Funciones tempranas del gesto de señalar privadola contemplación y la autorregulación a través del gesto de señalar

  1. Delgado Egido, Begoña
  2. Gómez, Juan Carlos
  3. Sarriá Sánchez, Encarnación
Journal:
Acción psicológica

ISSN: 1578-908X

Year of publication: 2010

Issue Title: Nuevos desarrollos en la investigación de la comunicación temprana

Volume: 7

Issue: 2

Pages: 59-70

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5944/AP.7.2.215 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Abstract

This work presents an empirical exploration of the private uses of the pointing gesture in infants. Based upon our previous research on the analogy between the private use of language and the private use of pointing gestures, we explore the possibility that infant pointing gestures have private or intrapersonal functions associated to the organization of the infants� own action. Additionally, and based upon previous research about early communication, we explore the possibility that infant pointing gestures support cognitive processes associated to the private contemplation of the objects. Both hypotheses were explored in an observational study, where four independent observers coded 120 examples of infant pointing gestures (observed in two infants between 8 and 24 months of age). Based upon these observational data and our previous research about the private use of pointing by older children, two main private functions of infant pointing gesture are proposed: self-regulatory and contemplative.

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