Infant Behavior & Development

Article	Citations
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	27
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	27
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	23
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	23
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	22
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	21
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	20
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	19
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	19
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	19
Home learning environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Associations with young children’s cognitive and socioemotional development	18
Editorial Board	15
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	15
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	15
Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Executive Function and Memory measures	14
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	14
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	14
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	14
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep	13
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	13
Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving	13
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	13
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	12
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	12
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	12

Maternal secure base scripts predict child attachment security in an at-risk sample	11
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	11
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	11
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	11
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	11
Advances in understanding the perception-production link: Evidence from infant eye, brain, and motor behavior	10
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	10
Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions	10
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	10
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development	9
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years	9
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment	9
Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling	9
The privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in early spatial language acquisition	9
Do infants expect physically competent agents to gain access to contested resources?	9
Remote screening protocol for functioning and contextual factors (e-Followkids) in Brazilian children with biological risk in the first 2 years: A longitudinal prospective study	9
Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security	9
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	9
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	9
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	8
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	8
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	8
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	8
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	8
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	8
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	8
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures	8
Emotion regulation in infancy through the lens of individual differences: Insights and future directions	8
Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions	8
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	7
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	7
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	7
Let’s make music as we normally do: A systematic review of how early natural musical interactions between infant and caregiver have been studied in research	7
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	7
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	7
The Welch Emotional Connection Screen: Adapting observational methods to pediatric primary care via resident training	7
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	7
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy	7
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	7
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	7
Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers	7
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	7
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	7
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings	6
Relationship of withdrawn, anxious/depressed and attention problems to cognitive performance in preterm children at 18 months and 36 months of age	6
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	6
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	6
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants	6
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Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research	6

Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	6
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	6
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	6
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	5
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood Tool: Level 2 autism spectrum disorder screening in a NICU Follow-up program	5
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	5
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	5
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	5
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	5
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	5
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	5
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	5
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants	5
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	5
Editorial Board	5
Temperament and sleep behaviors in infants and toddlers living in low-income homes	5
Composite scores for the NIH Baby Toolbox®	5
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	5
The effect of telephone-assisted breastfeeding monitoring on physiological jaundice, exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months, development of colic, and breastfeeding self-efficacy: A randomize	5
Editorial Board	5
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	5
Microstate analysis in infancy	5
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	5
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Digital media and children under 3 years of age	5
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	5
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	5
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	5
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	5
Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament	5
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Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament	4
Maternal psychological functioning mediates the association between infant behavior and subsequent child psychological functioning	4
Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life	4
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language	4
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays	4
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?	4
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	4
Extended kangaroo mother care – Examining the utility of skin-to-skin contact over the first year of life	4
Indigenous infant development: Reconciling the past and grounding future praxis in Indigenous worldviews and strengths-based approaches	4
Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants	4
Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study	4
Infants' reasoning about social hierarchies: Key insights from the past 25 years and a research agenda for the next 25 years	4
Neonatal neurobehavior and infant temperament amongst offspring born to parents with and without ADHD	4
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems	4
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country	4
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	4
Soothing touch matters: Patterns of everyday mother-infant physical contact and their real-time physiological implications	4
Maternal and foetal exposure to potentially toxic metals of modern weaponry and infant cognitive, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development: The role of breastfeeding	4
Prelinguistic gesture and developmental abilities: A multi-ethnic comparative study	4
Are our samples representative? Understanding whether temperament influences infant dropout rates at 3 and 7 months	4
Bringing developmental assessment to the 21st century: The NIH Baby Toolbox	4
Temperament and children’s accuracy and attention during word learning	4
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems	4
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	4
Nonverbal emotion perception and vocabulary in late infancy	4
The utility of multiple assessments in infancy and toddlerhood to predict middle childhood ADHD symptoms: Temperamental, behavioral, and genetic contributions	4
The relationship between home environment and early childhood development of left-behind children under 3 years in rural China	4
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Clarifying the developmental association between gesture and later vocabulary for autistic children	4
Role of parenting practices, mother’s personality and depressive symptoms in early child development	4
Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age	3
Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants	3
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures	3
Expanding the toolbox: 25 years of methodological change in infant research	3
Experience matters: Caregiver interactions with later-born toddlers with autism	3
Glee in threes: Positive affect synchrony in parent-infant triads is moderated by maternal hair cortisol and parenting stress	3
NIH Baby Toolbox® methodology and norms development	3
Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life	3
Masked or not, I smile to you: Exploring full-term and preterm infants' social smiles to adults wearing a protective facemask	3
Stability of developmental milestones: Insights from a 44-year analysis	3
Maternal education revisited: Vocabulary growth in English and Spanish from 16 to 30 months of age	3
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament	3
Contextual differences in parent-child interactions: A study on toddlers at elevated likelihood of autism and their mothers	3
Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words	3
Imitation among infants in a day-care center and the development of locomotion	3
Instruments to measure interaction of mothers and newborns: A systematic review	3
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	3
Linking integrity of visual pathways trajectories to visual behavior deficit in very preterm infants	3
Responsiveness in mother-infant social interactions among immigrant and nonmigrant families: Japanese, South Korean, South American, and European American	3

Early developmental changes in infants’ vocal responses in interactions with caregivers	3
Effects of a video-feedback intervention on parenting behavior and state anxiety in mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities	3
Infants' saccadic behavior during 2-dimensional displays of a bounce	3
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	3
Developmental cascades of vocal turn-taking connect prelinguistic vocalizing with early language	3
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants	3
Evaluating canonical babbling ratios extracted from day-long audio recordings in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder	3
The infant neural mirroring system: A quarter-century in review	3
The effect of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms on mother-infant interaction: The mediating role of antepartum maternal emotional stress	3
Nighttime sleep and physical activity in 6-7 month-old infants	3
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Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play	3
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	3
Context matters: Cortical rhythms in infants across baseline and play	3
Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech	3
Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression	2
Motor developmental trajectories in infants with an elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A prospective cohort study	2
Correlation between performance and quantity/variability of leg exploration in a contingency learning task during infancy	2
How does sensitivity influence early executive function? A critical review on hot and cool processes	2
Context of digital media use in early childhood: Factors associated with cognitive development up to 36 months of age	2
A matter of time: Developmental cascades for developmental science	2
Changes in patterns of Early Mother-Child Interaction: A longitudinal study of the first 18 months of life	2
Relationship between temperamental dimensions and infant limb movement complexity and dynamic stability	2
Characterization of early skill profiles for infants across varying genetic likelihoods for neurodevelopmental disorders	2
Examining the trajectory of parent emotion talk in mothers of toddlers: A predominantly Latine sample	2
Longitudinal study of early bite profiles as predictors of eating behaviors in children: Food responsiveness and emotional overeating	2
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors	2
Maternal and infant touching behaviours during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying	2
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy	2
Diverse language experiences in deaf infants and in hearing infants with deaf parents: 25 years of improved understanding and recognition	2
Attachment security and disorganization in infants of mothers with severe psychiatric disorder: Exploring the role of comorbid personality disorder	2
Early executive function in context	2
Eye tracking provides no evidence that young infants understand path obstruction	2
A new screener predicts toddlers’ language development from age 2–3: The QUILS:TOD	2
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	2
Infant and parent heart rates during a babywearing procedure: Evidence for autonomic coregulation	2
Self-regulation in toddlers and the emergence of pre-academic disparities	2
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life	2
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development	2
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control	2
Accent variation and the development of speech and language abilities	2
Revisiting intrinsic sex differences in STEM aptitude: Insights from infant development research twenty years after Spelke (2005)	2
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	2
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review	2
The relationship between home environment affordances and motor development and sensory processing skills in premature infants	2
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Relationship between maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting	2
Toddlers' sensitivity to segmental and suprasegmental mispronunciations of familiar words	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
Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech	2
Sensitivity To natural scene statistics in infancy and its impact on development	2
Developmental links between executive function and emotion regulation in early toddlerhood	2
Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years	2