Face-to-face contact during infancy: How the development of gaze to faces feeds into infants’ vocabulary outcomes

Infants acquire their first words through interactions with social partners. In the first year of life, infants receive a high frequency of visual and auditory input from faces, making faces a potential strong social cue in facilitating word-to-world mappings. In this position paper, we review how a...

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Main Authors: Zsofia Belteki, Carlijn van den Boomen, Caroline Junge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.997186/full