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Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - March 19, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

More than meets the eye: The neural development of emotion face processing during infancy
Publication date: May 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 59Author(s): Paige Safyer, Brenda L. Volling, Neelima Wagley, Xiaosu Hu, James E. Swain, Maria M. Arredondo, Ioulia Kovelman (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - March 6, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Do developmental and temperamental characteristics mediate the association between preterm birth and the quality of mother-child interaction?
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Ayelet Harel-Gadassi, Edwa Friedlander, Maya Yaari, Benjamin Bar-Oz, Smadar Eventov-Friedman, David Mankuta, Nurit Yirmiya (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - March 3, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Early infant temperament shapes the nature of mother-infant bonding in the first postpartum year
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Lea Takács, Filip Smolík, Maria Kaźmierczak, Samuel P. Putnam (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - March 3, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Exploring priming effects of social and non-social attention getters on older infants’ preferences for infant-directed speech
Publication date: May 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 59Author(s): Tyler C. McFayden, Robin K. Panneton, Madeleine Bruce, Caroline Taylor (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - March 3, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Initial psychometric properties of the Denver II in a sample from Northeast Brazil
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Florencia Lopez Boo, Mayaris Cubides Mateus, Ana Llonch Sabatés (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 29, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Prolonged touch screen device usage is associated with emotional and behavioral problems, but not language delay, in toddlers
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Han-Pin Lin, Kuan-Lin Chen, Willy Chou, Kuo-Shu Yuan, Shih-Yin Yen, Yu-Shao Chen, Julie Chi Chow (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 29, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Infant brain responses to live face-to-face interaction with their mothers: Combining functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) with a modified still-face paradigm
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Hannah F. Behrendt, Kerstin Konrad, Katherine L. Perdue, Christine Firk (Source: Infant Behavior and Development)
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 27, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Association of preterm birth and intrauterine growth restriction with childhood motor development: Brisa cohort, brazil
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Paulo Ricardo H. Rocha, Maria da C.P. Saraiva, Marco A. Barbieri, Alexandre A. Ferraro, Heloisa BettiolAbstractThe present study investigated the association between preterm birth PT conditions, intrauterine growth restriction IUGR and the combination of both PT-IUGR with infant motor development. A cohort with 1006 children was monitored during prenatal, at birth, and two years of age. Bayley-III screening was used to evaluate of fine and gross motor skills. The data did not indicate an increased risk for motor delays in the PT or ...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 20, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Neuroimaging the sleeping brain: Insight on memory functioning in infants and toddlers
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Elliott Gray Johnson, Janani Prabhakar, Lindsey N. Mooney, Simona GhettiAbstractEpisodic memory, or the ability to remember past events with specific detail, is central to the human experience and is related to learning and adaptive functioning in a variety of domains. In typically developing children, episodic memory emerges during infancy and improves during early childhood and beyond. Developmental processes within the hippocampus are hypothesized to be primarily responsible for both the early emergence and persistence of episodi...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 20, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Keeping the end in mind: Preliminary brain and behavioral evidence for broad attention to endpoints in pre-linguistic infants
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Amy Pace, Dani F. Levine, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Leslie J. Carver, Kathy Hirsh-PasekAbstractInfants must learn to carve events at their joints to best understand who is doing what to whom or whether an object or agent has reached its intended goal. Recent behavioral research demonstrates that infants do not see the world as a movie devoid of meaning, but rather as a series of sub-events that include agents moving in different manners along paths from sources to goals. This research uses behavioral and electrophysiological metho...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 11, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Covert orienting of attention in 3-month-old infants: The case of biological motion
We examined infants’ target-locked P1 component and the saccade latencies toward the peripheral target. Results showed that the P1 component was larger in response to congruent than to incongruent targets and saccade latencies were faster for congruent rather than incongruent trials. Moreover, the facilitation in processing sensory information (priming effects) presented at the cued spatial location occurs even before the onset of the oculomotor response, suggesting that covert attention is present before 4 months of age. Overall, this study highlights how ERPs method could help researchers at investigating the neural ba...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 8, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Coincidence or cascade? The temporal relation between locomotor behaviors and the emergence of stranger anxiety
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Rebecca J. Brand, Kelly Escobar, Ariana M. PatrickAbstractTwo infant milestones, self-propelled locomotion and stranger anxiety, tend to emerge at a similar age in development. An adaptive relation may exist in which the onset of one influences the development of the other in individual children. We examine whether these milestones systematically co-occur and whether one reliably precedes the other. In the current study, 104 parents completed weekly online surveys between 6 and 12 months, noting milestones as they occurred. Onset ag...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 7, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Understanding the role and function of maternal touch in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Livio Provenzi, Elisa Rosa, Eleonora Visintin, Eleonora Mascheroni, Elena Guida, Anna Cavallini, Rosario MontirossoAbstractDuring the first years of life, maternal touch can serve different functions including facilitation of child’s gaze orientation to faces which is a key precursor for social attention. Although children with neurodevelopmental disability (ND) may have reduced social skills, the role of maternal touch in contributing to gaze orientation to maternal face has not been explored in previous research. In the present ...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - February 4, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Consistency in maternal affect and positive vocalization over the first year of life
Publication date: February 2020Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 58Author(s): Charu T. Tuladhar, Amanda R. TarulloAbstractConsistency in parenting infants has positive developmental outcomes. Yet, the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in consistency of maternal behaviors is not well understood. We investigated individual-order continuity of maternal smile and laughter and positive vocalization from 6 to 12 months of age in 82 mother-infant dyads. Overall, individual differences in maternal smile and laughter, and positive vocalization were consistent across time. A multidimensional measure of SES moderated t...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - January 29, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research