Infant Behavior & Development最新文献

{"title":"Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy","authors":"Iryna Babik ,&nbsp;Andrea B. Cunha ,&nbsp;Sudha Srinivasan","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Disruptive biological and environmental factors may undermine the development of children’s motor and sensorimotor skills. Since the development of cognitive skills, including executive function, is grounded in early motor and sensorimotor experiences, early delays or impairments in motor and sensorimotor processing often trigger dynamic developmental cascades that lead to suboptimal executive function outcomes. The purpose of this perspective paper is to link early differences in motor/sensorimotor processing to the development of executive function in children born preterm or with </span>cerebral palsy. Uncovering such links in clinical populations would improve our understanding of developmental pathways and key motor and sensorimotor skills that are antecedent and foundational for the development of executive function. This knowledge will allow the refinement of early interventions targeting motor and sensorimotor skills with the goal of proactively improving executive function outcomes in at-risk populations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10112005","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}

{"title":"Ecological momentary assessment of parent-child attachment via technological devices: A systematic methodological review","authors":"Marie Bischoff ,&nbsp;Silke Schmidt ,&nbsp;Holger Muehlan ,&nbsp;Sabina Ulbricht ,&nbsp;Matthias Heckmann ,&nbsp;Neeltje van den Berg ,&nbsp;Hans J. Grabe ,&nbsp;Samuel Tomczyk","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>Despite extensive research about parent-child attachment using observational and self-report studies, complementary measures are needed to assess this construct objectively with ecological validity, as well as less obtrusiveness and reactivity than traditional measures. This systematic review describes existing technology-based ecologically momentary assessment (EMA) tools examining attachment-related emotions, cognition, and </span>behaviors between the child and its parents. From the study’s inception until March 2021, four databases were searched resulting in 11,910 screened citations. Finally, 18 records were included, characterized by a broad variety of assessment tools, sample characteristics, study designs, and attachment outcomes. Technology-based EMA methods comprised audio, video, diary, and sensory assessment modalities, each occuying its methodological niche. When reported, the </span>psychometric properties of the EMA methods were evaluated as very good; however, the included studies’ </span>psychometric data was not completely examined. The main attachment outcomes assessed by EMA were emotional and cognitive reactions and actions of the children, the parents, and the dyad. Cognition was rarely assessed using EMA methods. Future research should focus on the complexity of attachment considering different ethnic backgrounds, multiple caregivers' viewpoints, gender aspects, as well as cognitive and dyadic contents in the naturalistic environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10451411","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}

{"title":"Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19","authors":"Marina Kammermeier,&nbsp;Markus Paulus","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks became an effective hygienic measure to reduce infection rates. Given the relevance of facial expressions for social interactions, the question arises how face masks affect early social interactions. The current longitudinal study investigated how covering parts of the face might impact infants’ responses to others’ emotional expressions. Infants who were born during the pandemic were examined at three measurement points at the age of 6, 10 and 14 months. After displaying a neutral facial expression an experimenter smiled at infants while either wearing a mask (mask condition) or not wearing a mask (no mask condition). Infants’ change in affect (i.e., negative, neutral, positive) from the neutral to the test phase (i.e., smiling experimenter) was evaluated. Results showed that at 6 and </span>at 10<span> months infants’ behavior did not differ between conditions, whereas at 14 months infants were more likely to show a change from neutral/negative affect to positive affect in the no mask condition than in the mask condition. Moreover, at 14 months infants were less likely to respond positively to the experimenter’s smile (across conditions) than at 6 and at 10 months. These findings broaden our understanding of potential effects of mask wearing on the development of face processing and affective communication. Overall, they indicate a developmental trend according to which infants’ processing and response to others’ positive emotions becomes more selective and differentiated with increasing age.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10332248","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}

{"title":"Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review","authors":"Denisa Manková ,&nbsp;Soňa Švancarová,&nbsp;Eliška Štenclová","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101868","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Breastfeeding brings many benefits to both mother and infant. Although, many women stop breastfeeding their infants too soon. The perceived association between breastfeeding and sleep may influence their decision to terminate breastfeeding. In our systematic review, we focused on mapping the relationship between infant feeding method and total sleep time (TST), number of nocturnal awakenings, awakenings after sleep onset (WASO) of mothers and infants and sleep quality of mothers. We searched four databases according to selected keywords and inclusion criteria - articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 2012 and 2022; English language; a sample consisting of mothers, infants, or both (without psychiatric and health problems); a comparison of the sleep quality of breastfed and formula-fed children or breastfeeding and formula-fed mothers. We read 260 full texts of selected articles. A total of 35 articles were included in this review. Due to significant heterogeneity, meta-analysis was not possible to accomplish. The results are processed according to narrative synthesis. Most studies agree that breastfed infants wake up more often at night. Total sleep time and time spent awake during the night (WASO) did not differ between breastfed and non-breastfed infants. We observed identical results in sleep variables among mothers. Additionally, there was no difference in maternal sleep quality. The synthesis revealed that the results may have differed due to using subjective, objective methods or the infant's age. It is important to remember that night waking is a more complex concept. Infants wake for many reasons, not just due to breastfeeding. The narrative synthesis indicated that the chosen study design, measurement method, the variables, and the infant's age could influence outcomes. In addition, other variables appeared that may affect the entire process. Therefore, we recommend that attention be paid to this in future studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9984921","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}

{"title":"Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder","authors":"Melissa Susko ,&nbsp;Vickie L. Armstrong ,&nbsp;Jessica A. Brian ,&nbsp;Susan E. Bryson ,&nbsp;Azadeh Kushki ,&nbsp;Lori-Ann R. Sacrey ,&nbsp;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum ,&nbsp;Isabel M. Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101848","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101848","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit more negative affect and avoidance </span>behaviour than typically developing infants, and children with ASD express fear differently than typically developing peers. We examined behavioural reactions to emotion-evoking stimuli in infants at increased familial likelihood for ASD. Participants included 55 increased likelihood (IL) infants (i.e., siblings of children diagnosed with ASD) and 27 typical likelihood (TL) infants (i.e., no family history of ASD). At 18 months, we showed infants two masks that commonly elicit fearful responses in older children and examined potential behavioural differences in approach, avoidance, ‘freezing’, crying, gaze aversion, and smiling. At 24 months, infants were assessed with the Toddler Module of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, 2nd edition (ADOS-2). Results of video-based coding showed that (1) IL infants exhibited more intense avoidance behaviour than TL infants in response to masks, and (2) intensity of avoidance and duration of freezing were positively correlated with ADOS-2 symptom severity scores. Findings suggest that differences in response to emotion-eliciting stimuli may predict later ASD symptoms. Such behavioural differences may inform early detection and intervention in ASD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10386082","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}

{"title":"When I move, you move: Associations between automatic and person-coded measures of infant-mother synchrony during free-play using virtual in-home data collection","authors":"Jacqueline Hammack ,&nbsp;Mini Sharma ,&nbsp;Lindsey Riera-Gomez ,&nbsp;Hila Z. Gvirts ,&nbsp;Teresa Wilcox","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101869","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101869","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The relationship between movement synchrony and global scores of behavioral synchrony were investigated during a naturalistic free-play between 33 infants (ages 12- to 24-months) and their mothers using a video-conferencing platform. We assessed movement synchrony by applying an automatic tool, motion-energy analysis (MEA), to the obtained video data. Dyadic movement synchrony was associated with higher levels of maternal sensitivity, infant involvement, dyadic reciprocity, and a child-led interaction pattern. This demonstrates the feasibility of using MEA as an automatic tool for assessing movement synchrony in mother-infant dyads and its application for investigating naturalistic at-home free play sessions in a remote setting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10031363","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}

{"title":"Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants","authors":"Alessandra Geraci ,&nbsp;Laura Franchin ,&nbsp;Silvia Benavides-Varela","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101865","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101865","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Environmental morality is the foundation of a sustainable future, yet its ontogenetic origin remains unknown. In the present study, we asked whether 7-month-olds have a sense of ‘environmental morality’. Infants’ evaluations of two pro-environmental actions were assessed in both visual and reaching preferential tasks. In Experiment 1, the overt behavior of protecting (i.e., collecting artificial objects spread on a lawn) was compared with the action of harming the environment (i.e., by disregarding the objects). In Experiment 2, the covert behavior of protecting the environment (i.e., maintaining artificial objects inside a container) was compared with the action of harming the environment (i.e., littering the artificial objects on a lawn). The results showed infants’ reaching preference for the agent who performed overt pro-environmental actions (Experiment 1), and no preference for the agent who performed covert pro-environmental actions (Experiment 2). These findings reveal a rudimentary ecological sense and suggest that infants require different abilities to evaluate overt impact-oriented and covert intend-oriented pro-environmental behaviors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10020851","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}

{"title":"Parent-infant co-regulation: Ethological, ecological, and cultural approaches","authors":"Koichi Negayama,&nbsp;Jonathan Delafield-Butt,&nbsp;Hiroko Norimatsu","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101846","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10029386","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}

{"title":"The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy","authors":"Elizabeth V. Edgar ,&nbsp;Bret Eschman ,&nbsp;James Torrence Todd ,&nbsp;Kaitlyn Testa ,&nbsp;Bethany Ramirez ,&nbsp;Lorraine E. Bahrick","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101844","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101844","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Socioeconomic status (SES) is a well-established predictor of individual differences in childhood language and cognitive functioning, including executive functions such as working memory. In infancy, intersensory processing—selectively attending to properties of events that are redundantly specified across the senses at the expense of non-redundant, irrelevant properties—also predicts language development. Our recent research demonstrates that individual differences in intersensory processing in infancy predict a variety of language outcomes in childhood, even after controlling for SES. However, relations among intersensory processing and cognitive outcomes such as working memory have not yet been investigated. Thus, the present study examines relations between intersensory processing in infancy and working memory in early childhood, and the role of SES in this relation. Children (</span><em>N</em> = 101) received the Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol at 12-months to assess intersensory processing (face-voice and object-sound matching) and received the WPPSI at 36-months to assess working memory. SES was indexed by maternal education, paternal education, and income. A variety of novel findings emerged. 1) Individual differences in intersensory processing at 12-months predicted working memory at 36-months of age even after controlling for SES. 2) Individual differences in SES predicted intersensory processing at 12-months of age. 3) The well-established relation between SES and working memory was partially mediated by intersensory processing. Children from families of higher-SES have better intersensory processing skills at 12-months and this combination of factors predicts greater working memory two years later at 36-months. Together these findings reveal the role of intersensory processing in cognitive functioning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10527496/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10385573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imitation among infants in a day-care center and the development of locomotion","authors":"Noriko Toyama","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101870","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To examine the relationship between imitation and locomotor development among peers during infancy, we observed free play in a class of infants in a day-care center over a one-year period. The analysis included 16 infants (mean age was 8.3 months (<em>SD</em>=2.3) at the beginning of the observation) and 5 caregivers. The longitudinal data were divided into the crawling, cruising, and walking periods, and the imitation of object manipulation that took place among the infants during each period was analyzed. With the development of locomotion, peer-to-peer imitation became frequent. Infants who had acquired the ability to walk demonstrated imitation more frequently in triadic interactions than in dyadic interactions. Imitation took place between infants, but it was often mediated by caregivers rather than directly between infants. The results suggest that the acquisition of locomotor skills is a link in a developmental cascade from motor development to infant peer interaction. However, it is reasonable to interpret the results as indicating that the development of locomotion does not directly affect infant interactions in isolation, but rather that walking increases both the sharing and manipulation of objects with caregivers and proximity to peers, and their combined effects form a cascade.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10387130","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}