Sabine Stoll

Joint Attention Modeling in Naturalistic Interactions with Social Gaze and Proximity Cues

Joint attention (JA) is a core mechanism of social interaction, supporting coordination, knowledge transmission and early language development; deficits in JA are also a key early indicator of autism. While prior computer vision work often operationalizes JA as frame-based co-attention to a shared target, cognitive sci...

Joint Attention Modeling in Naturalistic Interactions with Social Gaze and Proximity Cues

Child-Directed Speech Is Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Metaphoricity and Concreteness

Abstract Child-directed speech (CDS) is widely theorized to provide a structured scaffold for early language acquisition, yet the semantic properties of this register remain insufficiently quantified. In particular, it remains unclear how figurative language and semantic grounding interact within caregiver input to sta...