Joint Attention: New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience

Bys: Timothy P. Racine, David A. Leavens, Peter Hobson, et al.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.

Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention--the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature--has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what joint attention is, how it ought to be characterized, and what exactly its significance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016826
• ISBN13: 9780262016827
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 493 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher