IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12580

Laura Carnevali, Letizia Della Longa, Danica Dragovic, Teresa Farroni

{"title":"Touch and look: The role of affective touch in promoting infants' attention towards complex visual scenes","authors":"Laura Carnevali, Letizia Della Longa, Danica Dragovic, Teresa Farroni","doi":"10.1111/infa.12580","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12580","url":null,"abstract":"In a complex social environment, stimuli from different sensory modalities need to be integrated to decode communicative meanings. From very early in life, infants have to combine a multitude of sensory features with social and affective attributes. Of all senses, touch constitutes a privileged channel to carry affective-motivational meanings and foster social connection. In the present study, we investigate whether sharing sensory stimulation that varies for its affective value differentially affects infants' attention towards visual stimuli. 6 to 11-month-old infants (N = 42) were familiarized with two characters respectively matched with tactile (affective or non-affective) and auditory stimulation; then repeatedly exposed to scenes where the two characters moved towards target objects. Our results showed a main effect of stimulation (sound vs. touch) on looking times during familiarization, with longer looking times when sound is provided. During scenes presentation, a main effect of the type of touch (affective vs. non affective) emerged, with longer looking times in infants that previously experienced affective touch, suggesting that this sensory experience may critically engage the self and modulate infant attention. Overall, these findings suggest that while sound acts as attention getter, affective touch supports sustained attention towards complex visual scenes beyond the stimulation period itself.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 2","pages":"271-283"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12580","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139098967","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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Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12-to 20-month old infants 12至20个月大的婴儿对情绪化面孔的关注较少与移情能力和亲社会性较低有关。

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12569

Meghan Rose Donohue, M. Catalina Camacho, Jordan E. Drake, Rebecca F. Schwarzlose, Rebecca G. Brady, Caroline P. Hoyniak, Laura Hennefield, Lauren S. Wakschlag, Cynthia E. Rogers, Deanna M. Barch, Joan Luby

{"title":"Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12-to 20-month old infants","authors":"Meghan Rose Donohue, M. Catalina Camacho, Jordan E. Drake, Rebecca F. Schwarzlose, Rebecca G. Brady, Caroline P. Hoyniak, Laura Hennefield, Lauren S. Wakschlag, Cynthia E. Rogers, Deanna M. Barch, Joan Luby","doi":"10.1111/infa.12569","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12569","url":null,"abstract":"The development of empathy and prosocial behavior begins in infancy and is likely supported by emotion processing skills. The current study explored whether early emerging deficits in emotion processing are associated with disruptions in the development of empathy and prosociality. We investigated this question in a large, diverse sample of 147, 11- to 20-month-old infants (42% female; 61% Black; 67% low socioeconomic status). Infants completed two observational tasks assessing prosocial helping and one task assessing empathy and prosocial comforting behavior. Infants also completed an eye-tracking task assessing engagement and disengagement with negative emotional faces. Infants who attended less to angry, sad, and fearful faces (i.e., by being slower to look at and/or quicker to look away from negative compared to neutral faces) engaged in fewer helping behaviors, and effect sizes were larger when examining infants' attention toward the eye regions of faces. Additionally, infants who were quicker to look away from the eye regions of angry faces, but not the whole face, displayed less empathy and comforting behaviors. Results suggest that as early as 12 months of age, infants' decreased attention toward negative emotional faces, particularly the eye regions, is associated with less empathy and prosociality during a developmental period in which these abilities are rapidly maturing.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 2","pages":"113-136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139088986","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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Patterns of attention-sensitive communication contribute to 7–20-month-olds' emerging pragmatic skills 注意力敏感的交流模式有助于 7-20 个月大的幼儿逐渐掌握实用技能

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12577

Mawa Dafreville, Michèle Guidetti, Marie Bourjade

{"title":"Patterns of attention-sensitive communication contribute to 7–20-month-olds' emerging pragmatic skills","authors":"Mawa Dafreville, Michèle Guidetti, Marie Bourjade","doi":"10.1111/infa.12577","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12577","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aimed at investigating the ability of 7- to 20-month-old infants to display attention-sensitive communication using either canonical markers of language acquisition (e.g., pointing gestures, canonical babblings) or other signals based on the physical features actually perceived by the mother in everyday interaction (e.g., body movements, mouth sounds). We studied 30 French mother-infant dyads in naturalistic settings. We assessed the infants' attention-sensitive communication through unimodal and cross-modal adjustment, defined as the capacity of infants to address visually inattentive mothers by avoiding visual communication mismatches and/or favoring communication matches through audible-or-contact signals. Unimodal and cross-modal adjustments were tested for specific signals across spontaneous “conditions” of maternal visual attention (attentive/inattentive) from video footage filmed in the home. Both canonical markers of language development and signals belonging to an extended repertoire of communication were used by infants to adjust to their mother's visual attention. Gaze-coordinated signals were overall not significantly better adjusted to maternal attention than non-gaze-coordinated signals, except for specific silent-visual signals at certain ages. Overall, these results indicate that attention-sensitive communication is relevant to the development of early pragmatic skills and that the intentional use of signals may be more reliably approximated by this capacity than by gaze-coordination with signals.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 2","pages":"216-232"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139068828","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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Longitudinal associations between parents' prosocial behavior and media use and young children's prosocial development: The mediating role of children's media use 父母的亲社会行为和媒体使用与幼儿的亲社会发展之间的纵向联系：儿童使用媒体的中介作用

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12576

Laura M. Padilla-Walker, Katey Workman, Anna Calley, Sarah Ashby, Hailey G. Holmgren, Corinne Archibald, Ashley M. Fraser, Sarah M. Coyne

{"title":"Longitudinal associations between parents' prosocial behavior and media use and young children's prosocial development: The mediating role of children's media use","authors":"Laura M. Padilla-Walker, Katey Workman, Anna Calley, Sarah Ashby, Hailey G. Holmgren, Corinne Archibald, Ashley M. Fraser, Sarah M. Coyne","doi":"10.1111/infa.12576","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12576","url":null,"abstract":"Research has found that media is associated with children's prosocial behavior (PB) from an early age, and that parents play a key role in children's media use and behavior. However, few studies explore these relations as early as infancy while also controlling for well-established predictors of PB (e.g., empathic concern). Thus, the present study examined longitudinal associations between parents' PB and media use, and prosocial development during early childhood, mediated by children's own media use. Participants were 519 children (M age at Time 1 = 17.77 months) and parents who participated in three timepoints of an ongoing, longitudinal study. A longitudinal path model suggested that children's media use was still significantly associated with PB 1 year later after accounting for factors such as parents' PB, media use, and empathy. These findings have important implications for the early development of behaviors that serve as a foundation for social and moral development.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 2","pages":"95-112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139068616","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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Infant screen media and child development: A prospective community study 婴儿屏幕媒体与儿童发展：前瞻性社区研究

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12575

Ortal Slobodin, Orit E. Hetzroni, Moran Mandel, Sappir Saad Nuttman, Zainab Gawi Damashi, Eden Machluf, Michael Davidovitch

{"title":"Infant screen media and child development: A prospective community study","authors":"Ortal Slobodin, Orit E. Hetzroni, Moran Mandel, Sappir Saad Nuttman, Zainab Gawi Damashi, Eden Machluf, Michael Davidovitch","doi":"10.1111/infa.12575","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12575","url":null,"abstract":"The current study examined longitudinal associations between early screen media exposure (assessed at 6, 12, and 24 months) and the child's motor and language/communication development at the ages of 24 and 36 months. We also aimed to study whether these associations varied by socioeconomic status (SES). Participants were 179 parent-infant dyads, recruited from well-baby clinic services during routine visits. Child development measures included standardized measures of developmental milestones as assessed by professionals and referral data to child developmental centers. Both measures were retrieved from the official health maintenance organization records by an expert in child development. Results indicated that screen exposure at 6 and 12 months was associated with a higher risk for language/communication deficits at 36 months in children with moderate or high SES but not in children with low SES. Our findings are consistent with existing literature demonstrating cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between early screen exposure and language development deficits. Given that media use practices and motivations vary among families from different backgrounds, further investigation of the interaction between SES and screen exposure is needed.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 2","pages":"155-174"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139068198","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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Attachment security and problematic media use in infancy: A longitudinal study in the United States 婴儿期的依恋安全和问题媒体使用：美国的一项纵向研究

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12570

Jane Shawcroft, Sarah M. Coyne, Lisa Linder, Brandon N. Clifford, Brandon T. McDaniel

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Handedness as a major determinant of lateral bias in human functional cradling 手型是人类功能性摇篮侧向偏差的主要决定因素

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12572

Audrey L. H. van der Meer

{"title":"Handedness as a major determinant of lateral bias in human functional cradling","authors":"Audrey L. H. van der Meer","doi":"10.1111/infa.12572","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12572","url":null,"abstract":"Studies examining infant cradling have almost uniformly concluded with a general human left-side bias for cradling, indicating that people prefer to hold an infant to the left of their body. Explanations for the notion of the left-side cradling bias have traditionally been searched for in a variety of factors, for example, in terms of maternal heartbeat, genetic factors, in the form of an ear asymmetry where auditory information is perceived faster through the left ear, as a result of a right hemispheric functional specialization for perception of emotions and faces, and in identifying a motor bias of the infant, such as the tendency of newborn infants to lie with the face to the right when placed supine. Interestingly, handedness is generally considered an inadequate explanation for the lateralized cradling bias, despite it being an intuitively plausible one. In this brief review, I put forward the cradler's handedness as the most convincing and elegant determinant of the cradling bias. This explanation is consistent with a developmental cascades' framework where the cradling bias can be understood as the result of a multitude of factors across a range of levels and systems.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 2","pages":"84-94"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12572","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138716397","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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Characterization of children's verbal input in a forager-farmer population using long-form audio recordings and diverse input definitions 利用长格式录音和不同的输入定义对采农族儿童的语言输入进行表征。

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Infancy Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12568

Camila Scaff, Marisa Casillas, Jonathan Stieglitz, Alejandrina Cristia

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Older infants' social learning behavior under uncertainty is modulated by the interaction of face and speech processing 不确定条件下大婴儿的社会学习行为受面部加工和言语加工的相互作用调节。

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12566

Julia Dillmann, Judith Evertz, Anna Krasotkina, Olivier Clerc, Olivier Pascalis, Gudrun Schwarzer

{"title":"Older infants' social learning behavior under uncertainty is modulated by the interaction of face and speech processing","authors":"Julia Dillmann, Judith Evertz, Anna Krasotkina, Olivier Clerc, Olivier Pascalis, Gudrun Schwarzer","doi":"10.1111/infa.12566","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12566","url":null,"abstract":"The origin of face or language influences infants' perceptual processing and social learning behavior. However, it remains unclear how infants' social learning behavior is affected when both information are provided simultaneously. Hence, the current study investigated whether and how infants' social learning in terms of gaze following is influenced by face race and language origin of an interaction partner in an uncertain situation. Our sample consisted of 91 Caucasian infants from German speaking families. They were divided into 2 age groups: Younger infants were 5- to 8-month-old (n = 46) and the older infants 11- to 20-month-old (n = 45). We used a modified online version of the gaze following paradigm by Xiao and colleagues by varying face race (Caucasian, and Asian faces) and language (German and French) of a female actor. We recorded infants looking behavior via webcam and coded it offline. Our results revealed that older but not younger infants were biased to follow the gaze of own-race adults speaking their native language. Our findings show that older infants are clearly influenced by adults' ethnicity and language in social learning situations of uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 1","pages":"56-71"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12566","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136399804","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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Look before you reach: Fixation-reach latencies predict reaching kinematics in toddlers 伸手前先看:注视-伸手潜伏期预测幼儿的伸手运动。

IF 2.6 2区心理学

Infancy Pub Date : 2023-11-11 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12567

Drew H. Abney, Christian M. Jerry, Linda B. Smith, Chen Yu

{"title":"Look before you reach: Fixation-reach latencies predict reaching kinematics in toddlers","authors":"Drew H. Abney, Christian M. Jerry, Linda B. Smith, Chen Yu","doi":"10.1111/infa.12567","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12567","url":null,"abstract":"Research on infant and toddler reaching has shown evidence for motor planning after the initiation of the reaching action. However, the reach action sequence does not begin after the initiation of a reach but rather includes the initial visual fixations onto the target object occurring before the reach. We developed a paradigm that synchronizes head-mounted eye-tracking and motion capture to determine whether the latency between the first visual fixation on a target object and the first reaching movement toward the object predicts subsequent reaching behavior in toddlers. In a corpus of over one hundred reach sequences produced by 17 toddlers, we found that longer fixation-reach latencies during the pre-reach phase predicted slower reaches. If the slowness of an executed reach indicates reach difficulty, then the duration of pre-reach planning would be correlated with reach difficulty. However, no relation was found with pre-reach planning duration when reach difficulty was measured by usual factors and independent of reach duration. The findings raise important questions about the measurement of reach difficulty, models of motor control, and possible developmental changes in the relations between pre-planning and continuously unfolding motor plans throughout an action sequence.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"29 1","pages":"6-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12567","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89719957","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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