Research progress on the mechanism of the detection of  communicative intention in infants

LIN Tong; DENG Yu-jiao; WU Yan; CHEN Min; WANG Guang-hai; JIANG Fan

doi:10.11852/zgetbjzz2021-0019

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Chinese Journal of Child Health Care ›› 2021, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (9) : 965-968. DOI: 10.11852/zgetbjzz2021-0019

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Research progress on the mechanism of the detection of communicative intention in infants

LIN Tong^*, DENG Yu-jiao, WU Yan, CHEN Min, WANG Guang-hai, JIANG Fan

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During interpersonal interaction,communicators need to get addressee to recognize communicative intention so as to express communicative information. Ostensive signals are main approaches of expressing communicative intention. Newborns are able to detect the communicative intention via ostensive signals. Medial prefrontal cortex is critical for infants to detect communicative intention. Future study should measure the brain activation thoroughly and pay more attention to the detection of communicative intention in the communicative environment with more than one ostensive signal. In addition,the influence of individual differences and early growing environment on detection of communicative intention need more attention. Last but not least,future studies are supposed to focus on special infants.

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infants / communicative intention / ostensive signals / medial prefrontal cortex / self-relevance

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LIN Tong, DENG Yu-jiao, WU Yan, CHEN Min, WANG Guang-hai, JIANG Fan. Research progress on the mechanism of the detection of communicative intention in infants[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. 2021, 29(9): 965-968 https://doi.org/10.11852/zgetbjzz2021-0019

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