Infant Behavior & Development

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The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	38
Six-month-olds’ ability to use linguistic cues when interpreting others’ pointing actions	30
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	27
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	24
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	23
Birth order, stimulating environment, and maternal factors in developmental outcomes: A longitudinal Mexican study	21
Identifying when children with visual impairment share attention: A novel protocol and the impact of visual acuity	21
Learning blossoms: Caregiver-infant interactions in an outdoor garden setting	20
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	20
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	19
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	19
Cardiac physiological regulation across early infancy: The roles of infant surgency and parental involvement with mothers and fathers	19
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	19
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	19
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	18
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	18
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	18
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Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	16
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	16
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	15
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	15
Number and type of toys affect joint attention of mothers and infants	13
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	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	12
Maternal secure base scripts predict child attachment security in an at-risk sample	12
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep	12
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	12
Antenatal depression and maternal infant directed speech during the first postnatal year	12
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	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
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	11
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	11
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	11
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years	10
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	10
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	10
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	10
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	10
The privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in early spatial language acquisition	10
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	10
Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security	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
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	9
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	9
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	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
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	9
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	9
The origins of touchscreen competence: Examining infants’ exploration of touchscreens	9
Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infants’ vocabulary development	8
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	8
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	8
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development	8
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures	8
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	8
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	8
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	8
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	8
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	8
Infant perception of causal motion produced by humans and inanimate objects	8
Can infants use video to update mental representations of absent objects?	7
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	7
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants	7
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	7
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	7
The Welch Emotional Connection Screen: Adapting observational methods to pediatric primary care via resident training	7
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy	7
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	7
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	7
Dynamic emotional messages differentially affect 6-month-old infants’ attention to eyes and gaze cues	7
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	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
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	6

Relationship of withdrawn, anxious/depressed and attention problems to cognitive performance in preterm children at 18 months and 36 months of age	6
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Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	6
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	6
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	6
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	6
Culture and the organization of infant sleep: A study in the Netherlands and the U.S.A.	6
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings	6
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	6
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	6
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	5
Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents	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
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	5
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	5
Advances in microanalysis: Magnifying the social microscope on mother-infant interactions	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
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	5
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	5
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	5
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	5
Quality of the home, daycare and neighborhood environment and the cognitive development of economically disadvantaged children in early childhood: A mediation analysis	5
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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
Temperament and sleep behaviors in infants and toddlers living in low-income homes	5
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	5
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	5
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Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament	5
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood Tool: Level 2 autism spectrum disorder screening in a NICU Follow-up program	5
Microstate analysis in infancy	5
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	5
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	5
Digital media and children under 3 years of age	5
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	5
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?	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
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	4
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	4
Neonatal neurobehavior and infant temperament amongst offspring born to parents with and without ADHD	4
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems	4
Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life	4
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country	4
Maternal psychological functioning mediates the association between infant behavior and subsequent child psychological functioning	4
Soothing touch matters: Patterns of everyday mother-infant physical contact and their real-time physiological implications	4
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language	4
The utility of multiple assessments in infancy and toddlerhood to predict middle childhood ADHD symptoms: Temperamental, behavioral, and genetic contributions	4
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays	4
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems	4
The relationship between home environment and early childhood development of left-behind children under 3 years in rural China	4
Temperament and children’s accuracy and attention during word learning	4
Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants	3
Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants	3
Nighttime sleep and physical activity in 6-7 month-old infants	3
Extended kangaroo mother care – Examining the utility of skin-to-skin contact over the first year of life	3
Are our samples representative? Understanding whether temperament influences infant dropout rates at 3 and 7 months	3
Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study	3
Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life	3
Co-occurring risk and protective factors and regulatory behavior of infants living in low-income homes	3
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants	3
Masked or not, I smile to you: Exploring full-term and preterm infants' social smiles to adults wearing a protective facemask	3
Effects of a video-feedback intervention on parenting behavior and state anxiety in mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities	3
Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play	3
The effect of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms on mother-infant interaction: The mediating role of antepartum maternal emotional stress	3
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures	3
Maternal and foetal exposure to potentially toxic metals of modern weaponry and infant cognitive, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development: The role of breastfeeding	3
Prelinguistic gesture and developmental abilities: A multi-ethnic comparative study	3
Role of parenting practices, mother’s personality and depressive symptoms in early child development	3
Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words	3
Linking integrity of visual pathways trajectories to visual behavior deficit in very preterm infants	3
Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences	3
Contextual differences in parent-child interactions: A study on toddlers at elevated likelihood of autism and their mothers	3
Imitation among infants in a day-care center and the development of locomotion	3
Early developmental changes in infants’ vocal responses in interactions with caregivers	3
Glee in threes: Positive affect synchrony in parent-infant triads is moderated by maternal hair cortisol and parenting stress	3
Evaluating canonical babbling ratios extracted from day-long audio recordings in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder	3
Instruments to measure interaction of mothers and newborns: A systematic review	3

Responsiveness in mother-infant social interactions among immigrant and nonmigrant families: Japanese, South Korean, South American, and European American	3
Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament	3
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Clarifying the developmental association between gesture and later vocabulary for autistic children	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
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
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament	3
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Changes in patterns of Early Mother-Child Interaction: A longitudinal study of the first 18 months of life	2
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Relationship between maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting	2
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	2
Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech	2
Context matters: Cortical rhythms in infants across baseline and play	2
The relationship between home environment affordances and motor development and sensory processing skills in premature infants	2
Learning to learn from video? 30-month-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding	2
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	2
Correlation between performance and quantity/variability of leg exploration in a contingency learning task during infancy	2
Characterization of early skill profiles for infants across varying genetic likelihoods for neurodevelopmental disorders	2
Attachment security and disorganization in infants of mothers with severe psychiatric disorder: Exploring the role of comorbid personality disorder	2
How does sensitivity influence early executive function? A critical review on hot and cool processes	2
A new screener predicts toddlers’ language development from age 2–3: The QUILS:TOD	2
Examining the trajectory of parent emotion talk in mothers of toddlers: A predominantly Latine sample	2
Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech	2
Toddlers' sensitivity to segmental and suprasegmental mispronunciations of familiar words	2
Context of digital media use in early childhood: Factors associated with cognitive development up to 36 months of age	2
Self-regulation in toddlers and the emergence of pre-academic disparities	2
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Infants' saccadic behavior during 2-dimensional displays of a bounce	2
Maternal education revisited: Vocabulary growth in English and Spanish from 16 to 30 months of age	2
Infant and parent heart rates during a babywearing procedure: Evidence for autonomic coregulation	2
Revisiting intrinsic sex differences in STEM aptitude: Insights from infant development research twenty years after Spelke (2005)	2
Infant media use: A harm reduction approach	2
Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action	2
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development	2
Perceptual narrowing in face- and speech-perception domains in infancy: A longitudinal approach	2
Developmental trajectories of non-native tone perception differ between monolingual and bilingual infants learning a pitch accent language	2
Motor developmental trajectories in infants with an elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A prospective cohort study	2
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	2
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review	2
Eye tracking provides no evidence that young infants understand path obstruction	2
Relationship between temperamental dimensions and infant limb movement complexity and dynamic stability	2
Stability of developmental milestones: Insights from a 44-year analysis	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
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	2
Early executive function in context	2
Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression	2
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control	2
Maternal and infant touching behaviours during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying	2
Peek-a-who? Exploring the dynamics of early communication with an interactive partner swap paradigm and state space grid visualization	2
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life	2
Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years	2
Accent variation and the development of speech and language abilities	2