Infant Behavior & Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Infant Behavior & Development is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory40
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding32
Parent Well-Being and Language Input Predict Child Face-Voice Matching and Expressive Language Outcomes29
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families23
Editorial Board21
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy20
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study20
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study18
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies17
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial17
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation17
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development17
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity17
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development16
Applying a Transformer-based machine-learning model to classify caregiver and infant behaviours during dyadic interactions15
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds14
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother14
Home learning environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Associations with young children’s cognitive and socioemotional development14
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods14
Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Executive Function and Memory measures14
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review13
A qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of infant and toddler sleep and feeding during the United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown(s)13
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings13
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study13
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment12
Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions12
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal12
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure12
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development12
Remote screening protocol for functioning and contextual factors (e-Followkids) in Brazilian children with biological risk in the first 2 years: A longitudinal prospective study12
Advances in understanding the perception-production link: Evidence from infant eye, brain, and motor behavior12
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample12
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname11
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder11
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals11
German-learning infants recognize common nouns without additional frequency cues11
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months11
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder11
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime11
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia11
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures11
Editorial Board10
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years10
Emotion regulation in infancy through the lens of individual differences: Insights and future directions10
Do infants expect physically competent agents to gain access to contested resources?10
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development10
Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling10
Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions10
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary10
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review9
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)9
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development9
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample9
Understanding early aggression: Empirically derived guidance on type, frequency, and severity in infants and toddlers8
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 research8
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy8
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers8
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying8
Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers8
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development8
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information8
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research8
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age8
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings8
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy8
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes7
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community7
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back7
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants7
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?7
Caregivers’ vocabulary use for children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing during the first year of post-activation7
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 randomize7
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development7
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants7
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland7
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching7
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants7
A quarter century review of research on infant behavior7
Composite scores for the NIH Baby Toolbox®7
Editorial Board7
Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research7
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood7
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age7
Investigating parental scaffolding and visual experiences in toddlers with autism and high familial likelihood for later autism diagnosis: A head-mounted eye-tracker study7
Better reflective functioning in mothers linked to longer joint attention with infants6
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy6
Editorial Board6
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems6
The utility of multiple assessments in infancy and toddlerhood to predict middle childhood ADHD symptoms: Temperamental, behavioral, and genetic contributions6
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?6
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy6
Microstate analysis in infancy6
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants6
Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament6
Neonatal neurobehavior and infant temperament amongst offspring born to parents with and without ADHD6
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study6
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems6
Humour from 12 to 36 months: Insights into children’s socio-cognitive and language development6
Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life6
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America6
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies6
Editorial Board6
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays6
Nonverbal emotion perception and vocabulary in late infancy6
The direct and indirect effects of parenting behaviors and functional brain network efficiency on self-regulation from infancy to early childhood: A longitudinal mediation model6
Before first words: Infants’ ability to map words to goals6
Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study5
Indigenous infant development: Reconciling the past and grounding future praxis in Indigenous worldviews and strengths-based approaches5
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing5
Editorial Board5
Clarifying the developmental association between gesture and later vocabulary for autistic children5
Editorial Board5
Prelinguistic gesture and developmental abilities: A multi-ethnic comparative study5
Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play5
The effect of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms on mother-infant interaction: The mediating role of antepartum maternal emotional stress5
Responsiveness in mother-infant social interactions among immigrant and nonmigrant families: Japanese, South Korean, South American, and European American5
Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words5
Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants5
Bringing developmental assessment to the 21st century: The NIH Baby Toolbox5
Temperament and children’s accuracy and attention during word learning5
Infants' reasoning about social hierarchies: Key insights from the past 25 years and a research agenda for the next 25 years5
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language5
Role of parenting practices, mother’s personality and depressive symptoms in early child development5
Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants5
Glee in threes: Positive affect synchrony in parent-infant triads is moderated by maternal hair cortisol and parenting stress5
Linking integrity of visual pathways trajectories to visual behavior deficit in very preterm infants5
Extended kangaroo mother care – Examining the utility of skin-to-skin contact over the first year of life5
NIH Baby Toolbox® methodology and norms development5
Soothing touch matters: Patterns of everyday mother-infant physical contact and their real-time physiological implications5
Maternal psychological functioning mediates the association between infant behavior and subsequent child psychological functioning5
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country5
The relationship between home environment and early childhood development of left-behind children under 3 years in rural China5
Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament5
Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life5
Evaluating canonical babbling ratios extracted from day-long audio recordings in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder5
Maternal and foetal exposure to potentially toxic metals of modern weaponry and infant cognitive, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development: The role of breastfeeding5
Stability of developmental milestones: Insights from a 44-year analysis4
Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age4
A new screener predicts toddlers’ language development from age 2–3: The QUILS:TOD4
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures4
Effects of a video-feedback intervention on parenting behavior and state anxiety in mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities4
Expanding the toolbox: 25 years of methodological change in infant research4
The role of parental emotional factors in toddler’s amount of screen use4
Early spontaneous movements in full-term infants exposed to gestational diabetes mellitus4
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament4
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review4
Toddlers' sensitivity to segmental and suprasegmental mispronunciations of familiar words4
Emergence of locomotor behaviors: Associations with infant characteristics, developmental status, parental beliefs, and practices in typically developing Brazilian infants aged 5 to 15 months4
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 paradigm4
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants4
Masked or not, I smile to you: Exploring full-term and preterm infants' social smiles to adults wearing a protective facemask4
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
Experience matters: Caregiver interactions with later-born toddlers with autism4
What have we learned about infant visual attention in the first 25 years of the 21st century?4
The infant neural mirroring system: A quarter-century in review4
A matter of time: Developmental cascades for developmental science4
Infant and parent heart rates during a babywearing procedure: Evidence for autonomic coregulation4
Self-regulation in toddlers and the emergence of pre-academic disparities4
Infants' saccadic behavior during 2-dimensional displays of a bounce4
Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech4
Contextual differences in parent-child interactions: A study on toddlers at elevated likelihood of autism and their mothers4
Imitation among infants in a day-care center and the development of locomotion4
Editorial Board4
Instruments to measure interaction of mothers and newborns: A systematic review4
Early developmental changes in infants’ vocal responses in interactions with caregivers4
Developmental cascades of vocal turn-taking connect prelinguistic vocalizing with early language4
Relationship between temperamental dimensions and infant limb movement complexity and dynamic stability4
Changes in patterns of Early Mother-Child Interaction: A longitudinal study of the first 18 months of life4
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch4
Maternal and infant touching behaviours during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying3
Examining the trajectory of parent emotion talk in mothers of toddlers: A predominantly Latine sample3
Early contributions of observed and parent-reported gesture to language development in children enrolled in early intervention3
Correlation between performance and quantity/variability of leg exploration in a contingency learning task during infancy3
Early executive function in context3
Characterization of early skill profiles for infants across varying genetic likelihoods for neurodevelopmental disorders3
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain3
Longitudinal study of early bite profiles as predictors of eating behaviors in children: Food responsiveness and emotional overeating3
Developmental links between executive function and emotion regulation in early toddlerhood3
Revisiting intrinsic sex differences in STEM aptitude: Insights from infant development research twenty years after Spelke (2005)3
Motor developmental trajectories in infants with an elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A prospective cohort study3
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors3
Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech3
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy3
Accent variation and the development of speech and language abilities3
Neurodevelopmental trajectories of face processing in infants: A review and future directions3
How does sensitivity influence early executive function? A critical review on hot and cool processes3
Relationship between maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting3
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development3
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development3
Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years3
Sensitivity To natural scene statistics in infancy and its impact on development3
Diverse language experiences in deaf infants and in hearing infants with deaf parents: 25 years of improved understanding and recognition3
Developmental trajectories of non-native tone perception differ between monolingual and bilingual infants learning a pitch accent language3
Exploring associations between maternal mental health and infant regulatory behaviors at 6 months in the home environment: Zooming in on maternal anxiety3
Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression3
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life3
The relationship between home environment affordances and motor development and sensory processing skills in premature infants3
Context of digital media use in early childhood: Factors associated with cognitive development up to 36 months of age3
Exploring size-action and number-action associations in infancy3
Attachment security and disorganization in infants of mothers with severe psychiatric disorder: Exploring the role of comorbid personality disorder3
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control3
Infants’ attraction to infant vocalizations – A catalyst for infant development3
Corrigendum to “Neurophysiology of sustained attention in early infancy: Investigating longitudinal relations with recognition memory outcomes” [Infant Behavior and Development 70 (2023) 101807]3
Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-193
0.26579999923706