In this article, we review the influence of early social interaction on the development of executive function and language in infants. We first define social interaction, executive function and language and show how they are related in infant development. Studies of children born deaf are used to illustrate this connection because they represent cases where there has been a disruption to early social interaction and the development of intersubjectivity. Unlike other groups, the disturbance to development is known to be largely environmental rather than neuro-biological. This enables us to more accurately tease apart those impacts on EF that are associated with social interaction and language, since the potential confounds of disordered cognitive development are largely controlled for. The review offers a unifying model for how social, cognitive and linguistic development work together in early human development.

在本文中，我们回顾了早期社会互动对婴儿执行功能和语言发展的影响。我们首先定义社交互动、执行功能和语言，并展示它们在婴儿发育中的关系。对先天失聪儿童的研究被用来说明这种联系，因为它们代表了早期社会互动和主体间性发展受到干扰的案例。与其他群体不同，众所周知，发育障碍主要是环境因素而不是神经生物学因素。这使我们能够更准确地梳理与社交互动和语言相关的对 EF 的影响，因为认知发展障碍的潜在混淆在很大程度上得到了控制。该评论为社交、