Examination of coordinated use of various non-verbal cues with timing of referencing and guessing referential intentions in word learning.

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870549
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational psychology; Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Jumonji University
• Principal Investigator: YASUDA Tetsuya 十文字学園女子大学, 人間生活学部, 有期助手 (90727413)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 教示行動 / 発話タイミング / 指示タイミング / 他者意図理解 / 非言語情報の統合的利用 / 非言語情報の調整

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To understand non-verbal information is important to guess referential intentions. In this study, we examined the effect of coordination of timing of pointing and utterances using a guessing referential meaning paradigm. Participants were typically developing (TD) children and adults, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children. The interpretation of pointing gesture differed between 2-year-olds and 4-year-olds, suggesting the influence of gesture timing. In interpretation of timing of utterances, understanding the positive and negative facial expression and others’ mental state did not differ between ASD children and TD adults. However in ASD children, understanding subtle positive facial expressions may be difficult comparing with positive facial expressions.

Free Research Field

発達認知科学