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A comparative approach to maternal behavior in humans and other apes 人类和其他类人猿母性行为的比较研究

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102077

Federica Amici , Katja Liebal , Manuela Ersson-Lembeck , Manfred Holodynski

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A screening measure for infant attachment: The Turkish adaptation of the Brief Attachment Scale-16 婴儿依恋的筛选措施：简短依恋量表-16的土耳其改编

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102074

Nebi Sümer , Yasemin Kahya , Sema Erel , Cansu Alsancak-Akbulut

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Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research 婴儿和学步儿童在寄养前几个月的社会情感发展：25年研究的简要综合

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102079

Joana Baptista , Cláudia Camilo , Eunice Magalhães , Amber Feher , Cláudia Ramos , Stephanie Alves

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Maternal postpartum depression and responsive feeding in the first 2 years: A review 前2年产妇产后抑郁与反应性喂养：综述

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102073

Sophie Fitzpatrick, Kyly C. Whitfield

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Experience matters: Caregiver interactions with later-born toddlers with autism 经验很重要：照顾者与晚出生的自闭症幼儿的互动

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102071

S.T. Seese, T. Cohenour, S.K. Seese, A. Gulsrud, C. Kasari

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Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling 利用眼动追踪和贝叶斯认知模型重新审视婴儿认知功能与母亲照顾质量之间的关系

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102075

Sofia Scatolin , Francesco Poli , Sabine Hunnius , Hellen Lustermans , Carolina de Weerth , Roseriet Beijers

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A quarter century of research on infant contingency learning: Current and future directions 婴儿偶然性学习研究的四分之一世纪：当前和未来的方向

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102068

Kimberly Cuevas , John Colombo

{"title":"A quarter century of research on infant contingency learning: Current and future directions","authors":"Kimberly Cuevas , John Colombo","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although traditional learning paradigms provided a substantial base for the emergence of the field of infant studies from the 1960s through the 1990s, research on contingency (operant) learning in infancy has not attracted much attention over the last 25 years. While the reasons for such neglect are unclear, learning protocols offer valuable contributions to the field of infant studies, spanning basic research, translational work, and application. An examination of the literature over the last quarter century shows operant learning concepts in use with respect to the development of agency, goal blockage reactivity, clinical cross-group comparisons, and developmental interventions. Building upon the foundation that infants are capable of contingency learning, research has explored underlying mechanisms, including coordinated movement dynamics and psychobiological correlates. Methodological innovations—such as novel paradigms and cutting-edge techniques like motion capture, eye-tracking, and computational modeling—have further refined our understanding of these processes. Efforts have also focused on identifying conditions that promote learning and factors contributing to data loss. An overarching question remains whether infants demonstrate agency during contingency learning. Additionally, recent research has shifted from a primarily experimental group approach to considering individual differences in early learning. However, it is unclear whether traditional learning metrics effectively capture nonmonotonic behavioral change and variability in learning patterns. The review offers cogent rationales for reintegrating these paradigms into the field of infant studies, discusses gaps in the literature that should be addressed for this goal to be realized, and proposes future directions for advancing the field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102068"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers 注意力分享是否支持注意力集中？调查婴儿持续注意力与照顾者共同注意力之间的联系

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102072

Berna A. Uzundağ

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Phonological biases in lexical access in French and German: Data from a familiar word-recognition conflict task 法语和德语词汇获取中的语音偏差：来自一个熟悉的词识别冲突任务的数据

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102070

Leonardo Piot , Thierry Nazzi , Natalie Boll-Avetisyan , Sandrien Van Ommen , Silvana Schmandt

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Accent variation and the development of speech and language abilities 口音变化与言语和语言能力的发展

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102065

Katherine S. White , Elizabeth K. Johnson

{"title":"Accent variation and the development of speech and language abilities","authors":"Katherine S. White , Elizabeth K. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accent variation is a central feature of human language. As adults, we readily adapt to different varieties of our native language, but we also use accent information to make a variety of social inferences. Thus, our treatment of accents sits squarely at the intersection of language and social processing. Despite the ubiquity of accent variation and its importance in our mental lives, it was long absent from studies in the field of infant development. Although the complexities of bilingual input were recognized, the study of monolingual language development proceeded as if all infants were exposed to a single variety of their native language. This perspective shaped our theories of speech and language development. The first study to explore infants’ perception of accents was published in 2000. Over the past 25 years, there has been a steady increase in work on infants’ treatment of new accent varieties, their handling of multiple varieties in their natural input, and their accent-based social inferences. There is much left to be learned about just how infants navigate the rich tapestry of speech variation in their environments, but this work has already provided an important window into the nature of infants’ speech representations and has upended our understanding of how early links between language and social variation are formed. We conclude our review by highlighting how understanding infants’ treatment of accent variation is critical for developing models that can account for efficient speech and language development in linguistically diverse contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102065"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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