{"id":4553,"date":"2019-05-02T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2019-05-01T09:08:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:08:19","slug":"early-signs-of-autism-joint-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/early-signs-of-autism-joint-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Signs of Autism: &#8220;Joint Attention&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re attending this weekend&#8217;s Learning and the Brain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/\/Event-381\/Schooling-Social-Brains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conference<\/a>, you&#8217;ll have many opp<a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_209523625_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4556\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_209523625_Credit-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_209523625_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_209523625_Credit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AdobeStock_209523625_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ortunities to learn more about autism. In particular, you&#8217;ll hear how our understanding of autism gives us a broader understanding of human brains, cognition, and personality.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, professor Simon Baron-Cohen discusses the importance of &#8220;joint attention&#8221; for early diagnosis of autism.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see, joint attention occurs when the pre-verbal child points or looks at an object. Crucially, the child also checks to see if the parent is also looking. (The key passage begins at about 1:15 on the video.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe title=\"Prof Simon Baron-Cohen - 5 - Early Signs of Autism\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zt6HkHovdfQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in joint attention, and especially its role in human evolution, I highly recommend Michael Tomasello&#8217;s book\u00a0<em>The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition<\/em>.\u00a0 In it, Tomasello does a masterly job sleuthing through primate behavior to discover uniquely human traits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video, by Simon Baron-Cohen, explains the importance of &#8220;joint attention&#8221; in early diagnosis of autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,36],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-autism","tag-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}