Parent-Training with Kangaroo Care Impacts Infant Neurophysiological Development & Mother-Infant Neuroendocrine Activity
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Jillian S. Hardin, Nancy Aaron Jones, Krystal D. Mize, Melannie PlattAbstractA randomized control trial was conducted to investigate the effects of skin-to-skin, chest-to-chest contact (kangaroo care, KC) in mother-infant dyads on patterns of infant brain activity and associated mother-infant neurohormone releases. 33 mother-infant dyads participated during pregnancy (29–38 weeks gestation), at neonatal and 3-month periods. Overall, analyses indicated that: 1) infants in the KC group showed left frontal brain activation patterns (...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - January 25, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Eighteen-month-olds integrate verbal cues into their action processing: Evidence from ERPs and mu power
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Christiane Patzwald, Daniel Matthes, Birgit ElsnerAbstractBehavioral research has shown that infants use both behavioral cues and verbal cues when processing the goals of others’ actions. For instance, 18-month-olds selectively imitate an observed goal-directed action depending on its (in)congruence with a model’s previous verbal announcement of a desired action goal. This EEG-study analyzed the electrophysiological underpinnings of these behavioral findings on the two functional levels of conceptual action processing and motor ...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - January 25, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Wearable strain sensor suit for infants to measure limb movements under interaction with caregiver
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Shinya Fujii, Hama Watanabe, Gentaro TagaAbstractDevelopment of motion capture technology has enabled the measurement of body movements over long periods of time in daily life. Although accelerometers have been used as primary sensors, problems arise when they are used to measure the movements of infants. Because infants and caregivers interact frequently, accelerometer data from infants may be significantly distorted by a caregiver’s movement. To overcome this problem, a strain sensor suit was developed for infants to measure fle...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - January 12, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Infant-directed language following a brief behavioral parenting intervention: The importance of language quality
This study examined the effect of a brief parenting intervention, the Infant Behavior Program, on changes in parent linguistic input and its influence on infant language. Participants were 58 mothers and their12- to 15-month-olds, with elevated levels of behavioral problems. Mothers and their infants were from primarily Hispanic and low-income backgrounds. Mother-infant dyads were randomly assigned to receive the Infant Behavior Program or standard pediatric primary care. Mothers receiving the Infant Behavior Program provided more linguistic input, which indirectly influenced infant language, and suggest targeting infants ...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - January 10, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Does preterm birth affect child temperament? A meta-analytic study
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Rafaela G.M. Cassiano, Livio Provenzi, Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares, Claudia M. Gaspardo, Rosario MontirossoAbstractThe present meta-analytic study was conducted to examine differences in temperament between preterm and full-term children, considering behavior style and psychobiological approaches. Moreover, we explored the potential moderators of the associations between prematurity and temperament. A systematic literature search was performed on PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and CINAHL. Twenty-two studies were analyzed. Preter...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - January 9, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Infant carrying as a tool to promote secure attachments in young mothers: Comparing intervention and control infants during the still-face paradigm
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Lela Rankin Williams, Patricia R. TurnerAbstractInfants of adolescent mothers have a greater risk of developing insecure attachment types and attachment disorders into adulthood. Previous research suggests that skin-to-skin contact predicts secure attachment; however, it is largely unknown whether infant carrying or “babywearing” has similar benefits. We hypothesized that adolescent mothers (Mage=19.1 years, SD = 2.0; 40.6 % Hispanic; 40 %< = 11th grade) who were randomly assigned to an infant carrying condition at 2–4 wee...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - December 25, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Sucking patterns are not predictive of further feeding development in healthy preterm infants
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Nicole Hübl, Saakje P. da Costa, Nicole Kaufmann, Jun Oh, Klaus WillmesAbstractPreterm infants are at risk of experiencing difficulties in their feeding development. For a possible early identification of these, we examined the association between sucking patterns, assisted spoon feeding, and chewing skills in 40 healthy preterm infants, and the role of experience in the acquisition of these skills in a prospective longitudinal study. Sucking patterns were evaluated at 34, 37, and 44 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA), assisted spoon fe...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - December 25, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Audio-visual priming in 7-month-old infants: An ERP study
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Stefanie Peykarjou, Julia Wissner, Sabina PauenAbstractThe current study investigates categorical priming across modalities in 7-month-old infants using electroencephalographic (EEG) measures. In two experiments, infants were presented with sounds as primes, followed by images of human figures and furniture items as targets. In experiment 1 (N = 20), images were preceded by infant-directed (ID) or adult-directed (AD) speech to explore effects of intermodal categorical mismatches. Furniture targets (mismatching category) elicited...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - December 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
14 challenges and their solutions for conducting social neuroscience and longitudinal EEG research with infants
We describe each of these challenges and suggest possible solutions. While we focus specifically on the social neuroscience and longitudinal research, many of the issues we raise are relevant for all fields of infant EEG research. (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - December 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Infant behaviors and maternal parenting practices: Short-term reliability assessments
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Marc H. Bornstein, Chun-Shin Hahn, Diane L. Putnick, Gianluca EspositoAbstractConsistency in the order of individuals in a group across short periods of time—reliability—is both important developmentally and meaningful psychologically. For example, documenting the reliabilities of infant behaviors and maternal parenting practices elucidates the nature and structure of early development. In this prospective short-term longitudinal study (Ns = 51 5-month infants and their mothers), we examined reliabilities of individual varia...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - December 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Influence of Maternal Schizotypy on the perception of Facial Emotional Expressions during Infancy: an Event-Related Potential Study
This study investigates whether maternal personality influences early social-cognitive awareness during the first 6 postnatal months.Schizotypy is a dimension of personality within the general population. If deficits contribute to the development of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders by influencing the development of symptom-like characteristics, they may be observable in neurotypical individuals with schizotypal characteristics. Parents and their infants were shown standardised positive and negative faces and event-related potential responses were assessed. It was hypothesised that the infants of schizotypic mothers would d...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - December 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Sleep duration associates with moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity and body fat in 1- to 3-year-old children
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Isabella T. Felzer-Kim, Janet L. HauckAbstractSleep during early childhood is important for many developmental outcomes and shows promise as an important correlate of both obesity risk and physical activity behaviors. This was a cross-sectional study concerning the relationships between sleep and moderate- to – vigorous intensity physical activity and body fat percentage in a sample of 1- to 3-year-old children (N = 50; ages 27.512 ± 10.363 months). Sleep was measured with a caregiver questionnaire. Sedentary time, light, moderat...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - November 27, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A decade of infant neuroimaging research: What have we learned and where are we going?
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Atiqah Azhari, Anna Truzzi, Michelle Jin-Yee Neoh, Jan Paolo M. Balagtas, HuiAnn Hannah Tan, PeiLin Pamela Goh, XinHui Anais Ang, Peipei Setoh, Paola Rigo, Marc H. Bornstein, Gianluca EspositoAbstractThe past decade has seen the emergence of neuroimaging studies of infant populations. Incorporating imaging has resulted in invaluable insights about neurodevelopment at the start of life. However, little has been enquired of the experimental specifications and study characteristics of typical findings. This review systematically screen...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - November 27, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
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Source: Infant Behavior and Development - November 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Early family adversity, stability and consistency of institutional care and infant cognitive, language and motor development across the first six months of institutionalization
This study extends research on the effects of institutionalization—by examining the trajectories of cognitive, language and motor development of 64 Portuguese infants and toddlers across the first six months of institutionalization, while determining whether pre-institutional adversities and the stability and consistency of institutional care predict children’s development. At time of enrollment, 23.4%, 32.8% and 31.3% of the children were moderately to severely delayed, respectively, in their cognitive, linguistic and motor functioning. Developmental problems persisted after six months of institutionalization. The acc...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - November 9, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
