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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12585

So Yeon Shin, Meredith L. Rowe, Hyun Suk Lee

{"title":"Early gesture use predicts children’s language development in South Korea: New evidence supporting the cross-cultural importance of pointing","authors":"So Yeon Shin, Meredith L. Rowe, Hyun Suk Lee","doi":"10.1111/infa.12585","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12585","url":null,"abstract":"Research in the U.S. and other Western countries shows that children’s early gesture use, which starts prior to verbal communication, is an important predictor of children’s later language development. Despite increasing efforts to study gesture use in diverse contexts, most of our knowledge on the role of gesture is largely based on populations of Western countries. In this study, we add to the growing body of international research by examining gesture use by 31 mothers and their 14-month-old infants (12 girls) in South Korea and investigate the gestures used during interaction, and whether early gesture use at 14 months predicts Korean children’s later language skills at 36 months. The results showed that in addition to using gestures observed in other cultural contexts, Korean mother-child dyads used culturally specific gesture (i.e., bowing), showing an early sign of socialization that starts with preverbal children. In addition, Korean infants’ index-finger pointing, but not showing and giving, predicted their later receptive and expressive vocabulary skills at 36 months, providing additional support for the importance of pointing in early language development.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 3","pages":"327-354"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139968897","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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Sustained looking at faces at 5 months of age is associated with socio-communicative skills in the second year of life 5 个月大时持续看脸与第二年的社会交流能力有关。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12586

Charlotte Viktorsson, Ana Maria Portugal, Mark J. Taylor, Angelica Ronald, Terje Falck-Ytter

{"title":"Sustained looking at faces at 5 months of age is associated with socio-communicative skills in the second year of life","authors":"Charlotte Viktorsson, Ana Maria Portugal, Mark J. Taylor, Angelica Ronald, Terje Falck-Ytter","doi":"10.1111/infa.12586","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12586","url":null,"abstract":"Efficiently processing information from faces in infancy is foundational for nonverbal communication. We studied individual differences in 5-month-old infants' (N = 517) sustained attention to faces and preference for emotional faces. We assessed the contribution of genetic and environmental influences to individual differences in these gaze behaviors, and the association between these traits and other concurrent and later phenotypes. We found an association between the mean duration of looking at a face (before looking away from it) at 5 months and socio-communicative abilities at 14 months (β = 0.17, 95% CI: 0.08; 0.26, p < 0.001). Sustained attention to faces predicted socio-communicative abilities over and above variance captured by mean fixation duration. We also found a statistically significant but weak tendency to prefer looking at smiling faces (relative to neutral faces), but no indication that variability in this behavior was explained by genetic effects. Moderate heritability was found for sustained attention to faces (A = 0.23, CI: 0.06; 0.38), while shared environmental influences were non-significant for both phenotypes. These findings suggest that sustained looking at individual faces before looking away is a developmentally significant ‘social attention’ phenotype in infancy, characterized by moderate heritability and a specific relation to later socio-communicative abilities.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 3","pages":"459-478"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12586","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139736427","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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A longitudinal study examining the associations between prenatal and postnatal maternal distress and toddler socioemotional developmental during the COVID-19 pandemic 一项纵向研究，探讨了 COVID-19 大流行期间产前和产后产妇痛苦与幼儿社会情感发展之间的关联。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12584

Jennifer E. Khoury, Leslie Atkinson, Andrea Gonzalez

{"title":"A longitudinal study examining the associations between prenatal and postnatal maternal distress and toddler socioemotional developmental during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Jennifer E. Khoury, Leslie Atkinson, Andrea Gonzalez","doi":"10.1111/infa.12584","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12584","url":null,"abstract":"Elevated psychological distress, experienced by pregnant women and parents, has been well-documented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most research focuses on the first 6-months postpartum, with single or limited repeated measures of perinatal distress. The present longitudinal study examined how perinatal distress, experienced over nearly 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacted toddler socioemotional development. A sample of 304 participants participated during pregnancy, 6-weeks, 6-months, and 15-months postpartum. Mothers reported their depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms, at each timepoint. Mother-reported toddler socioemotional functioning (using the Brief Infant–Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment) was measured at 15-months. Results of structural equation mediation models indicated that (1) higher prenatal distress was associated with elevated postpartum distress, from 6-weeks to 15-months postpartum; (2) associations between prenatal distress and toddler socioemotional problems became nonsignificant after accounting for postpartum distress; and (3) higher prenatal distress was indirectly associated with greater socioemotional problems, and specifically elevated externalizing problems, through higher maternal distress at 6 weeks and 15 months postpartum. Findings suggest that the continued experience of distress during the postpartum period plays an important role in child socioemotional development during the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 3","pages":"412-436"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12584","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139708123","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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COVID-19 pandemic effects: Examining prenatal internalizing symptoms and infant temperament COVID-19 大流行的影响：研究产前内化症状和婴儿气质。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-20 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12583

Jennifer A. Mattera, Nora L. Erickson, Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, Maria A. Gartstein

{"title":"COVID-19 pandemic effects: Examining prenatal internalizing symptoms and infant temperament","authors":"Jennifer A. Mattera, Nora L. Erickson, Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, Maria A. Gartstein","doi":"10.1111/infa.12583","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12583","url":null,"abstract":"For pregnant women, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented stressors, including uncertainty regarding prenatal care and the long-term consequences of perinatal infection. However, few studies have examined the role of this adverse event on maternal wellbeing and infant socioemotional development following the initial wave of the pandemic when less stringent public health restrictions were in place. The current study addressed these gaps in the literature by first comparing prenatal internalizing symptoms and infant temperament collected after the first wave of the pandemic to equivalent measures in a pre-pandemic sample. Second, associations between prenatal pandemic-related stress and infant temperament were examined. Women who were pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic endorsed higher pregnancy-specific anxiety relative to the pre-pandemic sample. They also reported greater infant negative emotionality and lower positive affectivity and regulatory capacity at 2 months postpartum. Prenatal infection stress directly predicted infant negative affect. Both prenatal infection and preparedness stress were indirectly related to infant negative emotionality through depression symptoms during pregnancy and at 2 months postpartum. These results have implications for prenatal mental health screening procedures during the pandemic and the development of early intervention programs for infants born to mothers during this adverse event.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 3","pages":"386-411"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12583","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139513965","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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Attention control in preterm and term 5-month-old infants: Cross-task stability increases with gestational age 早产儿和 5 个月足月儿的注意力控制：跨任务稳定性随胎龄增长而增加。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-20 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12574

Oliver Perra, Alice Winstanley, Rebecca Sperotto, Merideth Gattis

{"title":"Attention control in preterm and term 5-month-old infants: Cross-task stability increases with gestational age","authors":"Oliver Perra, Alice Winstanley, Rebecca Sperotto, Merideth Gattis","doi":"10.1111/infa.12574","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12574","url":null,"abstract":"Cross-task stability refers to performance consistency across different settings and measures of the same construct. Cross-task stability can help us understand developmental processes, including how risks such as preterm birth affect outcomes. We investigated cross-task stability of attention control in 32 preterm and 39 term infants. All infants had the same chronological age at time of testing (5 months) but varied in gestational age (GA) at birth (30–42 weeks). Infants completed an experimental attention following task with a researcher and a naturalistic play observation with their mothers. Both preterm and term infants demonstrated attention following in the experimental task. GA and flexibility of attention were related: the likelihood of no turn trials decreased with increasing GA. To evaluate cross-task stability, we compared attention performance in the experimental and naturalistic settings. Flexible attention shifts on the experimental task were positively related to attention to objects in the naturalistic observation. Furthermore, the association between flexible attention shifts on the experimental task and attention to objects in the naturalistic observation was moderated by GA. Our study provides initial evidence that the consolidation of attention control increases with GA. These findings highlight the value of comparing experimental and observational measures of attention.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 3","pages":"437-458"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139513963","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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Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English-Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners 比较苹果和曼萨纳斯以及橘子和纳兰哈斯：衡量双语学习者英语-西班牙语词汇量的新标准

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-13 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12571

Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, George Kachergis, Lillian R. Masek, Sandy L. Gonzalez, Kasey C. Soska, Orit Herzberg, Melody Xu, Karen E. Adolph, Rick O. Gilmore, Marc H. Bornstein, Marianella Casasola, Caitlin M. Fausey, Michael C. Frank, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Julie Gros-Louis, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jana Iverson, Casey Lew-Williams, Brian MacWhinney, Virginia A. Marchman, Letitia Naigles, Laura Namy, Lynn K. Perry, Meredith Rowe, Adam Sheya, Melanie Soderstrom, Lulu Song, Eric Walle, Anne S. Warlaumont, Hanako Yoshida, Chen Yu, Dan Yurovsky

{"title":"Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English-Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners","authors":"Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, George Kachergis, Lillian R. Masek, Sandy L. Gonzalez, Kasey C. Soska, Orit Herzberg, Melody Xu, Karen E. Adolph, Rick O. Gilmore, Marc H. Bornstein, Marianella Casasola, Caitlin M. Fausey, Michael C. Frank, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Julie Gros-Louis, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jana Iverson, Casey Lew-Williams, Brian MacWhinney, Virginia A. Marchman, Letitia Naigles, Laura Namy, Lynn K. Perry, Meredith Rowe, Adam Sheya, Melanie Soderstrom, Lulu Song, Eric Walle, Anne S. Warlaumont, Hanako Yoshida, Chen Yu, Dan Yurovsky","doi":"10.1111/infa.12571","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12571","url":null,"abstract":"The valid assessment of vocabulary development in dual-language-learning infants is critical to developmental science. We developed the Dual Language Learners English-Spanish (DLL-ES) Inventories to measure vocabularies of U.S. English-Spanish DLLs. The inventories provide translation equivalents for all Spanish and English items on Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) short forms; extended inventories based on CDI long forms; and Spanish language-variety options. Item-Response Theory analyses applied to Wordbank and Web-CDI data (n = 2603, 12–18 months; n = 6722, 16–36 months; half female; 1% Asian, 3% Black, 2% Hispanic, 30% White, 64% unknown) showed near-perfect associations between DLL-ES and CDI long-form scores. Interviews with 10 Hispanic mothers of 18- to 24-month-olds (2 White, 1 Black, 7 multi-racial; 6 female) provide a proof of concept for the value of the DLL-ES for assessing the vocabularies of DLLs.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 3","pages":"302-326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139460766","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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What's the point? Infants' and adults' perception of different pointing gestures 重点是什么？婴儿和成人对不同指向手势的感知。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12579

Ebru Ger, Stephanie Wermelinger, Maxine de Ven, Moritz M. Daum

{"title":"What's the point? Infants' and adults' perception of different pointing gestures","authors":"Ebru Ger, Stephanie Wermelinger, Maxine de Ven, Moritz M. Daum","doi":"10.1111/infa.12579","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12579","url":null,"abstract":"Adults and infants as young as 4 months old orient to pointing gestures. Although adults are shown to orient faster to index-finger pointing than other hand shapes, it is unknown whether hand shapes influence infants' perception of pointing. In this study, we used a spatial cueing paradigm on an eye tracker to investigate whether and to what extent adults and 12-month-old infants orient their attention in the direction of pointing gestures with different hand shapes: index finger, whole hand, and pinky finger. Furthermore, we assessed infants' and their parents' pointing production. Results revealed that adults showed a reliable cueing effect: shorter saccadic reaction times (SRTs) to congruent than incongruent targets, for all hand shapes. However, they did not show a larger cueing effect triggered by the index or any other finger. This contradicts previous findings and is discussed with respect to the differences in methodology. Infants showed a cueing effect only for the whole hand but not for the index or pinky fingers. The current results suggest that infants' orienting to pointing may be more robust for the whole hand shape in the first year, and tuning in to the social-communicative relevance of the canonical index finger shape may develop later or require additional social-communicative cues.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 2","pages":"251-270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139425746","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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Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months 分析兄弟姐妹数量对头 18 个月投入和产出的影响。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-06 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12578

Catherine Laing, Elika Bergelson

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Developmental trajectories of picture-based object representations during the first year of life 出生后第一年以图片为基础的物体表征的发展轨迹。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-06 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12581

Jeanne L. Shinskey

{"title":"Developmental trajectories of picture-based object representations during the first year of life","authors":"Jeanne L. Shinskey","doi":"10.1111/infa.12581","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12581","url":null,"abstract":"Experience with an object's photograph changes 9-month-olds’ preference for the referent object, confirming they can represent objects from pictures. However, picture-based representations appear weaker than object-based representations. The current study's first objective was to investigate age differences in object recognition memory after familiarization with objects' pictures. The second objective was to test whether age differences in object permanence sensitivity with picture-based representations match those found with object-based representations, whereby 7-month-olds search more for familiar hidden objects but 11-month-olds search more for novel ones. Six- and 11-month-olds were familiarized with an object's photo and tested on their representation of the real object by comparing their reaching for it versus a novel object. Objects were visible under conditions testing recognition memory and hidden under conditions testing object permanence. Like 9-month-olds, 6- and 11-month-olds preferred novelty with visible objects, showing early object recognition after picture familiarization, as well as developmental continuity. Unlike 9-month-olds, who switched to preferring familiarity with hidden objects, 6- and 11-month-olds switched to null preference. This pattern fails to match 7- and 11-month-olds’ hidden-object preferences after familiarization with real objects, revealing discontinuity in sensitivity to object permanence after picture familiarization, and suggesting that picture-based representations are weaker than object-based ones.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 2","pages":"233-250"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139111290","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 role of local meaning in infants' fixations of natural scenes 局部意义在婴儿固定自然场景中的作用。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-06 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12582

Lisa M. Oakes, Taylor R. Hayes, Shannon M. Klotz, Katherine I. Pomaranski, John M. Henderson

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