As part of Tibor Tauzin’s “Meaning of Pointing” study, Sandra Regen and Tiziana Srdoc tested a total of 200 children aged 10 and 14 months in 2024 to determine how children of this age interpret pointing gestures. The goal was to determine whether children distinguish between the location and the object when asked to point to an object that had previously changed places. 

A brief summary of the study and its results can be found here. 

The study’s findings were presented by Tibor Tauzin, Tiziana Srdoc, and Jutta L. Mueller here: What or where? Infants Interpret Pointing as Referring to a Location Rather Than to a Specific Object

If you would like to learn more about the theoretical background of this study, we recommend this publication by Tibor Tauzin: Infants’ sensitivity to the predictability of exchanged actions in socially contingent exchanges: the contingency cube

Thank you to all the families who participated!