The Eyes Have It - How children learn to read minds.
Humans are social animals and our evolution has developed the ability to deduce what another person might be thinking and to predict behaviour based on that deduction. Infants pick up non-verbal signals well before they learn to speak.
From around four months, babies learn to look at other people’s eyes to figure out intentions. Even at two months of age, infants look longer at eyes than at any other part of a face. Experiments have shown that eight- and-nine month-olds look automatically at an adults eyes if an action was ambiguous-for example, if the experimenter offered a toy but pulled it back, or placed a toy in front of the infant but then placed a hand over it. Eyes communicate both by the direction in which they look and by revealing emotional states.
From about the end of the first year of life, babies learn to infer from the direction of an adult’s gaze what an adult is looking at or thinking about.
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