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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70000

Joanna M. Rutkowska, Julia Mermier, Marlene Meyer, Hermann Bulf, Chiara Turati, Sabine Hunnius

{"title":"Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve-Month-Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration","authors":"Joanna M. Rutkowska, Julia Mermier, Marlene Meyer, Hermann Bulf, Chiara Turati, Sabine Hunnius","doi":"10.1111/infa.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.70000","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to recognize and act on others' emotions is crucial for navigating social interactions successfully and learning about the world. One way in which others' emotions are observable is through their movement kinematics. Movement information is available even at a distance or when an individual's face is not visible. Infants have been shown to be sensitive to emotions in movement kinematics of transporting actions, like moving an object from one to another place. However, it is still unknown whether they associate the manipulated object with the emotions contained in moving it, and whether they use this information to guide their own exploration of this object. In this study, 12-month-old infants watched actors transporting two toys with positive or negative emotional valence. Then, infants were given the possibility to interact with the same toys. We expected the infants to look at and touch the toy handled in a positive manner more, compared to the toy handled in a negative manner. Our results showed that infants looked at the positive toys more than at the negative toys, but that infants touched both toys for the same amount of time. Also, there was no difference in which toy they manually explored first.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11753196/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014097","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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Cultural Differences in Visual Attention Emerge in Infancy 幼儿时期视觉注意的文化差异。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12651

Megan J. Heise, Marek Meristo, Mika Ueno, Shoji Itakura, Stephanie M. Carlson

{"title":"Cultural Differences in Visual Attention Emerge in Infancy","authors":"Megan J. Heise, Marek Meristo, Mika Ueno, Shoji Itakura, Stephanie M. Carlson","doi":"10.1111/infa.12651","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12651","url":null,"abstract":"East Asians are more likely than North Americans to attend to visual scenes holistically, focusing on the relations between objects and their background rather than isolating components. This cultural difference in context sensitivity—greater attentional allocation to the background of an image or scene—has been attributed to socialization, yet it is unknown how early in development it appears, and whether it is moderated by social information. We employed eye-tracking to investigate context-sensitivity in 15-month-olds in Japan (n = 45) and the United States (n = 52). Viewing faces, Japanese infants were more attentive and studied the background longer than U.S. infants. Viewing cartoon videos, Japanese infants looked at the background twice as long as U.S. infants, particularly for objects with eyes. In parent-child book reading, Japanese parents referred to the background significantly more than U.S. parents, although this was uncorrelated with infant behavior on the preceding tasks. These findings illustrated that cultural differences in attention are detectable in infancy, and that sustained attention may be an important foundation upon which culturally-specific attentional styles are built. Overall, results were consistent with the view that a context-sensitive orientation first emerges for social information and later generalizes to non-social situations.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11742511/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014091","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 Active Infant's Developing Role in Musical Interactions: Insights From an Online Parent Questionnaire 活跃婴儿在音乐互动中的发展角色：来自在线父母问卷的见解。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12648

Angela Dou, Laura K. Cirelli

{"title":"The Active Infant's Developing Role in Musical Interactions: Insights From an Online Parent Questionnaire","authors":"Angela Dou, Laura K. Cirelli","doi":"10.1111/infa.12648","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12648","url":null,"abstract":"Musical interactions between caregivers and their infants typically rely on a limited repertoire of live vocal songs and recorded music. Research suggests that these well-known songs are especially effective at eliciting engaged behaviors from infants in controlled settings, but how infants respond to familiar music with their caregivers in their everyday environment remains unclear. The current study used an online questionnaire to quantify how often and why caregivers present certain songs and musical recordings to their infants. Using a cross-sectional approach, we explored infants' changing behavioral profiles to music from birth to 24 months. Caregivers additionally reported on their feelings of affective attachment toward their infants. Results reveal that caregivers sing and play recorded music for younger and older infants at comparably high rates. In turn, infants actively respond to their favorite songs and recordings by demonstrating positive emotions, movements, and attentive listening. Caregivers mainly consider their infants' musical preferences when building their shared musical repertoire at home. Both caregivers' engagement in musical activities with their children and infants' enthusiastic responsiveness to singing predicted stronger dyadic attachment bonding. Caregivers and infants jointly contribute to building musical relationships, and these musical relationships may be intertwined with their emerging social-emotional bonds.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11711306/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142956877","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 Association of Spousal Relationship Quality and Social Support With Maternal-Infant Bonding: Moderating Roles of Maternal Age and Paternal Occupation 配偶关系质量、社会支持对母婴关系的影响：母亲年龄和父亲职业的调节作用。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12647

Kirsten F. Siebach, Soim Park, Maryam Mansoor, Najia Atif, Ahmed Zaidi, Atif Rahman, Abid Malik, Pamela J. Surkan

{"title":"The Association of Spousal Relationship Quality and Social Support With Maternal-Infant Bonding: Moderating Roles of Maternal Age and Paternal Occupation","authors":"Kirsten F. Siebach, Soim Park, Maryam Mansoor, Najia Atif, Ahmed Zaidi, Atif Rahman, Abid Malik, Pamela J. Surkan","doi":"10.1111/infa.12647","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12647","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 This study examined associations between spousal relationship quality and social support with mother-infant bonding among women in Rawalpindi, Pakistan (Intervention Arm: n = 352, Mage = 25.1, SD = 4.7; Control Arm: n = 358, Mage = 25.3, SD = 4.5). We used cross-sectional data from the Happy Mother-Healthy Baby intervention study, a randomized controlled trial conducted between 2019 and 2022. Women were enrolled at their first prenatal visit (at or before 22 weeks of gestation) and followed until 6-week postpartum. Spousal relationship quality, social support, and bonding were assessed at 6-week postpartum. Linear regression analyses found relationship quality (b = 3.85) and social support (b = 1.99) were positively associated with bonding. Analyses were adjusted for mother's education, treatment group, exposure to perinatal intimate partner violence, postpartum depressive symptoms, husband's education, husband's occupation, infant birthweight, and preterm birth. Husband's occupation (unskilled/unemployed vs. professional/skilled) significantly moderated the relationship between social support (b = 3.27 vs. b = 1.37) and relationship quality (b = 5.36 vs. b = 2.95) with bonding. Maternal age (≤ 25 years old vs. > 25 years old) significantly moderated the association between relationship quality and bonding (b = 4.96 vs. b = 2.49). Results suggest that interventions focused on improving social support and relationship quality among anxious women and their spouses could improve maternal-infant bonding. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03880032; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03880032\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142910839","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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The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD 自闭症可能性高的婴儿看和笑的动态不同。

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12646

Julia Yurkovic-Harding, Jessica Bradshaw

{"title":"The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD","authors":"Julia Yurkovic-Harding, Jessica Bradshaw","doi":"10.1111/infa.12646","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12646","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Social smiling is the earliest gained social communication skill, emerging around 2 months of age. From 2 to 6-months, infants primarily smile in response to caregivers. After 6 months, infants coordinate social smiles with other social cues to initiate interactions with the caregiver. Social smiling is reduced in older infants with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) but has rarely been studied before 6 months of life. The current study therefore aimed to understand the component parts of infant social smiles, namely look to caregiver and smile, during face-to-face interactions in 3 and 4-month-old infants at elevated (EL) and low likelihood (LL) for ASD. We found that EL and LL infants looked to their caregiver and smiled for similar amounts of time and at similar rates, suggesting that social smiling manifests similarly in both groups. A nuanced difference between groups emerged when considering temporal dynamics of looking and smiling. Specifically, 3-month-old EL infants demonstrated extended looking to the caregiver after smile offset. These findings suggest that social smiling is largely typical in EL infants in early infancy, with subtle differences in temporal coupling. Future research is needed to understand the full magnitude of these differences and their implications for social development.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883189","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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Forms and Functions of Gestures in Preverbal 12- to 15-Months Old Infants 语言前12 ~ 15个月婴儿手势的形式和功能

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-12-10 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12645

Shreejata Gupta, Eulalie Pequay, Clément François, Isabelle Dautriche

{"title":"Forms and Functions of Gestures in Preverbal 12- to 15-Months Old Infants","authors":"Shreejata Gupta, Eulalie Pequay, Clément François, Isabelle Dautriche","doi":"10.1111/infa.12645","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12645","url":null,"abstract":"Speech and co-speech gestures always go hand in hand. Whether we find the precursors of these co-speech gestures in infants before they master their native language still remains an open question. Except for deictic gestures, there is little agreement on the existence of iconic, non-referential and conventional gestures before children start producing their first words. Here, we bridge this knowledge gap by leveraging an ethological method already established for describing speech independent gestures in nonhuman primates, to analyze the spontaneous gestures produced by infants when interacting with their caregivers. We manually annotated video recordings of infant-caregiver interactions (26 h) from the CHILDES platform, to describe the gesture forms, types and functions in six infants from 12 to 15 months of age. We describe 62 gesture forms in the preverbal repertoire. These were categorized into deictic, iconic, non-referential and conventional gesture types, similar to co-speech gesture types. We also find that the type-function relation of preverbal gestures map similarly to type-meaning relation of co-speech gestures. Taken together, our results illustrate linguistic properties of infant gestures in the absence of speech, suggesting them to be precursors of co-speech gestures.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11631824/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142807996","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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Infants' Knowledge of Individual Words: Investigating Links Between Parent Report and Looking Time 婴儿单字知识：父母报告与注视时间的关系研究。

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12641

Melanie López Pérez, Charlotte Moore, Andrea Sander-Montant, Krista Byers-Heinlein

{"title":"Infants' Knowledge of Individual Words: Investigating Links Between Parent Report and Looking Time","authors":"Melanie López Pérez, Charlotte Moore, Andrea Sander-Montant, Krista Byers-Heinlein","doi":"10.1111/infa.12641","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12641","url":null,"abstract":"Assessing early vocabulary development commonly involves parent report methods and behavioral tasks like looking-while-listening. While both yield reliable aggregate scores, findings are mixed regarding their reliability in measuring infants' knowledge of individual words. Using archival data from 126 monolingual and bilingual 14–31-month-olds, we further examined links across these methods at the word level, while controlling for potentially confounding child-level factors. When data were averaged at the child level, performance on the looking-while-listening task correlated well with parent-reported word production of the same words, as expected. However, mixed-effects model comparisons suggested that at the word level, looking-while-listening performance was significantly predicted by age and total productive vocabulary, but not by parent-reported knowledge of a word once these factors were controlled for. These findings invite careful consideration regarding the adequacy of these two popular methods for capturing children's idiosyncratic knowledge of individual words.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11621253/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787062","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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Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions 父母敏感性与婴儿社交退缩在母婴及亲子互动中的关系。

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12643

Hervé Tissot, Antoine Guédeney, Valentin Gonthier, Maëlla Hugonnier, Nicolas Favez

{"title":"Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions","authors":"Hervé Tissot, Antoine Guédeney, Valentin Gonthier, Maëlla Hugonnier, Nicolas Favez","doi":"10.1111/infa.12643","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12643","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 While social withdrawal is a normal defense mechanism displayed by infants to regulate interactions, it can negatively impact infant development when it becomes chronic, leading to delays in motor, cognitive, and communication difficulties in later development. Infant withdrawal was associated with low levels of parental sensitivity (i.e., the capacity of a caregiver to perceive the child signals and to respond to them accurately with an appropriate timing during interactions) in mothers. Few studies have yet been conducted in fathers and even fewer have investigated these questions in both parent–infant dyads within families, so that the joint effects of maternal and paternal sensitivity on infant social withdrawal remain unknown. We investigated within- and between-dyad associations between parental sensitivity and infant withdrawal during interactions with both parents in a sample of biparental families (n = 61) and their 3-month old infant. Results showed that higher paternal sensitivity was associated with lower infant withdrawal during father–infant interactions. The same effect was weaker in mothers and only significant when the effect of paternal sensitivity on infant withdrawal during mother–infant interaction was not taken into account. These results offer new insights about the reciprocal influences between the mother–infant and the father–infant relationships.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781414","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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Infants' Expectations for Helping in Imitators 婴儿对帮助模仿者的期望

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12642

Bill Pepe, Lindsey J. Powell

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Face-Looking as a Real-Time Process in Mind-Mindedness: Timely Coordination Between Mothers' Gaze on Infants' Faces and Mind-Related Comments 看脸是心智心智的实时过程：母亲注视婴儿面部与心智相关评论之间的及时协调

IF 2 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12644

Hiroki Yamamoto, Nagomi Sunahara, Yasuhiro Kanakogi

{"title":"Face-Looking as a Real-Time Process in Mind-Mindedness: Timely Coordination Between Mothers' Gaze on Infants' Faces and Mind-Related Comments","authors":"Hiroki Yamamoto, Nagomi Sunahara, Yasuhiro Kanakogi","doi":"10.1111/infa.12644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12644","url":null,"abstract":"Maternal mind-mindedness refers to a caregiver's tendency to respond to their infants as individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, desires, and beliefs. Although previous studies have focused on maternal speech in quantifying mind-mindedness, maternal mind-mindedness should manifest not only as mind-related comments but also through non-verbal behaviors during infant-mother interactions. In this study, we investigated the relationship between maternal gaze at the infant's face and typical verbal measurement of mind-mindedness in free-flowing interactions. Forty 11- to 13-month-old infants and their mothers participated in the study; the mothers were asked to wear a head-mounted eye tracker to measure their gaze during infant-mother free-play interactions. We measured the proportion of time mothers looked at the infant's face when it was present in the mother's field of view and examined the relationship between the face-looking proportion and verbal measurement of mothers' mind-mindedness. Mothers who displayed appropriate mind-related comments looked at the faces of their infants more frequently. Moreover, their looking was coordinated in a timely manner with appropriate mind-related comments compared with other comments. Our findings suggest that mothers looking at infants' faces supports comments regarding infants' mental states and shed new light on real-time behaviors underlying mothers' mentalization processes.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12644","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142758067","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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