Infant Behavior & Development

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Six-month-olds’ ability to use linguistic cues when interpreting others’ pointing actions	39
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	31
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	27
Identifying when children with visual impairment share attention: A novel protocol and the impact of visual acuity	25
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	25
Birth order, stimulating environment, and maternal factors in developmental outcomes: A longitudinal Mexican study	23
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	22
Learning blossoms: Caregiver-infant interactions in an outdoor garden setting	22
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	21
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	21
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	20
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	20
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	19
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	19
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	19
Cardiac physiological regulation across early infancy: The roles of infant surgency and parental involvement with mothers and fathers	18
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	18
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	18
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Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	17
Number and type of toys affect joint attention of mothers and infants	16
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	16
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	15
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	14
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	14

Maternal secure base scripts predict child attachment security in an at-risk sample	14
Antenatal depression and maternal infant directed speech during the first postnatal year	13
Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving	13
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	13
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep	13
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	12
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	12
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	12
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	12
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures	11
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	11
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	11
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	11
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	11
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	11
The origins of touchscreen competence: Examining infants’ exploration of touchscreens	10
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	10
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment	10
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	10
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	10
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	10
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	10
The privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in early spatial language acquisition	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
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	9
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	9
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	9
Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security	9
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	9
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	9
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	9
Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infants’ vocabulary development	9
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	9
Infant perception of causal motion produced by humans and inanimate objects	9
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	8
Dynamic emotional messages differentially affect 6-month-old infants’ attention to eyes and gaze cues	8
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	8
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	8
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	8
Can infants use video to update mental representations of absent objects?	8
The Welch Emotional Connection Screen: Adapting observational methods to pediatric primary care via resident training	8
Relationship of withdrawn, anxious/depressed and attention problems to cognitive performance in preterm children at 18 months and 36 months of age	7
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	7
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Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	7
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	7
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	7
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants	7
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	7

Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	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
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	7
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings	7
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy	7
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	7
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	6
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	6
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	6
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	6
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	6
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	6
Culture and the organization of infant sleep: A study in the Netherlands and the U.S.A.	6
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	6
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	6
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	6
Digital media and children under 3 years of age	6
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	6
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	6
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	6
Advances in microanalysis: Magnifying the social microscope on mother-infant interactions	6
Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament	5
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country	5
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	5
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood Tool: Level 2 autism spectrum disorder screening in a NICU Follow-up program	5
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	5
Microstate analysis in infancy	5
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Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life	5
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays	5
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
Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents	5
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	5
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Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Quality of the home, daycare and neighborhood environment and the cognitive development of economically disadvantaged children in early childhood: A mediation analysis	5
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems	5
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?	5
The utility of multiple assessments in infancy and toddlerhood to predict middle childhood ADHD symptoms: Temperamental, behavioral, and genetic contributions	5
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants	5
Temperament and sleep behaviors in infants and toddlers living in low-income homes	5
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	5
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	5
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language	4
Role of parenting practices, mother’s personality and depressive symptoms in early child development	4
Are our samples representative? Understanding whether temperament influences infant dropout rates at 3 and 7 months	4
Linking integrity of visual pathways trajectories to visual behavior deficit in very preterm infants	4
Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life	4
Responsiveness in mother-infant social interactions among immigrant and nonmigrant families: Japanese, South Korean, South American, and European American	4
Prelinguistic gesture and developmental abilities: A multi-ethnic comparative study	4
Nonverbal emotion perception and vocabulary in late infancy	4
Soothing touch matters: Patterns of everyday mother-infant physical contact and their real-time physiological implications	4
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Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems	4
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Maternal and foetal exposure to potentially toxic metals of modern weaponry and infant cognitive, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development: The role of breastfeeding	4
Glee in threes: Positive affect synchrony in parent-infant triads is moderated by maternal hair cortisol and parenting stress	4
Co-occurring risk and protective factors and regulatory behavior of infants living in low-income homes	4
Nighttime sleep and physical activity in 6-7 month-old infants	4
Extended kangaroo mother care – Examining the utility of skin-to-skin contact over the first year of life	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
The relationship between home environment and early childhood development of left-behind children under 3 years in rural China	4
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	4
Neonatal neurobehavior and infant temperament amongst offspring born to parents with and without ADHD	4
Maternal psychological functioning mediates the association between infant behavior and subsequent child psychological functioning	4
Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants	4
The effect of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms on mother-infant interaction: The mediating role of antepartum maternal emotional stress	4
Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play	4
Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament	4
Clarifying the developmental association between gesture and later vocabulary for autistic children	4
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	4
Temperament and children’s accuracy and attention during word learning	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
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
Maternal education revisited: Vocabulary growth in English and Spanish from 16 to 30 months of age	3
Context matters: Cortical rhythms in infants across baseline and play	3
Infant and parent heart rates during a babywearing procedure: Evidence for autonomic coregulation	3
Changes in patterns of Early Mother-Child Interaction: A longitudinal study of the first 18 months of life	3
Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences	3
Stability of developmental milestones: Insights from a 44-year analysis	3

Contextual differences in parent-child interactions: A study on toddlers at elevated likelihood of autism and their mothers	3
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament	3
Evaluating canonical babbling ratios extracted from day-long audio recordings in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder	3
Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words	3
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	3
Early developmental changes in infants’ vocal responses in interactions with caregivers	3
Relationship between temperamental dimensions and infant limb movement complexity and dynamic stability	3
Relationship between maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting	3
A new screener predicts toddlers’ language development from age 2–3: The QUILS:TOD	3
Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech	3
Infants' saccadic behavior during 2-dimensional displays of a bounce	3
Masked or not, I smile to you: Exploring full-term and preterm infants' social smiles to adults wearing a protective facemask	3
Developmental cascades of vocal turn-taking connect prelinguistic vocalizing with early language	3
Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age	3
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Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants	3
Effects of a video-feedback intervention on parenting behavior and state anxiety in mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities	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
Toddlers' sensitivity to segmental and suprasegmental mispronunciations of familiar words	3
Self-regulation in toddlers and the emergence of pre-academic disparities	3
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Emergence of locomotor behaviors: Associations with infant characteristics, developmental status, parental beliefs, and practices in typically developing Brazilian infants aged 5 to 15 months	3
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	3
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants	3
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures	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 relationship between home environment affordances and motor development and sensory processing skills in premature infants	2
Maternal emotional availability relates to two-year-olds’ behavior in a challenging cooperative interaction	2
Latino toddlers’ bilingual output and their caregivers’ bilingual input and acculturation	2
When crying turns to hitting: Examining maternal responses to negative affect	2
Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech	2
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development	2
Examining the trajectory of parent emotion talk in mothers of toddlers: A predominantly Latine sample	2
Revisiting intrinsic sex differences in STEM aptitude: Insights from infant development research twenty years after Spelke (2005)	2
Accent variation and the development of speech and language abilities	2
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control	2
Context of digital media use in early childhood: Factors associated with cognitive development up to 36 months of age	2
Infant media use: A harm reduction approach	2
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Perceptual narrowing in face- and speech-perception domains in infancy: A longitudinal approach	2
Developmental links between executive function and emotion regulation in early toddlerhood	2
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood	2
Mediating effects of parent–child dysfunctional interactions in the relationship between parenting distress and social–emotional problems and competencies	2
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	2
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life	2
Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19	2
Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years	2
Developmental trajectories of non-native tone perception differ between monolingual and bilingual infants learning a pitch accent language	2
Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action	2
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors	2
How does sensitivity influence early executive function? A critical review on hot and cool processes	2
Early executive function in context	2
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review	2
Correlation between performance and quantity/variability of leg exploration in a contingency learning task during infancy	2
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Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship	2
Sharing food with infants in Hadza communities in Tanzania	2
Motor developmental trajectories in infants with an elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A prospective cohort study	2
The temporal dynamics of labelling shape infant object recognition	2
Maternal and infant touching behaviours during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying	2
Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression	2
Attachment security and disorganization in infants of mothers with severe psychiatric disorder: Exploring the role of comorbid personality disorder	2
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy	2
Learning to learn from video? 30-month-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding	2
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development	2
Characterization of early skill profiles for infants across varying genetic likelihoods for neurodevelopmental disorders	2
Eye tracking provides no evidence that young infants understand path obstruction	2
Peek-a-who? Exploring the dynamics of early communication with an interactive partner swap paradigm and state space grid visualization	2