Magen Lowe, Joshua Underwood, Victoria Jones, Maria A. Gartstein
{"title":"Frontal Asymmetry in Infancy: Predictive Utility for Distinct Patterns of Temperament","authors":"Magen Lowe, Joshua Underwood, Victoria Jones, Maria A. Gartstein","doi":"10.1002/icd.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70103","url":null,"abstract":"Recent theorising has emphasised motivational systems, rather than specific emotional reactions, when interpreting frontal asymmetry. We examined the predictive utility of infant electroencephalogram (EEG) frontal asymmetry during two approach‐oriented tasks within 82 mother‐infant dyads (infant age: <jats:italic>M</jats:italic> = 38.88 weeks, SD = 8.13 weeks; infant ethnicity: 86.7% Caucasian; infant sex: 51.2% female). Peek‐a‐boo (PAB) and toy removal (TR) were chosen as predictors of mother‐reported temperament, as both elicit approach motivation via a blocked goal in a joyful and frustrating context, respectively. TR asymmetry effect on surgency/positive affectivity (SPA) was observed and driven primarily by a significant predictive relationship between TR asymmetry and smiling and laughter, <jats:italic>f</jats:italic> <jats:sup> <jats:italic>2</jats:italic> </jats:sup> = 0.31. Negative emotionality (NE) related outcomes were predicted by TR asymmetry, driven by sadness, <jats:italic>f</jats:italic> <jats:sup> <jats:italic>2</jats:italic> </jats:sup> = 0.20. Other than occasional contributions of covariates, no additional statistically significant results were noted. These findings are discussed as most consistent with the capability model of lateralization.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285869","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":"Correction to “Relationship Between Colours and Emotions as Reflected in Children's Drawings”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/icd.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285893","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}
Nazlı Altınok, Rebeka Anna Zsoldos, Krisztina Andrási, Ildiko Király, Marco F. H. Schmidt
{"title":"Sharing a Language Guides and Constrains Exploration and Discovery in Preschool Children","authors":"Nazlı Altınok, Rebeka Anna Zsoldos, Krisztina Andrási, Ildiko Király, Marco F. H. Schmidt","doi":"10.1002/icd.70104","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Children selectively acquire knowledge from reliable epistemic sources who provide them with relevant learning opportunities. This study investigated whether such selectivity extends to artefact learning and whether pedagogical cues restrict exploration depending on the teacher's linguistic group membership. Building on previous work which showed that pedagogy limits exploration, we compared how monolingual Hungarian 4- to 5- year-old children explore a novel artefact with four different functions in two experimental conditions (<i>n</i> = 30 each) and a baseline condition (<i>n</i> = 18). Children in the experimental conditions observed a nonverbal, pedagogical demonstration of the target function either by a linguistic ingroup member or a linguistic outgroup member, whilst children in the baseline condition received no demonstration. Children learned the demonstrated function in both experimental conditions but not in the baseline condition. Exploration and discovery were most restricted when the teacher spoke their native language in comparison to when she spoke a foreign language. This conceptual replication extends previous findings by showing that relevance expectations (e.g., how ‘we’ do things) triggered by linguistic group membership cues, not teaching alone, constrain children's exploratory behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147751553","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}
Tyler Birse, Yomna Waly, Craig G. Chambers, Susan A. Graham
{"title":"Do Emotions Speak a Universal Language? English-Speaking Preschoolers' and Adults' Detection of Emotional Prosody in an Unfamiliar Language","authors":"Tyler Birse, Yomna Waly, Craig G. Chambers, Susan A. Graham","doi":"10.1002/icd.70100","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examined English-speaking preschoolers' and adults' attention to emotional prosody in an unfamiliar language when asked to: (a) match emotional prosody with emotional faces; and (b) use emotional prosody to identify a speaker's intended referent. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds (<i>N</i> = 36, <i>M</i> = 4.16 years; 18 females) and adults (<i>N</i> = 38, <i>M</i> = 21.18 years; 26 females) matched happy and sad Polish utterances to a corresponding emotional face, as evidenced through pointing decisions. In Experiment 2, adults (<i>N</i> = 36, <i>M</i> = 20.17 years; 31 females), but not 4-year-olds (<i>N</i> = 36, <i>M</i> = 4.11 years; 18 females), matched the same emotional utterances to objects whose properties signalled an association with happiness or sadness (e.g., intact vs. broken toy). These findings demonstrate that 4-year-olds and adults can recognise emotional prosody in an unfamiliar language, however, only adults are successful at extending this information to other kinds of emotion-relevant decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147655729","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}