{"title":"Understanding allostasis: Early-life self-regulation involves both up- and down-regulation of arousal.","authors":"S V Wass, F U Mirza, C Smith","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Optimal performance lies at intermediate autonomic arousal, but no previous research has examined whether the emergence of endogenous control associates with changes in children's up-regulation from hypo-arousal, as well as down-regulation from hyper-arousal. We used wearables to take day-long recordings from N = 58, 12-month-olds (60% white/58% female); and, in the same infants, we measured self-regulation in the lab with a still-face paradigm. Overall, our findings suggest that infants who showed more self-regulatory behaviors in the lab were more likely to actively change their behaviors in home settings moment-by-moment \"on the fly\" following changes in autonomic arousal, and that these changes result in up- as well as down-regulation. Implications for the role of atypical self-regulation in later psychopathology are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141757432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox: A new standardized tool for assessing neurodevelopment in children ages 1-42 months.","authors":"Richard Gershon, Miriam A Novack, Aaron J Kaat","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The progress of developmental research demands reliable measurement techniques, yet inconsistency persist across laboratories, subfields, and settings. To address this, the NIH Toolbox for Neurological and Behavioral Function (NIHTB)® has been extended to create a universal assessment for developmental and pediatric communities: The NIH Infant and Toddler (\"Baby\") Toolbox. Currently undergoing norming in a sample of 2550 children demographically representative of the 2020 U.S. census, the Baby Toolbox is slated for release in late 2024. This paper introduces the Baby Toolbox, details its objectives, development, and technological innovations, describes plans for reliability and norming, and invites researchers to consider the Baby Toolbox in the future studies. Ultimately, this initiative stands to enhance cross-study comparability and advance comprehensive developmental evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141747478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaohui Yan, Yang Fu, Guoyan Feng, Hui Li, Haibin Su, Xinhong Liu, Yu Wu, Jia Hua, Fan Cao
{"title":"Reading disability is characterized by reduced print-speech convergence.","authors":"Xiaohui Yan, Yang Fu, Guoyan Feng, Hui Li, Haibin Su, Xinhong Liu, Yu Wu, Jia Hua, Fan Cao","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reading disability (RD) may be characterized by reduced print-speech convergence, which is the extent to which neurocognitive processes for reading and hearing words overlap. We examined how print-speech convergence changes from children (mean age: 11.07+0.48) to adults (mean age: 21.33+1.80) in 86 readers with or without RD. The participants were recruited in elementary schools and associate degree colleges in China (from 2020 to 2021). Three patterns of abnormalities were revealed: (1) persistent reduction of print-speech convergence in the left inferior parietal cortex in both children and adults with RD, suggesting a neural signature of RD; (2) reduction of print-speech convergence in the left inferior frontal gyrus only evident in children but not adults with RD, suggesting a developmental delay; and (3) increased print-speech convergence in adults with RD than typical adults in the bilateral cerebella/fusiform, suggesting compensations. It provides insights into developmental differences in brain functional abnormalities in RD.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141731039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diane Rekow, Jean-Yves Baudouin, Anna Kiseleva, Bruno Rossion, Karine Durand, Benoist Schaal, Arnaud Leleu
{"title":"Olfactory-to-visual facilitation in the infant brain declines gradually from 4 to 12 months.","authors":"Diane Rekow, Jean-Yves Baudouin, Anna Kiseleva, Bruno Rossion, Karine Durand, Benoist Schaal, Arnaud Leleu","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During infancy, intersensory facilitation declines gradually as unisensory perception develops. However, this trade-off was mainly investigated using audiovisual stimulations. Here, fifty 4- to 12-month-old infants (26 females, predominately White) were tested in 2017-2020 to determine whether the facilitating effect of their mother's body odor on neural face categorization, as previously observed at 4 months, decreases with age. In a baseline odor context, the results revealed a face-selective electroencephalographic response that increases and changes qualitatively between 4 and 12 months, marking improved face categorization. At the same time, the benefit of adding maternal odor fades with age (R<sup>2</sup> = .31), indicating an inverse relation with the amplitude of the visual response, and generalizing to olfactory-visual interactions previous evidence from the audiovisual domain.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141632811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Camille Moeckel, Lauren Gaydosh, Lisa Schneper, Colter Mitchell, Daniel A. Notterman
{"title":"Material hardship and telomere length in children","authors":"Camille Moeckel, Lauren Gaydosh, Lisa Schneper, Colter Mitchell, Daniel A. Notterman","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14126","url":null,"abstract":"Telomere length (TL) serves as a biomarker of exposure to stressors, including material hardship. Data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (1998–2015) were utilized to determine whether prior material hardship was associated with shorter salivary TL at years 9 and 15. 49% of the year 9 study population were female, 49% were Black, and 25% were Hispanic. At year 9 (<i>N</i> = 1990), regression analyses found a significant association between prior material hardship and shorter TL (<i>β</i> = −.005, <i>p</i> < .01). Additionally, at year 15 (<i>N</i> = 1874), material hardship experienced during infancy and toddlerhood was associated with shorter TL (<i>β</i> = −.009, <i>p</i> < .01), pointing toward infancy and toddlerhood as a sensitive period.","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141463637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miriam Mikhelson, Adrian Luong, Alexander Etz, Megan Micheletti, Priyanka Khante, Kaya de Barbaro
{"title":"Mothers speak less to infants during detected real-world phone use","authors":"Miriam Mikhelson, Adrian Luong, Alexander Etz, Megan Micheletti, Priyanka Khante, Kaya de Barbaro","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14125","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14125","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current study is the first to document the real-time association between phone use and speech to infants in extended real-world interactions. N= 16 predominantly White (75%) mother–infant dyads (infants aged <i>M</i> = 4.1 months, SD = 2.3; 63% female) shared 16,673 min of synchronized real-world phone use and Language Environment Analysis audio data over the course of 1 week (collected 2017–2020) for our analyses. Maternal phone use was associated with a 16% decrease in infants' speech input, with shorter intervals of phone use (1–2 min) associated with a greater 26% decrease in speech input relative to longer periods. This work highlights the value of multimodal sensing to access dynamic, within-person, and context-specific predictors of speech to infants in real-world settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141455673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melanie Killen, Amanda R Burkholder, Elizabeth Brey, Dylan Cooper, Kristin Pauker
{"title":"Children and adolescents rectify unequal allocations of leadership duties in the classroom.","authors":"Melanie Killen, Amanda R Burkholder, Elizabeth Brey, Dylan Cooper, Kristin Pauker","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14123","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Little is known about how children and adolescents evaluate unequal teacher allocations of leadership duties based on ethnicity-race and gender in the classroom. U.S. boys and girls, White (40.7%), Multiracial (18.5%), Black/African American (16.0%), Latine (14.2%), Asian (5.5%), Pacific Islander (0.4%), and other (4.7%) ethnic-racial backgrounds, 8-14 years, N = 275, evaluated teacher allocations of high-status leadership positions favoring specific ethnic-racial or gender groups during 2018-2021. Adolescents, more than children, negatively evaluated unequal teacher allocations of leadership duties that resulted in group-based inequalities, expected peers who shared the identity of a group disadvantaged by the teacher's allocation to view it more negatively than others, and rectified inequalities. Understanding perceptions of teacher-based bias provides an opportunity for interventions designed to create fair and just classrooms that motivate all students to achieve.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141455672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara F. Waters, Meenakshi Richardson, Sara R. Mills, Alvina Marris, Fawn Harris, Myra Parker
{"title":"Beyond attachment theory: Indigenous perspectives on the child–caregiver bond from a northwest tribal community","authors":"Sara F. Waters, Meenakshi Richardson, Sara R. Mills, Alvina Marris, Fawn Harris, Myra Parker","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14127","url":null,"abstract":"Healthy Indigenous child development is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Attachment theory has been influential in understanding the significance of parenting for infant development in Western science but has focused on child–caregiver bonds predominantly within the parent–child dyad. To bring forth Indigenous perspectives regarding understandings of parenting, the attachment bond, and the well-being of Indigenous children, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 28 members of a Northwest tribal community (21 female) in spring and summer 2020. Themes included Community caregiving, Family value systems, Bonding, Traditional teachings, and Historical trauma. The need to expand the lens of attachment theory beyond the dyad is clear. Implications for improving the child welfare system and prevention programs within Indigenous communities are discussed.","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141334561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dandan Yang, Yan Ge, Yiwen Sun, Penelope Collins, Susanne Jaeggi, Ying Xu, Zhiling Meng Shea, Mark Warschauer
{"title":"Self-regulation and comprehension in shared reading: The moderating effects of verbal interactions and E-book discussion prompts","authors":"Dandan Yang, Yan Ge, Yiwen Sun, Penelope Collins, Susanne Jaeggi, Ying Xu, Zhiling Meng Shea, Mark Warschauer","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14128","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined how children's self-regulation skills measured by the strengths and weaknesses of ADHD symptoms and normal behavior rating are associated with story comprehension and how verbal engagement and e-book discussion prompts moderate this relation. Children aged 3–7 (<i>N</i> = 111, 50% female, Chinese as first language) read an interactive Chinese–English bilingual story e-book with or without discussion prompts twice with their parents (2020–2021). Results demonstrated that the lower children's self-regulation skills, the more they struggled with story comprehension. Critically, our data suggest that embedding e-book discussion prompts and more verbalization in English can mitigate this negative association for children with inattention/hyperactivity. These findings have critical implications for future e-book design, interventions, and home reading practice for children with inattention/hyperactivity and those at risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141334554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming word meaning experts: Infants' processing of familiar words in the context of typical and atypical exemplars","authors":"Haley Weaver, Martin Zettersten, Jenny R. Saffran","doi":"10.1111/cdev.14120","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cdev.14120","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How do infants become word meaning experts? This registered report investigated the structure of infants' early lexical representations by manipulating the typicality of exemplars from familiar animal categories. 14- to 18-month-old infants (<i>N</i> = 84; 51 female; <i>M</i> = 15.7 months; race/ethnicity: 64% White, 8% Asian, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, and 23% multiple categories; participating 2022–2023) were tested on their ability to recognize typical and atypical category exemplars after hearing familiar basic-level category labels. Infants robustly recognized both typical (<i>d</i> = 0.79, 95% CI [0.54, 1.03]) and atypical (<i>d</i> = 0.70, 95% CI [0.46, 0.94]) exemplars, with no significant difference between typicality conditions (<i>d</i> = 0.14, 95% CI [−0.08, 0.35]). These results support a broad-to-narrow account of infants' early word meanings. Implications for the role of experience in the development of lexical knowledge are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":10109,"journal":{"name":"Child development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cdev.14120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141185455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}