Selective looking by 12-month-olds to a temporally contingent partner

Striano, Tricia; Henning, Anne; Vaish, Amrisha

doi:10.1075/is.7.2.07str

Article published In: Epigenetic robotics
Edited by Giorgio Metta and Luc Berthouze
[Interaction Studies 7:2] 2006
► pp. 233–250

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Selective looking by 12-month-olds to a temporally contingent partner

Tricia Striano | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Anne Henning | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Amrisha Vaish | University Leipzig, Center for Advanced Studies, Developmental Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Published online: 29 June 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/is.7.2.07str

Twelve-month-old infants interacted with two strangers in a free-play context. In the Experimental condition (n = 17), one stranger (Contingent partner) vocally responded immediately to infants’ looks towards her, whereas the other (Non-contingent partner) was yoked to the Contingent partner with a 1-, 2-, or 3-s delay. In the Control condition (n = 17), the Non-Contingent partner emitted the first vocalization and other non-contingent vocalizations during the free play session. The Contingent partner acted the same as in the Experimental condition. When a novel event occurred after the free-play session, infants looked significantly more to the Contingent partner regardless of condition. The study highlights infants’ selective looking to temporally contingent partners in novel situations.

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