Infant Behavior & Development

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Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	30
Developmental trajectories of non-native tone perception differ between monolingual and bilingual infants learning a pitch accent language	27
Exploring the role of home play and learning activities in socioemotional development at 36-months: Findings from a large birth cohort study	26
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	24
The impact of ever breastfeeding on children ages 12 to 36 months: A secondary data analysis of the standardization study of the Dominican system for evaluating early childhood development	24
The effect of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms on mother-infant interaction: The mediating role of antepartum maternal emotional stress	23
Attachment security and disorganization in infants of mothers with severe psychiatric disorder: Exploring the role of comorbid personality disorder	22
Glee in threes: Positive affect synchrony in parent-infant triads is moderated by maternal hair cortisol and parenting stress	22
Prevalence and Predictors of Background Television Among Infants and Toddlers from Low-Income Homes	18
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	17
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	16
Insights into infant behavior and development from Latin America	15
Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression	15
Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words	15
Early vocabulary development: Relationships with prelinguistic skills and early social-emotional/behavioral problems and competencies	15
Prosocial television and prosocial toddlers: A multi-method, longitudinal investigation	14
Predictors of executive function among 2 year olds from a Thai birth cohort	14
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	14
Birth order, stimulating environment, and maternal factors in developmental outcomes: A longitudinal Mexican study	13
Peek-a-who? Exploring the dynamics of early communication with an interactive partner swap paradigm and state space grid visualization	13
Learning blossoms: Caregiver-infant interactions in an outdoor garden setting	13
Culture and the organization of infant sleep: A study in the Netherlands and the U.S.A.	13
Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years	13
Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life	12
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors	12

Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	12
Oxytocin attenuates racial categorization in 14-month-old infants	12
What about the babies? A critical review of infants’ and toddlers’ absence in homelessness scholarship	12
Linking integrity of visual pathways trajectories to visual behavior deficit in very preterm infants	12
Factors associated with the socioemotional development of preterm infants	11
Examining the trajectory of parent emotion talk in mothers of toddlers: A predominantly Latine sample	11
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy	11
Instruments to measure interaction of mothers and newborns: A systematic review	11
Novel and noninvasive methods for in-home sleep measurement and subsequent state coding in 12-month-old infants	11
Co-occurring risk and protective factors and regulatory behavior of infants living in low-income homes	11
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control	11
Correlation between performance and quantity/variability of leg exploration in a contingency learning task during infancy	11
Identifying when children with visual impairment share attention: A novel protocol and the impact of visual acuity	10
Prenatal exposure to maternal depression is related to the functional connectivity organization underlying emotion perception in 8-10-month-old infants – Preliminary findings	10
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	10
Disrupted or delayed? Stress discrimination among preterm as compared to full-term infants during the first year of life	10
Infant effects on experimenter behavior	10
The vocal dialogue in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants: Specificities of co-regulation	10
Categorization in infancy based on novelty and co-occurrence	10
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Influence of perinatal complications on the development of a sample of 36-month-old premature infants	9
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	9
Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19	9
Six-month-olds’ ability to use linguistic cues when interpreting others’ pointing actions	9
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	9
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development	9
How 9-month-old crawling infants profit from visual-manual rotations in a mental rotation task	8
Sensing everyday activity: Parent perceptions and feasibility	8
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	8
Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play	8
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	8
War trauma and infant motor, cognitive, and socioemotional development: Maternal mental health and dyadic interaction as explanatory processes	8
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development	8
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	8
Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study	8
Developmental links between executive function and emotion regulation in early toddlerhood	7
Exposure to electronic media between 6 and 24 months of age: An exploratory study	7
The interplay between language acquisition and cognitive development	7
Number and type of toys affect joint attention of mothers and infants	7
Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants	7
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	7
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood	7
Neurophysiology of sustained attention in early infancy: Investigating longitudinal relations with recognition memory outcomes	7
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	7
A longitudinal examination of daily amounts of screen time and technoference in infants aged 2–11 months and associations with maternal sociodemographic factors	7
Infant speech perception and cognitive skills as predictors of later vocabulary	7
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	7
Infant sleep arrangements, infant-parent sleep, and parenting during the first six months post-partum	6
Imitation among infants in a day-care center and the development of locomotion	6
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Cardiac physiological regulation across early infancy: The roles of infant surgency and parental involvement with mothers and fathers	6
Examining joint parent-child interactions involving infants and toddlers when introducing mobile technology	6
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	6
“I know what’s inside because you showed me”: Training 33-month-old children to attribute knowledge and ignorance to themselves and others	6
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	6
Revisiting how we operationalize joint attention	6
Temperament and sleep behaviors in infants and toddlers living in low-income homes	6
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	6
The memory benefits of two naps per day during infancy: A pilot investigation	6
The interaction between infant negative emotionality and cognition predicts ADHD-related behaviors in toddlerhood	6
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	6
The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants	6
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	6
Media exposure and language for toddlers from low-income homes	6
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	6
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures	6
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	5
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament	5
Advances in microanalysis: Magnifying the social microscope on mother-infant interactions	5
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants	5
Sharing food with infants in Hadza communities in Tanzania	5
When crying turns to hitting: Examining maternal responses to negative affect	5
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	5
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	5
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	5
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The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	5
Mediating effects of parent–child dysfunctional interactions in the relationship between parenting distress and social–emotional problems and competencies	5
Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age	5
An investigation of mental rotation in infancy using change detection	5
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Latino toddlers’ bilingual output and their caregivers’ bilingual input and acculturation	5
Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship	4
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Masked or not, I smile to you: Exploring full-term and preterm infants' social smiles to adults wearing a protective facemask	4
Antenatal depression and maternal infant directed speech during the first postnatal year	4
Preliminary longitudinal evidence for stability of maternal behavior and infant stress regulation among infants born preterm at 4 and 9 months during the Still Face paradigm	4
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	4
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	4
Infant looking preferences towards dynamic faces: A systematic review	4
The cultural specificity of parent-infant interaction: Perspectives of urban middle-class and rural indigenous families in Costa Rica	4
Look at Grandma! Joint visual attention over video chat during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Attentional orienting abilities in bilinguals: Evidence from a large infant sample	4
Quality of the home, daycare and neighborhood environment and the cognitive development of economically disadvantaged children in early childhood: A mediation analysis	4
Sleep problems and infant motor and cognitive development across the first two years of life: The Beijing Longitudinal Study	4
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep	4
Infant sleep behaviors relate to their later cognitive and language abilities and morning cortisol stress hormone levels	4
Toddler word learning from contingent screens with and without human presence	4
Digital media and children under 3 years of age	4
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	4
Developmental cascades of vocal turn-taking connect prelinguistic vocalizing with early language	4
When I move, you move: Associations between automatic and person-coded measures of infant-mother synchrony during free-play using virtual in-home data collection	4
Context matters: Cortical rhythms in infants across baseline and play	4
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	4
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Eating in Synch: An investigation of parent-infant behaviour coordination during feeding interactions	4
Looking deeper into the toy box: Understanding caregiver toy selection decisions	4
Maternal education revisited: Vocabulary growth in English and Spanish from 16 to 30 months of age	3
Labels and object categorization in six- and nine-month-olds: tracking labels across varying carrier phrases	3
Microstate analysis in infancy	3
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Story stems in early mother-infant interaction promote pretend play at 30 months	3
A new online paradigm to measure spontaneous pointing in infants and caregivers	3
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	3
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What’s an early triadic interaction made of? A methodological proposal to study the musical dynamics of interaction	3
The role of acoustic features of maternal infant-directed singing in enhancing infant sensorimotor, language and socioemotional development	3
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	3
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Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents	3
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	3
Maternal secure base scripts predict child attachment security in an at-risk sample	3
Evaluation of the Developmental Assessment for Intervention Manual (DAIM) for developmental screening in high-risk infants at 12 months of corrected age	3
The reliability and predictive ability of the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP) in a community-based study in Bhaktapur, Nepal	3
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Stability of developmental milestones: Insights from a 44-year analysis	3
The role of preacademic activities and adult-centeredness in mother-child play in educated urban middle-class families from three cultures	3
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	3
Manual exploration of objects is related to 7-month-old infants’ visual preference for real objects	3
Past and present experiences with maternal touch affect infants’ attention toward emotional faces	3

Development of mother-infant co-regulation: The role of infant vagal tone and temperament at 6, 9, and 12 months of age	3
Do foetuses communicate? Foetal responses to interactive versus non-interactive maternal voice and touch: An exploratory analysis	3
Intention-based evaluations of distributive actions by 4-month-olds	3
Infant sleep and negative reactivity: The role of maternal adversity and perinatal sleep	3
Maternal emotional availability relates to two-year-olds’ behavior in a challenging cooperative interaction	3
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood Tool: Level 2 autism spectrum disorder screening in a NICU Follow-up program	3
Does parental autonomy support mediate the relation between parent and infant executive function? A study of mothers and fathers in the Netherlands and China	3
Effects of massage intervention on discharged premature infants’ weight, parental stress, and parent–child attachment: A randomized controlled trial	3
Infant distractibility from social events mediates the relation between maternal responsiveness and infant language outcomes	3
Infants differentiate between successful and failed communication in a false-belief context	3
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	3
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The effect of maternal multisensory stimulations on bath stress in premature infants: A randomized controlled clinical trial	3
Does syntax play a role in Theory of Mind development before the age of 3 years?	3
Group well child care and risk for developmental delay: Preliminary findings among Asian immigrants	3
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	3
Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech	2
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	2
Bimodal familiarization re-sensitizes 12-month-old infants to other-race faces	2
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	2
Relations between infant sleep quality, physiological reactivity, and emotional reactivity to stress at 3 and 6 months	2
Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences	2
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country	2
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	2
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants	2
Changes in patterns of Early Mother-Child Interaction: A longitudinal study of the first 18 months of life	2
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	2
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	2
Parent-infant co-regulation: Ethological, ecological, and cultural approaches	2
Prenatal origins of temperament: Fetal cardiac development & infant surgency, negative affectivity, and regulation/orienting	2
Why do parents use screen media with toddlers? The role of child temperament and parenting stress in early screen use	2
Influences of infants’ and mothers’ contingent vocal responsiveness on young infants’ vocal social bids in the Still Face Task	2
Physical touch during father-infant interactions is associated with paternal oxytocin levels	2
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	2
Emergence of locomotor behaviors: Associations with infant characteristics, developmental status, parental beliefs, and practices in typically developing Brazilian infants aged 5 to 15 months	2
Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security	2
Links between television exposure and toddler dysregulation: Does culture matter?	2
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	2
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	2
Mother and father interaction with their 3-month-old infants: Similarities and differences in parenting behaviour in well-resourced parents	2
Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament	2
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Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	2
Family-level factors of early childhood development: Evidence from rural China	2
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	2
Media exposure and language experience: Examining associations from home observations in Mexican immigrant families in the US	2
Are changes in mothers’ representations of their infants related to changes in observed mother–infant interaction quality?	2
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	2
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	2
Cortisol reactivity and negative affect among preterm infants at 12 months during a mother-infant interaction task	2
Breakdowns and repairs: Communication initiation and effectiveness in infants with and without an older sibling with autism	2
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	2
Comparative efficacy of an early intervention “parent and me” program for infants showing signs of autism: The Baby JASPER model	2
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	2
Predicting externalizing behaviors in typically developing toddlers at 24 months: Insights from parenting at 12 months	2
The temporal dynamics of labelling shape infant object recognition	2
The role of redundant verbal labels in 8- and 10-month-olds’ working memory	2
The direct and indirect effects of parenting behaviors and functional brain network efficiency on self-regulation from infancy to early childhood: A longitudinal mediation model	2
Examining implications of the developmental timing of maternal trauma for prenatal and newborn outcomes	2
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	2
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Mother-infant self- and interactive contingency at four months and infant cognition at one year: A view from microanalysis	2
Fetal SSRI antidepressant exposure and infant sleep: Findings from the MPEWS pregnancy cohort study	2
Lower maternal emotional availability is related to increased attention toward fearful faces during infancy	2
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems	2
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	2
Infant fearful distress, parent intrusiveness, and adversity in families experiencing homelessness	2
Self-regulation in toddlers and the emergence of pre-academic disparities	2
Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving	2
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	2
Parent-child interactions during joint engagement with touchscreen technology: A comparison of younger versus older toddlers	2
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?	2
Learning phonetic categories in infancy: The role of word-context information	2
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language	2
Association between caregiver and infant visual neurocognition	2