# fucking thesis 8 october - Unknown **Opening (not a real abstract):** Section 1 Understanding Attention A breakthrough at 12 months? At around 12 months, infants develop various behaviours that some philosophers and psychologists consider to be the first indicators of an 'understanding of attention'. At this age infants become much more adept at interactions that involve pointing or gaze following: they reliabley follow the head turns of others, they start to point at objects they want (known as proto-imperatives) (Butterworth & Jarret 1991, Carpenter et al. 1998) or simply at objects that are novel or interesting (proto-declaratives) (Liszkowski et al. 2004 Carpenter et al. 1998), they also begin to follow someone else's point before looking back and checking their gaze to verify that the correct object is being attended to (Hobson & Hobson, 2008, Page 78). Behaviours such as