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{"title":"Findings in Child Development in Children Who Grew Up During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Countries","authors":"Ana María Quezada-Ugalde,&nbsp;Alejandra Auza Benavides,&nbsp;Chiharu Murata,&nbsp;Silvia Salazar Villegas,&nbsp;Alfonso Miguel García Hernández","doi":"10.1111/infa.12634","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12634","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented situation for families worldwide, with its potential impact on child development remaining uncertain, particularly within Latin American communities. This study aimed to analyze child development in children from Costa Rica and Mexico who grew up during COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a convenience sample of 183 children; a historical control group of Costa Rican children (<i>n</i> = 171) was also included. Child development was assessed using the EDIN-II in Costa Rica and the EDI in Mexico, along with a parental questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and logistic regression analysis were performed, with a significance level of 0.05. Significant differences were found when comparing the risk of development delay, particularly in the overall score and the fine motor domain score. The probability of overall delay was associated with the child's sex, age, maternal education level and whether the primary caregiver role was shared by both parents or fulfilled by a single parent. In Costa Rica, the development of children assessed post-pandemic was lower than that of children assessed pre-pandemic. The probability of these delays was associated with growing up during the pandemic, child's sex, and families' Socioeconomic Development Index. These results contribute to understanding child development during the COVID-19 context and provide a foundation for future research.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142693519","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}

{"title":"Parent-Reported Relations Between Vocabulary and Motor Development in Infancy: Differences Between Verbs and Nouns","authors":"Kelsey L. Frewin,&nbsp;Sarah A. Gerson,&nbsp;Ross E. Vanderwert,&nbsp;Chiara Gambi","doi":"10.1111/infa.12638","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12638","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During early development, increases in vocabulary are related to gains in motor ability, above and beyond the effects of maturation alone. However, little is known about the association between motor development and children's early acquisition of different types of words. We examined whether motor development is differentially associated with concurrent verb and noun vocabulary in 83 infants aged 6- to 24-months-old. We asked caregivers to complete parent-report measures of vocabulary acquisition and motor development. Analyses revealed that the association between word comprehension and motor development significantly differed for verb and nouns. Infants' verb comprehension was more strongly associated with motor development than noun comprehension. We discuss how infants' own motor actions may provide cues that are especially important for narrowing down the meaning of novel verbs.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11582352/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142689260","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}

{"title":"When Is the Still-Face Not the Still-Face: Mothers' Behavior in the Face-to-Face Still-Face Procedure and Its Relationship to Infant Arousal","authors":"Shriya Mathur,&nbsp;Frances L. Doyle,&nbsp;Janice Tang,&nbsp;Louis Klein,&nbsp;Valsamma Eapen,&nbsp;Paul J. Frick,&nbsp;Eva R. Kimonis,&nbsp;David J. Hawes,&nbsp;Caroline Moul,&nbsp;Jenny L. Richmond,&nbsp;Divya Mehta,&nbsp;Mark R. Dadds","doi":"10.1111/infa.12635","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12635","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Face-to-Face Still-Face (FF-SF) procedure has been a popular paradigm to understand infant behavior. The current study examines the validity of mothers' behavior during the Still-Face phase of the FF-SF, especially the quality of her neutral face and its impact on infant arousal (<i>N</i> = 358 ethnically-diverse mother–infant dyads, Mean infant age = 223 days, SD = 27 days). Results showed that more than half of the mothers in the sample breached one or more Still-Face phase instructions; however, mothers' breaches of the Still-Face instructions were unrelated to infant arousal (Skin Conductance Responses) during the FF-SF. Additionally, facial analysis revealed that along with a neutral quality to the Still-Face, mothers also displayed significant levels of facial emotion during the Still-Face phase. Higher levels of scared and/or sad expressions during the Still-Face were associated with higher infant arousal during the Still-Face phase. The current study helps us to understand the real-life implementation of the Still-Face during the Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm. Results indicate that mothers show considerable non-compliance with Still-Face phase instructions, and the infant arousal levels are associated with emotional expressions contaminating the quality of mothers' neutral faces.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142689261","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}

{"title":"Getting to the Point: Examining Associations Between Adult Interactional Strategies and Infant Gestures","authors":"Mollie Romano,&nbsp;Blair P. Lloyd,&nbsp;Kelsey Lucca,&nbsp;Johanna Eugenio","doi":"10.1111/infa.12636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12636","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The developmental importance of infant gesture use is well established, yet few investigations examine what adults can do to facilitate infant gestures. We used an event lag with pauses sequential analysis to generate an index of association between each adult interactional strategy and deictic infant gesture during ten-minute play interactions with 27 typically developing infants (11–25 months) and trained interventionists. We ran correlations to examine potential relationships between the sequential associations, child age, and language scores. Results indicated modeling gestures with a short phrase increased the momentary likelihood of infant gestures overall and points specifically, whereas modeling short phrases without gestures decreased the momentary likelihood of any infant gesture.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142674234","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}

{"title":"Delineating Trajectories of Social-Emotional Competence in Infants and Toddlers","authors":"Ekomobong E. Eyoh,&nbsp;Jed T. Elison","doi":"10.1111/infa.12637","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12637","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The acquisition of social-emotional competence (SEC) in early childhood has implications for critical child and adult outcomes, such as school readiness, educational and occupational attainment, and mental health. To elucidate this developmental process, normative trajectories of social-emotional competence in infants and toddlers were modeled using longitudinal mixed effects modeling, including the evaluation of child and family characteristics as moderators. The SEC of 12–36-month-old children (<i>N</i> = 256, 83% White, 51% female) was assessed in a cohort-sequential design using the Infant Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment Competence scale. Trajectories were modeled using linear, quadratic, exponential, and logistic mean forms. Following base model selection, child sex, maternal education, parental occupation, family income, and number of siblings were separately added to the model to assess their effect on trajectories. Results show that infants and toddlers SEC follows a quadratic pattern of growth. Additionally, girls had higher scores than boys at 12 months with similar slopes. Number of siblings was also significant at 12 months such that children with fewer siblings had higher scores than those with more with similar slopes. This suggests a female advantage in early SEC acquisition exists even before 12 months and that sibling number may moderate SEC in infancy and toddlerhood.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12637","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142669432","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}

{"title":"Infants' Preference for ID Speech in Face and Voice Extends to a Non-Native Language","authors":"Joan Birulés,&nbsp;David Méary,&nbsp;Mathilde Fort,&nbsp;Kim Hojin,&nbsp;Scott P. Johnson,&nbsp;Olivier Pascalis","doi":"10.1111/infa.12639","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12639","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Infants prefer infant-directed (ID) speech. Concerning talking faces, previous research showed that 3- and 5-month-olds prefer faces that produce native ID than native adult-directed (AD) speech, regardless of background speech being ID, AD or silent. Here, we explored whether infants also show a preference for non-native ID speech. We presented 3- and 6-month-old infants with pairs of talking faces, one producing non-native ID speech and the other non-native AD speech, either in silence (Experiment 1) or accompanied by non-native ID or AD background speech (Experiment 2). Results from Experiment 1 showed an overall preference for the silent ID talking faces across both age groups, suggesting a reliance on cross-linguistic, potentially universal cues for this preference. However, Experiment 2 showed that preference for ID faces was disrupted at 3 months when auditory speech was present (ID or AD). At 6 months, infants maintained a preference for ID talking faces, but only when accompanied by ID speech. These findings show that auditory non-native speech interferes with infants' processing of ID talking faces. They also suggest that by 6 months, infants start associating ID features from faces and voices irrespective of language familiarity, suggesting that infants' ID preference may be universal and amodal.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12639","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142649343","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}

{"title":"How Infants Direct Their Gaze to Faces in the Presence of Other Objects: The Development of Face Preference Between 4 and 7 Months After Birth","authors":"Z. Belteki,&nbsp;R. S. Hessels,&nbsp;C. M. M. Junge,&nbsp;C. Kemner,&nbsp;C. van den Boomen","doi":"10.1111/infa.12633","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12633","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From early in development, infants process faces in their environment differentially from other items. By around 6 months of age, they are able to orient toward faces in the presence of distractor items. This paper aimed to assess whether this preferential looking toward faces was observable prior to 6 months of age, and whether there were developmental trends. We assessed this using the face pop-out task, a free viewing eye-tracking experiment in which infants viewed arrays containing an image of a face, alongside four distractor items. We assessed whether infants at 4, 5, 6 and 7 months (<i>n</i> = 1585 participants) differed in the proportion of first looks, total dwell time, and frequency of fixations to faces compared to other items. All three outcome variables were significantly higher toward faces than toward any of the other items in all the age groups. Moreover, there were age-related differences across all measures—the older the infants were, the more pronounced their face preferences were. These age-related differences could not be attributed to differences in data quality, and thus suggest that face preference is observable at 4 months of age but shows a strong development until 6 months.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12633","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142649340","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}

{"title":"Infants show negative changes in affect and physiology when re-experiencing a stressor, its context, and a positive event 24-h later","authors":"Isabelle Mueller,&nbsp;Nancy Snidman,&nbsp;Jennifer A. DiCorcia,&nbsp;Ed Tronick","doi":"10.1111/infa.12631","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12631","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Exposure to early life stress shapes further development, affects later stress reactivity, and mental health outcomes. Despite the central role of early experiences, there is little understanding of how these rapidly forgotten events gain their influence. An infant's ability to cope with everyday stressors is founded on successful co-regulation through mother-infant interaction. A significant disruption of this interaction through the Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm elicits a well-documented behavioral and physiological stress response in infants. What has yet to be explored is whether infants show regulatory adaptions when encountering the situation over again. To fill this gap, 80 mother-infant dyads were observed in the lab on two consecutive days. Infants in the experimental condition (<i>n</i> = 40) were exposed to a double Still-Face paradigm on day one. Infants in the control group (<i>n</i> = 40) completed time-matched episodes of typical play during their first visit. Mother-infant dyads from both groups returned to the lab 24 h later and participated in the double Still-Face paradigm. Changes in behavior (positive and negative affect), physiology (heart rate), and salivary cortisol, compared to day one and between groups, were evaluated and used to infer adaption to the previous experienced laboratory visit. Infants in the experimental condition showed a significant decrease in positive affect (<i>p</i> = 0.016) and an increase in heart rate (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.001) on day two, compared to controls, even during baseline measures and a neutral first play episode. Infants in the control condition showed a significant decrease in affect (<i>p</i> = 0.05) and non-significant increase in heart rate on day two when first encountering the Still-Face paradigm. Infants in the experimental condition showed significant higher heart rate on day two compared to the control group (<i>p</i> = 0.046). Infants in the experimental condition also exhibited a marginally significant increase in salivary cortisol on day two, compared to day one (<i>p</i> = 0.054). The change in infant heart rate was independent of maternal heart rate which did not differ between day one and day two, or between groups. Findings suggest that a previous stressful experience may elicit a behavioral and physiological adaption in infants 24 h later. Our results suggest that even a short, acute stressful event can elicit a lasting stress response in infants 24 h later. The effect we observed was specific to the context of the stressful event, not just the stressor. More precisely, the effect “spilled over” from the stressful experience on day one into the baseline measure of day two, usually a neutral experience. The results could have implications for further research on how stressful experiences may shape the stress response.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630531","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}

{"title":"Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops","authors":"Marc Hullebus,&nbsp;Adamantios Gafos,&nbsp;Natalie Boll-Avetisyan,&nbsp;Alan Langus,&nbsp;Tom Fritzsche,&nbsp;Barbara Höhle","doi":"10.1111/infa.12630","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12630","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Acoustic variability in the speech input has been shown, in certain contexts, to be beneficial during infants' acquisition of sound contrasts. One approach attributes this result to the potential of variability to make the stability of individual cues visible. Another approach suggests that, instead of highlighting individual cues, variability uncovers stable relations between cues that signal a sound contrast. Here, we investigate the relation between Voice Onset Time and the onset of F1 formant frequency, two cues that subserve the voicing contrast in German. First, we verified that German-speaking adults' use of VOT to categorize voiced and voiceless stops is dependent on the value of the F1 onset frequency, in the specific form of a so-called trading relation. Next, we tested whether 6-month-old German learning infants exhibit differential sensitivity to stimulus continua in which the cues varied to an equal extent, but either adhered to the trading relation established in the adult experiment or adhered to a reversed relation. Our results present evidence that infants prefer listening to speech in which phonetic cues conform to certain cue trading relations over cue relations that are reversed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12630","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142564585","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}

{"title":"Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social-communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism","authors":"Floor Moerman,&nbsp;Petra Warreyn,&nbsp;Ilse Noens,&nbsp;Jean Steyaert,&nbsp;Lotte van Esch,&nbsp;Lyssa de Vries,&nbsp;Melinda Madarevic,&nbsp;Julie Segers,&nbsp;Thijs Van Lierde,&nbsp;the TIARA-team,&nbsp;Herbert Roeyers","doi":"10.1111/infa.12625","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12625","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated the association between Sensory processing (SP) (i.e., hyporesponsiveness, Sensory Seeking (SS) and hyperresponsiveness) at 10 months (M) and language/social-communicative difficulties at 24M, mediated through object play at 14M in young children at elevated likelihood for autism (EL). Parent-report instruments were used to measure all variables in younger siblings of children with autism (siblings, <i>n</i> = 74) and children born before 30 gestational weeks (preterms, <i>n</i> = 38). Higher scores of object play fully mediated the association between more SS and better language/less social-communicative difficulties. Hypo- and hyperresponsiveness at 10M did not seem to predict language heterogeneity at 24M, but more hypo- and less hyperresponsiveness at 10M were associated with more social-communicative difficulties at 24M. The explained variance in social-communicative difficulties and language was limited (15.25%–16.39%). Similar associations were found for siblings and preterms. This highlights that high frequency of SP behaviors does not necessarily negatively affect communication in young EL-children as is commonly assumed. Early object play skills play a role in the association between early SS and later language/social communicative difficulties. This implies that some criteria of the two core domains of characteristics of autism are interrelated in EL-children, and this may have implications for early intervention programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142394288","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}