IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70027

Rebecca Molinini, Corri Stuyvenburg, Natalie A. Koziol, Regina T. Harbourne, Michele A. Lobo, Sandra L. Willett, James A. Bovaird, Emily Marcinowski, Sarah K. Price, Mary Shall, Virginia W. Chu, Stacey C. Dusing

{"title":"Developmental Trajectories of Emotional Availability Differ Between Dyads With Children With and Without Motor Delay","authors":"Rebecca Molinini, Corri Stuyvenburg, Natalie A. Koziol, Regina T. Harbourne, Michele A. Lobo, Sandra L. Willett, James A. Bovaird, Emily Marcinowski, Sarah K. Price, Mary Shall, Virginia W. Chu, Stacey C. Dusing","doi":"10.1111/infa.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigated associations of gross motor delay and dyadic emotional availability (EA). Data were drawn from 99 children (Mean age = 8.79 [SD = 3.2] months, 47% Female, and 67% White) with and without motor delay and their caregivers. EA was quantified from five parent–child interactions collected over 12 months. Dyads with children with significant motor delay had significantly less growth in Total EA, Child EA, Sensitivity, Responsiveness, and Involvement compared to dyads with children with typical motor development. Children with mild motor delay differed from children with typical motor development in Involvement. Severity of motor delay was associated with risk to EA in that dyads of children with more significant motor delay had more difficulties with EA over time.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p><b>Trial Registration:</b> This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (identifier: NCT02593825).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323600","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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Neural Representations of Grasp Congruence During the Emergence of Precision Grasping 精确抓取过程中抓取一致性的神经表征

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70026

Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Gert Westermann, Vincent Reid

{"title":"Neural Representations of Grasp Congruence During the Emergence of Precision Grasping","authors":"Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Gert Westermann, Vincent Reid","doi":"10.1111/infa.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Grasping is a fundamental skill that enables people to interface with and explore objects around them. The emergence of precision (thumb-to-forefinger) grasping during infancy represents a developmental shift in this skill and has been linked to more advanced action perception, particularly in detecting action incongruencies. In this study, ERPs known to be elicited in response to action were studied in 9- and 11.5-month-old infants as they watched whole-hand and precision grasping actions congruent or incongruent with a target object. Components related to attentional (Nc, P400) and semantic (N400) processes were examined to determine whether infants' perception of grasp is based on attention and recognition, on higher-level representations of action, or a mix of these two levels of processing. Effects of congruence were found for the P400 and the N400. The P400 effect was greater among the older age group. Infants' ability to produce a precision grip did not significantly affect their ERPs in response to actors' incongruent versus congruent grasps, which would have been expected if recognition of incongruous grasping actions were based on motor experience. Results indicate that infant ERPs differ between grasps that are congruent or incongruent with the form of a target object via multiple cognitive processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144292490","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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The Power of Early Experience: Neonatal Skin-To-Skin Care Mitigates SES-Related Disparities in Developmental Outcomes 早期经验的力量：新生儿皮肤对皮肤护理减轻了ses相关的发育结果差异

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70024

Molly F. Lazarus, Virginia A. Marchman, Heidi M. Feldman, Melissa Scala, Katherine E. Travis

{"title":"The Power of Early Experience: Neonatal Skin-To-Skin Care Mitigates SES-Related Disparities in Developmental Outcomes","authors":"Molly F. Lazarus, Virginia A. Marchman, Heidi M. Feldman, Melissa Scala, Katherine E. Travis","doi":"10.1111/infa.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Infants from lower-socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds are at increased risk for compromised developmental outcomes compared to infants from higher-SES backgrounds. Features of caregiver-child interactions have been proposed as mechanisms through which SES-related factors are associated with child outcomes. This study assessed whether rates of tactile interactions between neonates and family members (skin-to-skin caregiving) served as a mechanism, that is, statistically mediated, SES-related developmental disparities in infants born preterm (<i>n</i> = 95). Infants from lower-SES backgrounds experienced less skin-to-skin care and scored lower on developmental assessments than infants from higher-SES backgrounds. Infants who experienced more skin-to-skin care had better outcomes than infants who experienced less skin-to-skin care. Critically, the direct association between SES and outcomes was significantly reduced after controlling for skin-to-skin care rates. Thus, SES-related disparities were linked to caregiving experiences as early as the neonatal period. Parallel analyses on non-skin-to-skin tactile care (swaddled holding, touch, and massage) revealed no associations, highlighting the specificity of skin-to-skin caregiving. These findings make substantial contributions to developmental theory and offer concrete and scalable recommendations for intervention.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144220268","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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Mediating Role of Gut Microbiota in the Relationship Between Residential Greenness Exposure and Young Children's Temperament: A Pilot Study 肠道菌群在住宅绿化暴露与幼儿气质关系中的中介作用：一项初步研究

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70025

Qingbo Fang, Zijun Feng, Tianlai Qiu, Xuqi Tian, Yanan Cao, Jinbing Bai, Ivy Yan Zhao, Ayijiamal Sali, Yanqun Liu

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Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still-Face Paradigm 静止面孔范式下婴儿社会竞价行为的生物行为关联

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70023

Elizabeth B. daSilva, Bennett I. Bertenthal

{"title":"Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still-Face Paradigm","authors":"Elizabeth B. daSilva, Bennett I. Bertenthal","doi":"10.1111/infa.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Positive social bidding refers to moments when infants look at an unresponsive caregiver and try to re-engage the social partner via smiling and/or vocalizing. Prior to six months of age, there is considerable variability in the extent to which infants engage in positive social bidding. In this study we explore whether infants' and mothers' cardiac vagal tone is associated with these individual differences. Mothers and their 4- to 6-month-old infants (<i>n</i> = 132) participated in the Face-to-Face Still-Face Paradigm (FFSF); social behaviors and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) were recorded on a moment-to-moment basis. More frequent vocal bidding during the Still-Face episode was related to infants' and mothers' physiological synchrony, as well as lower levels of infants' negative affect and higher levels of infants' RSA during face-to-face Social Play. Also, infants demonstrating more vocal bidding exhibited greater increases in RSA at the beginning and end of the Reunion phase following the Still-Face stressor. Critically, the relation between infants' physiological regulation and vocal bidding differed as a function of the FFSF episode in which RSA was measured. The implications of adopting a biobehavioral perspective on the development of positive social bidding are discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171406","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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Parentese Elicits Infant Speech-Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants 典型发育和自闭症婴儿的父母语引出婴儿言语样发声

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70022

Pumpki Lei Su, Gordon Ramsay, Edina R. Bene, Hyunjoo Yoo, Helen L. Long, Cheryl Klaiman, Stormi L. Pulver, Shana Richardson, Moira L. Pileggi, Natalie Brane, D. Kimbrough Oller

{"title":"Parentese Elicits Infant Speech-Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants","authors":"Pumpki Lei Su, Gordon Ramsay, Edina R. Bene, Hyunjoo Yoo, Helen L. Long, Cheryl Klaiman, Stormi L. Pulver, Shana Richardson, Moira L. Pileggi, Natalie Brane, D. Kimbrough Oller","doi":"10.1111/infa.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Caregivers across many cultures modify their speech when interacting with infants or young children. This type of speech, commonly known as “parentese”, is characterized by greater pitch variations, longer duration, and louder volume compared to speech directed to adults. Parentese has been found to facilitate language learning. It has been proposed that parentese may benefit early language development because its exaggerated prosody encourages infants to interact with caregivers. We tested this hypothesis by investigating if parentese temporally elicits infant speech-like vocalization in typically developing (TD) and in autistic infants using sequential analysis. We compared caregiver-child vocal contingencies coded from 847 days-long recordings of 103 TD infants and 44 infants with a confirmed diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at 3 years. Findings revealed that infants were more likely to produce a speech-like vocalization following an adult utterance directed to them in parentese compared to an adult utterance directed to them in adult register. Additionally, the strength of the sequential association between parentese or adult register and infant speech-like vocalization did not differ across diagnostic groups. These findings support the notion that parentese may facilitate language learning via encouraging infants to respond and interact with their conversation partner.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143919535","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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Evidence of Cross-Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind-Mindedness 母亲心智的跨文化差异的证据

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70021

Fabiola Silletti, Gabrielle Coppola, Cristina Colonnesi, Maria Licata-Dandel, Tiziana Aureli, Beate Sodian

{"title":"Evidence of Cross-Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind-Mindedness","authors":"Fabiola Silletti, Gabrielle Coppola, Cristina Colonnesi, Maria Licata-Dandel, Tiziana Aureli, Beate Sodian","doi":"10.1111/infa.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cross-cultural research on maternal mind-mindedness- the proclivity to view the child as a mental agent-can enhance our understanding of caregiving determinants and children's social-cognitive variations across cultures. However, cross-cultural studies on mind-mindedness remain limited. To address this gap, we examined mothers' use of appropriate (AMRCs) and non-attuned (NAMRCs) mind-related comments in Italy (<i>N</i> = 88), Germany (<i>N</i> = 64), and the Netherlands (<i>N</i> = 97) with their 12-month-old infants (<i>N</i> = 249; 133 girls and 116 boys). Cluster analysis revealed three maternal profiles: low use of both AMRCs and NAMRCs, high use of both AMRCs and NAMRCs, and high AMRCs with low NAMRCs. Almost half of the German mothers belonged to the first profile, most Italian mothers to the second, and Dutch mothers were equally distributed across the three. These findings highlight, for the first time, cultural influences on maternal mind-mindedness within Western countries and emphasize the need to move beyond a simplistic West-East comparison, recognizing that cultural differences can be observed even within similar contexts, and call for culturally sensitive psychoeducational interventions to enhance caregivers' mentalizing skills.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143877803","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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Developmental Screening and Family Resilience for Infants and Toddlers in Homeless Shelters 无家可归者收容所婴幼儿的发育筛选和家庭复原力

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70019

Janette E. Herbers, Maria Abdul-Masih, Alexandra R. Buccelli, Natalee Torre, Emily M. Pintarelli, J. J. Cutuli

{"title":"Developmental Screening and Family Resilience for Infants and Toddlers in Homeless Shelters","authors":"Janette E. Herbers, Maria Abdul-Masih, Alexandra R. Buccelli, Natalee Torre, Emily M. Pintarelli, J. J. Cutuli","doi":"10.1111/infa.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigated motor and language development among infants and toddlers staying in family homeless shelters. We tested contributors to resilience and maladaptation, while also considering characteristics of developmental screening. Participants were 128 children (2-week to 35 months old; <i>M</i> = 8.54 months; 73% Black/African American) and their parents staying in eight urban family shelters. Data spanned time points about 2 months apart, involving an interview, parent-child play task, and a repeated, standardized observational screening measure. On average, this sample showed motor delays relative to age-based norms, and language delays for toddlers but not infants, a finding that may signal challenges in assessing language in young infants. Parent depression symptoms predicted lower gains in language, and parent education predicted higher gains in language. Positive parenting predicted gains in motor scores and a non-significant trend for language. We interpreted results as evidence of complex developmental processes of resilience and risk. Parent functioning is a key predictor of resilience and should be included in developmental screening of very young children who experience adversity. Shelter design, policy, and practices also should reflect consideration of early childhood development and parent empowerment.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826679","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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Individual Differences in Infants' Speech Segmentation Performance: The Role of Mother-Infant Cardiac Synchrony 婴儿言语分割表现的个体差异：母婴心脏同步的作用

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70020

Monica Vanoncini, Ezgi Kayhan, Birgit Elsner, Moritz Wunderwald, Sebastian Wallot, Stefanie Hoehl, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan

{"title":"Individual Differences in Infants' Speech Segmentation Performance: The Role of Mother-Infant Cardiac Synchrony","authors":"Monica Vanoncini, Ezgi Kayhan, Birgit Elsner, Moritz Wunderwald, Sebastian Wallot, Stefanie Hoehl, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan","doi":"10.1111/infa.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Caregiver-infant coregulation is an early form of communication. This study investigated whether mother-infant biological coregulation is associated with 9-month-olds’ word segmentation performance, a crucial milestone predicting language development. We hypothesized that coregulation would relate with infants' word segmentation performance. Additionally, we examined whether this relationship is influenced by the caregiving environment (i.e., parental reflective functioning) and the infant's emotional state (i.e., positive affect). Coregulation was investigated via cardiac synchrony in 28 nine-month-old infants (16 females) during a 5-min free-play with their German-speaking mothers. Cardiac synchrony was measured through Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA), employing Recurrence Quantification Analysis to evaluate dyadic coupling (i.e., Recurrence Rate) and dyadic predictability (i.e., Entropy). Infants' word segmentation was measured with an eye-tracking central-fixation procedure. A stepwise regression revealed that higher dyadic coupling, but not predictability, of the dyads' RSA was associated with infants looking longer toward the screen when listening to novel as compared to familiar test words, indicating advanced word segmentation performance (Cohen's <i>d</i> = 0.25). Moreover, cardiac synchrony correlated positively with maternal sensitivity to their infant's mental states, but not with the infant's positive affect. These results suggest that caregiver-infant biological coregulation may play a foundational role in language acquisition.</p>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824675","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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Trajectories of Copy Behaviors in Infants With Elevated and Typical Likelihood for Autism: Functions and Correlations With Language 自闭症儿童的复制行为轨迹：与语言的功能和相关性

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70018

Carmen Nieto, Ruth Campos, María Verde-Cagiao

{"title":"Trajectories of Copy Behaviors in Infants With Elevated and Typical Likelihood for Autism: Functions and Correlations With Language","authors":"Carmen Nieto, Ruth Campos, María Verde-Cagiao","doi":"10.1111/infa.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examined the trajectories of copy behaviors during the first year of life in a group of infants at elevated likelihood for autism (EL) and a group with a typical likelihood for developing autism (TL). It also explored the function of these behaviors in interaction situations, and the correlations between imitated behaviors and language. To this end, a task was designed to elicit mimetic and imitative behaviors, the Traberitea Infant Mimicry and Imitation Task. The results revealed distinct trajectories for mimetic and imitated behaviors, with no significant differences between the two groups. The most prevalent function observed in both groups was the instrumental function; however, an interaction effect was observed in the social function. At 12 months, the mean frequency of the social function was lower in the EL group than in the TL group, though with a small effect size. There were primarily correlations with expressive language in the EL group for both imitation with social function and with instrumental function. These findings are discussed from a perspective that looks toward protective factors and resilience (Elsabbagh 2020), and future implications are suggested regarding the implementation of preemptive enrichment programs for development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818450","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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