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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70038

Eva Murillo, Irene Rujas, Teresa Sierra, Elvira Zamora, Guzmán Azagra

{"title":"Tactile Cues and Object Use in Multimodal Communicative Behaviors: Parent-Infant Interactions From 9 to 12 months of Age","authors":"Eva Murillo, Irene Rujas, Teresa Sierra, Elvira Zamora, Guzmán Azagra","doi":"10.1111/infa.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70038","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores how physical contact is used in parent-infant dyads from 9 to 12 months of age, focusing on the role of touch and the use of objects in supporting language development. Thirty-five monolingual Spanish-speaking dyads were observed longitudinally in a free play situation. We analyzed physical contact, considering who initiated the contact, its function, the use of objects and the coordination with speech. Results showed that adults initiated physical contact more frequently than infants, particularly at 9 months, while infant-initiated touch tended to be longer in duration and predominantly affective in nature. In contrast, adult-initiated touch was often functional and, when involving objects, frequently accompanied by verbal input. Notably, these object-mediated tactile cues were used to convey social meanings and were synchronized with speech, suggesting a scaffolding function for lexical development. As infants’ comprehension increased, the frequency of these cues decreased, indicating a developmental shift toward more distal communication strategies. These findings highlight the importance of tactile interaction in multimodal communication and in the establishment of joint attention frames, especially during the period of transition to first words, underscoring the need for a broader understanding of language as a multimodal phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144758537","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}

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Toward a Causal Science of Early Play? 走向早期游戏的因果科学？

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70033

Giulia Serino, Ori Ossmy

{"title":"Toward a Causal Science of Early Play?","authors":"Giulia Serino, Ori Ossmy","doi":"10.1111/infa.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70033","url":null,"abstract":"Young children across the globe devote much of their early years to physically engaging with the world—stacking, climbing, scribbling, and tinkering with objects. Although this embodied play is widely believed to fuel key cognitive processes like attention, memory, and executive function, most supporting evidence remains descriptive or correlational. Here, we review findings from embodied cognition research and highlight why direct experimental manipulations—rather than observations alone—are critical to demonstrating whether and how infants’ and children’s sensorimotor engagements shape their cognitive trajectories. We discuss emerging technologies (e.g., motion capture, wearable eye-tracking) that can assess play in natural contexts, along with the use of embodied computational models for testing the impact of altered object affordances and caregiver scaffolding. We propose designs for real-world interventions such as rotating different types of toys, systematically modifying motor demands, and tracking outcomes in attention and problem-solving, which can bring new causal clarity to developmental science. We argue that a causal science of play will have broad implications for early education, policy, and intervention programs that aim to transform the theory of embodied cognition into practical benefits for children's learning and development.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740217","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}

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Early Childhood Development and Family Adaptation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study COVID-19大流行期间儿童早期发展和家庭适应：一项混合方法研究

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70034

Ana María Quezada-Ugalde, Alejandra Auza Benavides, Chiharu Murata, Alfonso Miguel García-Hernández

{"title":"Early Childhood Development and Family Adaptation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study","authors":"Ana María Quezada-Ugalde, Alejandra Auza Benavides, Chiharu Murata, Alfonso Miguel García-Hernández","doi":"10.1111/infa.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions in daily life. This mixed-methods study aimed to connect the developmental levels of children aged 1–3 years in 2020–2021 who grew up during the pandemic with their families' adaptation experiences, providing a comprehensive understanding of child development. The quantitative phase included 183 children, while 18 families participated in qualitative interviews. Quantitative results revealed delays in children's overall development, particularly in fine motor skills. Qualitative findings highlighted the coping strategies parents employed to navigate new challenges. Sequential integration analysis showed that parents prioritized meeting basic needs but faced obstacles such as limited time, lack of knowledge, and insufficient professional guidance, which restricted opportunities for early learning and provide enriching environments for child development. This mixed-methods research shed light on the developmental risks faced by children in two underexplored Latin American contexts.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144716966","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}

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Tempering Temperament: Exploring the Influence of Maternal Mind-Mindedness on Infant Temperament in Shaping Socioemotional Wellbeing 调和气质：探讨母亲心智对婴儿气质在社会情绪健康塑造中的影响

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70032

Allira Doyle, Emma E. Walter, Samudra Radhakrishnan, Frances L. Doyle

{"title":"Tempering Temperament: Exploring the Influence of Maternal Mind-Mindedness on Infant Temperament in Shaping Socioemotional Wellbeing","authors":"Allira Doyle, Emma E. Walter, Samudra Radhakrishnan, Frances L. Doyle","doi":"10.1111/infa.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70032","url":null,"abstract":"Although several studies independently explore temperament and parenting, research on connections between temperament and mind-mindedness are largely absent. This study examined relationships between maternal mind-mindedness and infant temperament on infant socioemotional wellbeing. Participants comprised culturally diverse mother-infant dyads (n = 63; 52.38% girls). Infants, aged 4- (n = 32) and 8-months-old (n = 31), and their mothers completed a free-play task. While direct relationships between mind-mindedness and wellbeing were not supported, an indirect interactional relationship between mind-mindedness and temperament on wellbeing was supported. Mind-mindedness moderated the relationship between negative affect and socioemotional development whereby infants with higher negative affect who received higher appropriate comments had better socioemotional wellbeing than their lower negative affect counterparts. This highlights that, for higher negative affect infants, appropriate comments are particularly influential in enhancing wellbeing. Effortful control predicted wellbeing, suggesting that specific temperament traits experience optimal socioemotional development independently of mind-minded parenting. These findings broaden research knowledge regarding the differential susceptibility hypothesis. Overall, this study has shown how wellbeing can be affected by the temperamental dispositions that infants bring into the world as well as the parenting experiences that they encounter.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687868","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}

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Automated Infant Eye Tracking: A Systematic Historical Review 自动婴儿眼动追踪：一个系统的历史回顾

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70031

Pär Nyström, Andrea Nesa Ziavras, Tekle Makashvili, Amelia Juslin, Venla Lehtonen, Amanda Riis, Gustaf Gredebäck

{"title":"Automated Infant Eye Tracking: A Systematic Historical Review","authors":"Pär Nyström, Andrea Nesa Ziavras, Tekle Makashvili, Amelia Juslin, Venla Lehtonen, Amanda Riis, Gustaf Gredebäck","doi":"10.1111/infa.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70031","url":null,"abstract":"Automated eye tracking has emerged as a powerful method in psychology, and has special benefits when studying infant populations. The field has developed much during the last decades, and while there are numerous reviews on methodological aspects and specific research topics, a general overview of the state and trends of the field has been lacking. That lack leaves the field unguided on several important aspects such as WEIRDness, statistical power and replication issues, unexploited areas of research, and the current status of the field as a whole. We here conducted a systematic review of the complete peer-reviewed English literature on automated eye tracking with children during their first two years of life (793 articles), and extracted dates of publication, author and population geographic affiliation, keywords and sample sizes. The results show that automated eye tracking in infant research is increasingly used, and is accompanied by larger sample sizes, which together suggests improved accessibility. There is a focus on WEIRD populations, and a few broad research topics (methods, language and attention) and specific topics (autism, faces) are dominating the field. The current focus leaves many areas of research understudied, yielding a large potential for more infant eye tracking in the future.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681387","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}

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Hold on Tight! Linking Emotions and Actions in the Infant Brain 抓紧了！婴儿大脑中情感和行为的联系

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70029

Elisa Roberti, Chiara Turati, Ermanno Quadrelli, Stefanie Hoehl

{"title":"Hold on Tight! Linking Emotions and Actions in the Infant Brain","authors":"Elisa Roberti, Chiara Turati, Ermanno Quadrelli, Stefanie Hoehl","doi":"10.1111/infa.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70029","url":null,"abstract":"By the end of the first year, infants use others' emotions to interpret events, integrate social cues and build expectations on how people should behave (e.g., through social referencing). Yet, little is known about the neural correlates of linking others' emotions to following actions. This priming study investigates 10-month-old infants' electrophysiological responses to happy and disgusted emotional displays toward novel objects (prime) and subsequent actions (pushing away or pulling objects closer; target). Event-related potentials from 30 infants showed neural responses associated with emotional processing of the prime, such as heightened attentional response (Nc) and greater cognitive processing (Pc) in response to happiness over disgust. The target action of pushing away objects elicited increased slow wave activity when following happiness. Additionally, a significant mu-rhythm desynchronization, indicating motor resonance, was observed for pulling objects closer when preceded by happiness. Theta activity was higher for pushing away objects, indexing this as an unexpected event. These findings indicate that by 10 months, infants attend to emotional cues and use these cues to form predictions about subsequent actions. These neural correlates of bridging emotions and actions before 12 months of life reveal early neural sensitivity for processing social cues in complex contexts.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144612006","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}

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When the World Pivots: Changes in Infant Negative Affect Trajectories Following the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. 《当世界发生转折：COVID-19大流行爆发后婴儿负面影响轨迹的变化》

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70041

Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Brendan Ostlund, Vanessa LoBue, Kristin A Buss, Koraly E Pérez-Edgar

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Examining Early Vocabulary Growth Trajectories in Late Talkers in a Low-Income Longitudinal Sample. 在低收入纵向样本中检验晚说话者早期词汇增长轨迹。

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70036

Britt Singletary, Hui Jiang, Winifred Graham Wilberforce, Daniela Avelar, Kristina Strother-Garcia, Laura M Justice

{"title":"Examining Early Vocabulary Growth Trajectories in Late Talkers in a Low-Income Longitudinal Sample.","authors":"Britt Singletary, Hui Jiang, Winifred Graham Wilberforce, Daniela Avelar, Kristina Strother-Garcia, Laura M Justice","doi":"10.1111/infa.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.70036","url":null,"abstract":"Studies show children in low-income households have heightened risk of developing as late talkers (LTs). Scholars have attributed the cause of these differences to variability in child-directed and observed language input, parenting quality, attendance at childcare facilities, or some combination therein, as briefly reviewed. However, this study focuses on a sample entirely of families experiencing low income to explore differences within this group. This study explores growth trajectories for child vocabulary production from age 8-30 months in a racially-diverse low-income longitudinal sample in the U.S. (n = 199). Using multi-level multiple group models, we explore differences in growth trajectories for LTs and non-LT peers (identified: age 22-30 months) and identify the age at which vocabulary sizes begin to significantly differ, controlling for the effects of child age-at-test, sex, primary home language, and mother's education. Results show distinctly different trajectories, such that: (1) LTs experience relatively flat growth resulting in significantly smaller vocabulary sizes over time and (2) divergence occurs at ∼11 months. Future research is needed to fully understand how and why LT trajectories begin to differ so significantly at this age, and how we can better intervene earlier to reduce the likelihood of LT.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":"e70036"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12332339/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800622","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}

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Mapping Research on Early Ethnic-Racial Awareness Development Among Infants and Toddlers: A Scoping Review. 婴幼儿早期族群意识发展的地图研究：一个范围综述。

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70040

Anissa L Eddie, Claire D Vallotton, Holly Brophy-Herb, Loria Kim, Carin Graves, Danielle Dalimonte-Merkling

{"title":"Mapping Research on Early Ethnic-Racial Awareness Development Among Infants and Toddlers: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Anissa L Eddie, Claire D Vallotton, Holly Brophy-Herb, Loria Kim, Carin Graves, Danielle Dalimonte-Merkling","doi":"10.1111/infa.70040","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.70040","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to expand understanding of the early stages of the lifespan model of ethnic-racial identity by summarizing and mapping existing research on the development of ethnic-racial awareness among children from birth to age 3. A scoping review methodology is used to systematically identify and analyze the existing literature on early ethnic-racial awareness and developmental influences on this awareness among infants and toddlers. The final analysis included 168 unique studies within 105 papers published between January 1990 and March 2023. Findings confirm that infants and toddlers demonstrate a capacity for ethnic-racial awareness, including phenotypic appearance and language of those similar and different from their own. Findings also demonstrate the need for more research on individual differences in the development of ethnic-racial awareness, and the influences that account for variation in order to further understand how ethnic-racial awareness emerges and evolves during the racial-priming period. Published research on ethnic-racial awareness among children under 3 years of age primarily includes looking time studies with disproportionate samples of White infants. Findings also indicate an absence of studies examining early ethnic-racial socialization practices and anti-bias interventions among caregivers of infants and toddlers. Implications for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":"e70040"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12333579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800623","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}

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Gazing Into Language Development: Exploring Individual Variability in Early Word Recognition in Infancy Through Eye-Tracking 凝视语言发展：通过眼动追踪探索幼儿早期单词识别的个体差异

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70028

Anton Gerbrand, Johan Wengman, Linda Forssman

{"title":"Gazing Into Language Development: Exploring Individual Variability in Early Word Recognition in Infancy Through Eye-Tracking","authors":"Anton Gerbrand, Johan Wengman, Linda Forssman","doi":"10.1111/infa.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70028","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research suggests that early word recognition is an important foundation for subsequent vocabulary development. However, the optimal method for assessing this ability in infancy remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we collected data from 70 participants (45.7% female) at 10, 11.5, 18 and 24 months of age using two eye-tracking based tasks—the preferential looking- and mismatch paradigms—as well as parental reports on a short form of the Swedish Early Communicative Development Inventories (SE-CDI). Both eye-tracking-based paradigms correlated with concurrent and later vocabulary scores. However, while the preferential looking paradigm showed stability across time, the mismatch paradigm did not demonstrate longitudinal stability and its associations with vocabulary were sometimes in unexpected directions. These findings suggest that the mismatch paradigm may reflect shifting cognitive or attentional processes during development, highlighting the need for further investigation. In contrast, the eye-tracking based preferential looking paradigm, may offer an objective complement to parental reports for predicting subsequent vocabulary development in early childhood.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144482065","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}

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