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Eye contact - Facilitating other non-verbal communication. A person's direction of gaze may indicate to others where his or her attention lies. Eye contact - Facilitating learning. Recent studies suggests that eye contact has a positive impact on the retention and recall of information and may promote more efficient learning [2][3][4].

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Eye contact: Encyclopedia II - Eye contact - The other roles of eye contact

Eye contact - The other roles of eye contact

Eye contact - Facilitating other non-verbal communication

A person's direction of gaze may indicate to others where his or her attention lies.

Eye contact - Facilitating learning

Recent studies suggests that eye contact has a positive impact on the retention and recall of information and may promote more efficient learning [2][3][4].

Eye contact - Mother/child bonding

Although some assert that children often respond to their mother's eyes from the moment of birth and that babies instinctively smile at black geometric spots -- perceiving them as "eyes" by six weeks of age, a 1985 study published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology suggested that "3-month-old infants are comparatively insensitive to being the object of another's visual regard" [5]. A 1996 Canadian study with 3 to 6 month old infants found that smiling in the infants decreased when adult eye contact was removed [6]. A recent British study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience found that face recognition by infants was facilited by direct gaze [7]. Other recent research has confirmed the belief that the direct of gaze of adults influences the direct of gaze of infants [8] [9].

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