Further evidence for the multidimensional nature of maternal sensitivity: differential links with child socioemotional functioning at preschool age
This report investigated the predictive value of three dimensions of sensitivity during mother –infant interactions in an effort to gain greater understanding of how specific facets of sensitivity relate to child socioemotional outcomes. Maternal cooperation/attunement (accurate interpretation of infant cues and capacity to adjust the interaction correspondingly), positivity (positive attit ude toward the infant), and accessibility/availability (consistent attentiveness) were assessed observationally in 195 mothers of 1‐year‐old infants. Child socioemotional functioning was assessed using behavioral tasks and materna...
Source: Infancy - February 12, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Annie Bernier,
George M. Tarabulsy,
Chantal Cyr,
C élia Matte‐Gagné Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Probing infants ’ sensitivity to pupil size when viewing eyes
AbstractSensitive responding to eye cues plays a key role in human social interactions. Pupil size provides subtle cues regarding a social interaction partner's arousal states. The current study assessed infants ’ sensitivity to and preference for differences in pupil size. Specifically, we examined White 14‐month‐old infants’ pupillary responses when viewing own‐race and other‐race (Asian) eyes with dilating, constricting, and static medium‐sized pupils. Our results show that, independent of race, infants’ pupils dilated more when viewing eyes with dynamically changing (dilating and constricting) pupils th...
Source: Infancy - February 4, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Katherine T. Haynes,
Caroline M. Kelsey,
Tobias Grossmann Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Sing for me, Mama! Infants' discrimination of novel vowels in song
AbstractWhen adults speak or sing with infants, they sound differently than in adult communication. Infant ‐directed (ID) communication helps caregivers to regulate infants' emotions and helps infants to process speech information, at least from ID‐speech. However, it is largely unclear whether infants might also process speech information presented in ID ‐singing. Therefore, we examined whether infants discriminate vowels in ID ‐singing, as well as potential differences with ID‐speech. Using an alternating trial preference procedure, infants aged 4–6 and 8–10 months were tested on their discrimination of an...
Source: Infancy - February 1, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Simone Falk,
Mirco Fasolo,
Giuliana Genovese,
Leonor Romero ‐Lauro,
Fabia Franco Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Mismatched response predicts behavioral speech discrimination outcomes in infants with hearing loss and normal hearing
AbstractChildren with hearing loss (HL) remain at risk for poorer language abilities than normal hearing (NH) children despite targeted interventions; reasons for these differences remain unclear. In NH children,research suggests speech discrimination is related to language outcomes, yet we know little about it in children with HL under the age of 2 years. We utilized a vowel contrast, /a‐i/, and a consonant‐vowel contrast, /ba‐da/, to examine speech discrimination in 47 NH infants and 40 infants with HL. At Mean age =3 months, EEG recorded from 11 scalp electrodes was used to compute the time‐frequency mismatc...
Source: Infancy - January 22, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Kristin Uhler,
Sharon Hunter,
Phillip M. Gilley Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Attachment and joint attention in infants: The role of expectation
AbstractPrevious research highlighted the correlation between parent –infant's attachment quality and joint attention skills. However, the underlying mechanisms of this relationship are still unclear. The aim of this study was to assess whether it is by mediating the expectation component in Internal Working Models that the quality of attachment style can affect jo int attention. At first, 12‐ to 20‐month‐old infants were classified into secure and insecure groups using the Strange Situation Procedure. On a following day, using a violation‐of‐expectation paradigm, infants were habituated to two joint attention ...
Source: Infancy - January 20, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Neda Mohammadzade Naghashan,
M.Ali Mazaheri,
Erik Gustafsson,
Vahid Sadeghi ‐Firoozabadi,
Abbas Zabihzadeh Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Infants ’ learning of non‐adjacent regularities from visual sequences
AbstractTracking adjacent (AD) and non ‐adjacent (NAD) dependencies in a sequence of elements is critical for the development of many complex abilities, such as language acquisition and social interaction. While learning of AD in infancy is a domain‐general ability that is functioning across different domains, infants’ processing o f NAD has been reported only for speech sequences. Here, we tested 9‐ to 12‐ and 13‐ to 15‐month‐olds’ ability to extract AxB grammars in visual sequences of unfamiliar elements. Infants were habituated to a series of 3‐visual arrays following an AxB grammar in which the firs...
Source: Infancy - January 13, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Roberta Bettoni,
Hermann Bulf,
Shannon Brady,
Scott P. Johnson Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Does surprise enhance infant memory? Assessing the impact of the encoding context on subsequent object recognition
AbstractA discrepancy between what was predicted and what is observed has been linked to increased looking times, changes in brain electrical activity, and increased pupil dilation in infants. These processes associated with heightened attention and readiness to learn might enhance the encoding and memory consolidation of the surprising object, as suggested by both the infant and the adult literature. We therefore investigated whether the presence of surprise during the encoding context enhances subsequent encoding and recognition memory processes for the items that violated infants' expectations. Seventeen ‐month‐olds...
Source: Infancy - January 6, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Viktoria Csink,
Denis Mareschal,
Teodora Gliga Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Infants ’ abilities to respond to cues for joint attention vary by family socioeconomic status
AbstractThe influence of socioeconomic variability on language and cognitive development is present from toddlerhood to adolescence and calls for investigating its earliest manifestation. Response to joint attention (RJA) abilities constitute a foundational developmental milestone that are associated with future language, cognitive, and social skills. How aspects of the family home environment shape RJA skills is relatively unknown. We investigated associations between family socioeconomic status (SES) —both parent education and family percentage of the federal poverty level (FPL)— parent depressive and anxiety symptom...
Source: Infancy - December 30, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Emily B. Reilly,
Isabella C. Stallworthy,
Shanna B. Mliner,
Michael F. Troy,
Jed T. Elison,
Megan R. Gunnar Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Issue Information
Infancy, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 1-3, January 2021. (Source: Infancy)
Source: Infancy - December 28, 2020 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Infants born full term and preterm increase the height of anti ‐gravity leg movements during a kick‐activated mobile task using a scaffolded task environment
AbstractPrior research supports that infants born very preterm (PT), compared with full term (FT), have early differences in rate of learning and motor control that may hinder their ability to learn challenging motor tasks. Four ‐month‐old infants born FT (n = 18) and PT (n = 18) participated in an infant kick‐activated mobile task that was scaffolded to motivate progressively higher kicks. We found the FT group learned the association between their leg movements and mobile activation on the second day, but the PT group learned the association on the third day. Bo th groups of infants increased the height of th...
Source: Infancy - December 28, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Jeong Ah Kim,
Linda Fetters,
Masayoshi Kubo,
Sandrah P. Eckel,
Barbara Sargent Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
