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Mother–Infant Face-to-Face Interactions Serve a Similar Function in Humans and Other Apes 母婴面对面的互动在人类和其他类人猿中也起着类似的作用

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70019

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

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Context Shapes (Proto)Conversations in the First Year of Life 情境塑造（原型）生命第一年的对话

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70018

Zuzanna Laudańska, Karolina Babis, Agata Kozioł, Magdalena Szmytke, Peter B. Marschik, Dajie Zhang, Anna Malinowska-Korczak, David López Pérez, Przemysław Tomalski

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How Prosocial Modeling Promotes Children's Sharing: A Goal Contagion Account 亲社会模式如何促进儿童分享：一个目标传染的解释

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70020

Qiao Chai, Xuan Wu, Jiaqian Yu, Amrisha Vaish, Mowei Shen, Jie He

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Crossing the Boundary: No Catastrophic Limits on Infants’ Capacity to Represent Linguistic Sequences 跨越边界：婴儿表达语言序列的能力没有灾难性的限制

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70015

Natalia Reoyo-Serrano, Anastasia Dimakou, Chiara Nascimben, Tamara Bastianello, Daniela Lucangeli, Silvia Benavides-Varela

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Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma 做最好的，还是和最好的在一起：儿童在社会比较困境中选择的发展考察

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70017

Hagit Sabato, Tamar Cohen Steinberger

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Altercentric Memory Error at 9 Months But Correct Object Memory by 18 Months Revealed in Infants’ Pupil 婴儿9月龄时的异中心记忆错误，18月龄时的正确对象记忆

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70016

Anna-Lena Tebbe, Katrin Rothmaler, Hannah Elena Zielke, Robert Hepach, Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann

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Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys 恒河猴元认知的早期出现

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70012

Yiyun Huang, Alexandra G. Rosati

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Demographic Biases in Naturalistic Language Recordings in the CHILDES Database CHILDES数据库中自然语言记录的人口统计学偏差

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70011

Camila Scaff, Georgia Loukatou, Alejandrina Cristia, Naomi Havron

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The Unforgettable “Mel”: Pragmatic Inferences Affect How Children Acquire and Remember Word Meanings 难忘的“梅尔”：语用推理影响儿童如何习得和记忆词义

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70013

Katherine Trice, Dionysia Saratsli, Anna Papafragou, Zhenghan Qi

{"title":"The Unforgettable “Mel”: Pragmatic Inferences Affect How Children Acquire and Remember Word Meanings","authors":"Katherine Trice, Dionysia Saratsli, Anna Papafragou, Zhenghan Qi","doi":"10.1111/desc.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70013","url":null,"abstract":"Children can acquire novel word meanings by using pragmatic cues. However, previous literature has frequently focused on in-the-moment word-to-meaning mappings, not delayed retention of novel vocabulary. Here, we examine how children use pragmatics as they learn and retain novel words. Thirty-three younger children (mean age: 5.0, range: 4.0–6.0, 21 girls; 85% White) and 33 older children (mean age: 7.5, range: 6.1–9.2, 16 girls, 66% White) participated. During learning, the sound-meaning mapping was either readily available (Direct Mapping condition) or required pragmatic inference (Inference condition). Children's word retention was tested immediately after learning and after 10–15 min of delay. Across both conditions, children performed similarly during learning. There were no significant differences between conditions for either immediate recall or retention in younger children. Importantly, retention (but not immediate recall) in older children demonstrated a significant advantage for the Inference over the Direct Mapping condition. Word retention in the Inference condition was predicted by age and mediated by children's ToM ability. We conclude that children can successfully acquire and retain meanings via pragmatic inference; moreover, the effects of active pragmatic computation on meaning retention grow with development. Such a developmental difference in meaning consolidation is possibly mediated by children's developing ToM skills.","PeriodicalId":48392,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Science","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/desc.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Maternal Interaction Relates to Neural Processing of Self-Related Multisensory Information in 5-Month-Olds 母亲互动与5月龄婴儿自我相关多感觉信息的神经加工有关

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Developmental Science Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1111/desc.70009

Nina-Alisa Kollakowski, Carolina Pletti, Markus Paulus

{"title":"Maternal Interaction Relates to Neural Processing of Self-Related Multisensory Information in 5-Month-Olds","authors":"Nina-Alisa Kollakowski, Carolina Pletti, Markus Paulus","doi":"10.1111/desc.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70009","url":null,"abstract":"The ontogenetic origin of the self in infancy is a topic of ongoing debate. Although influential developmental and neurocognitive theories propose that caregiver-infant interactions play an important role in infants’ self-development, little is known about the specific mechanisms involved. Some theories highlight the importance of caregiver sensitivity and touch, while others propose that caregiver contingency plays a central role. The study aimed to investigate infants’ self-perception by measuring brain activation in the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS), a region previously associated with self-related processing. A total of 118 mother-infant dyads participated in a free-play interaction, during which maternal sensitivity and touch were measured. Additionally, a face-to-face interaction was conducted to measure maternal contingency. Infants' brain activation was measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). They watched a video of their own face while being stroked by a brush on the cheek. The video was either live and the stroking was synchronous to the video (contingent) or the video was delayed by 3 s, which made the stroking asynchronous (non-contingent). The results showed that infants exhibited more HbO-activation in the right pSTS in the non-contingent condition. Importantly, the more sensitive the mothers were and the more they touched infants during free play, the less differential activation the infants showed in response to both conditions. This effect was driven by infants showing less activation to the non-contingent condition when their mothers exhibited more care, maybe because of a smaller prediction error for non-contingent self-related multisensory information. Overall, the study deepens our knowledge of how early social interactions relate to the emergence of the self in infancy.","PeriodicalId":48392,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Science","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/desc.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143639222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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