Infant Behavior & Development

Article	Citations
Neuroendocrine mechanisms involved in the physiological effects caused by skin-to-skin contact – With a particular focus on the oxytocinergic system	56
Why do parents use screen media with toddlers? The role of child temperament and parenting stress in early screen use	27
Screen time in 36-month-olds at increased likelihood for ASD and ADHD	24
The interplay between early social interaction, language and executive function development in deaf and hearing infants	23
Physical touch during father-infant interactions is associated with paternal oxytocin levels	22
Infant screen media usage and social-emotional functioning	22
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development	22
Media exposure and language for toddlers from low-income homes	21
Screen use before bedtime: Consequences for nighttime sleep in young children	19
Screens across the pond: Findings from longitudinal screen time research in the US and UK	19
Dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry in mother-infant dyads: Insights from the Still Face Paradigm	18
Associations between touchscreen exposure and hot and cool inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants	16
Intention-based evaluations of distributive actions by 4-month-olds	15
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review	15
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	15
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	15
Infant media use: A harm reduction approach	14
A method for measuring dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in infants and mothers	13
The longitudinal associations between temperament and sleep during the first year of life	13
Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action	13
Does texting interrupt imitation learning in 19-month-old infants?	13
A longitudinal examination of daily amounts of screen time and technoference in infants aged 2–11 months and associations with maternal sociodemographic factors	13
Music therapy enhances preterm infant’s signs of engagement and sustains maternal singing in the NICU	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
Exposure to electronic media between 6 and 24 months of age: An exploratory study	13

To have and to hold: Effects of physical contact on infants and their caregivers	12
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	12
Object play in the everyday home environment generates rich opportunities for infant learning	12
Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infants’ vocabulary development	12
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	12
Continuous measurement of attachment behavior: A multimodal view of the strange situation procedure	12
Quality of the home, daycare and neighborhood environment and the cognitive development of economically disadvantaged children in early childhood: A mediation analysis	12
Examining joint parent-child interactions involving infants and toddlers when introducing mobile technology	12
Parent-child interaction during the first year of life in infants at elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder	12
The temporal dimension in the understanding of maternal sensitivity in caregiver-infant interactions: The ‘Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System’	11
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	11
Design and validation of a smart garment to measure positioning practices of parents with young infants	11
Vocal imitation between mothers and infants	11
Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study	11
The relationship between temperamental dimensions and inhibitory control in early childhood: Implications for language acquisition	11
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood	11
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	11
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	10
Does syntax play a role in Theory of Mind development before the age of 3 years?	10
War trauma and infant motor, cognitive, and socioemotional development: Maternal mental health and dyadic interaction as explanatory processes	10
Effects of maternal depressive symptoms on sensitivity to infant distress and non-distress: Role of SES and race	10
Looking deeper into the toy box: Understanding caregiver toy selection decisions	10
Cultural influences on face scanning are consistent across infancy and adulthood	10
Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents	10
Revisiting how we operationalize joint attention	10
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	9
Do foetuses communicate? Foetal responses to interactive versus non-interactive maternal voice and touch: An exploratory analysis	9
Prosocial television and prosocial toddlers: A multi-method, longitudinal investigation	9
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life	9
Cross-linguistic comparison of utterance shapes in Korean- and English-learning children: An ambient language effect	9
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	9
Infant speech perception and cognitive skills as predictors of later vocabulary	9
Parental decision-making: infant engagement with smartphones	9
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	9
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	9
How 9-month-old crawling infants profit from visual-manual rotations in a mental rotation task	8
A working memory span task for toddlers	8
Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship	8
Hair sampling for cortisol analysis with mother-toddler dyads living in low-income homes	8
Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences	8
Sensing everyday activity: Parent perceptions and feasibility	8
Developmental changes in the brain response to speech during the first year of life: A near-infrared spectroscopy study of dutch-learning infants	8
Links between television exposure and toddler dysregulation: Does culture matter?	8
Parent-child interactions during joint engagement with touchscreen technology: A comparison of younger versus older toddlers	7
Frequency of Gesture Use and Language in Typically Developing Prelinguistic Children	7
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	7
Foundations of attention sharing: Orienting and responding to attention in term and preterm 5-month-old infants	7
What about the babies? A critical review of infants’ and toddlers’ absence in homelessness scholarship	7
Do motor skills impact on language development between 18 and 30 months of age?	7
Attentional orienting abilities in bilinguals: Evidence from a large infant sample	7

Sleep problems and infant motor and cognitive development across the first two years of life: The Beijing Longitudinal Study	7
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	7
Changing the logic of replication: A case from infant studies	7
The origins of touchscreen competence: Examining infants’ exploration of touchscreens	7
Past and present experiences with maternal touch affect infants’ attention toward emotional faces	7
Media exposure and language experience: Examining associations from home observations in Mexican immigrant families in the US	7
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	7
Toddler word learning from contingent screens with and without human presence	6
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development	6
Does Postpartum Depression Affect Parental Embodied Mentalizing in Mothers With 4-Months old Infants?	6
Processes and pathways in development via digital media: Examples from word learning	6
Mother-Infant Interaction Kinect Analysis (MIIKA): An automatic kinematic-based methodology for the investigation of interpersonal distance during early exchanges	6
Manual exploration of objects is related to 7-month-old infants’ visual preference for real objects	6
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	6
Social context influences infants’ ability to extract statistical information from a sequence of gestures	6
Early vocabulary development: Relationships with prelinguistic skills and early social-emotional/behavioral problems and competencies	6
Primary caregiver emotional expressiveness relates to toddler emotion understanding	6
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	6
Influences of infants’ and mothers’ contingent vocal responsiveness on young infants’ vocal social bids in the Still Face Task	6
Preterm birth and maternal sensitivity: Findings from a non-western country	6
The cultural specificity of parent-infant interaction: Perspectives of urban middle-class and rural indigenous families in Costa Rica	6
Number and type of toys affect joint attention of mothers and infants	6
A comprehensive model of women’s social cognition and responsiveness to infant crying: Integrating personality, emotion, executive function, and sleep	6
Self-face perception in 12-month-old infants: A study using the morphing technique	6
Development of mother-infant co-regulation: The role of infant vagal tone and temperament at 6, 9, and 12 months of age	6
Infant looking preferences towards dynamic faces: A systematic review	6
Stability and structure of infant and toddler temperament in two longitudinal studies in Germany	5
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	5
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	5
Eating in Synch: An investigation of parent-infant behaviour coordination during feeding interactions	5
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants	5
Peek-a-who? Exploring the dynamics of early communication with an interactive partner swap paradigm and state space grid visualization	5
Insight into toddlers’ motivation to help: From social participants to prosocial contributors	5
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems	5
Microstate analysis in infancy	5
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	5
Infant sleep arrangements, infant-parent sleep, and parenting during the first six months post-partum	5
Disrupted or delayed? Stress discrimination among preterm as compared to full-term infants during the first year of life	5
Perceptual narrowing in face- and speech-perception domains in infancy: A longitudinal approach	5
Attentional engagement during syllable discrimination: The role of salient prosodic cues in 6- to 8-month-old infants	5
Auditory joint attention skills: Development and diagnostic differences during infancy	5
Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving	5
Infant sleep behaviors relate to their later cognitive and language abilities and morning cortisol stress hormone levels	5
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	5
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors	5
But that’s possible! Infants, pupils, and impossible events	4
Learning to learn from video? 30-month-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding	4
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	4
Epigenetics and behavioral development	4
Infant sleep and negative reactivity: The role of maternal adversity and perinatal sleep	4
What’s an early triadic interaction made of? A methodological proposal to study the musical dynamics of interaction	4
Advances in microanalysis: Magnifying the social microscope on mother-infant interactions	4
Prevalence and Predictors of Background Television Among Infants and Toddlers from Low-Income Homes	4
Culture and the organization of infant sleep: A study in the Netherlands and the U.S.A.	4
Toddler emotion expressions and emotional traits: Associations with parent-toddler verbal conversation	4
Are our samples representative? Understanding whether temperament influences infant dropout rates at 3 and 7 months	4
Emotional facial expressions affect visual rule learning in 7- to 8-month-old infants	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
The privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in early spatial language acquisition	4
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep	4
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	4
The memory benefits of two naps per day during infancy: A pilot investigation	4
Developmental links between executive function and emotion regulation in early toddlerhood	4
Identifying when children with visual impairment share attention: A novel protocol and the impact of visual acuity	4
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	4
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	4
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures	4
Prenatal origins of temperament: Fetal cardiac development & infant surgency, negative affectivity, and regulation/orienting	4
Context matters: Cortical rhythms in infants across baseline and play	4
Maternal psychosocial predictors of pacifier use in a mother-infant interaction task: An observational study from the MPEWS pregnancy cohort	4
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	4
Influence of perinatal complications on the development of a sample of 36-month-old premature infants	4
Learning blossoms: Caregiver-infant interactions in an outdoor garden setting	4
The effects of massage velocity on heart rate and heart rate variability in healthy infants: A randomized crossover study	3
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	3
The Welch Emotional Connection Screen: Adapting observational methods to pediatric primary care via resident training	3
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	3
Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament	3
The effect of maternal multisensory stimulations on bath stress in premature infants: A randomized controlled clinical trial	3
Neurophysiology of sustained attention in early infancy: Investigating longitudinal relations with recognition memory outcomes	3

Relationship of withdrawn, anxious/depressed and attention problems to cognitive performance in preterm children at 18 months and 36 months of age	3
The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants	3
Parent-child interaction and developmental outcomes in children with typical and elevated likelihood of autism	3
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	3
Role of parenting practices, mother’s personality and depressive symptoms in early child development	3
The vocal dialogue in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants: Specificities of co-regulation	3
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	3
Infants Oscillatory Frequencies change during Free-Play	3
6- to 9-Month old infants discriminate vowel durations in variable speech contexts	3
Negative affectivity moderated by preterm birth predicted toddlers’ behavior problems	3
Antenatal depression and maternal infant directed speech during the first postnatal year	3
The temporal dynamics of labelling shape infant object recognition	3
Nighttime sleep and physical activity in 6-7 month-old infants	3
An investigation of mental rotation in infancy using change detection	3
Mother–infant social and language interactions at 3 months are associated with infants’ productive language development in the third year of life	3
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures	3
Maternal and infant touching behaviours during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying	3
Co-occurring risk and protective factors and regulatory behavior of infants living in low-income homes	3
Ecological momentary assessment of parent-child attachment via technological devices: A systematic methodological review	3
Novel and noninvasive methods for in-home sleep measurement and subsequent state coding in 12-month-old infants	3
Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play	3
Infants’ sensitivity to emotional expressions in actions: The contributions of parental expressivity and motor experience	3
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	3
Toddler negative emotion expression and parent-toddler verbal conversation: Evidence from daylong recordings	3
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	3
Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech	3
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	3
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	3
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	3
Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19	3
Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament	3
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control	3
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood Tool: Level 2 autism spectrum disorder screening in a NICU Follow-up program	2
The effects of live parental infant-directed singing on infants, parents, and the parent-infant dyad: A systematic review of the literature	2
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	2
Comparative efficacy of an early intervention “parent and me” program for infants showing signs of autism: The Baby JASPER model	2
The relationship between pitch contours in infant-directed speech and early signs of autism in infancy	2
Developmental cascades of vocal turn-taking connect prelinguistic vocalizing with early language	2
Interweaving social and manipulative development in early infancy: Some direction for infant caregiving	2
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament	2
Infants’ behaviours elicit different verbal, nonverbal, and multimodal responses from caregivers during early play	2
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	2
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	2
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development	2
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	2
Prenatal exposure to maternal depression is related to the functional connectivity organization underlying emotion perception in 8-10-month-old infants – Preliminary findings	2
Coding infant engagement in the Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm using deep neural networks	2
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	2
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	2
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	2
Infant distractibility from social events mediates the relation between maternal responsiveness and infant language outcomes	2
Visual disengagement in young infants in relation to age, sex, SES, developmental level and adaptive functioning	2
Labels and object categorization in six- and nine-month-olds: tracking labels across varying carrier phrases	2
Acquiring verbal reference: The interplay of cognitive, linguistic, and general learning capacities	2
How does sensitivity influence early executive function? A critical review on hot and cool processes	2
The interplay between language acquisition and cognitive development	2
Methodological advances in the characterization and understanding of caregiver-infant interactions	2
Digital media and children under 3 years of age	2
Validation of a measure of injury-risk behaviors in the first 2 years of life: Infant/Toddler-Injury Behavior Questionnaire (IT-IBQ)	2
Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age	2
A time series analysis of the relation between motor skill acquisition and sleep in infancy	2
Predictors of executive function among 2 year olds from a Thai birth cohort	2
Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security	2
Birth order, stimulating environment, and maternal factors in developmental outcomes: A longitudinal Mexican study	2
Self-regulation in toddlers and the emergence of pre-academic disparities	2
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy	2
Examining implications of the developmental timing of maternal trauma for prenatal and newborn outcomes	2
Prior sleep timing and visual recognition of emotional faces in 6-month-old infants	2
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	2
Quality of mother-infant interaction, breastfeeding, and perinatal mental health	2
Evaluation of the Developmental Assessment for Intervention Manual (DAIM) for developmental screening in high-risk infants at 12 months of corrected age	2
Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech	2
The role of preacademic activities and adult-centeredness in mother-child play in educated urban middle-class families from three cultures	2
Temporal coordination between maternal looming and infant gaze in depressed and nondepressed dyads: A bootstrapping approach	2
Maternal mind-mindedness over infants’ first three months	2
Look at Grandma! Joint visual attention over video chat during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Children’s scale errors and object processing: Early evidence for cross-cultural differences	2
Cardiac physiological regulation across early infancy: The roles of infant surgency and parental involvement with mothers and fathers	2
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	2
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	2
Object label and category knowledge among toddlers at risk for autism spectrum disorder: An application of the visual array task	2
Six-month-olds’ ability to use linguistic cues when interpreting others’ pointing actions	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
Oxytocin attenuates racial categorization in 14-month-old infants	2
Relationship between maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting	2
Instruments to measure interaction of mothers and newborns: A systematic review	2
Mother and father interaction with their 3-month-old infants: Similarities and differences in parenting behaviour in well-resourced parents	2
Family-level factors of early childhood development: Evidence from rural China	2
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	2
Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants	2