Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology

by Naomi Eilan, Johannes Roessler, Naomi Elian

Book Overview

Some time around their first birthday, children begin to engage in "triadic" interactions, i.e. interactions with adults that turn specifically on both child and adult jointly attending to an object in their surroundings. Recognized as a developmental milestone amongst psychologists for some time, joint attention has recently also started to attract the attention of philosophers. This volume brings together, for the first time, psychological and philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199245630
• ISBN13: 9780199245635
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"