title: Do young infants respond socially to human hands?
abstract: This study revealed that 4- and 6-month-old infants produced social-communicative behaviours only in response to faces, and not in response to hands. However, infants' spontaneous responses to hands were unique in that they scanned the space above the hands, perhaps searching for a face.
authors.affiliation: Early Cognitive Development Unit, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia. vps@psy.uq.edu.au
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Slaughter
authors.forename: Philippa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Neary
mesh_terms: D005149:Facial Expression; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D012919:Social Behavior