Infancy

Papers
(The median citation count of Infancy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic45
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐1925
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism24
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words24
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers22
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Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes20
The Association Between Pointing and Walking in Infants: A Longitudinal Observational Study17
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy16
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure16
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review16
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐1915
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings14
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context13
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood13
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age13
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress12
The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics12
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development12
Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story11
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year11
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy10
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice10
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility10
Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration10
Holistic and Analytic Attention in Infancy: A Cross‐Cultural Study in Sweden and Zimbabwe10
Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study10
Input Properties Shape Word Segmentation Performance Across Child Development: A Computational Modeling Study9
Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts9
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The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD9
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Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies9
Parental Values Are Associated With How Parents Feel About Their Infants' Sleep, but Not the Quality of Infants' Sleep8
How do maternal emotional regulation difficulties modulate the mother–infant behavioral synchrony?8
Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children8
Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress8
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Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep7
Evidence of Cross‐Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness7
An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations7
Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year7
From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development7
The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids7
Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking7
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Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still‐Face Paradigm7
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Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning6
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes6
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Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament6
Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment6
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Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants6
Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions6
Beyond the Dyad: Infant Vocal Cues Organize Conversational‐Turn Taking in Infant‐Toddler Classrooms5
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months5
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition5
Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy5
High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
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Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts5
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families5
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Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants5
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers5
14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled5
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions5
When Is the Still‐Face Not the Still‐Face: Mothers' Behavior in the Face‐to‐Face Still‐Face Procedure and Its Relationship to Infant Arousal5
The Relation Between Goal‐Predictive Gaze Behavior and Imitation—A Live Eye‐Tracking Study in 12‐Month‐Olds4
The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation4
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Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills4
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school4
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Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops4
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts4
Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play4
How labels shape visuocortical processing in infants3
Caregiver Holding, Not Vocalizing, Supports Real‐Time Vagal Regulation3
The influence of the COVID‐19 lockdown on infants' physiological regulation during mother‐father‐infant interactions in Switzerland3
The development of visual attention in early infancy: Insights from a free‐viewing paradigm3
Not all babies are in the same boat: Exploring the effects of socioeconomic status, parental attitudes, and activities during the 2020 COVID‐19 pandemic on early Executive Functions3
Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants3
Processing of visual stimuli following infant directed speech: Attention‐guiding effects of unfamiliar speech3
Distribution of words across the first years of life: A longitudinal analysis of everyday language input to three English‐learning infants3
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Online reach correction in 6‐ and 11‐month‐old infants3
The context of infants' giving gestures in mother‐infant dyads: Typical giving gestures and those contingent on exploration and play3
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Infant screen media and child development: A prospective community study3
Neural Representations of Grasp Congruence During the Emergence of Precision Grasping3
Do face‐to‐face interactions support 6‐month‐olds' understanding of the communicative function of speech?3
The effect of masks on the visual preference for faces in the first year of life3
Prosody outweighs statistics in 6‐month‐old German‐learning infants' speech segmentation3
Background TV and infant‐family interactions: Insights from home observations3
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Infants show negative changes in affect and physiology when re‐experiencing a stressor, its context, and a positive event 24‐h later3
Tempering Temperament: Exploring the Influence of Maternal Mind‐Mindedness on Infant Temperament in Shaping Socioemotional Wellbeing3
Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development2
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Double it up: Vocabulary size comparisons between UK bilingual and monolingual toddlers2
Talker variability shapes early word representations in English‐learning 8‐month‐olds2
Correction to “Comparing Apples to Manzanas and Oranges to Naranjas: A New Measure of English‐Spanish Vocabulary for Dual Language Learners”2
Caregiver encouragement to act on objects is related with crawling infants' receptive language2
A Longitudinal Study of Preterm Infants at 12 and 30 Months: Links Among Object Interactions, Joint Engagement, and Cognitive Development2
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Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English‐Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners2
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Empathy Development: Typical and Atypical Tracks, From Infancy to Early Childhood2
Forms and Functions of Gestures in Preverbal 12‐ to 15‐Months Old Infants2
Time to Talk: Variability in Caregiver‐Child Verbal Engagement During Everyday Activities Sampled From Daylong Recordings2
Infants' Knowledge of Individual Words: Investigating Links Between Parent Report and Looking Time2
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Bilingual Language Input to Infants in Bolivia and the United States2
Barcoding, linear and nonlinear analysis of full‐day leg movements in infants with typical development and infants at risk of developmental disabilities: Cross‐sectional study2
Ten easy steps to conducting transparent, reproducible meta‐analyses for infant researchers2
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Attrition rate in infant fNIRS research: A meta‐analysis2
Brain‐Behavior Associations During Interactions Between Caregivers and Infants2
Relation of infants' and mothers' pointing to infants' vocabulary measured directly and with parental reports2
Presidential Address: Examining Family Media Ecology: A Focus on Convergence2
The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes2
Early social referencing predicts object mastery motivation in infancy: Social antecedents of object mastery motivation2
Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months2
Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word‐action‐object learning in early development2
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Tracking the associative boost in infancy1
Cross‐Cultural Applicability and Psychometric Properties of an Infant Social‐Emotional Screening Instrument1
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What's the point? Infants' and adults' perception of different pointing gestures1
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Attachment security and problematic media use in infancy: A longitudinal study in the United States1
Toward a Causal Science of Early Play?1
Developmental Screening and Family Resilience for Infants and Toddlers in Homeless Shelters1
Toddler's memory and media—Picture book reading and watching video content are associated with memory at 2 years of age1
Early Childhood Development and Family Adaptation During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study1
Learning limb‐specific contingencies in early infancy1
Maternal Experiences of Trauma and Toddler Multisensory Attention Skills in a South African Community Cohort1
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Selective Attention in Early Word Learning: An Eye‐Tracking Study on Viewing Naturalistic Egocentric Scenes1
Seven‐months‐old infants show increased arousal to static emotion body expressions: Evidence from pupil dilation1
A longitudinal study examining the associations between prenatal and postnatal maternal distress and toddler socioemotional developmental during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
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Sustained looking at faces at 5 months of age is associated with socio‐communicative skills in the second year of life1
Infants' Expectations for Helping in Imitators1
Individual Differences in Infants' Speech Segmentation Performance: The Role of Mother‐Infant Cardiac Synchrony1
Qualitative and quantitative aspects of child‐directed parental talk and the relation to 2‐year‐old's developing vocabulary1
Deferred Imitation: A 9‐Month Revolution or an Emerging Ability at 6 Months?1
“My baby is ready to learn”—The role of infant pointing in redirecting maternal responses to be more informative1
Age differences in orienting to faces in dynamic scenes depend on face centering, not visual saliency1
The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study1
To Touch or Not to Touch: The Role of Vocabulary and Object Exploration in Children's Attention to Shape1
Spontaneous movements, motor milestones, and temperament of preterm‐born infants: Associations with mother–infant attunement1
Parent‐Reported Relations Between Vocabulary and Motor Development in Infancy: Differences Between Verbs and Nouns1
Delineating Trajectories of Social‐Emotional Competence in Infants and Toddlers1
Infants' lexical comprehension and lexical anticipation abilities are closely linked in early language development1
Examining Early Vocabulary Growth Trajectories in Late Talkers in a Low‐Income Longitudinal Sample1
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Statistical word segmentation: Anchoring learning across contexts1
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Complementary Feeding Approach and Maternal Communicative Functions During Mealtimes in 12‐Month‐Old Infants1
The Role of Early Maternal Cultural Orientation on Spanish‐English Child‐Directed Speech and Vocabulary Knowledge in Mexican‐American Children1
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