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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
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Joint engagement in the home environment is frequent, multimodal, timely, and structured29
Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development28
Beyond talk: Contributions of quantity and quality of communication to language success across socioeconomic strata26
How do toddlers evaluate defensive actions toward third parties?26
What are the building blocks of parent–infant coordinated attention in free‐flowing interaction?25
Cognitive function in toddlers with congenital heart disease: The impact of a stimulating home environment24
Online measures of looking and learning in infancy18
Development and validation of the Early Executive Functions Questionnaire: A carer‐administered measure of Executive Functions suitable for 9‐ to 30‐month‐olds17
The early development of tempo adjustment and synchronization during joint drumming: A study of 18‐ to 42‐month‐old children15
Toward a dimensional model of risk and protective factors influencing children's early cognitive, social, and emotional development during the COVID‐19 pandemic15
The impact of parent and child media use on early parent–infant attachment14
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 Functions14
Experience with research paradigms relates to infants’ direction of preference14
Social interaction targets enhance 13‐month‐old infants' associative learning14
Mechanisms of social evaluation in infancy: A preregistered exploration of infants’ eye‐movement and pupillary responses to prosocial and antisocial events14
A Bayesian meta‐analysis of infants’ ability to perceive audio–visual congruence for speech13
Paid maternal leave is associated with better language and socioemotional outcomes during toddlerhood13
A parent gesture intervention as a means to increase parent declarative pointing and child vocabulary13
Capturing touch in parent–infant interaction: A comparison of methods12
Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking12
The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life12
Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants11
The terrible twos: How children cope with frustration and tantrums and the effect of maternal and paternal behaviors11
Tablet assessment of word comprehension reveals coarse word representations in 18–⁠20‐month‐old toddlers11
The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi‐laboratory study11
Clinically depressed and typically developing mother–infant dyads: Domain base rates and correspondences, relationship contingencies and attunement10
Associations between acoustic features of maternal speech and infants’ emotion regulation following a social stressor10
A self‐comfort oriented pattern of regulatory behavior and avoidant attachment are more likely among infants born moderate‐to‐late preterm10
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families10
Language familiarity influences own‐race face recognition in 9‐ and 12‐month‐old infants9
Multimodal coordination of vocal and gaze behavior in mother–infant dyads across the first year of life9
Sequential learning of emotional faces is statistical at 12 months of age9
Sing for me, Mama! Infants' discrimination of novel vowels in song8
A meta‐analysis of infants’ word‐form recognition8
The effect of masks on the visual preference for faces in the first year of life8
Atypical ERP responses to audiovisual speech integration and sensory responsiveness in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder8
Maternal prenatal mood problems and lower maternal emotional availability associated with lower quality of child's emotional availability and higher negative affect during still‐face procedure8
Symbolic play provides a fertile context for language development8
A longitudinal study of the differential social‐cognitive foundations of early prosocial behaviors8
Infants’ abilities to respond to cues for joint attention vary by family socioeconomic status8
Rule learning transfer across linguistic and visual modalities in 7‐month‐old infants7
Multimodal representational gestures in the transition to multi‐word productions7
Replacing eye trackers in ongoing studies: A comparison of eye‐tracking data quality between the Tobii Pro TX300 and the Tobii Pro Spectrum7
The mountain stream of infant development7
Mother‐infant emotional availability through the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining continuity, stability, and bidirectional associations7
The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study7
Caregivers' everyday moral reasoning predicts young children's aggressive, prosocial, and moral development: Evidence from ambulatory assessment7
Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood7
Talker variability shapes early word representations in English‐learning 8‐month‐olds7
iCatcher: A neural network approach for automated coding of young children's eye movements7
Infants' discrimination of consonant contrasts in the presence and absence of talker variability7
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐197
Infants who experience more adult‐initiated conversations have better expressive language in toddlerhood6
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school6
The development of visual attention in early infancy: Insights from a free‐viewing paradigm6
Specifying links between infants' theory of mind, associative learning, and selective trust6
Attrition rate in infant fNIRS research: A meta‐analysis6
Infant locomotion shapes proximity to adults during everyday play in the U.S.6
Statistical learning in infancy predicts vocabulary size in toddlerhood5
Intersensory processing of faces and voices at 6 months predicts language outcomes at 18, 24, and 36 months of age5
The real‐time effects of parent speech on infants' multimodal attention and dyadic coordination5
Gesture development in infancy: Effects of gender but not bilingualism5
Maternal sensitivity during mealtime and free play: Differences and explanatory factors5
Further evidence for the multidimensional nature of maternal sensitivity: differential links with child socioemotional functioning at preschool age5
Dynamic changes in numerical acuity in 4‐month‐old infants5
Assessing behavior in children aged 12–24 months using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire5
Mismatched response predicts behavioral speech discrimination outcomes in infants with hearing loss and normal hearing5
How experience shapes infants' communicative behaviour: Comparing gaze following in infants with and without pandemic experience4
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility4
Longitudinal assessment of social attention in preterm and term infants: Its relation to social communication and language outcome4
Experienced crawlers avoid real and water drop‐offs, even when they are walking4
Looking represents choosing in toddlers: Exploring the equivalence between multimodal measures in forced‐choice tasks4
Pretending emotions in the early years: The role of language and symbolic play4
Fine‐tuning language discrimination: Bilingual and monolingual infants’ detection of language switching4
Infants born full term and preterm increase the height of anti‐gravity leg movements during a kick‐activated mobile task using a scaffolded task environment4
Automated measurement of infant and mother Duchenne facial expressions in the Face‐to‐Face/Still‐Face4
Infants born preterm and infants born full‐term generate more selective leg joint movement during the scaffolded mobile task4
Understanding developmental cascades and experience: Diversity matters4
Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy4
Attachment and joint attention in infants: The role of expectation4
Qualitative and quantitative aspects of child‐directed parental talk and the relation to 2‐year‐old's developing vocabulary4
Using video observation in the family context: The association between camera‐related behaviors and parental sensitivity4
Spontaneous movements, motor milestones, and temperament of preterm‐born infants: Associations with mother–infant attunement3
The development of infants’ sensitivity to native versus non‐native rhythm3
Discovering category boundaries: The role of comparison in infants’ novel category learning3
Are infants' preferences in the number change detection paradigm driven by sequence patterns?3
Infant screen media and child development: A prospective community study3
Linking maternal psychopathology to children's excessive crying and sleeping problems in a large representative German sample—The mediating role of social isolation and bonding difficulties3
Does surprise enhance infant memory? Assessing the impact of the encoding context on subsequent object recognition3
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition3
Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts3
Patterns of mutual exclusivity and retention: A study of monolingual and bilingual 2‐year‐olds3
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes3
Infant regulation during the pandemic: Associations with maternal response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, well‐being, and socio‐emotional investment3
Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep3
Under the skin: Exploring 2‐month‐olds' thermal reactions in different social interactions with mother and stranger3
Infants’ learning of non‐adjacent regularities from visual sequences3
Tracking the associative boost in infancy3
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers3
Exploring emotional face processing in 5‐month‐olds: The relation with quality of parent–child interaction and spatial frequencies3
How do maternal emotional regulation difficulties modulate the mother–infant behavioral synchrony?3
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Emerging coherence and relations to communication among executive function tasks in toddlers: Evidence from a Latin American sample3
Statistical word segmentation: Anchoring learning across contexts3
Exploring developmental changes in infant anticipation and perceptual processing: EEG responses to tactile stimulation3
Using network analysis to capture developmental change: An illustration from infants’ postural transitions3
From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development3
Infants scan static and dynamic facial expressions differently3
Individuation of agents based on psychological properties in 10 month‐old infants3
Engaging with happy‐sounding music promotes helping behavior in 18‐month‐olds3
Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants3
Infants' identification of gender in biological motion displays3
Associations between observed and reported infant negative affectivity, fear and self‐regulation, and early communicative development—Evidence from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study3
Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months2
Relation of infants' and mothers' pointing to infants' vocabulary measured directly and with parental reports2
Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment2
Seven‐months‐old infants show increased arousal to static emotion body expressions: Evidence from pupil dilation2
Maternal dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia during toddlers’ interactions with novelty2
Infants' preference for speech is stable across the first year of life: Meta‐analytic evidence2
Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies2
Infant vocalizations elicit simplified speech in childcare2
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy2
Probing infants’ sensitivity to pupil size when viewing eyes2
The context of infants' giving gestures in mother‐infant dyads: Typical giving gestures and those contingent on exploration and play2
Do face‐to‐face interactions support 6‐month‐olds' understanding of the communicative function of speech?2
Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress2
Development and validation of the Mindful Parenting in Infancy Scale (MPIS)2
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year2
Does social modeling increase infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods?2
Happy, sad, or yucky? Parental emotion talk with infants in a book‐sharing task2
Responding to joint attention as a developmental catalyst: Longitudinal associations with language and social responsiveness2
Emotion regulation from infancy to toddlerhood: Individual and group trajectories of full‐term and very‐low‐birthweight preterm infants2
Age differences in orienting to faces in dynamic scenes depend on face centering, not visual saliency2
Early psychosocial risk factors and postnatal parental reflective functioning2
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development1
Visual statistical learning in infancy: Discrimination of fine‐grained regularities depends on early test trials1
Persistent symptoms of maternal post‐traumatic stress following childbirth across the first months postpartum: Associations with perturbations in maternal behavior and infant avoidance of social gaze 1
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Double it up: Vocabulary size comparisons between UK bilingual and monolingual toddlers1
Jealousy protest to a social rival compared to a nonsocial rival in Chilean infants 10–20 months' old1
Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes1
The impact of COVID‐19 on infant development: A special issue of infancy1
Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children1
Still connecting the dots: An investigation into infants' attentional bias to threat using an eye‐tracking task1
Left, right, left, right: 24–36‐months‐olds’ planning and execution of simple alternating actions1
Handedness as a major determinant of lateral bias in human functional cradling1
Touch and look: The role of affective touch in promoting infants' attention towards complex visual scenes1
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions1
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers1
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Seeing a talking face matters: Infants' segmentation of continuous auditory‐visual speech1
Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word‐action‐object learning in early development1
Before perceptual narrowing: The emergence of the native sounds of language1
Ten easy steps to conducting transparent, reproducible meta‐analyses for infant researchers1
Visual statistical learning in deaf and hearing infants and toddlers1
What aspects of counting help infants attend to numerosity?1
Background TV and infant‐family interactions: Insights from home observations1
Twelve‐month‐old infants’ physiological responses to music are affected by others’ positive and negative reactions1
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age1
Characterization of children's verbal input in a forager‐farmer population using long‐form audio recordings and diverse input definitions1
Maternal anxiety symptoms associated with increased behavioral synchrony in the early postnatal period1
2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Infants' lexical comprehension and lexical anticipation abilities are closely linked in early language development1
Beyond the familial: The development of emotional communication with mothers, fathers, and strangers1
Genetic vulnerability of exposures to antenatal maternal treatments in 1– to 2‐month‐old infants1
Temperament moderates the effects of early deprivation on infant attention1
The influence of the COVID‐19 lockdown on infants' physiological regulation during mother‐father‐infant interactions in Switzerland1
Boosting the input: 9‐month‐olds’ sensitivity to low‐frequency phonotactic patterns in novel wordforms1
Learning limb‐specific contingencies in early infancy1
Longitudinal transactional relations among young children’s defiance and committed compliance and maternal assertive control1
Prosody outweighs statistics in 6‐month‐old German‐learning infants' speech segmentation1
“Did I just do that?”—Six‐month‐olds learn the contingency between their vocalizations and a visual reward in 5 minutes1
Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills1
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