Margaret Broeren, Yuzhe Gu, Mark Pitt, Virginia Tompkins
{"title":"A Script and Tutorial for Using Rev AI's Automatic Speech Transcription","authors":"Margaret Broeren, Yuzhe Gu, Mark Pitt, Virginia Tompkins","doi":"10.1002/icd.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We introduce Speech Transcriber with Rev AI (STR) - a Python script that allows for easy interfacing with the Rev AI speech transcription service. Recent advancements in technology have led to increased accuracy and affordability of automatic transcription services, making them preferable over the laborious and time-consuming process of manual transcription. STR allows users to take advantage of speech-to-text transcription services to transcribe their own verbal response data. STR is partially tailored to child development researchers utilising the Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts (CHAT) though the code is generic enough to output unformatted transcriptions. STR allows transcription of single words and multi-speaker dialogues in 50+ languages. We describe STR, provide a tutorial for CHAT-formatted transcriptions, describe settings available for customising transcription and conduct a brief analysis of the efficiency and accuracy of transcription. Speech that was transcribed in over half an hour by trained transcribers was transcribed in less than two minutes (with ~90% accuracy) by Rev AI. Considering the additional time needed for error correction and CHAT formatting, we estimate that manual transcription takes twice as long as transcribing with assistance from STR.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haley E. Kragness, Arooba Mansoor, Areeba Qureshi, Rachel Peiris, Laura K. Cirelli
{"title":"Five-Year-Old Children Identify Emotions in Music Along Valence and Intensity Dimensions","authors":"Haley E. Kragness, Arooba Mansoor, Areeba Qureshi, Rachel Peiris, Laura K. Cirelli","doi":"10.1002/icd.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Music is a highly effective medium for communicating emotions among enculturated adults. In Western music, emotion perception is influenced by intensity cues (e.g., <i>tempo</i> and <i>loudness</i>) and valence cues (e.g., <i>major</i> vs. <i>minor mode</i>). Here, 5-year-old Canadian children (<i>N</i> = 57, 26 boys, 31 girls, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = ~5.5 years) and adults (<i>N</i> = 59, 45 women, 9 men, 5 non-binary/did not report, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = ~18.5 years) rated music on valence or intensity. Children's ratings were positively correlated with adults' for both valence (<i>r</i> = 0.914) and intensity (<i>r</i> = 0.800) and both groups used similar features to make judgements. Results demonstrate that children perceive valence and intensity in music and point to the importance of testing children's emotion perception across the full valence–intensity dimensional space.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143675232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth B. Sherwin, Marjolein E. A. Barendse, Ronald E. Dahl, Lucía Magis-Weinberg
{"title":"Prospective, Directional Associations Between Social Media Intensity and Loneliness in Adolescence","authors":"Elizabeth B. Sherwin, Marjolein E. A. Barendse, Ronald E. Dahl, Lucía Magis-Weinberg","doi":"10.1002/icd.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We investigated the relationship between social media and loneliness in early adolescents in Perú across 15 months of COVID-19 lockdowns (grades 6–8; 56% female in May 2020). Cross-sectional analyses with data from May 2020 (<i>n</i> = 1613) found that higher social media intensity was associated with higher feelings of loneliness. In a longitudinal follow-up study (<i>n</i> = 455), we investigated bidirectional associations in May 2020, November 2020 and July 2021, and found that feelings of loneliness in girls were associated with a subsequent increase in social media intensity. Social media intensity was not associated with changes in feelings of loneliness in either gender. Our findings with adolescents in low- and middle-income urban settings in Perú underscore the importance of longitudinal research and contribute to understanding these issues globally.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143666171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaclyn M. Dynia, Sherine R. Tambyraja, Anna Rhoad-Drogalis, Abel J. Koury, Randi A. Bates, Rebecca A. Dore, Laura M. Justice
{"title":"The First Year: Profiling the Home Environment of Infants From Low-Income Homes","authors":"Jaclyn M. Dynia, Sherine R. Tambyraja, Anna Rhoad-Drogalis, Abel J. Koury, Randi A. Bates, Rebecca A. Dore, Laura M. Justice","doi":"10.1002/icd.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The home environment (HE) is one of young children's most proximal and impactful settings. Little research has examined the nature of variability in the HE for children from low-income homes, even as more recent work suggests heterogeneity within economically disadvantaged households. Using a subsample from a larger, longitudinal study, we examined the extent to which differential profiles of the HE of infants from low-income backgrounds could be identified. A latent profile analysis (LPA) suggested three profiles of the HE: low responsivity, average HE, and high involvement. These three groups did not differ regarding family characteristics such as parental education, income, or marital status but did differ concerning maternal stress and material support. Specifically, maternal stress and material support were lower in the group with high involvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143638895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Inter-Brain Coherence Between Fathers and Infants During Maternal Storytelling: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study","authors":"Xin Zhou, Xuancu Hong, Patrick C. M. Wong","doi":"10.1002/icd.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current study examined the inter-brain coherence (IBC) between 34 dyads of fathers and infants 7–9 months of age using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). We specifically focused on father–infant IBC to broaden the empirical base beyond the mother–infant connections, as the former has received limited attention. There were three conditions: a baseline condition and two task conditions when the infant and the adult participant jointly listened to maternal storytelling in Cantonese in infant-directed speech (IDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS). Father–infant IBC was compared with stranger–infant IBC in the same experimental settings. Our results found that father–infant IBC was greater in the baseline and ADS conditions but not in the IDS condition, compared to stranger–infant IBC. Further, stranger–infant dyads showed greater IBC in the IDS condition than in the ADS condition, with no significance in father–infant IBC between the two speech conditions. These results identified different inter-brain connection mechanisms between the two dyads. The IBC pattern in stranger–infant dyads is driven by neural entrainment to mothers' speech, whereas father–infant IBC is more resistant to mothers' behaviours in the co-presence of both parents.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143497173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, Xavier Oriol-Granado, Mònica González, Jose A. Rodas
{"title":"The Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale in Children Aged 10 and 12 From 30 Countries: Analysis From Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory","authors":"Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, Xavier Oriol-Granado, Mònica González, Jose A. Rodas","doi":"10.1002/icd.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study evaluates the Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale (CW-PSWBS) within a diverse international cohort of children aged 10 and 12, utilising Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) methodologies. Through a detailed psychometric analysis, this research assesses the CW-PSWBS's structural integrity, focusing on its unidimensionality and measurement invariance across gender and age groups. The study also analyses the scale's item discrimination and difficulty levels using IRT. Participants: The sample consisted of children from 30 countries, aged 10 and 12 years, offering a broad perspective on psychological well-being across different cultures and developmental stages. The CW-PSWBS demonstrates a unidimensional structure, ensuring consistent measurement across genders and age groups. The scale's items exhibit strong discrimination and appropriate difficulty, highlighting its effectiveness in capturing the latent trait of psychological well-being, particularly at low and average score ranges. Validated by a comprehensive analysis grounded in both CTT and IRT, the CW-PSWBS emerges as a reliable tool for assessing the psychological well-being of children aged 10 and 12 across a wide array of cultural contexts. The study affirms the scale's robustness and cross-cultural validity, making a significant contribution to the field of child psychology.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socialisation of Emotion Regulation in Preschool Classrooms: How Do Peers Matter?","authors":"Tatiana Diebold, Ann-Kathrin Jaggy, Sonja Perren","doi":"10.1002/icd.2566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2566","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The development of emotional competence is an important milestone during early childhood. Beyond early experience within the family, the (preschool) classroom is a relevant socialisation context, and both teachers and peers may contribute to children's emotion-related outcomes. Tracking changes in the emotion regulation competence of <i>N</i> = 173 preschool children (age in months: <i>M</i> = 43.3, SD = 6.6, 45% girls) over 6 months, the current study investigated whether and how peers contribute to differences in the development of emotion regulation in preschool classrooms. The research questions were addressed by examining three different kinds of peer groups: Classroom-level peer group, friendship group, and high-status peers (social network centrality). Teachers rated children's emotion regulation competence and empathic co-regulation behaviour—referring to preschoolers' supportive responses to their peers' emotional expressions—at three assessment points. Multilevel growth modelling provided evidence that friendship-group empathic co-regulation (empathy, helping, and comforting behaviour) predicted changes in preschoolers' emotion regulation over time, confirming that friendship groups influence young children's emotional development.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.2566","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanna Weiers, Sohnia Ghattaura, Gaia Scerif, Francesco Sella, Victoria Simms, Iro Xenidou-Dervou, Camilla Gilmore
{"title":"Methods Used to Assess Early Mathematical Skills in 2-Year-Olds: A Review of the Literature","authors":"Hanna Weiers, Sohnia Ghattaura, Gaia Scerif, Francesco Sella, Victoria Simms, Iro Xenidou-Dervou, Camilla Gilmore","doi":"10.1002/icd.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When children are aged around 2 years, many of the early foundations of mathematical skills are developing. Understanding this is important to shed light on theories of mathematical development. Nevertheless, little research has investigated 2-year-olds' early mathematical abilities, with most research focussing on either infants (aged 0–1 years) or pre-schoolers (aged 3–5 years). One possible reason for this lack of research may be the challenges associated with the methods used with this age group. Here, we review the methods used to assess 2-year-olds' basic mathematical skills and identify the gaps and issues with those methods. Our findings indicate several issues, both with individual methods used to test specific skills but also some common challenges applicable across all measures and skills. We discuss the identified issues and highlight a need for more appropriate approaches and for alternative methods of administration to better evaluate 2-year-olds' mathematical skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143439152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emma Libersky, Caitlyn Slawny, Margarita Kaushanskaya
{"title":"Learning in Dos Idiomas: The Impact of Codeswitching on Children's Noun and Verb Learning","authors":"Emma Libersky, Caitlyn Slawny, Margarita Kaushanskaya","doi":"10.1002/icd.2568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2568","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs associated with codeswitching. In two Experiments, we taught 4–5-year-old bilingual children verbs (Experiment 1, <i>N</i> = 25, 13 girls, 69% white, 83% Hispanic) and nouns (Experiment 2, <i>N</i> = 29, 12 girls, 72% while, 68% Hispanic) within English-only and Spanish-English codeswitched learning contexts. Children's language ability across Spanish and English was modeled continuously, allowing us to test the impact of language ability on learning. Children learned novel words successfully in both experiments, with no difference between conditions. However, children with higher language ability demonstrated steeper learning rates l in the English-only condition relative to the codeswitched condition in both Experiment 1 (standardized coefficient of 0.19) and Experiment 2 (standardized coefficient of 0.14). Our findings indicate that bilingual children can successfully learn both verbs and nouns in codeswitched contexts but learning is modulated by a child's language skills as well as the number of learning opportunities they have had.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.2568","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Courtney A. Filippi, Elizabeth Smith, Elizabeth Redcay, Heather Hazlett, Lauren Thompson, Stacy S. Manwaring, Precilla D'Souza, Audrey Thurm
{"title":"Brain Morphometry of Toddlers With Language Delay: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Courtney A. Filippi, Elizabeth Smith, Elizabeth Redcay, Heather Hazlett, Lauren Thompson, Stacy S. Manwaring, Precilla D'Souza, Audrey Thurm","doi":"10.1002/icd.2558","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.2558","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While studies have documented neural correlates of language delay in toddlers with developmental conditions, those at genetic risk for language delay, and those born premature, no studies have examined neural correlates in toddlers exhibiting early language delay without known aetiology. This study examines brain morphometry in toddlers with and without early language delay. To do so, we collected magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on toddlers with language delay (LD; <i>n</i> = 7, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 19.67 months, 3 female, 2 Hispanic and 4 non-caucasian) and a typically developing (TD; <i>n</i> = 17, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 22.73 months, 8 female, 2 Hispanic and 3 non-caucasian) comparison group. Exploratory analyses examined group differences in total brain volume, cortical thickness and cortical surface area using both a whole-brain and region of interest (Broca's and Wernicke's areas) approach. Results showed no gross brain anatomical differences between groups. However, there were group differences in cortical surface area in the temporal cortex (including Wernicke's area and left middle temporal gyrus, hedges' <i>g</i> = − 0.35) and Broca's area thickness. Results are reported using multiple analytic methods, age matching and exclusion of children later diagnosed with autism. While this exploratory study has a limited sample size, it provides novel findings that can be utilised to guide hypothesis-driven imaging studies on toddler language delay.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.2558","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143030915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}