OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant Behavior & Development is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting the roots of attachment: A review of the biological and psychological effects of maternal skin-to-skin contact and carrying of full-term infants	62
Neuroendocrine mechanisms involved in the physiological effects caused by skin-to-skin contact – With a particular focus on the oxytocinergic system	48
Exploring gender differences in infant motor development related to parent’s promotion of play	23
Why do parents use screen media with toddlers? The role of child temperament and parenting stress in early screen use	22
Maternal prenatal anxiety trajectories and infant developmental outcomes in one-year-old offspring	21
Carrying human infants – An evolutionary heritage	20
Screen time in 36-month-olds at increased likelihood for ASD and ADHD	20
Physical touch during father-infant interactions is associated with paternal oxytocin levels	19
Infant screen media usage and social-emotional functioning	18
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development	18
Screen use before bedtime: Consequences for nighttime sleep in young children	17
The interplay between early social interaction, language and executive function development in deaf and hearing infants	17
Dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry in mother-infant dyads: Insights from the Still Face Paradigm	17
Screens across the pond: Findings from longitudinal screen time research in the US and UK	17
Differences in caregiver behaviors of infants at-risk for autism and typically developing infants from 9 to 15 months of age	15
Media exposure and language for toddlers from low-income homes	14
The influence of maternal anxiety and depression symptoms on fNIRS brain responses to emotional faces in 5- and 7-month-old infants	14
Associations between touchscreen exposure and hot and cool inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants	13
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	13
Does texting interrupt imitation learning in 19-month-old infants?	12
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review	12
Infant media use: A harm reduction approach	11
Examining joint parent-child interactions involving infants and toddlers when introducing mobile technology	11
A longitudinal examination of daily amounts of screen time and technoference in infants aged 2–11 months and associations with maternal sociodemographic factors	11
Predicting cognitive development and early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder in preterm children: The value of temperament and sensory processing	11

Experimental manipulation of maternal proximity during short sequences of sleep and infant calming response	11
Quality of the home, daycare and neighborhood environment and the cognitive development of economically disadvantaged children in early childhood: A mediation analysis	11
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	11
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	10
The temporal dimension in the understanding of maternal sensitivity in caregiver-infant interactions: The ‘Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System’	10
Intention-based evaluations of distributive actions by 4-month-olds	10
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood	10
Music therapy enhances preterm infant’s signs of engagement and sustains maternal singing in the NICU	10
To have and to hold: Effects of physical contact on infants and their caregivers	10
Associations between mother-infant bed-sharing practices and infant affect and behavior during the still-face paradigm	10
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	10
Design and validation of a smart garment to measure positioning practices of parents with young infants	9
Vocal imitation between mothers and infants	9
Parental toy play and toddlers’ socio-emotional development: The moderating role of coparenting dynamics	9
Revisiting how we operationalize joint attention	9
Infant speech perception and cognitive skills as predictors of later vocabulary	9
Infants’ cortical processing of biological motion configuration – A fNIRS study	9
Cultural influences on face scanning are consistent across infancy and adulthood	9
A method for measuring dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in infants and mothers	9
Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infants’ vocabulary development	9
Does syntax play a role in Theory of Mind development before the age of 3 years?	9
Looking deeper into the toy box: Understanding caregiver toy selection decisions	9
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	9
Leveraging epigenetics to examine differences in developmental trajectories of social attention: A proof-of-principle study of DNA methylation in infants with older siblings with autism	9
The relationship between temperamental dimensions and inhibitory control in early childhood: Implications for language acquisition	9
Parent-child interaction during the first year of life in infants at elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder	9
Do foetuses communicate? Foetal responses to interactive versus non-interactive maternal voice and touch: An exploratory analysis	9
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	9
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	9
Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study	9
War trauma and infant motor, cognitive, and socioemotional development: Maternal mental health and dyadic interaction as explanatory processes	9
Hair sampling for cortisol analysis with mother-toddler dyads living in low-income homes	8
Continuous measurement of attachment behavior: A multimodal view of the strange situation procedure	8
The longitudinal associations between temperament and sleep during the first year of life	8
Parental decision-making: infant engagement with smartphones	8
Stability of developmental status and risk of impairment at 24 and 36 months in late preterm infants	8
Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action	8
Effects of maternal depressive symptoms on sensitivity to infant distress and non-distress: Role of SES and race	8
Exposure to electronic media between 6 and 24 months of age: An exploratory study	8
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	7
A working memory span task for toddlers	7
Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents	7
Foundations of attention sharing: Orienting and responding to attention in term and preterm 5-month-old infants	7
Object play as a mediator of the role of exploration in communication skills development	7
How 9-month-old crawling infants profit from visual-manual rotations in a mental rotation task	7
Cross-linguistic comparison of utterance shapes in Korean- and English-learning children: An ambient language effect	7
Mothers’ competence profiles and their relation to language and socioemotional development in Chilean children at 12 and 30 months	7
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	7
Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship	7
What about the babies? A critical review of infants’ and toddlers’ absence in homelessness scholarship	7

Object play in the everyday home environment generates rich opportunities for infant learning	7
The origins of touchscreen competence: Examining infants’ exploration of touchscreens	7
Do early parental postnatal depression, attachment style and perceived social support affect neurodevelopmental outcomes of premature infants?	7
Past and present experiences with maternal touch affect infants’ attention toward emotional faces	7
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	7
Sensing everyday activity: Parent perceptions and feasibility	7
Contrasting behavioral looking procedures: a case study on infant speech segmentation	6
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	6
Parent-child interactions during joint engagement with touchscreen technology: A comparison of younger versus older toddlers	6
Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences	6
Social context influences infants’ ability to extract statistical information from a sequence of gestures	6
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	6
Changing the logic of replication: A case from infant studies	6
Developmental changes in the brain response to speech during the first year of life: A near-infrared spectroscopy study of dutch-learning infants	6
Do motor skills impact on language development between 18 and 30 months of age?	6
Mother-Infant Interaction Kinect Analysis (MIIKA): An automatic kinematic-based methodology for the investigation of interpersonal distance during early exchanges	6
Development of mother-infant co-regulation: The role of infant vagal tone and temperament at 6, 9, and 12 months of age	6
Manual exploration of objects is related to 7-month-old infants’ visual preference for real objects	6
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	6
Prosocial television and prosocial toddlers: A multi-method, longitudinal investigation	6
Primary caregiver emotional expressiveness relates to toddler emotion understanding	6
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	6
Frequency of Gesture Use and Language in Typically Developing Prelinguistic Children	6
Preterm birth and maternal sensitivity: Findings from a non-western country	6
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	6
Early vocabulary development: Relationships with prelinguistic skills and early social-emotional/behavioral problems and competencies	6
Does Postpartum Depression Affect Parental Embodied Mentalizing in Mothers With 4-Months old Infants?	6