SPECIFIC MANIFESTATION OF DEFICIENCY OF JOINT ATTENTION IN PRESCHOOLERS WITH DELAYED MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
Keywords:
attention, joint attention, social attention, separate attention, social cognition, age-related development, preschool age, mental retardation, autism.
Abstract
Abstract. The article is devoted to the role of cognitive development in the specifics of the functioning of joint attention skills in preschool age. In order to highlight the specifics of joint attention deficit with a lag in the development of individual components of mental activity, underdevelopment of cognitive activity, a comparative analysis of contrasting samples of 40 typically developing preschoolers and preschoolers with mental retardation was performed. In an experimental situation of real interaction between a child and an adult, using an eye tracker, it was possible to record eye movements as a marker of joint attention in real time. The specific manifestations of joint attention deficit in preschoolers with mental retardation, which are manifested both in the response and initiation of joint attention, are highlighted: the number of fixations of visual attention, the time of fixations on a relevant and irrelevant object, the use of additional multimodal means of establishing joint attention and monitoring of adult intentions, longer time of stabilization of visual attention, high cognitive load in the detection of social signals. One of the main markers of a deficit in the initiation of joint attention in children with mental retardation is the time required to maintain constant attention in interaction with an adult. The results of the study suggest that joint attention deficit may be associated with impaired thinking and perception, and most likely joint attention deficit is a manifestation of general cognitive developmental deficit.
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23. Smith L., Ulvund L. The role of joint attention in later development among preterm children: Linkages between early and middle childhood // Social Development. 2003. Vol. 1. P. 222–234.
24. Tomasello M., Carpenter M., Call J., Behne T., Moll H. Understanding sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition // Brain and Behavior Sciences. 2005. 28. P. 675–690.
25. Yu C., Smith L.B. Hand–Eye Coordination Predicts Joint Attention // Child Development. 2017. Vol. 88(6). P. 2060-2078.
26. Yu C., Smith L.B. Multiple sensory-motor pathways lead to coordinated visual attention // Cognitive Science. 2016. Vol. 41(S1). P. 1–27.
1. Алфимова М.В. Наследственные факторы в нарушениях познавательных процессов при шизофрении : автореферат дис. … д-ра психол. наук : 19.00.04. М., 2006. 46 c.
2. Сергиенко Е.А., Лебедева Е.И., Прусакова О.А. Модель психического как основа становления понимания себя и другого в онтогенезе человека. М. : Изд-во «Институт психологии РАН», 2009. 415 с.
3. Acarturk C., Tajaddini M., Kilic O. Group Eye Tracking (GET) Applications in Gaming and Decision [abstract]. In Radach, R., Deubel, H., Vorstius, C., & Hofmann, M.J. (Eds.), Abstracts of the 19th European Conference on Eye Movements // Wuppertal. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 2017. Vol. 10 (6). P. 103.
4. Baron-Cohen S. Autism and symbolic play // British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 1987. № 5. P. 139–148.
5. Bora E., Pantelis C. Theory of mind impairments in first-episode psychosis, individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis and in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis // Schizophrenia research. 2013. № 144 (1). P. 31–36.
6. Brent E., Rios P., Happe F., Charman T. Performance of children with autism spectrum disorder on advanced «Theory of Mind» tasks // Autism. 2004. № 8 (3). P. 283–299.
7. Bruner J. Child's talk: Learning to Use Language / J. Bruner. NY.: WW Norton & Co, 1985. 144 р.
8. Carpenter M., Nagell K., Tomasello M. Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9- to 15-months of age // Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 1998.
9. Chen C., Castellanos I., Yu, C., Houston D.M. Effects of children’s hearing loss on the synchrony between parents’ object naming and children’s attention // Infant Behavior and Development. 2019. Vol. 57. P. 1–10.
10. Dawson G., Munson J., Estes A., Osterling J., McPartland J., Toth K. Neurocognitive function and joint attention ability in young children with autism spectrum disorder versus developmental delay // Child Development. 2002. Vol. 73. P. 345–358.
11. Dawson G., Levy A. Arousel, attention, and socioemotional impairments of individual with autism Autism, nature, diagnosis and treatment / (ed.) G. Dawson // New York: The Guilford press. 1989. P. 49–74.
12. Delgado C., Mundy P., Crowson M., Markus J., Yale M., Schwartz H. Responding to joint attention and language development: A comparison of target locations // Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 2002. Vol. 45. P. 1715–1719.
13. Fletcher-Watson S., Leekam S.R., Benson V., Frank M.C., Findlay J.M. Eye-movements reveal attention to social information in autism spectrum disorder // Neuropsychologia. 2009. Vol. 47(1), P. 248–257.
14. Frith C.D., Corcoran R. Exploring ‘theory of mind’ in people with schizophrenia // Psych. Med. 1996. Vol. 26. P. 521–530.
15. Harrington L., Siegert R.J., McClure J. Theory of mind in schizophrenia: a critical review // Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 2005. № 10 (4). P. 249–286.
16. Hobson R.P. The autistic child's appraisal of expressions of emotion: a further study Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1986, Vol. 27, p. 671–680. URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb00191.x
17. Mazza M., Costagliola C., Di Michele V. et al. Deficit of social cognition in subjects with surgically treated frontal lobe lesions and in subjects affected by schizophrenia // Eur. Arch. Psychiatr. Clin. Neurosci. 2007. № 257(1). P. 12–22.
18. Moore C., Dunham P., Hillsdale N.J. Joint Attention: Its Origins and Role / Development: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995. 294 p.
19. Mundy P. A Review of Joint Attention and Social - Cognitive Brain Systems in Typical Deve lopment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2018. Vol. 47(6), 497–514.
20. Nichols K.E., Fox N., Mundy P. Joint attention, self-recognition and neurocognitive functioning // Infancy. 2005. Vol. 7, P. 35–51.
21. Penn D.L., Corrigan P.W., Bentall R. P., Racenstein J. M., Newman L. Social cognition in schizophrenia // Psychol Bull. 1997. Vol. 121. № 1. P. 114–132.
22. Ricks D.M. Vocal communication in pre-verbal normal and autistic children. In N. O'Connor (Ed.). Language, cognitive deficits and retardation. London: Butterworths, 1975. P. 75 – 80.
23. Russell T., Sharma T. Social cognition at the neural level: Investigations in autism, psychopathy and schizophrenia // The Social Brain. Evolution and Pathology / C. Brune, M. Ribbert, H. Schiefenhovel (Eds.). West Sussex, England. Wiley, 2003. P. 253–276.
24. Smith L., Ulvund L. The role of joint attention in later development among preterm children: Linkages between early and middle childhood // Social Development. 2003. Vol. 1. P. 222–234.
25. Tomasello M., Carpenter M., Call J., Behne T., Moll H. Understanding sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition // Brain and Behavior Sciences. 2005. 28. P. 675–690.
26. Yu C., Smith L.B. Hand–Eye Coordination Predicts Joint Attention // Child Development. 2017. Vol. 88(6). P. 2060-2078.
27. Yu C., Smith L.B. Multiple sensory-motor pathways lead to coordinated visual attention // Cognitive Science. 2016. Vol. 41(S1). P. 1–27.
References:
1. Alfimova M.V. Nasledstvennye faktory v narusheniyah poznavatel'nyh processov pri shizofrenii : avtoreferat dis. … d-ra psihol. nauk : 19.00.04. M., 2006. 46 p.
2. Sergienko E A., Lebedeva E.I., Prusakova O. A. Model' psihicheskogo kak osnova stanovleniya ponimaniya sebya i drugogo v ontogeneze cheloveka / E.A. Sergienko, E. I. Lebedeva, O. A. Prusakova. M. : Izd-vo «Institut psihologii RAN», 2009. 415 p.
3. Acarturk C., Tajaddini M., Kilic O. Group Eye Tracking (GET) Applications in Gaming and Decision [abstract]. In Radach, R., Deubel, H., Vorstius, C., & Hofmann, M.J. (Eds.), Abstracts of the 19th European Conference on Eye Movements // Wuppertal. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 2017. Vol. 10 (6). P. 103.
4. Baron-Cohen S. Autism and symbolic play // British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 1987. № 5. P. 139–148.
5. Bora E., Pantelis C. Theory of mind impairments in first-episode psychosis, individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis and in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis // Schizophrenia research. 2013. № 144 (1). P. 31–36.
5. Brent E., Rios P., Happe F., Charman T. Performance of children with autism spectrum disorder on advanced «Theory of Mind» tasks // Autism. 2004. № 8 (3). P. 283–299.
6. Bruner J. Child's talk: Learning to Use Language / J. Bruner. NY.: WW Norton & Co, 1985. 144 р.
7. Carpenter M., Nagell K., Tomasello M. Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9- to 15-months of age // Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 1998.
8. Chen C., Castellanos I., Yu, C., Houston D.M. Effects of children’s hearing loss on the synchrony between parents’ object naming and children’s attention // Infant Behavior and Development. 2019. Vol. 57. P. 1–10.
9. Dawson G., Munson J., Estes A., Osterling J., McPartland J., Toth K. Neurocognitive function and joint attention ability in young children with autism spectrum disorder versus developmental delay // Child Development. 2002. Vol. 73. P. 345–358.
10. Dawson G., Levy A. Arousel, attention, and socioemotional impairments of individual with autism Autism, nature, diagnosis and treatment / (ed.) G. Dawson // New York: The Guilford press. 1989. P. 49–74.
11. Delgado C., Mundy P., Crowson M., Markus J., Yale M., Schwartz H. Responding to joint attention and language development: A comparison of target locations // Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 2002. Vol. 45. P. 1715–1719.
12. Fletcher-Watson S., Leekam S.R., Benson V., Frank M.C., Findlay J.M. Eye-movements reveal attention to social information in autism spectrum disorder // Neuropsychologia. 2009. Vol. 47(1), P. 248–257.
13. Frith C.D., Corcoran R. Exploring ‘theory of mind’ in people with schizophrenia // Psych. Med. 1996. Vol. 26. P. 521–530.
14. Harrington L., Siegert R.J., McClure J. Theory of mind in schizophrenia: a critical review // Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 2005. № 10 (4). P. 249–286.
15. Hobson R.P. The autistic child's appraisal of expressions of emotion: a further study Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1986, Vol. 27, p. 671–680. URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb00191.x
16. Mazza M., Costagliola C., Di Michele V. et al. Deficit of social cognition in subjects with surgically treated frontal lobe lesions and in subjects affected by schizophrenia // Eur. Arch. Psychiatr. Clin. Neurosci. 2007. № 257(1). P. 12–22.
17. Moore C., Dunham P., Hillsdale N.J. Joint Attention: Its Origins and Role / Development: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995. 294 p.
18. Mundy P. A Review of Joint Attention and Social - Cognitive Brain Systems in Typical Deve lopment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2018. Vol. 47(6), 497–514.
19. Nichols K.E., Fox N., Mundy P. Joint attention, self-recognition and neurocognitive functioning // Infancy. 2005. Vol. 7, P. 35–51.
20. Penn D.L., Corrigan P.W., Bentall R. P., Racenstein J. M., Newman L. Social cognition in schizophrenia // Psychol Bull. 1997. Vol. 121. № 1. P. 114–132.
21. Ricks D.M. Vocal communication in pre-verbal normal and autistic children. In N. O'Connor (Ed.). Language, cognitive deficits and retardation. London: Butterworths, 1975. P. 75 – 80.
22. Russell T., Sharma T. Social cognition at the neural level: Investigations in autism, psychopathy and schizophrenia // The Social Brain. Evolution and Pathology / C. Brune, M. Ribbert, H. Schiefenhovel (Eds.). West Sussex, England. Wiley, 2003. P. 253–276.
23. Smith L., Ulvund L. The role of joint attention in later development among preterm children: Linkages between early and middle childhood // Social Development. 2003. Vol. 1. P. 222–234.
24. Tomasello M., Carpenter M., Call J., Behne T., Moll H. Understanding sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition // Brain and Behavior Sciences. 2005. 28. P. 675–690.
25. Yu C., Smith L.B. Hand–Eye Coordination Predicts Joint Attention // Child Development. 2017. Vol. 88(6). P. 2060-2078.
26. Yu C., Smith L.B. Multiple sensory-motor pathways lead to coordinated visual attention // Cognitive Science. 2016. Vol. 41(S1). P. 1–27.
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2020-09-28
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1. Smirnova Y. SPECIFIC MANIFESTATION OF DEFICIENCY OF JOINT ATTENTION IN PRESCHOOLERS WITH DELAYED MENTAL DEVELOPMENT // Bulletin of Psychology and Pedagogy of Altai State University, 2020. Vol. 2. № 3. P. 96-114. URL: http://bppasu.ru/article/view/8493.
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