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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Does social modeling increase infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods?36
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings21
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐1920
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review19
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words18
2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic16
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy15
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism15
Specifying links between infants' theory of mind, associative learning, and selective trust15
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Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐1913
Engaging with happy‐sounding music promotes helping behavior in 18‐month‐olds13
Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes13
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers13
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure13
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress12
Visual statistical learning in infancy: Discrimination of fine‐grained regularities depends on early test trials12
Linguistic and developmental influences on superordinate facial configuration categorization in infancy11
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice10
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Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development10
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age10
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy10
Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story10
How do maternal emotional regulation difficulties modulate the mother–infant behavioral synchrony?9
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility9
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood9
Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies9
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year9
Development and validation of the Early Executive Functions Questionnaire: A carer‐administered measure of Executive Functions suitable for 9‐ to 30‐month‐olds9
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context9
Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study8
Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress8
The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD8
Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts8
Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration8
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Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking6
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Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep6
An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations6
From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development6
Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year6
Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children6
Evidence of Cross‐Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness5
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High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning5
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Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes5
Associations between acoustic features of maternal speech and infants’ emotion regulation following a social stressor5
When dogs meow: An electrophysiological study of lexical–semantic processing in toddlers5
The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids5
Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament5
Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment5
Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions5
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition4
A Bayesian meta‐analysis of infants’ ability to perceive audio–visual congruence for speech4
Fine‐tuning language discrimination: Bilingual and monolingual infants’ detection of language switching4
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Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants4
Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts4
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months4
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Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy4
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14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled4
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families4
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers4
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
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The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation3
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions3
The development of visual attention in early infancy: Insights from a free‐viewing paradigm3
Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops3
Online reach correction in 6‐ and 11‐month‐old infants3
The effect of masks on the visual preference for faces in the first year of life3
Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills3
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts3
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school3
Background TV and infant‐family interactions: Insights from home observations3
Prosody outweighs statistics in 6‐month‐old German‐learning infants' speech segmentation3
Infants scan static and dynamic facial expressions differently3
Replacing eye trackers in ongoing studies: A comparison of eye‐tracking data quality between the Tobii Pro TX300 and the Tobii Pro Spectrum3
Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play3
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When Is the Still‐Face Not the Still‐Face: Mothers' Behavior in the Face‐to‐Face Still‐Face Procedure and Its Relationship to Infant Arousal3
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Infant screen media and child development: A prospective community study2
Infants show negative changes in affect and physiology when re‐experiencing a stressor, its context, and a positive event 24‐h later2
Mechanisms of social evaluation in infancy: A preregistered exploration of infants’ eye‐movement and pupillary responses to prosocial and antisocial events2
Processing of visual stimuli following infant directed speech: Attention‐guiding effects of unfamiliar speech2
Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants2
Forms and Functions of Gestures in Preverbal 12‐ to 15‐Months Old Infants2
Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development2
Do face‐to‐face interactions support 6‐month‐olds' understanding of the communicative function of speech?2
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How labels shape visuocortical processing in infants2
Attrition rate in infant fNIRS research: A meta‐analysis2
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Distribution of words across the first years of life: A longitudinal analysis of everyday language input to three English‐learning infants2
The influence of the COVID‐19 lockdown on infants' physiological regulation during mother‐father‐infant interactions in Switzerland2
The context of infants' giving gestures in mother‐infant dyads: Typical giving gestures and those contingent on exploration and play2
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Exploring developmental changes in infant anticipation and perceptual processing: EEG responses to tactile stimulation2
Infants' Knowledge of Individual Words: Investigating Links Between Parent Report and Looking Time1
Learning limb‐specific contingencies in early infancy1
Barcoding, linear and nonlinear analysis of full‐day leg movements in infants with typical development and infants at risk of developmental disabilities: Cross‐sectional study1
Correction to “Comparing Apples to Manzanas and Oranges to Naranjas: A New Measure of English‐Spanish Vocabulary for Dual Language Learners”1
The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes1
Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word‐action‐object learning in early development1
Double it up: Vocabulary size comparisons between UK bilingual and monolingual toddlers1
Symbolic play provides a fertile context for language development1
Age differences in orienting to faces in dynamic scenes depend on face centering, not visual saliency1
Qualitative and quantitative aspects of child‐directed parental talk and the relation to 2‐year‐old's developing vocabulary1
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Assessing behavior in children aged 12–24 months using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire1
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Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months1
The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study1
Early social referencing predicts object mastery motivation in infancy: Social antecedents of object mastery motivation1
Infants' identification of gender in biological motion displays1
A Longitudinal Study of Preterm Infants at 12 and 30 Months: Links Among Object Interactions, Joint Engagement, and Cognitive Development1
Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English‐Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners1
Ten easy steps to conducting transparent, reproducible meta‐analyses for infant researchers1
Bilingual Language Input to Infants in Bolivia and the United States1
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
Individual Differences in Infants' Speech Segmentation Performance: The Role of Mother‐Infant Cardiac Synchrony1
Happy, sad, or yucky? Parental emotion talk with infants in a book‐sharing task1
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Caregiver encouragement to act on objects is related with crawling infants' receptive language1
Tracking the associative boost in infancy1
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“My baby is ready to learn”—The role of infant pointing in redirecting maternal responses to be more informative1
Boosting the input: 9‐month‐olds’ sensitivity to low‐frequency phonotactic patterns in novel wordforms1
Relation of infants' and mothers' pointing to infants' vocabulary measured directly and with parental reports1
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Talker variability shapes early word representations in English‐learning 8‐month‐olds1
To Touch or Not to Touch: The Role of Vocabulary and Object Exploration in Children's Attention to Shape1
Toddler's memory and media—Picture book reading and watching video content are associated with memory at 2 years of age1
Maternal Experiences of Trauma and Toddler Multisensory Attention Skills in a South African Community Cohort1
Language familiarity influences own‐race face recognition in 9‐ and 12‐month‐old infants1
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