InfancyPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1111/infa.12555
Melissa M. Kibbe, Aimee E. Stahl
{"title":"An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations","authors":"Melissa M. Kibbe, Aimee E. Stahl","doi":"10.1111/infa.12555","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12555","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Infants encode the surface features of simple, unfamiliar objects (e.g., red triangle) and the categorical identities of familiar, categorizable objects (e.g., car) into their representations of these objects. We asked whether 16–18-month-olds ignore non-diagnostic surface features (e.g., color) in favor of encoding an object's categorical identity (e.g., car) when objects are from familiar categories. In Experiment 1 (<i>n</i> = 18), we hid a categorizable object inside an opaque box. In No Switch trials, infants retrieved the object that was hidden. In Switch trials, infants retrieved a different object: an object from a different category (Between-Category-Switch trials) or a different object from the same category (Within-Category-Switch trials). We measured infants' subsequent searching in the box. Infants' pattern of searching suggested that only infants who completed a Within-Category-Switch trial as their first Switch trial encoded objects' surface features, and an exploratory analysis suggested that infants who completed a Between-Category-Switch trial as their first Switch trial only encoded objects' categories. In Experiment 2 (<i>n</i> = 18), we confirmed that these results were due to objects' categorizability. These results suggest infants may tailor the way they encode categorizable objects depending on which object dimensions are perceived to be task relevant.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 5","pages":"958-972"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9901951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1111/infa.12554
Emily Jackson, Dani Levine, Jill de Villiers, Aquiles Iglesias, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
{"title":"Assessing the language of 2 year-olds: From theory to practice","authors":"Emily Jackson, Dani Levine, Jill de Villiers, Aquiles Iglesias, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff","doi":"10.1111/infa.12554","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12554","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Early screening for language problems is a priority given the importance of language for success in school and interpersonal relationships. The paucity of reliable behavioral instruments for this age group prompted the development of a new touchscreen language screener for 2-year-olds that relies on language comprehension. Developmental literature guided selection of age-appropriate markers of language disorder risk that are culturally and dialectally neutral and could be reliably assessed. Items extend beyond products of linguistic knowledge (vocabulary and syntax) and tap the <i>process</i> by which children learn language, also known as fast mapping. After piloting an extensive set of items (139), two phases of testing with over 500 children aged 2; 0–2; 11 were conducted to choose the final 40-item set. Rasch analysis was used to select the best fitting and least redundant items. Norms were created based on 270 children. Sufficient test-retest reliability, Cronbach's alpha, and convergent validity with the MB-CDI and PPVT are reported. This quick behavioral measure of language capabilities could support research studies and facilitate the early detection of language problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 5","pages":"930-957"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9902209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-06-17DOI: 10.1111/infa.12553
Sofie Rousseau, Tamar Feldman, Inbal Shlomi Polachek, Tahl I. Frenkel
{"title":"Persistent symptoms of maternal post-traumatic stress following childbirth across the first months postpartum: Associations with perturbations in maternal behavior and infant avoidance of social gaze toward mother","authors":"Sofie Rousseau, Tamar Feldman, Inbal Shlomi Polachek, Tahl I. Frenkel","doi":"10.1111/infa.12553","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12553","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent literature identifies childbirth as a potentially traumatic event, following which mothers may develop symptoms of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Following-Childbirth (PTS-FC). The current study examines whether stable symptoms of PTS-FC during the early postpartum period may impose risk for perturbations in maternal behavior and infant social-engagement with mother, controlling for comorbid postpartum internalizing symptoms. Mother-infant dyads (<i>N</i> = 192) were recruited from the general population, during the third trimester of pregnancy. 49.5% of the mothers were primipara, and 48.4% of the infants were girls. Maternal PTS-FC was assessed at 3-day, 1-month and 4-month postpartum, via self-report and clinician-administered interview. Latent Profile Analysis generated two profiles of symptomology: “Stable-High-PTS-FC” (17.0%), and “Stable-Low-PTS-FC” (83%). Membership in the “Stable-High-PTS-FC” profile associated with perturbed maternal sensitivity, which was in turn significantly associated with infant avoidance of social gaze toward mother (Indirect effect <i>β</i> = −0.15). Results suggest the need for early screening and inform the planning of early preventive interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 5","pages":"882-909"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12553","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9901452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1111/infa.12552
Philippa Arkle, Fionnuala Larkin, Ying Wang, Yujin Lee, Amy Fernandez, Lydia Y. Li, Elizabeth Meins
{"title":"Early psychosocial risk factors and postnatal parental reflective functioning","authors":"Philippa Arkle, Fionnuala Larkin, Ying Wang, Yujin Lee, Amy Fernandez, Lydia Y. Li, Elizabeth Meins","doi":"10.1111/infa.12552","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12552","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Psychosocial factors have been found to relate to parental reflective functioning (PRF), a parent's ability to mentalize about themselves and their child. Relations between maternal psychosocial risk factors and PRF were investigated in a community sample. A sample of mothers (<i>n</i> = 146) was assessed for risk factors when infants were 6 months, infant temperament was assessed using an observational measure, and PRF was assessed with the Parent Development Interview-Revised (PDI). PRF was measured again with the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) when children were 4 years (<i>n</i> = 105) and 5 years (<i>n</i> = 92), with an additional sample of mothers (<i>n</i> = 48) tested at these two timepoints. Results showed that in infancy, total maternal psychosocial risk related to lower PDI-PRF; regression analyses highlighted low socioeconomic status, unplanned pregnancy, and low maternal anxiety as independent predictors of lower PDI-PRF. PDI-PRF scores at 6 months did not relate to PRFQ scores, but PRFQ subscales showed stability over time from age 4–5. Results are discussed with regard to the impact of maternal psychosocial risk and infant temperament on PRF and the stability and concordance of PRF measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 5","pages":"864-881"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12552","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9898167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1111/infa.12545
Leher Singh, Alejandrina Cristia, Lana B. Karasik, Sarah J. Rajendra, Lisa M. Oakes
{"title":"Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development","authors":"Leher Singh, Alejandrina Cristia, Lana B. Karasik, Sarah J. Rajendra, Lisa M. Oakes","doi":"10.1111/infa.12545","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12545","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Psychological researchers have become increasingly concerned with generalized accounts of human behavior based on narrow participant representation. This concern is particularly germane to infant research as findings from infant studies are often invoked to theorize broadly about the origins of human behavior. In this article, we examined participant diversity and representation in research published on infant development in four journals over the past decade. Sociodemographic data were coded for all articles reporting infant data published in <i>Child Development, Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology</i>, and <i>Infancy</i> between 2011 and 2022. Analyses of 1682 empirical articles, sampling approximately 1 million participants, revealed consistent under-reporting of sociodemographic information. For studies that reported sociodemographic characteristics, there was an unwavering skew toward White infants from North America/Western Europe. To address a lack of diversity in infant studies and its scientific impact, a set of principles and practices are proposed to advance toward a more globally representative science.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 4","pages":"708-737"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12545","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9721037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1111/infa.12544
Guangyu Zeng, Tiffany S. Leung, Sarah E. Maylott, Thea A. Saunders, Daniel S. Messinger, Maria M. Llabre, Elizabeth A. Simpson
{"title":"Social motivation predicts gaze following between 6 and 14 months","authors":"Guangyu Zeng, Tiffany S. Leung, Sarah E. Maylott, Thea A. Saunders, Daniel S. Messinger, Maria M. Llabre, Elizabeth A. Simpson","doi":"10.1111/infa.12544","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12544","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Infants vary in their ability to follow others’ gazes, but it is unclear how these individual differences emerge. We tested whether social motivation levels in early infancy predict later gaze following skills. We longitudinally tracked infants’ (<i>N</i> = 82) gazes and pupil dilation while they observed videos of a woman looking into the camera simulating eye contact (i.e., mutual gaze) and then gazing toward one of two objects, at 2, 4, 6, 8, and 14 months of age. To improve measurement validity, we used confirmatory factor analysis to combine multiple observed measures to index the underlying constructs of social motivation and gaze following. Infants’ social motivation—indexed by their speed of social orienting, duration of mutual gaze, and degree of pupil dilation during mutual gaze—was developmentally stable and positively predicted the development of gaze following—indexed by their proportion of time looking to the target object, first object look difference scores, and first face-to-object saccade difference scores—from 6 to 14 months of age. These findings suggest that infants’ social motivation likely plays a role in the development of gaze following and highlight the use of a multi-measure approach to improve measurement sensitivity and validity in infancy research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 4","pages":"836-860"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12544","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9671991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1111/infa.12543
Leher Singh, Paul C. Quinn
{"title":"Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children","authors":"Leher Singh, Paul C. Quinn","doi":"10.1111/infa.12543","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12543","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many children receive language input through face coverings. The impact of face coverings for children's abilities to understand language remains unclear. Past research with monolingual children suggests that hearing words through surgical masks does not disrupt word recognition, but hearing words through transparent face shields proves more challenging. In this study, we investigated effects of different face coverings (surgical masks and transparent face shields) on language comprehension in bilingual children. Three-year-old English-Mandarin bilingual children (<i>N</i> = 28) heard familiar words in both English and Mandarin spoken through transparent face shields, surgical masks, and without masks. When tested in English, children recognized words presented without a mask and through a surgical mask, but did not recognize words presented with transparent face shields, replicating past findings with monolingual children. In contrast, when tested in Mandarin, children recognized words presented without a mask, through a surgical mask, and through a transparent face shield. Results are discussed in terms of specific properties of English and Mandarin that may elicit different effects for transparent face shields. Overall, the present findings suggest that face coverings, and in particular, surgical masks do not disrupt spoken word recognition in young bilingual children.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 4","pages":"738-753"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9667423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1111/infa.12542
Szilvia Biro
{"title":"Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self-distress","authors":"Szilvia Biro","doi":"10.1111/infa.12542","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12542","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Comforting is a prosocial behavior that children start to engage in around their second year of life. There is much less known about their ability to evaluate comforting behavior of others. The current study examined whether 12 months old infants, after having watched animated abstract characters comfort or ignore a third party in distress, would show a preference for the comforting character. Using a manual choice paradigm, we found that infants were more likely to choose the comforting character than the ignoring character (Experiment 1). When the characters however lacked human surface features (eyes) infants did not show a preference (Experiment 2). Furthermore, infants self-distress during the watching of the animations did not prevent infants to evaluate the behavior of the observed characters. These findings support the idea of an early presence of “moral sense” in infancy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 4","pages":"807-819"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12542","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9666896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-04-06DOI: 10.1111/infa.12541
Samantha A. Murray, Lijuan Wang, E. Mark Cummings, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker
{"title":"Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress","authors":"Samantha A. Murray, Lijuan Wang, E. Mark Cummings, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker","doi":"10.1111/infa.12541","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12541","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding predictors and effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic is a top-priority in research endeavors. The impact of COVID-19 on all components of family life and mental health cannot be overstated. This study emphasizes the need to investigate predictors of parents' responses to disaster by conceptualizing the depth of the impact of the pandemic using Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Systems Model. We evaluate parents of infants as the center of the microsystem and discuss the importance of parents' responses to the pandemic for children's development. Specifically, utilizing a prospective design involving a sample of 105 infant-mother-father triads, we test the predictive effects of mothers' and fathers' mental health and infant externalizing behavior assessed prior to the pandemic when infants were 16-months on later pandemic related distress (PRD) approximately 1 year later. Results indicate that for both mothers and fathers, more depressive symptoms during their child's infancy predicted more PRD. Although mothers' reports of more child externalizing behavior significantly predicted more PRD, fathers' reports of externalizing were strongly, positively correlated with their concurrent depressive symptoms but not directly related to PRD. We demonstrate the importance of pre-existing mental health and parents' perceptions of their children's behavior as early as 16 months, in coping with disaster.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 4","pages":"793-806"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12541","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9720005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfancyPub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1111/infa.12538
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
{"title":"The mountain stream of infant development","authors":"Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda","doi":"10.1111/infa.12538","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12538","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Development is complex. It encompasses interacting domains, at multiple levels, across nested time scales. Embracing the complexity of development—while addressing the challenges inherent to studying infants—requires researchers to make tough decisions about what to study, why, how, where, and when. My own view is inspired by a developmental systems approach, and echoed in Esther Thelen's (2005) mountain stream metaphor. Like a river that carves its course, the active infant navigates the social and physical environment and generates rich inputs that propel learning and development. Drawing from my experiences, I offer some recommendations to guide research on infants. I encourage researchers to embrace discovery science; to observe infants in ecologically valid settings; to recognize the active and adaptive nature of infant behavior; to break down silos and consider the nonobvious; and to adopt full transparency in all aspects of research. I draw on cascading influences in infant play, language, and motor domains to illustrate the value of a bottom-up, cross-domain, collaborative approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"28 3","pages":"468-491"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10184132/pdf/nihms-1891160.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9458519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}