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Gaze Following and Language Development in 6- and 8-month-olds Abstract This study examined the age at which infants demonstrate the capacity to follow gaze, and the relations between individual differences in the capacity to follow gaze and the acquisition of language. Twenty-one infants were videotaped at six and eight months of age in a 12 minute face-to-face infant-parent interaction. At two points during the interaction, parents were instructed to present three consecutive trials to their infants in which they turned and fixated a target while saying their infant's name emphatically three times. Findings indicated that infants demonstrated the capacity to follow gaze at six and eight months of age. In addition, individual differences in the capacity to follow gaze at six months were positively related to infant's receptive language at 12 months, and to infant's expressive language at 18, 21, and 24 months.
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