face processing indicated by N-170 ERP data may be mediated by eye region processing (136).…”

Section: Social Motivation and The Bi-directional Nature Of Social Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The latter assesses responses to gaze shifts and direction of attention of another person. It also assesses behaviors involving monitoring and leading the gaze and attention of other people to initiate social attention coordination [e.g., (22)(23)(24)(25)]. In this paradigm, gaze following behaviors are referred to as responding to joint attention (RJA) and gaze leading as initiating joint attention [IJA, (26)].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Bidirectional Social-Cognitive Mechanisms of the Social-Attention Symptoms of Autism

Mundy

Bullen

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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Differences in social attention development begin to be apparent in the 6th to 12th month of development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and theoretically reflect important elements of its neurodevelopmental endophenotype. This paper examines alternative conceptual views of these early social attention symptoms and hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in their development. One model emphasizes mechanism involved in the spontaneous allocation of attention to faces, or social orienting. Alternatively, another model emphasizes mechanisms involved in the coordination of attention with other people, or joint attention, and the socially bi-directional nature of its development. This model raises the possibility that atypical responses of children to the attention or the gaze of a social partner directed toward themselves may be as important in the development of social attention symptoms as differences in the development of social orienting. Another model holds that symptoms of social attention may be important to early development, but may not impact older individuals with ASD. The alterative model is that the social attention symptoms in infancy (social orienting and joint attention), and social cognitive symptoms in childhood and adulthood share common neurodevelopmental substrates. Therefore, differences in early social attention and later social cognition constitute a developmentally continuous axis of symptom presentation in ASD. However, symptoms in older individuals may be best measured with in vivo measures of efficiency of social attention and social cognition in social interactions rather than the accuracy of response on analog tests used in measures with younger children. Finally, a third model suggests that the social attention symptoms may not truly be a symptom of ASD. Rather, they may be best conceptualized as stemming from differences domain general attention and motivation mechanisms. The alternative argued for here that infant social attention symptoms meet all the criteria of a unique dimension of the phenotype of ASD and the bi-directional phenomena involved in social attention cannot be fully explained in terms of domain general aspects of attention development.

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Section: Social Motivation and The Bi-directional Nature Of Social Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Bidirectional Social-Cognitive Mechanisms of the Social-Attention Symptoms of Autism

Mundy

Bullen

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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“…The authors suggested this modulation was consistent with joint attention’s association with social coordination, mutual attention, and attention mirroring. More recently, an infant EEG study looked specifically at oscillations when infant joint-attention initiation was reciprocated with a congruent gaze shift to an object and found greater α band suppression for congruent gaze shift responses than incongruent ( Rayson, Bonaiuto, Ferrari, Chakrabarti, & Murray, 2019 ). This is evidence that infants as young as 6.5 to 9.5 months old detect whether their gaze has been followed.…”

Section: Electrophysiological Correlates Of Dynamic Joint Gaze States: the Anterior Directing Attention Negativity N330 P3 And Oscillatormentioning

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“…These outcomes number seven compared with the two (empathizing and theory of mind) included in Baron-Cohen’s (2005) influential model. Our model is also informed by more recent advances that have occurred since the formulation of these previous models, for example, from EEG research (e.g., Lachat et al, 2012 ; Rayson et al, 2019 ), imaging studies (e.g., Cavallo et al, 2015 ; Koike et al, 2016 ), and behavioral studies (e.g., Stephenson et al, 2018 ).…”

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From Gaze Perception to Social Cognition: The Shared-Attention System

Stephenson

Edwards

Bayliss

2021

Perspect Psychol Sci

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When two people look at the same object in the environment and are aware of each other’s attentional state, they find themselves in a shared-attention episode. This can occur through intentional or incidental signaling and, in either case, causes an exchange of information between the two parties about the environment and each other’s mental states. In this article, we give an overview of what is known about the building blocks of shared attention (gaze perception and joint attention) and focus on bringing to bear new findings on the initiation of shared attention that complement knowledge about gaze following and incorporate new insights from research into the sense of agency. We also present a neurocognitive model, incorporating first-, second-, and third-order social cognitive processes (the shared-attention system, or SAS), building on previous models and approaches. The SAS model aims to encompass perceptual, cognitive, and affective processes that contribute to and follow on from the establishment of shared attention. These processes include fundamental components of social cognition such as reward, affective evaluation, agency, empathy, and theory of mind.

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“…One used EEG to record infant neural responses to an adult either turning to look at the same object as the infant (congruent actor) or turning to look at a different object (incongruent actor). Neural responses (alpha desynchronisation) was greater for the congruent actor 83 (see also 84 ). The second study recorded dual EEG during naturalistic child-parent play, and found that, when a parent responded contingently to an infant-led attention shift towards a new play object, the infant showed increased alpha desynchronisation, along with increased attention to that object 85 .…”

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confidence: 93%

How the development of executive function influences our moment-by-moment interactions with the real-world environment

Wass¹

2021

Preprint

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Historically, the study of executive function (EF) development has relied on using experimental paradigms to assess EFs as abstract, time-invariant properties of individual brains. Here, we discuss new research that moves away from studying EFs purely as internal mental constructs, towards an approach that aims to understand how EFs are expressed through the inter-relationship between an individual’s brain and the world around them. We offer three illustrative examples of this approach. The first looks at how we learn to make predictions and anticipations based on different types of regularity in our early social and physical environment. The second looks at how we learn to correct, moment-by-moment, for changes in the outside world to maintain stability in the face of change. The third looks at how we allocate our attention on a moment-by-moment basis, in naturalistic settings. We discuss potential new therapeutic avenues for improving EFs arising from this research.

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Building blocks of joint attention: Early sensitivity to having one’s own gaze followed

Cited by 21 publications

References 116 publications

The Bidirectional Social-Cognitive Mechanisms of the Social-Attention Symptoms of Autism

The Bidirectional Social-Cognitive Mechanisms of the Social-Attention Symptoms of Autism

From Gaze Perception to Social Cognition: The Shared-Attention System

How the development of executive function influences our moment-by-moment interactions with the real-world environment

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