Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind ‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months
AbstractParental mind-mindedness (MM), defined as the propensity to view one's child as an agent with thoughts, feelings, and desires, is associated with positive child outcomes (McMahon& Bernier, 2017) and can be assessed in expectant parents by using five-minute speech samples (Maga ña et al., 1986). Individual differences in MM appear stable across the transition to parenthood (Foley et al., in press), offering an exciting intervention opportunity, as expectant mothers' thoughts and feelings about their unborn infants are associated with the quality of mother-infant interac tions. To assess prenatal MM as a predictor...
Source: Infancy - August 26, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Sarah Foley,
Claire Hughes,
Elian Fink Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Toward a dimensional model of risk and protective factors influencing children's early cognitive, social, and emotional development during the COVID ‐19 pandemic
This study investigates the effects of parental (predominantly maternal) mental health, enriching activities and screen use on 280 24- to 52-month-olds’ executive functions, internalising and externalising problems, and pro-social behaviour; with socioeconomic status and social support as contextual factors. Our results indicate that aspects o f the home environment are differentially associated with children’s cognitive and psycho-social development. Parents who experienced sustained mental distress during the pandemic tended to report higher child externalising and internalising problems, and executive function diffi...
Source: Infancy - August 22, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Alexandra Hendry,
Shannon P. Gibson,
Catherine Davies,
Michelle McGillion,
Nayeli Gonzalez ‐Gomez Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Left, right, left, right: 24 –36‐months‐olds’ planning and execution of simple alternating actions
This study investigated toddlers' ability to control simple alternating pattern actions, and how this relates to motor competence and executive functions. 70 toddlers between 24 and 36 months of age were instructed to sort coins in an alternating pattern into two boxes; left, right, left, right etc. Executive functions and memory competence performance were assessed in additional small games. The results showed that the ability to plan and execute actions according to a simple e xtended alternating pattern improved over toddlerhood. Furthermore, working memory and motor competence scores were both independent predictors ...
Source: Infancy - August 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Lisanne Schr öer,
Richard P. Cooper,
Denis Mareschal Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes
This study assessed attention to the mouth and the eyes at 5.5 (n = 91; Polish, 49% females) and 11 months, between time-point changes and their associations with language development in infancy (11 months) and toddlerhood (24 months). Sex differences were also explored. Results showed an age-related increase in looking to the mouth, and the magnitude of thi s change was associated with productive language, but only in toddlerhood. By contrast, looking to the eyes did not change and its duration at 5.5 months correlated with language development at 2 years. Exploratory analyses showed that in females but not males, ...
Source: Infancy - August 20, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Itziar Lozano,
David L ópez Pérez,
Zuzanna Laudańska,
Anna Malinowska‐Korczak,
Magdalena Szmytke,
Alicja Radkowska,
Przemysław Tomalski Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Caregivers' everyday moral reasoning predicts young children's aggressive, prosocial, and moral development: Evidence from ambulatory assessment
AbstractDevelopmental theories have proposed caregiver reactions, in particular caregivers' moral reasoning with their children, as crucial factors in children's developing morality. Yet, empirical evidence is scarce and mainly restricted to laboratory contexts. Here, we used the ambulatory assessment method to investigate how caregiver responses to moral transgressions longitudinally relate to children's emerging moral agency. On the first measurement point, mothers (N = 220) reported on nine consecutive evenings on a moral transgression of their 5- to 46-month-olds', their emotional and verbal reactions, and how in tur...
Source: Infancy - August 13, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Samuel Essler,
Markus Paulus Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Age differences in orienting to faces in dynamic scenes depend on face centering, not visual saliency
We report a secondary analysis of Kadooka and Franchak (2020), in which observers’ eye movements were recorded during viewing of television cli ps containing a variety of faces. For every face on every video frame, we calculated its visual saliency (based on both static and dynamic image features) and calculated how close the face was to the center of the image. Results revealed that participants of every age looked more often at each face when it was more salient compared to less salient. In contrast, centering did not increase the likelihood that infants looked at a given face, but in later childhood and adulthood, cen...
Source: Infancy - August 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: John M. Franchak,
Kellan Kadooka Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID ‐19
This study demonstrates that caregivers were sensitive toward infants during video chat interactions despite fluctuations in family stress and reduced in-person contact during COVID-19 and that grandparent sensitivity predicted positive infant affect during both video chat and in-person interactions. (Source: Infancy)
Source: Infancy - August 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Ellen Roche,
Joscelin Rocha ‐Hidalgo,
Douglas Piper,
Gabrielle A. Strouse,
Lucinda I. Neely,
Jenna Ryu,
Lauren J. Myers,
Elisabeth McClure,
Georgene L. Troseth,
Jennifer M. Zosh,
Rachel Barr Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Violation of non ‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants
AbstractInfants start tracking auditory-only non-adjacent dependencies (NAD) between 15 and 18 months of age. Given that audiovisual speech, normally available in a talker's mouth, is perceptually more salient than auditory speech and that it facilitates speech processing and language acquisition, we investigated whether 15-month-old infants' NAD learning is modulated by attention to a talk er's mouth. Infants performed an audiovisual NAD learning task while we recorded their selective attention to the eyes, mouth, and face of an actress while she spoke an artificial language that followed an AXB structure (tis-X-bun; na...
Source: Infancy - July 14, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Joan Birul és,
Anna Martinez‐Alvarez,
David J. Lewkowicz,
Ruth Diego‐Balaguer,
Ferran Pons Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development
AbstractSound symbols, such as “woof woof” for a dog's barking, imitate the physical properties of their referents. Turkish is a sound symbolically rich language that allows flexible use of such words in different linguistic forms. The current study examined Turkish-speaking parents' use of sound symbolic words to their 14- a nd 20-month-olds and the concurrent and longitudinal relations between parents' sound symbolic input and infants' vocabulary knowledge. Thirty-four (n = 34) infants were observed at Time-1 (Mage = 14.23 months, SD = 1.11) and Time-2 (Mage = 20.30 months, SD = 1.24) during free play ses...
Source: Infancy - July 13, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Erim K ızıldere, , Şeref Can Esmer,
Tilbe Göksun Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Infants who experience more adult ‐initiated conversations have better expressive language in toddlerhood
AbstractTo understand how infants become engaged in conversations with their caregivers, we examinedwho tends to initiate conversations between adults and infants, differences between the features of infant- and adult-initiated conversations, and whether individual differences in how much infants engage in infant- or adult-initiated conversations uniquely predict later language development. We analyzed naturalistic adult –infant conversations captured via passive recording of the daily environment in two samples of 6-month-old infants. In Study 1, we found that at age 6 months, infants typically engage in more adult- th...
Source: Infancy - July 2, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Virginia C. Salo,
Lucy S. King,
Ian H. Gotlib,
Kathryn L. Humphreys Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
How experience shapes infants' communicative behaviour: Comparing gaze following in infants with and without pandemic experience
In this study, we investigated whether these pandemic-related changes influenced 12- to 15-months-old infants' reactions to observed gaze shifts (i.e., their gaze following). In two eye-tracking tasks, we measured infants' gaze-following behavior during the pandemic (with-COVID-19-experience sample) and compared it to data of infants tested before the pandemic (no-COVID-19-experience sample). Overall, the results indicated no significant differences between the two samples. However, in one sub-task infants in the with-COVID-19-experience sample looked longer at the eyes of a model compared to the no-COVID-19-experience sam...
Source: Infancy - June 30, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Stephanie Wermelinger,
Lea Moersdorf,
Moritz M. Daum Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Infancy - June 7, 2022 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Before perceptual narrowing: The emergence of the native sounds of language
AbstractThe present study investigates the precursors of representations of phonemes in 4.5-month-olds. The emergence of phonemes has been mainly studied within the framework of perceptual narrowing, that is, infants tuning to their native language and losing sensitivity to non-native speech. One of the mechanisms behind this phenomenon is distributional learning. In this article, we tested the preference of 4.5-month-old infants using lists of pseudowords that resemble the vowel distribution of the native or a non-native language. We found that infants prefer listening to the lists mirroring the native language. The resul...
Source: Infancy - May 28, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Konstantina Zacharaki,
Nuria Sebastian ‐Galles Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility
AbstractThe current study examined the stability, consistency, and predictive utility of average fixation durations in infancy. In Study 1, infants' (N = 80) average fixation duration when viewing social stimuli was found to show strong relative stability from 3.5 to 9 months of age. In Study 2, strong within-infant consistency was found in 3.5-month-old infants' (N = 73) average fixation durations to social and nonsocial stimuli. In Study 3, 3.5- to 9-month-old infants' (N = 89) average fixation duration was found to systematically vary with parent-reported symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD...
Source: Infancy - May 28, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Hannah White,
Alison Heck,
Rachel Jubran,
Alyson Chroust,
Ramesh S. Bhatt Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers
AbstractInfants have sophisticated knowledge about the physical world, and show enhanced learning about objects that violate physical principles. However, it is unknown whether infants also preferentially learn from theindividual who produces an outcome that violates expectations. We investigated whether 15-month-old infants (N = 48) selectively imitate individuals who produce surprising outcomes. In Experiment 1, infants watched an experimenter hide a ball and produce an expected outcome in which the ball was revealed where it was hidden, or a surprising outcome in which the ball was revealed in a different location. T ...
Source: Infancy - May 27, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Aimee E. Stahl,
Larissa Woods Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
