Synchronization of Visual Attention in Mother‐infant Pairs

Summary The visual behaviour of sixteen infants and their mothers was recorded in a novel situation containing a number of salient stimuli. There was a general tendency for mother and infant to look together toward the same object rather than toward different objects. Further, this visual co‐orientation was found to result from mothers following the directions of the infant's spontaneous looking behaviour. These observations indicate one way in which the mother's behaviour becomes synchronized with that of the infant.