The following article for this Special Issue was published in an earlier Issue
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Source: Infancy - December 29, 2022 Category: Child Development Tags: CORRECTION Source Type: research
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school
We report a longitudinal study with 17 sociodemographically diverse children (8 female) attending a nursery school in Madrid (Spain) and their two adult female teachers. Using mixed-effects models and Granger causality analysis, we measured changes in the frequency and duration of children's object uses between 7 and 17 months of age and in the directional influences among pairs of behaviors performed by teachers and children. Results show a clear shift in how children use artifacts. As early as 12 months of age, the frequency of conventional uses outweighs that of all other types of object use. In addition, obj ect use...
Source: Infancy - December 27, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Nicol ás Alessandroni Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day ‐care environment
AbstractThis longitudinal study examined the relationship between the development of locomotion and infants' interaction with others involving objects. Observations took place in a multi-person situation —a day-care class—for one-year-old infants for 1 year. The study participants were 13 infants and 7 caregivers (all Japanese). Frequencies of infants’ manual contact with objects and moving before contact with them did not differ according to locomotion developmental level. However, infants w ho began walking engaged in more social interactions than those who were cruising or crawling. Throughout all locomotor devel...
Source: Infancy - December 23, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Noriko Toyama Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Statistical word segmentation: Anchoring learning across contexts
AbstractThe present experiments were designed to assess infants' abilities to use syllable co-occurrence regularities to segment fluent speech across contexts. Specifically, we investigated whether 9-month-old infants could use statistical regularities in one speech context to support speech segmentation in a second context. Contexts were defined by different word sets representing contextual differences that might occur across conversations or utterances. This mimics the integration of information across multiple interactions within a single language, which is critical for language acquisition. In particular, we performed...
Source: Infancy - December 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Dylan M. Antovich,
Katharine Graf Estes Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The effect of masks on the visual preference for faces in the first year of life
AbstractTo prevent the spread of COVID-19, face masks were mandatory in many public spaces around the world. Since faces are the gateway to early social cognition, this raised major concerns about the effect face masks may have on infants' attention to faces as well as on their language and social development. The goal of the present study was to assess how face masks modulate infants' attention to faces over the course of the first year of life. We measured 3, 6, 9, and 12-month-olds ’ looking behavior using a paired visual preference paradigm under two experimental conditions. First, we tested infants' preference for u...
Source: Infancy - December 16, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Cristina Ioana Galusca,
Olivier Clerc,
Marie Chevallier,
Caroline Bertrand,
Frederique Audeou,
Olivier Pascalis,
Mathilde Fort Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study
AbstractThis preregistered study examined how face masks influenced face memory in a North American sample of 6- to 9-month-old infants (N = 58) born during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infants' memory was tested using a standard visual paired comparison (VPC) task. We crossed whether or not the faces were masked during familiarization and test, yielding four trial types (masked-familiarization/masked-test, unmasked-familiarization/masked -test, masked-familiarization/unmasked-test, and unmasked-familiarization/unmasked-test). Infants showed memory for the faces if the faces were unmasked at test, regardless of whether or not ...
Source: Infancy - December 15, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Michaela C. DeBolt,
Lisa M. Oakes Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Infant vocalizations elicit simplified speech in childcare
AbstractInfant babbling has an important social function in promoting early language development by attracting caregiver attention and prompting parents' contingent, simplified speech, which is more learnable for infants. Here, we demonstrate that prelinguistic infant vocalizations also create learning opportunities for infants in childcare settings by eliciting simplified and more learnable linguistic information during teacher-infant interactions. We compared the rates and complexity of contingent and non-contingent verbal interactions of 34 childcare teachers during a one-on-one free play interaction with a familiar inf...
Source: Infancy - December 14, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Rachel R. Albert,
Morgan Ernst,
Claire D. Vallotton Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Mother ‐Infant Emotional Availability through the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Examining Continuity, Stability, and Bidirectional Associations
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Source: Infancy - December 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Nila Shakiba,
Gal Doron,
Avigail Gordon ‐Hacker,
Alisa Egotubov,
Nicholas Wagner,
Noa Gueron‐Sela Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep
AbstractThe characteristics of infant sleep change over the first year. Generally, infants wake and move less at night as they grow older. However, acquisition of new motor skills leads to temporary increases in night waking and movement at night. Indeed, sleep-dependent movement at night is important for sensorimotor development. Nevertheless, little is known about how movement during sleep changes as infants accrue locomotor experience. The current study investigated whether infant sleep and movement during sleep were predicted by infants' walking experience. Seventy-eight infants wore an actigraph to measure physical ac...
Source: Infancy - December 1, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Aaron DeMasi,
Melissa N. Horger,
Anat Scher,
Sarah E. Berger Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Responding to joint attention as a developmental catalyst: Longitudinal associations with language and social responsiveness
AbstractJoint attention (JA), infants' ability to engage in triadic attention with another person and a separate object or event, emerges in infancy. Responding to joint attention (RJA) develops earlier than initiating joint attention (IJA) and may benefit from a reconceptualization from a competence to a skill that varies in performance. Investigating associations between RJA performance and important skills of toddlerhood such as language, social responsiveness, and executive function (EF) in typically developing samples can better elucidate how RJA may serve as a developmental precursor to later dimensional skills, with...
Source: Infancy - November 21, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Carolyn Lasch,
Stephanie M. Carlson,
Jed T. Elison Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Linking maternal psychopathology to children's excessive crying and sleeping problems in a large representative German sample —The mediating role of social isolation and bonding difficulties
AbstractAttaining self-regulation is a major developmental task in infancy, in which many children show transient difficulties. Persistent, clinically relevant difficulties in self-regulation include excessive crying or sleeping disorders. Many families with affected children are burdened with multiple psychosocial risk. This suggests that regulatory problems are best conceptualized as the maladaptive interplay of overly burdened parents and a dysfunctional parent–child interaction. The current study examines whether social isolation and bonding difficulties function as mediating mechanisms linking maternal psychopatho...
Source: Infancy - November 18, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Ulrike Lux,
Mitho M üller,
Corinna Reck,
Christoph Liel,
Sabine Walper Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
What aspects of counting help infants attend to numerosity?
AbstractRecent work shows that 18-month old infants understand that counting is numerically relevant —infants who see objects counted are more likely to represent the approximate number of objects in the array than infants who see the objects labeled but not counted. Which aspects of counting signal infants to attend to numerosity in this way? Here we asked whether infants rely on familiarity wit h the count words in their native language, or on procedures instantiated by the counting routine, independent of specific tokens. In three experiments (N = 48), we found that 18-month old infants from English-speaking househo...
Source: Infancy - November 17, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Jinjing (Jenny) Wang,
Lisa Feigenson Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Factor structure of the Mini ‐Maternal Behavior Q‐Sort and associations with infant attachment: Informing precision in research and intervention
We examined the factor structure of parental sensitivity to infants as assessed by the Mini-Maternal Behavior Q-Sort (Mini-MBQS), a 25-item short-form of the original 90-item MBQS. We aimed to: (1) identify latent factors of the Mini-MBQS; and (2) validate each factor by testing associations with infant attachment classifications. Data on parent-infant dyads (n = 313; 222 mothers with 281 children, 29 fathers with 32 children) were drawn from a three-generation Australian cohort study. Exploratory Factor Analysis and Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling examined the structure of the Mini-MBQS. Two latent Mini-MBQS f...
Source: Infancy - November 5, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Anna T. Booth,
Christopher J. Greenwood,
George J. Youssef,
Jennifer E. McIntosh,
Thy Nguyen,
Primrose Letcher,
Ben Edwards,
Delyse M. Hutchinson,
Ann Sanson,
Craig A. Olsson,
Jacqui A. Macdonald Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
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Source: Infancy - October 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
