Infant Behavior & Development

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Parent Well-Being and Language Input Predict Child Face-Voice Matching and Expressive Language Outcomes	41
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	33
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	25
Leveraging ubiquitous mobile sensors to track infant expressions and movements	21
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	19
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	19
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German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	17
Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Executive Function and Memory measures	16
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	16
Home learning environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Associations with young children’s cognitive and socioemotional development	15
Applying a Transformer-based machine-learning model to classify caregiver and infant behaviours during dyadic interactions	14
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	14
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	14
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	14
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	14
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	13
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	13
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	13
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	13
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	12
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	12
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	12
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	12
Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions	12

The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	11
A qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of infant and toddler sleep and feeding during the United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown(s)	11
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	11
Advances in understanding the perception-production link: Evidence from infant eye, brain, and motor behavior	11
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	11
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years	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
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	10
Emotion regulation in infancy through the lens of individual differences: Insights and future directions	9
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Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions	9
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	9
Do infants expect physically competent agents to gain access to contested resources?	9
Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling	9
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	8
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	8
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	8
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	8
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	8
German-learning infants recognize common nouns without additional frequency cues	8
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	8
Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers	8
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	8
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	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
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	8
Understanding early aggression: Empirically derived guidance on type, frequency, and severity in infants and toddlers	8
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	8
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	8
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	8
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
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	7
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Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	7
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	7
Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research	7
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	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
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	7
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	6
Investigating parental scaffolding and visual experiences in toddlers with autism and high familial likelihood for later autism diagnosis: A head-mounted eye-tracker study	6
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	6
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Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	6
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	6
Caregivers’ vocabulary use for children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing during the first year of post-activation	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
A quarter century review of research on infant behavior	6
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	6
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants	6
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	6
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	6
Expectations for infant temperament, maternal emotion regulation, and infant social-emotional adjustment among unmarried, Black mothers	6
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Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Composite scores for the NIH Baby Toolbox®	6
Predicting infant social attention: The role of temperament and mother-child interaction	6
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Maternal psychological functioning mediates the association between infant behavior and subsequent child psychological functioning	5
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language	5
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	5
Measuring across modalities: Protophones as acoustic attention-getters in infant object communication	5
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems	5
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	5
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems	5
Temperament and children’s accuracy and attention during word learning	5
Clarifying the developmental association between gesture and later vocabulary for autistic children	5
Responsiveness in mother-infant social interactions among immigrant and nonmigrant families: Japanese, South Korean, South American, and European American	5
Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study	5
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	5
Neonatal neurobehavior and infant temperament amongst offspring born to parents with and without ADHD	5
Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life	5
Nonverbal emotion perception and vocabulary in late infancy	5
Better reflective functioning in mothers linked to longer joint attention with infants	5
The utility of multiple assessments in infancy and toddlerhood to predict middle childhood ADHD symptoms: Temperamental, behavioral, and genetic contributions	5
Humour from 12 to 36 months: Insights into children’s socio-cognitive and language development	5
Soothing touch matters: Patterns of everyday mother-infant physical contact and their real-time physiological implications	5
Maternal and foetal exposure to potentially toxic metals of modern weaponry and infant cognitive, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development: The role of breastfeeding	5
Prelinguistic gesture and developmental abilities: A multi-ethnic comparative study	5
Bringing developmental assessment to the 21st century: The NIH Baby Toolbox	5
The relationship between home environment and early childhood development of left-behind children under 3 years in rural China	5
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays	5
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	5
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country	5
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?	5
Microstate analysis in infancy	5
Infants' reasoning about social hierarchies: Key insights from the past 25 years and a research agenda for the next 25 years	5
Before first words: Infants’ ability to map words to goals	5
Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament	5
Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age	4
Developmental cascades of vocal turn-taking connect prelinguistic vocalizing with early language	4
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The role of parental emotional factors in toddler’s amount of screen use	4
Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play	4
Glee in threes: Positive affect synchrony in parent-infant triads is moderated by maternal hair cortisol and parenting stress	4
NIH Baby Toolbox® methodology and norms development	4
Experience matters: Caregiver interactions with later-born toddlers with autism	4
Expanding the toolbox: 25 years of methodological change in infant research	4
Effects of a video-feedback intervention on parenting behavior and state anxiety in mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities	4
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament	4
Contextual differences in parent-child interactions: A study on toddlers at elevated likelihood of autism and their mothers	4
Early developmental changes in infants’ vocal responses in interactions with caregivers	4
Evaluating canonical babbling ratios extracted from day-long audio recordings in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder	4
Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants	4
Instruments to measure interaction of mothers and newborns: A systematic review	4
Extended kangaroo mother care – Examining the utility of skin-to-skin contact over the first year of life	4
Daylong patterns of object-centric interaction in two subsistence societies	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	4
What have we learned about infant visual attention in the first 25 years of the 21st century?	4
Masked or not, I smile to you: Exploring full-term and preterm infants' social smiles to adults wearing a protective facemask	4
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures	4
Imitation among infants in a day-care center and the development of locomotion	4
The effect of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms on mother-infant interaction: The mediating role of antepartum maternal emotional stress	4
Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life	4
Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants	4
Indigenous infant development: Reconciling the past and grounding future praxis in Indigenous worldviews and strengths-based approaches	4
Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words	4
The infant neural mirroring system: A quarter-century in review	4
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants	4
Diverse language experiences in deaf infants and in hearing infants with deaf parents: 25 years of improved understanding and recognition	3
Early contributions of observed and parent-reported gesture to language development in children enrolled in early intervention	3
Unpacking temperamental risk: Interactions among infant temperamental domains of reactivity and regulation differentially predict attention-deficit/hyperactivity and anxiety/depression symptoms	3
Maternal and infant touching behaviours during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying	3
Relationship between temperamental dimensions and infant limb movement complexity and dynamic stability	3
Multidisciplinary interventions to promote tummy time practice and developmental outcomes in infants: A scoping review	3

Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech	3
A new screener predicts toddlers’ language development from age 2–3: The QUILS:TOD	3
Relationship between maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting	3
Characterization of early skill profiles for infants across varying genetic likelihoods for neurodevelopmental disorders	3
Attachment security and disorganization in infants of mothers with severe psychiatric disorder: Exploring the role of comorbid personality disorder	3
Motor developmental trajectories in infants with an elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A prospective cohort study	3
Exploring size-action and number-action associations in infancy	3
How does sensitivity influence early executive function? A critical review on hot and cool processes	3
Changes in patterns of Early Mother-Child Interaction: A longitudinal study of the first 18 months of life	3
Stability of developmental milestones: Insights from a 44-year analysis	3
Infants' saccadic behavior during 2-dimensional displays of a bounce	3
Context of digital media use in early childhood: Factors associated with cognitive development up to 36 months of age	3
Self-regulation in toddlers and the emergence of pre-academic disparities	3
The relationship between home environment affordances and motor development and sensory processing skills in premature infants	3
Exploring associations between maternal mental health and infant regulatory behaviors at 6 months in the home environment: Zooming in on maternal anxiety	3
Accent variation and the development of speech and language abilities	3
Neurodevelopmental trajectories of face processing in infants: A review and future directions	3
Early executive function in context	3
Infant and parent heart rates during a babywearing procedure: Evidence for autonomic coregulation	3
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
Early spontaneous movements in full-term infants exposed to gestational diabetes mellitus	3
A matter of time: Developmental cascades for developmental science	3
Toddlers' sensitivity to segmental and suprasegmental mispronunciations of familiar words	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
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development	3
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control	2
Sequential communication patterns reflecting building blocks of conversation: Associations with toddler temperament and mother and father sensitivity	2
Social dynamics of supported walking in 11-month-old infants	2
Family-level factors of early childhood development: Evidence from rural China	2
Latino toddlers’ bilingual output and their caregivers’ bilingual input and acculturation	2
Caregiver broader autism phenotype does not moderate the effect of early caregiver-mediated support on infant language outcomes	2
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors	2
A new online paradigm to measure spontaneous pointing in infants and caregivers	2
Group well child care and risk for developmental delay: Preliminary findings among Asian immigrants	2
Are maternal and paternal bonding problems associated with child sleep problems at 8 and 24 months?	2
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech and language development in infants with an elevated likelihood of autism: A developmental review	2
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development	2
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	2
Corrigendum to “Neurophysiology of sustained attention in early infancy: Investigating longitudinal relations with recognition memory outcomes” [Infant Behavior and Development 70 (2023) 101807]	2
Revisiting intrinsic sex differences in STEM aptitude: Insights from infant development research twenty years after Spelke (2005)	2
Effects of massage intervention on discharged premature infants’ weight, parental stress, and parent–child attachment: A randomized controlled trial	2
Different patterns of association between maternal mental health and infant negative affect subdomains: Findings from the Germina cohort	2
Successful sensitization of 2.5-year-olds to other-race faces through bimodal training	2
Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19	2
Maternal anxiety and toddler depressive/anxiety behaviors: The direct and moderating role of children's focused attention	2
Sharing food with infants in Hadza communities in Tanzania	2
Mother-infant self- and interactive contingency at four months and infant cognition at one year: A view from microanalysis	2
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Longitudinal study of early bite profiles as predictors of eating behaviors in children: Food responsiveness and emotional overeating	2
Comparative efficacy of an early intervention “parent and me” program for infants showing signs of autism: The Baby JASPER model	2
Developmental trajectories of non-native tone perception differ between monolingual and bilingual infants learning a pitch accent language	2
When I move, you move: Associations between automatic and person-coded measures of infant-mother synchrony during free-play using virtual in-home data collection	2
Developmental links between executive function and emotion regulation in early toddlerhood	2
Correlation between performance and quantity/variability of leg exploration in a contingency learning task during infancy	2
Examining the trajectory of parent emotion talk in mothers of toddlers: A predominantly Latine sample	2
Mediating effects of parent–child dysfunctional interactions in the relationship between parenting distress and social–emotional problems and competencies	2
Empathy development from birth to three: Advances in knowledge from 2000 to 2025	2
Influences of infants’ and mothers’ contingent vocal responsiveness on young infants’ vocal social bids in the Still Face Task	2
Infant fearful distress, parent intrusiveness, and adversity in families experiencing homelessness	2
When crying turns to hitting: Examining maternal responses to negative affect	2
Attentional asymmetry in orienting and alertness and its relationship to temperament: A longitudinal study of infants aged 6–24 months	2
Infants’ attraction to infant vocalizations – A catalyst for infant development	2
Infant muscle activity is modified by inclined environments during different styles of rolling	2
Evaluation of the Developmental Assessment for Intervention Manual (DAIM) for developmental screening in high-risk infants at 12 months of corrected age	2
Sensitivity To natural scene statistics in infancy and its impact on development	2
Learning phonetic categories in infancy: The role of word-context information	2
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy	2
Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years	2
Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression	2
A screening measure for infant attachment: The Turkish adaptation of the Brief Attachment Scale-16	2