Infancy

Papers
(The median citation count of Infancy is 1. 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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2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic42
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐1924
Engaging with happy‐sounding music promotes helping behavior in 18‐month‐olds23
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐1923
Does social modeling increase infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods?21
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy19
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism18
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The Association Between Pointing and Walking in Infants: A Longitudinal Observational Study15
Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes15
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure14
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review14
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers14
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice12
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings12
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words12
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age11
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood11
Visual statistical learning in infancy: Discrimination of fine‐grained regularities depends on early test trials11
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context11
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy10
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress10
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year10
The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics10
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development9
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility9
Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study9
Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story9
Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration9
Input Properties Shape Word Segmentation Performance Across Child Development: A Computational Modeling Study8
How do maternal emotional regulation difficulties modulate the mother–infant behavioral synchrony?8
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Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress8
The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD8
Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies8
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Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts7
From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development7
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Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children7
Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still‐Face Paradigm7
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Evidence of Cross‐Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness6
An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations6
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Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep6
Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking6
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Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants6
Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year6
The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids6
Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning6
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Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment5
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Beyond the Dyad: Infant Vocal Cues Organize Conversational‐Turn Taking in Infant‐Toddler Classrooms5
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families5
Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts5
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes5
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Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament5
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months5
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Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions5
Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants5
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers5
14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled5
Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops4
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When Is the Still‐Face Not the Still‐Face: Mothers' Behavior in the Face‐to‐Face Still‐Face Procedure and Its Relationship to Infant Arousal4
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school4
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition4
High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy4
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions4
The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation4
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts4
Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play4
Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills4
The development of visual attention in early infancy: Insights from a free‐viewing paradigm3
Do face‐to‐face interactions support 6‐month‐olds' understanding of the communicative function of speech?3
Not all babies are in the same boat: Exploring the effects of socioeconomic status, parental attitudes, and activities during the 2020 COVID‐19 pandemic on early Executive Functions3
How labels shape visuocortical processing in infants3
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Processing of visual stimuli following infant directed speech: Attention‐guiding effects of unfamiliar speech3
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Neural Representations of Grasp Congruence During the Emergence of Precision Grasping3
The effect of masks on the visual preference for faces in the first year of life3
Mechanisms of social evaluation in infancy: A preregistered exploration of infants’ eye‐movement and pupillary responses to prosocial and antisocial events3
Background TV and infant‐family interactions: Insights from home observations3
Distribution of words across the first years of life: A longitudinal analysis of everyday language input to three English‐learning infants3
Infants show negative changes in affect and physiology when re‐experiencing a stressor, its context, and a positive event 24‐h later3
Prosody outweighs statistics in 6‐month‐old German‐learning infants' speech segmentation3
Infant screen media and child development: A prospective community study3
Online reach correction in 6‐ and 11‐month‐old infants3
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Empathy Development: Typical and Atypical Tracks, From Infancy to Early Childhood2
The context of infants' giving gestures in mother‐infant dyads: Typical giving gestures and those contingent on exploration and play2
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Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development2
Early social referencing predicts object mastery motivation in infancy: Social antecedents of object mastery motivation2
Infants' Knowledge of Individual Words: Investigating Links Between Parent Report and Looking Time2
Double it up: Vocabulary size comparisons between UK bilingual and monolingual toddlers2
Ten easy steps to conducting transparent, reproducible meta‐analyses for infant researchers2
Attrition rate in infant fNIRS research: A meta‐analysis2
Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants2
The influence of the COVID‐19 lockdown on infants' physiological regulation during mother‐father‐infant interactions in Switzerland2
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A Longitudinal Study of Preterm Infants at 12 and 30 Months: Links Among Object Interactions, Joint Engagement, and Cognitive Development2
Barcoding, linear and nonlinear analysis of full‐day leg movements in infants with typical development and infants at risk of developmental disabilities: Cross‐sectional study2
Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months2
Relation of infants' and mothers' pointing to infants' vocabulary measured directly and with parental reports2
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Forms and Functions of Gestures in Preverbal 12‐ to 15‐Months Old Infants2
Brain‐Behavior Associations During Interactions Between Caregivers and Infants2
Tempering Temperament: Exploring the Influence of Maternal Mind‐Mindedness on Infant Temperament in Shaping Socioemotional Wellbeing2
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Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English‐Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners2
Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word‐action‐object learning in early development2
The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes2
Bilingual Language Input to Infants in Bolivia and the United States2
Talker variability shapes early word representations in English‐learning 8‐month‐olds2
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Happy, sad, or yucky? Parental emotion talk with infants in a book‐sharing task1
A longitudinal study examining the associations between prenatal and postnatal maternal distress and toddler socioemotional developmental during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Maternal Experiences of Trauma and Toddler Multisensory Attention Skills in a South African Community Cohort1
The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study1
Age differences in orienting to faces in dynamic scenes depend on face centering, not visual saliency1
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Spontaneous movements, motor milestones, and temperament of preterm‐born infants: Associations with mother–infant attunement1
Social motivation predicts gaze following between 6 and 14 months1
A Contextual Approach to Characterizing Caregiver Responsiveness in a Rural Area of The Gambia1
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Associations between observed and reported infant negative affectivity, fear and self‐regulation, and early communicative development—Evidence from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study1
The Role of Early Maternal Cultural Orientation on Spanish‐English Child‐Directed Speech and Vocabulary Knowledge in Mexican‐American Children1
Examining Early Vocabulary Growth Trajectories in Late Talkers in a Low‐Income Longitudinal Sample1
Toddler's memory and media—Picture book reading and watching video content are associated with memory at 2 years of age1
Infants' Expectations for Helping in Imitators1
Learning limb‐specific contingencies in early infancy1
Infants' lexical comprehension and lexical anticipation abilities are closely linked in early language development1
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Tracking the associative boost in infancy1
Correction to “Comparing Apples to Manzanas and Oranges to Naranjas: A New Measure of English‐Spanish Vocabulary for Dual Language Learners”1
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Statistical word segmentation: Anchoring learning across contexts1
Individuation of agents based on psychological properties in 10 month‐old infants1
What's the point? Infants' and adults' perception of different pointing gestures1
Delineating Trajectories of Social‐Emotional Competence in Infants and Toddlers1
Attachment security and problematic media use in infancy: A longitudinal study in the United States1
Seven‐months‐old infants show increased arousal to static emotion body expressions: Evidence from pupil dilation1
Toward a Causal Science of Early Play?1
“My baby is ready to learn”—The role of infant pointing in redirecting maternal responses to be more informative1
Developmental Screening and Family Resilience for Infants and Toddlers in Homeless Shelters1
Individual Differences in Infants' Speech Segmentation Performance: The Role of Mother‐Infant Cardiac Synchrony1
To Touch or Not to Touch: The Role of Vocabulary and Object Exploration in Children's Attention to Shape1
Selective Attention in Early Word Learning: An Eye‐Tracking Study on Viewing Naturalistic Egocentric Scenes1
Caregiver encouragement to act on objects is related with crawling infants' receptive language1
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Cross‐Cultural Applicability and Psychometric Properties of an Infant Social‐Emotional Screening Instrument1
Parent‐Reported Relations Between Vocabulary and Motor Development in Infancy: Differences Between Verbs and Nouns1
Sustained looking at faces at 5 months of age is associated with socio‐communicative skills in the second year of life1
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Early Childhood Development and Family Adaptation During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study1
Qualitative and quantitative aspects of child‐directed parental talk and the relation to 2‐year‐old's developing vocabulary1
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