Infant Behavior & Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Infant Behavior & Development is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families29
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding28
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules27
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory25
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Home learning environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Associations with young children’s cognitive and socioemotional development21
Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Executive Function and Memory measures21
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation20
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development20
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development20
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial19
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother16
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy16
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity16
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies15
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study15
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study15
Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions14
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development14
Advances in understanding the perception-production link: Evidence from infant eye, brain, and motor behavior14
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample14
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age14
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings13
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods13
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure12
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review12
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development12
Maternal secure base scripts predict child attachment security in an at-risk sample12
Do infants expect physically competent agents to gain access to contested resources?11
Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving11
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep11
Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions11
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study11
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A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds11
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment10
Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security10
Emotion regulation in infancy through the lens of individual differences: Insights and future directions10
Remote screening protocol for functioning and contextual factors (e-Followkids) in Brazilian children with biological risk in the first 2 years: A longitudinal prospective study10
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months10
Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling10
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname10
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures10
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years9
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime9
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder9
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal9
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder9
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals9
The privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in early spatial language acquisition9
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary8
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia8
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age8
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development8
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample8
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)8
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying8
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development8
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review8
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development8
Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers8
The Welch Emotional Connection Screen: Adapting observational methods to pediatric primary care via resident training8
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy7
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants7
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information7
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 research7
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants7
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy7
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research7
Relationship of withdrawn, anxious/depressed and attention problems to cognitive performance in preterm children at 18 months and 36 months of age7
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers7
Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research6
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland6
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?6
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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 randomize6
A quarter century review of research on infant behavior6
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back6
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings6
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community6
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants6
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching6
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers6
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America6
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development6
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age6
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood6
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants6
Digital media and children under 3 years of age6
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis6
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy5
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development5
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development5
Composite scores for the NIH Baby Toolbox®5
Microstate analysis in infancy5
Neonatal neurobehavior and infant temperament amongst offspring born to parents with and without ADHD5
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language5
Nonverbal emotion perception and vocabulary in late infancy5
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems5
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood Tool: Level 2 autism spectrum disorder screening in a NICU Follow-up program5
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants5
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study5
Temperament and sleep behaviors in infants and toddlers living in low-income homes5
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development5
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 sensitiv5
The relationship between home environment and early childhood development of left-behind children under 3 years in rural China5
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays5
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems5
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?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 model5
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies5
Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament5
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Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes5
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Infants' reasoning about social hierarchies: Key insights from the past 25 years and a research agenda for the next 25 years5
Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life5
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country5
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy5
The utility of multiple assessments in infancy and toddlerhood to predict middle childhood ADHD symptoms: Temperamental, behavioral, and genetic contributions5
Role of parenting practices, mother’s personality and depressive symptoms in early child development4
Nighttime sleep and physical activity in 6-7 month-old infants4
Soothing touch matters: Patterns of everyday mother-infant physical contact and their real-time physiological implications4
Maternal psychological functioning mediates the association between infant behavior and subsequent child psychological functioning4
Bringing developmental assessment to the 21st century: The NIH Baby Toolbox4
Prelinguistic gesture and developmental abilities: A multi-ethnic comparative study4
Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life4
Experience matters: Caregiver interactions with later-born toddlers with autism4
Linking integrity of visual pathways trajectories to visual behavior deficit in very preterm infants4
The effect of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms on mother-infant interaction: The mediating role of antepartum maternal emotional stress4
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Are our samples representative? Understanding whether temperament influences infant dropout rates at 3 and 7 months4
Temperament and children’s accuracy and attention during word learning4
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing4
NIH Baby Toolbox® methodology and norms development4
Maternal and foetal exposure to potentially toxic metals of modern weaponry and infant cognitive, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development: The role of breastfeeding4
The infant neural mirroring system: A quarter-century in review4
Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play4
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 development4
Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants4
Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study4
Indigenous infant development: Reconciling the past and grounding future praxis in Indigenous worldviews and strengths-based approaches4
Responsiveness in mother-infant social interactions among immigrant and nonmigrant families: Japanese, South Korean, South American, and European American4
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Extended kangaroo mother care – Examining the utility of skin-to-skin contact over the first year of life4
Clarifying the developmental association between gesture and later vocabulary for autistic children4
Expanding the toolbox: 25 years of methodological change in infant research4
Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament4
Glee in threes: Positive affect synchrony in parent-infant triads is moderated by maternal hair cortisol and parenting stress4
Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants4
Emergence of locomotor behaviors: Associations with infant characteristics, developmental status, parental beliefs, and practices in typically developing Brazilian infants aged 5 to 15 months3
A new screener predicts toddlers’ language development from age 2–3: The QUILS:TOD3
Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech3
Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech3
Infants' saccadic behavior during 2-dimensional displays of a bounce3
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Developmental cascades of vocal turn-taking connect prelinguistic vocalizing with early language3
The relationship between home environment affordances and motor development and sensory processing skills in premature infants3
Context matters: Cortical rhythms in infants across baseline and play3
Changes in patterns of Early Mother-Child Interaction: A longitudinal study of the first 18 months of life3
Early developmental changes in infants’ vocal responses in interactions with caregivers3
Relationship between temperamental dimensions and infant limb movement complexity and dynamic stability3
Toddlers' sensitivity to segmental and suprasegmental mispronunciations of familiar words3
Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words3
Instruments to measure interaction of mothers and newborns: A systematic review3
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television3
Diverse language experiences in deaf infants and in hearing infants with deaf parents: 25 years of improved understanding and recognition3
Stability of developmental milestones: Insights from a 44-year analysis3
How does sensitivity influence early executive function? A critical review on hot and cool processes3
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants3
Eye tracking provides no evidence that young infants understand path obstruction3
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures3
Imitation among infants in a day-care center and the development of locomotion3
Contextual differences in parent-child interactions: A study on toddlers at elevated likelihood of autism and their mothers3
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Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review3
Relationship between maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting3
Early executive function in context3
Masked or not, I smile to you: Exploring full-term and preterm infants' social smiles to adults wearing a protective facemask3
A matter of time: Developmental cascades for developmental science3
Maternal education revisited: Vocabulary growth in English and Spanish from 16 to 30 months of age3
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life3
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 paradigm3
Characterization of early skill profiles for infants across varying genetic likelihoods for neurodevelopmental disorders3
Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age3
Context of digital media use in early childhood: Factors associated with cognitive development up to 36 months of age3
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament3
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch3
Effects of a video-feedback intervention on parenting behavior and state anxiety in mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities3
Evaluating canonical babbling ratios extracted from day-long audio recordings in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder3
Self-regulation in toddlers and the emergence of pre-academic disparities3
Infant and parent heart rates during a babywearing procedure: Evidence for autonomic coregulation3
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech and language development in infants with an elevated likelihood of autism: A developmental review2
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood2
Sharing food with infants in Hadza communities in Tanzania2
Developmental trajectories of non-native tone perception differ between monolingual and bilingual infants learning a pitch accent language2
Mediating effects of parent–child dysfunctional interactions in the relationship between parenting distress and social–emotional problems and competencies2
Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years2
Motor developmental trajectories in infants with an elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A prospective cohort study2
Are maternal and paternal bonding problems associated with child sleep problems at 8 and 24 months?2
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development2
Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression2
Comparative efficacy of an early intervention “parent and me” program for infants showing signs of autism: The Baby JASPER model2
A new online paradigm to measure spontaneous pointing in infants and caregivers2
A screening measure for infant attachment: The Turkish adaptation of the Brief Attachment Scale-162
When crying turns to hitting: Examining maternal responses to negative affect2
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development2
Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship2
Revisiting intrinsic sex differences in STEM aptitude: Insights from infant development research twenty years after Spelke (2005)2
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy2
Longitudinal study of early bite profiles as predictors of eating behaviors in children: Food responsiveness and emotional overeating2
Maternal and infant touching behaviours during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying2
Attachment security and disorganization in infants of mothers with severe psychiatric disorder: Exploring the role of comorbid personality disorder2
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain2
The temporal dynamics of labelling shape infant object recognition2
Group well child care and risk for developmental delay: Preliminary findings among Asian immigrants2
Developmental links between executive function and emotion regulation in early toddlerhood2
Latino toddlers’ bilingual output and their caregivers’ bilingual input and acculturation2
Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-192
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control2
Examining the trajectory of parent emotion talk in mothers of toddlers: A predominantly Latine sample2
Correlation between performance and quantity/variability of leg exploration in a contingency learning task during infancy2
Sensitivity To natural scene statistics in infancy and its impact on development2
Accent variation and the development of speech and language abilities2
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors2
Maternal emotional availability relates to two-year-olds’ behavior in a challenging cooperative interaction2
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