Infant Behavior & Development

Article	Citations
Revisiting the roots of attachment: A review of the biological and psychological effects of maternal skin-to-skin contact and carrying of full-term infants	62
Neuroendocrine mechanisms involved in the physiological effects caused by skin-to-skin contact – With a particular focus on the oxytocinergic system	47
Exploring gender differences in infant motor development related to parent’s promotion of play	22
Maternal prenatal anxiety trajectories and infant developmental outcomes in one-year-old offspring	21
Screen time in 36-month-olds at increased likelihood for ASD and ADHD	19
Physical touch during father-infant interactions is associated with paternal oxytocin levels	19
Carrying human infants – An evolutionary heritage	19
Why do parents use screen media with toddlers? The role of child temperament and parenting stress in early screen use	19
Infant screen media usage and social-emotional functioning	18
The interplay between early social interaction, language and executive function development in deaf and hearing infants	17
Screens across the pond: Findings from longitudinal screen time research in the US and UK	17
Screen use before bedtime: Consequences for nighttime sleep in young children	16
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development	16
Dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry in mother-infant dyads: Insights from the Still Face Paradigm	16
Media exposure and language for toddlers from low-income homes	14
Differences in caregiver behaviors of infants at-risk for autism and typically developing infants from 9 to 15 months of age	14
The influence of maternal anxiety and depression symptoms on fNIRS brain responses to emotional faces in 5- and 7-month-old infants	14
Associations between touchscreen exposure and hot and cool inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants	13
Non-verbal and verbal parental mentalization as predictors of infant attachment security: Contributions of parental embodied mentalizing and mind-mindedness and the mediating role of maternal sensitiv	13
Does texting interrupt imitation learning in 19-month-old infants?	11
Experimental manipulation of maternal proximity during short sequences of sleep and infant calming response	11
Infant media use: A harm reduction approach	11
Quality of the home, daycare and neighborhood environment and the cognitive development of economically disadvantaged children in early childhood: A mediation analysis	11
Examining joint parent-child interactions involving infants and toddlers when introducing mobile technology	11
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review	11

Predicting cognitive development and early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder in preterm children: The value of temperament and sensory processing	11
A longitudinal examination of daily amounts of screen time and technoference in infants aged 2–11 months and associations with maternal sociodemographic factors	11
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	10
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	10
The temporal dimension in the understanding of maternal sensitivity in caregiver-infant interactions: The ‘Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System’	10
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	10
To have and to hold: Effects of physical contact on infants and their caregivers	10
Associations between mother-infant bed-sharing practices and infant affect and behavior during the still-face paradigm	10
Music therapy enhances preterm infant’s signs of engagement and sustains maternal singing in the NICU	10
Design and validation of a smart garment to measure positioning practices of parents with young infants	9
Vocal imitation between mothers and infants	9
Revisiting how we operationalize joint attention	9
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	9
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	9
Cultural influences on face scanning are consistent across infancy and adulthood	9
A method for measuring dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in infants and mothers	9
Parental toy play and toddlers’ socio-emotional development: The moderating role of coparenting dynamics	9
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood	9
Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study	9
Leveraging epigenetics to examine differences in developmental trajectories of social attention: A proof-of-principle study of DNA methylation in infants with older siblings with autism	9
The relationship between temperamental dimensions and inhibitory control in early childhood: Implications for language acquisition	9
Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infants’ vocabulary development	9
Do foetuses communicate? Foetal responses to interactive versus non-interactive maternal voice and touch: An exploratory analysis	9
Looking deeper into the toy box: Understanding caregiver toy selection decisions	9
Infants’ cortical processing of biological motion configuration – A fNIRS study	9
Continuous measurement of attachment behavior: A multimodal view of the strange situation procedure	8
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	8
Infant speech perception and cognitive skills as predictors of later vocabulary	8
Parental decision-making: infant engagement with smartphones	8
Parent-child interaction during the first year of life in infants at elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder	8
War trauma and infant motor, cognitive, and socioemotional development: Maternal mental health and dyadic interaction as explanatory processes	8
Effects of maternal depressive symptoms on sensitivity to infant distress and non-distress: Role of SES and race	8
Does syntax play a role in Theory of Mind development before the age of 3 years?	8
Exposure to electronic media between 6 and 24 months of age: An exploratory study	8
What about the babies? A critical review of infants’ and toddlers’ absence in homelessness scholarship	7
Sensing everyday activity: Parent perceptions and feasibility	7
Object play in the everyday home environment generates rich opportunities for infant learning	7
Do early parental postnatal depression, attachment style and perceived social support affect neurodevelopmental outcomes of premature infants?	7
Past and present experiences with maternal touch affect infants’ attention toward emotional faces	7
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	7
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	7
The longitudinal associations between temperament and sleep during the first year of life	7
Hair sampling for cortisol analysis with mother-toddler dyads living in low-income homes	7
The origins of touchscreen competence: Examining infants’ exploration of touchscreens	7
Intention-based evaluations of distributive actions by 4-month-olds	7
Foundations of attention sharing: Orienting and responding to attention in term and preterm 5-month-old infants	7
How 9-month-old crawling infants profit from visual-manual rotations in a mental rotation task	7
Object play as a mediator of the role of exploration in communication skills development	7
Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action	7
A working memory span task for toddlers	7

Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents	7
Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship	7
Frequency of Gesture Use and Language in Typically Developing Prelinguistic Children	6
Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences	6
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	6
Changing the logic of replication: A case from infant studies	6
Contrasting behavioral looking procedures: a case study on infant speech segmentation	6
Cross-linguistic comparison of utterance shapes in Korean- and English-learning children: An ambient language effect	6
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	6
Do motor skills impact on language development between 18 and 30 months of age?	6
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	6
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	6
Does Postpartum Depression Affect Parental Embodied Mentalizing in Mothers With 4-Months old Infants?	6
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	6
Parent-child interactions during joint engagement with touchscreen technology: A comparison of younger versus older toddlers	6
Stability of developmental status and risk of impairment at 24 and 36 months in late preterm infants	6
Manual exploration of objects is related to 7-month-old infants’ visual preference for real objects	6
Social context influences infants’ ability to extract statistical information from a sequence of gestures	6
Prosocial television and prosocial toddlers: A multi-method, longitudinal investigation	6
Primary caregiver emotional expressiveness relates to toddler emotion understanding	6
Mother-Infant Interaction Kinect Analysis (MIIKA): An automatic kinematic-based methodology for the investigation of interpersonal distance during early exchanges	6
Mothers’ competence profiles and their relation to language and socioemotional development in Chilean children at 12 and 30 months	6
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life	5
Developmental changes in the brain response to speech during the first year of life: A near-infrared spectroscopy study of dutch-learning infants	5
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	5
Links between television exposure and toddler dysregulation: Does culture matter?	5
Infant sleep arrangements, infant-parent sleep, and parenting during the first six months post-partum	5
Let’s get it together: Infants generate visual predictions based on collaborative goals	5
Perceptual narrowing in face- and speech-perception domains in infancy: A longitudinal approach	5
Development of mother-infant co-regulation: The role of infant vagal tone and temperament at 6, 9, and 12 months of age	5
Look up to the body: An eye-tracking investigation of 7-months-old infants’ visual exploration of emotional body expressions	5
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors	5
Joint attention abilities in Brazilian preterm and full-term infants	5
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	5
Microstate analysis in infancy	5
More than meets the eye: The neural development of emotion face processing during infancy	5
Early vocabulary development: Relationships with prelinguistic skills and early social-emotional/behavioral problems and competencies	5
Culture and the organization of infant sleep: A study in the Netherlands and the U.S.A.	4
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	4
A comprehensive model of women’s social cognition and responsiveness to infant crying: Integrating personality, emotion, executive function, and sleep	4
Attentional engagement during syllable discrimination: The role of salient prosodic cues in 6- to 8-month-old infants	4
Self-face perception in 12-month-old infants: A study using the morphing technique	4
Context matters: Cortical rhythms in infants across baseline and play	4
What’s an early triadic interaction made of? A methodological proposal to study the musical dynamics of interaction	4
Maternal psychosocial predictors of pacifier use in a mother-infant interaction task: An observational study from the MPEWS pregnancy cohort	4
Advances in microanalysis: Magnifying the social microscope on mother-infant interactions	4
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	4
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	4
But that’s possible! Infants, pupils, and impossible events	4
No evidence for infants’ contingency detection as a precursor of toddlers’ self-recognition	4
Insight into toddlers’ motivation to help: From social participants to prosocial contributors	4
The associations between autistic and communication traits in parents and developmental outcomes in children at familial risk of autism at 6 and 24 months of age	4
Attentional orienting abilities in bilinguals: Evidence from a large infant sample	4
Preterm birth and maternal sensitivity: Findings from a non-western country	4
Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving	4
Toddler word learning from contingent screens with and without human presence	4
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants	4
Peek-a-who? Exploring the dynamics of early communication with an interactive partner swap paradigm and state space grid visualization	4
Disrupted or delayed? Stress discrimination among preterm as compared to full-term infants during the first year of life	4
Are our samples representative? Understanding whether temperament influences infant dropout rates at 3 and 7 months	4
Processes and pathways in development via digital media: Examples from word learning	4
The effect of play task on maternal touch patterns when interacting with their 12 months-old infants: An exploratory study	4
Epigenetics and behavioral development	4
Media exposure and language experience: Examining associations from home observations in Mexican immigrant families in the US	4
The role of TPH2 variant rs4570625 in shaping infant attention to social signals	4
Number and type of toys affect joint attention of mothers and infants	4
The memory benefits of two naps per day during infancy: A pilot investigation	4
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	4
Co-occurring risk and protective factors and regulatory behavior of infants living in low-income homes	3
Identifying when children with visual impairment share attention: A novel protocol and the impact of visual acuity	3
Maternal and infant touching behaviours during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying	3
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	3
Auditory joint attention skills: Development and diagnostic differences during infancy	3
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	3
The temporal dynamics of labelling shape infant object recognition	3
Sleep problems and infant motor and cognitive development across the first two years of life: The Beijing Longitudinal Study	3
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	3
The vocal dialogue in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants: Specificities of co-regulation	3
Toddler emotion expressions and emotional traits: Associations with parent-toddler verbal conversation	3
Role of parenting practices, mother’s personality and depressive symptoms in early child development	3

Infants Oscillatory Frequencies change during Free-Play	3
The Welch Emotional Connection Screen: Adapting observational methods to pediatric primary care via resident training	3
Influences of infants’ and mothers’ contingent vocal responsiveness on young infants’ vocal social bids in the Still Face Task	3
Toddler negative emotion expression and parent-toddler verbal conversation: Evidence from daylong recordings	3
The effect of maternal multisensory stimulations on bath stress in premature infants: A randomized controlled clinical trial	3
Role of maternal affect and regulatory strategies in toddlers’ emotion and behavior regulation	3
The cultural specificity of parent-infant interaction: Perspectives of urban middle-class and rural indigenous families in Costa Rica	3
Learning blossoms: Caregiver-infant interactions in an outdoor garden setting	3
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	3
Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament	3
6- to 9-Month old infants discriminate vowel durations in variable speech contexts	3
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures	3
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems	3
Negative affectivity moderated by preterm birth predicted toddlers’ behavior problems	3
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	3
Infant sleep behaviors relate to their later cognitive and language abilities and morning cortisol stress hormone levels	3
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	3
The role of preacademic activities and adult-centeredness in mother-child play in educated urban middle-class families from three cultures	2
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development	2
Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech	2
Birth order, stimulating environment, and maternal factors in developmental outcomes: A longitudinal Mexican study	2
Infant looking preferences towards dynamic faces: A systematic review	2
Temporal coordination between maternal looming and infant gaze in depressed and nondepressed dyads: A bootstrapping approach	2
Neurophysiology of sustained attention in early infancy: Investigating longitudinal relations with recognition memory outcomes	2
The relationship between home environment and early childhood development of left-behind children under 3 years in rural China	2
Stability and structure of infant and toddler temperament in two longitudinal studies in Germany	2
Interweaving social and manipulative development in early infancy: Some direction for infant caregiving	2
The effects of massage velocity on heart rate and heart rate variability in healthy infants: A randomized crossover study	2
The privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in early spatial language acquisition	2
Family-level factors of early childhood development: Evidence from rural China	2
Labels and object categorization in six- and nine-month-olds: tracking labels across varying carrier phrases	2
Evaluation of the Developmental Assessment for Intervention Manual (DAIM) for developmental screening in high-risk infants at 12 months of corrected age	2
Novel and noninvasive methods for in-home sleep measurement and subsequent state coding in 12-month-old infants	2
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep	2
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures	2
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	2
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	2
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	2
Methodological advances in the characterization and understanding of caregiver-infant interactions	2
A time series analysis of the relation between motor skill acquisition and sleep in infancy	2
Prenatal origins of temperament: Fetal cardiac development & infant surgency, negative affectivity, and regulation/orienting	2
Intentional action processing across the transition to crawling: Does the experience of self-locomotion impact infants’ understanding of intentional actions?	2
Emotional facial expressions affect visual rule learning in 7- to 8-month-old infants	2
Infant distractibility from social events mediates the relation between maternal responsiveness and infant language outcomes	2
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood Tool: Level 2 autism spectrum disorder screening in a NICU Follow-up program	2
Influence of perinatal complications on the development of a sample of 36-month-old premature infants	2
Cardiac physiological regulation across early infancy: The roles of infant surgency and parental involvement with mothers and fathers	2
Acquiring verbal reference: The interplay of cognitive, linguistic, and general learning capacities	2
Eating in Synch: An investigation of parent-infant behaviour coordination during feeding interactions	2
Nighttime sleep and physical activity in 6-7 month-old infants	2
Children’s scale errors and object processing: Early evidence for cross-cultural differences	2
Learning to learn from video? 30-month-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding	2
Validation of a measure of injury-risk behaviors in the first 2 years of life: Infant/Toddler-Injury Behavior Questionnaire (IT-IBQ)	2
Co-regulation and parenting stress over time in full-term, very low birthweight preterm, and psycho-socially at-risk infant-mother dyads: Implications for fostering the development of healthy relation	2
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	2
Prior sleep timing and visual recognition of emotional faces in 6-month-old infants	2