Hyperactivity in children has been an enigma for several generations. The first account of hyperactivity in the medical literature can be traced back to 1902. In recent years with increased study, hyperactivity has been placed in a sub-category of Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD). Therefore, this discussion will concentrate on ADD and a relatively new theory for explaining and treating ADD. Th...

Eye contact and pointing are typical gestures in order to direct another individual's attention toward a target. We previously investigated on Japanese monkeys whether joint attention ability encouraged by eye contact and pointing was associated with the imitation of human's actions. The monkeys with the joint attention skills showed the imitation of human's actions. In the current study, we in...

This study examines the effect of shared book reading on mother-infant joint attention interactions in infancy. In experiment 1, pairs composed of 9-month-old infants and their mothers (N = 10) were observed in three conditions: the shared-book, toy-play, and no-material condition. The results indicate a frequency of passive joint and coordinated joint attention in the shared book context than ...

disorders. Ataru Inagaki, MD, PhD1, Yuki Nishimura, MSc2, Hiroyuki Otsuka, MA2, Hiroyuki Hirakawa, MD2, Kunitoshi Hatou, MD2, Yukihisa Kubota, MD3, Yoichiro Watanabe, MD3, Kazuhisa Miki, MD3, Yo Endoh BPharm4 1. Aoyama Gakuin University, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication 2. Japanese Association of Mental Health Services 3. Japanese Association of Neuro-Psychiatric Cl...

BACKGROUND joint attention in children with autistic spectrum disorders. AIM to evaluate joint attention ability in subjects with autistic spectrum disorders in different contexts and with different interlocutors. METHOD twenty subjects with ages between four and twelve years, diagnosed with autism or asperger syndrome (DSM-IV-TR, 2002) by a multidisciplinary team, with no associated disord...

Preterm birth is a major risk factor for children's development. It affects children's cognitive and intellectual development and is related to impairments in IQ, executive functions, and well-being, with these problems persisting into adulthood. While preterm children's intellectual and cognitive development has been studied in detail, their social development and social-cognitive competencies...

In daily life, humans are bombarded with visual input. Yet, their attentional capacities for processing this input are severely limited. Several studies have investigated factors that influence these attentional limitations and have identified methods to circumvent them. Here, we provide a review of these findings. We first review studies that have demonstrated limitations of visuospatial atten...

An understanding of human collaboration requires a level of analysis that concentrates on sensorimotor behaviors in which the behaviors of social partners continually adjust to and influence each other. A suite of individual differences in partners' ability to both read the social cues of others and to send effective behavioral cues to others create dyad differences in joint attention and joint...

Joint attention has long been accepted as constituting a privileged circumstance in which word learning prospers. Consequently research has investigated the role that maternal responsiveness to infant attention plays in predicting language outcomes. However there has been a recent expansion in research implicating similar predictive effects from individual differences in infant behaviours. Emer...