Enhanced gaze-following behavior in Deaf infants of Deaf parents

被引:39
作者
Brooks, Rechele [1 ]
Singleton, Jenny L. [2 ]
Meltzoff, Andrew N. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Inst Learning & Brain Sci, Mail Stop 357988, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Linguist, Austin, TX 78712 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
deaf; gaze following; sign language; social cognition; visual attention; JOINT ATTENTION; VISUAL-ATTENTION; SIGN-LANGUAGE; YOUNG-CHILDREN; AUTISM; HEARING; COMMUNICATION; VOCABULARY; INSIGHTS; IMPACT;
D O I
10.1111/desc.12900
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
Gaze following plays a role in parent-infant communication and is a key mechanism by which infants acquire information about the world from social input. Gaze following in Deaf infants has been understudied. Twelve Deaf infants of Deaf parents (DoD) who had native exposure to American Sign Language (ASL) were gender-matched and age-matched (+/- 7 days) to 60 spoken-language hearing control infants. Results showed that the DoD infants had significantly higher gaze-following scores than the hearing infants. We hypothesize that in the absence of auditory input, and with support from ASL-fluent Deaf parents, infants become attuned to visual-communicative signals from other people, which engenders increased gaze following. These findings underscore the need to revise the 'deficit model' of deafness. Deaf infants immersed in natural sign language from birth are better at understanding the signals and identifying the referential meaning of adults' gaze behavior compared to hearing infants not exposed to sign language. Broader implications for theories of social-cognitive development are discussed.
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