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Sensitivity to triadic attention between 6 weeks and 3 months of age.

Striano T, Stahl D, Cleveland A, Hoehl S

University Leipzig, Neurocognition & Development Group, Center for Advanced Studies, Germany. striano@cbs.mpg.de

In Study 1, 6-week- and 3-month-old infants gazed more to an adult when she alternated attention between an object and the infant versus when attention was directed only to the object. In Study 2, 6-week-olds did not discriminate between triadic situations with face-to-face interaction controlled.

Published 8 August 2007 in Infant Behav Dev, 30(3): 529-34.
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