Preferential looking to eyes versus mouth in early infancy
Duration: 12 mins
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22095
Description
In this Papers Podcast, Charlotte Viktorsson discusses her JCPP paper ‘Preferential looking to eyes versus mouth in early infancy: heritability and link to concurrent and later development’. Charlotte is the first author of the paper.
Learning Objectives
1. Why it is important to establish the relative role of genetic and environmental influences on eye preference relative to mouth preference in early infancy. 2. What are the implications of what infants look at being largely based on their individual genotype, before they can select their environment by means of crawling or walking. 3. Preference for eyes at 5 months was positively correlated with parent’s assessment of vocabulary at 14 months. 4. No significant association was found between mouth or eye preference and later socio-communication difficulties, nor later autistic traits. 5. How might these findings inform future practice or influence the way we think about infant development. 6. How does an infant paying more attention to the eyes, compared to those that pay more attention to the mouth, appear to translate into later communication skills and learning?
Related Content Links
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697610/2023/64/2
