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Expanding the toolbox: 25 years of methodological change in infant research 扩展工具箱：25年来婴儿研究方法的变化

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102105

Nicolás Alessandroni, Laia Fibla, Miranda Gómez Díaz, Xiaowei Gong, Hilary Killam, Melanie López Pérez, Charlotte Moore, Alexandra Paquette, Andrea Sander-Montant, Krista Byers-Heinlein

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A multimethod perspective on mother–infant interaction in free and semi-structured play: Associations with parental reflective functioning 自由和半结构化游戏中母婴互动的多方法视角：与父母反思功能的关联

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102076

Saara J. Salo , Eveliina Mykkänen , Sari Peltonen , Mervi Vänskä

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The development of inductive reasoning during infancy 婴儿期归纳推理的发展

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102099

Anna E. Baumann , Susan A. Graham

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Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Math measures 开发和验证美国国立卫生研究院婴儿工具箱®数学措施

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102116

Sarah Pila , Y. Catherine Han , Hubert Adam , Vitali Ustsinovich , Aaron J. Kaat , Julie Sarama , Douglas H. Clements , Richard C. Gershon

{"title":"Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Math measures","authors":"Sarah Pila , Y. Catherine Han , Hubert Adam , Vitali Ustsinovich , Aaron J. Kaat , Julie Sarama , Douglas H. Clements , Richard C. Gershon","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The NIH Baby Toolbox® Math measures were designed to assess early mathematical abilities in infants and toddlers, providing a standardized approach to evaluating foundational mathematics competencies among other developmental trajectories. This manuscript describes the development of these measures as well as the reliability and validity of these measures in a diverse sample of children aged 1–42 months. More than 2500 participants were recruited from various socio-economic backgrounds and geographic locations to ensure a representative sample. The validation process involved a multi-method approach, including correlations with age, test-retest reliability, and external validity against two popular developmental assessments. Results from <em>N</em> = 926 participants (714 English-exposed, 212 Spanish-exposed) indicated strong correlation with age for all but one of the measures and good test-retest reliability. Additionally, significant correlations were found between the NIH Baby Toolbox Math measures and established early childhood assessments (ASQ-3 and Bayley-4), confirming known-groups validity. These findings suggest that the Baby Toolbox Math measures are reliable and valid tools for assessing early mathematical skills in infants and toddlers, with potential applications in both research and clinical settings. Future research should explore longitudinal outcomes and the impact of early interventions on mathematical development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144722229","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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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 : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102073

Sophie Fitzpatrick, Kyly C. Whitfield

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Infant manipulation complexity trajectories as predictors of language outcomes at 2 years of age 婴儿操作复杂性轨迹作为2岁时语言结果的预测因子

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102080

Kaityn Contino , Julie M. Campbell , Emily C. Marcinowski , George F. Michel , Stefany Coxe , Eliza L. Nelson

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Listening to development: How electroencephalography informs infant language and music research 聆听发展：脑电图如何为婴儿语言和音乐研究提供信息

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102125

Holly Bradley , Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden , Laura K. Cirelli

{"title":"Listening to development: How electroencephalography informs infant language and music research","authors":"Holly Bradley , Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden , Laura K. Cirelli","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102125","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102125","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this review, we discuss how advances in infant electroencephalography (EEG) in the last quarter century have allowed developmental scientists to revisit old questions and ask new ones about early auditory perception. We specifically focus on integrating research on language and music perception given both methodological and theoretical overlaps. We discuss how EEG’s high temporal resolution has provided insights into how infants process subtle changes in language and music, detecting phonemic contrasts, rhythmic patterns, and melodic cues sometimes even before these abilities are observable behaviorally. More recently, advanced methods have uncovered how neural coherence and neural tracking reflect auditory processing and predict future developmental outcomes. Coupling EEG with behavioral measures has enriched our insights into developmental milestones in cognition and perception that traditional methods may miss. Looking forward, we consider how advances in technology such as mobile EEG and hyperscanning can open doors for exploring auditory processing in naturalistic environments, such as during live caregiver interactions. We also discuss pressing challenges in the field, such as the focus on WEIRD populations and a lack of standardized data processing and analysis pipelines. Ultimately, the insights gained from infant language and music EEG research provide a strong foundation for informing parental guidance, and supporting early cognitive and linguistic growth. The continued integration of innovative technologies with rigorous, inclusive methodologies will be crucial in deepening our understanding of how infants perceive and learn language and music, two domains that connect infants to their social and cultural world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102125"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144826960","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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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 : 2025-09-01 Epub 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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Neural correlates of false belief understanding in 33- to 36-month-old infants 33 ~ 36个月婴儿错误信念理解的神经关联

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102106

Shuting Li, Jörg Meinhardt, Beate Sodian

{"title":"Neural correlates of false belief understanding in 33- to 36-month-old infants","authors":"Shuting Li, Jörg Meinhardt, Beate Sodian","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Very little research has addressed the neural correlates of false belief understanding in young children. Following up on a previous event-related potential (ERP) study examining false belief understanding in 4- to 6-year-old children, the present study grouped infants (<em>N</em> = 45, 33–36 months old) into passers and failers according to their behavioral performance on a low-demands false belief task. Their ERP responses to false belief and true belief conditions were examined in a novel ERP paradigm. The study found that a late positive waveform over the occipital electrode sites distinguished between the false belief and true belief conditions only in infants who passed the low-demands behavioral false belief task. In contrast, a late negative waveform over the frontocentral electrode sites consistently distinguished between the false belief and true belief conditions regardless of low-demands behavioral false belief task performance. These findings raise the possibility that a sensitive neural system supporting false belief understanding may emerge early in development. Specifically, the late positive waveform observed over the occipital electrode sites appears to be a potential neural marker for false belief understanding in infants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604701","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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Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions 人类婴儿对他人行为的感知和理解

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Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102098

Bennett I. Bertenthal , Ty W. Boyer

{"title":"Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions","authors":"Bennett I. Bertenthal , Ty W. Boyer","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The perception and understanding of others’ actions is foundational to how we communicate and learn about the social and physical world. During the past 25 years a good deal of research has focused on how the links between the observation and execution of actions could underly infants’ understanding and prediction of others’ behaviors. In this article, we critically review the empirical evidence suggesting that the development of action understanding is related to motor experience. This research is focused on infants’ perceptions and predictions of others’ goals, but actions involve more than goals which is why infants’ coding of the movements of an action are also reviewed. One critical issue that remains unresolved in the literature is whether the processes responsible for mapping the observation and execution of actions are limited to human actions or whether they generalize to non-human actions as well. Although much of the evidence suggests a difference, we identify methodological problems and alternative interpretations that have not been fully addressed. One reason for these problems is that action understanding has been studied largely through the lens of motor development. In the last section, we suggest that this field of inquiry has become somewhat stagnant and needs to adapt a developmental systems perspective: Action understanding should be studied as a dynamical system in which its development changes as a function of not only motor experience, but also as part of a larger system of developing behaviors that interact in complex and nonlinear ways.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102098"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144471657","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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