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Direct linkAnjie Cao; Molly Lewis; Sho Tsuji; Christina Bergmann; Alejandrina Cristia; Michael C. Frank – Developmental Science, 2025
Developmental psychology focuses on how psychological constructs change with age. In cognitive development research, however, the specifics of this emergence is often underspecified. Researchers often provisionally assume linear growth by including chronological age as a predictor in regression models. In this work, we aim to evaluate this…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infant Behavior, Age Differences, Developmental Stages
Speck, Bailey; Isenhour, Jennifer; Gao, Mengyu; Conradt, Elisabeth; Crowell, Sheila E.; Raby, K. Lee – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Research suggests that women's autonomic nervous system responses to infant cries capture processes that affect their parenting behaviors. The aim of this study was to build on prior work by testing whether pregnant women's autonomic responses to an unfamiliar infant crying also predict their infants' emerging regulation abilities. Participants…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Females, Infants, Crying
Plate, Samantha; Yankowitz, Lisa; Resorla, Leslie; Swanson, Meghan R.; Meera, Shoba Sreenath; Estes, Annette; Marrus, Natasha; Cola, Meredith; Petrulla, Victoria; Faggen, Aubrey; Pandey, Juhi; Paterson, Sarah; Pruett, John R., Jr.; Hazlett, Heather; Dager, Stephen; St. John, Tanya; Botteron, Kelly; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Piven, Joseph; Schultz, Robert T.; Parish-Morris, Julia – Child Development, 2022
Infant vocalizations are early-emerging communicative markers shown to be atypical in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few longitudinal, prospective studies exist. In this study, 23,850 infant vocalizations from infants at low (LR)- and high (HR)-risk for ASD (HR-ASD = 23, female = 3; HR-Neg = 35, female = 13; LR = 32, female = 10; 80% White;…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Verbal Communication, Autism
Stephanie Wermelinger; Marco Bleiker; Moritz M. Daum – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Children's fuzziness leads to increased variance in the data, data loss, and high dropout rates in developmental studies. This study investigated the importance of 20 factors on the person (child, caregiver, experimenter) and situation (task, method, time, and date) level for the data quality as indicated via the number of valid trials in 11…
Descriptors: Infants, Young Children, Research Problems, Factor Analysis
Nagy, Beáta Erika; Gáll, József Mihály; Szele, Anna Szabina – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The aim of our study is to describe the neuromotor development of preterm and low birth weight infants at 1 and 2 years of corrected age, and to examine the extent to which perinatal, neonatal, socio-demographic, and neuromotor development indices measured at the age of 1 are able to predict infants' development indices at the age of 2. Our sample…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Cognitive Development, Individual Characteristics, Body Weight
Meagan R. Talbott; Gregory S. Young; Sally Ozonoff – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Identifying infants at elevated likelihood for autism and other developmental differences in the first year of life remains a significant challenge. This study explored associations between behavioral differences in infancy and developmental outcomes in toddlerhood. We conducted a secondary data analysis of 256 infants with an older autistic…
Descriptors: Infants, At Risk Persons, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Disabilities
Decarli, Gisella; Zingaro, Donatella; Surian, Luca; Piazza, Manuela – Developmental Science, 2023
Preverbal infants spontaneously represent the number of objects in collections. Is this 'sense of number' (also referred to as Approximate Number System, ANS) part of the cognitive foundations of mathematical skills? Multiple studies reported a correlation between the ANS and mathematical achievement in children. However, some have suggested that…
Descriptors: Infants, Numeracy, Young Children, Mathematics Achievement
Pronina, Mariia; Grofulovic, Jelena; Castillo, Eva; Prieto, Pilar; Igualada, Alfonso – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Though the frequency of gesture use by infants has been related to the development of different language abilities in the initial stages of language acquisition, less is known about whether this frequency (or "gesture rate") continues to correlate with language measures in later stages of language acquisition, or whether the…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Nonverbal Communication, Language Acquisition
Josué Rico-Picó; M. del Carmen Garcia-de-Soria Bazan; Ángela Conejero; Sebastián Moyano; Ángela Hoyo; María de los Ángeles Ballesteros-Duperón; Karla Holmboe; M. Rosario Rueda – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive control (EC) emerges in the first year of life, with the ability to inhibit prepotent responses (inhibitory control [IC]) and to flexibly readapt (cognitive flexibility [CF]) steadily improving. Simultaneously, electrophysiological brain activity undergoes profound reconfiguration, which has been linked to individual variability in EC.…
Descriptors: Infants, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Brain, Executive Function
Ayelet Ben-Sasson; Joshua Guedalia; Keren Ilan; Meirav Shaham; Galit Shefer; Roe Cohen; Yuval Tamir; Lidia V. Gabis – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Early detection of autism spectrum condition is crucial for children to maximally benefit from early intervention. The study examined a machine learning model predicting the increased likelihood for autism from wellness records from 0 to 24 months. The study included 591,989 non-autistic and 12,846 autistic children. A gradient boosting model with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Infants, Predictor Variables
Schaadt, Gesa; Werwach, Annika; Obrig, Hellmuth; Friederici, Angela D.; Männel, Claudia – Child Development, 2023
Consonants and vowels differentially contribute to lexical acquisition. From 8 months on, infants' preferential reliance on consonants has been shown to predict their lexical outcome. Here, the predictive value of German-learning infants' (n = 58, 29 girls, 29 boys) trajectories of consonant and vowel perception, indicated by the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Vowels, Infants, German
Geeraerts, Sanne B.; Backer, Penina M.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine the association of infant fussing and crying with self-regulation in toddlerhood and the preschool years, as well as the moderating role of maternal sensitivity therein. When children (n = 149, 53.69% boys) were 6 months old, parents reported on their fussing and crying using a cry diary, and…
Descriptors: Infants, Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship
Lisa Bartha-Doering; Vito Giordano; Sophie Mandl; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Anna Weiskopf; Johannes Mader; Julia Andrejevic; Nadine Adrian; Lisa Emilia Ashmawy; Patrick Appel; Rainer Seidl; Stephan Doering; Angelika Berger; Johanna Alexopoulos – Developmental Science, 2025
Newborns are able to neurally discriminate between speech and nonspeech right after birth. To date it remains unknown whether this early speech discrimination and the underlying neural language network is associated with later language development. Preterm-born children are an interesting cohort to investigate this relationship, as previous…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Brain, Birth
Kelli K. MacMillan; Declan Bourke; Stuart J. Watson; Andrew J. Lewis; Douglas M. Teti; Helen L. Ball; Megan Galbally – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Emphasis on continuous infant sleep overnight may be driven by parental concern of risk to child mental health outcomes. The Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Wellbeing Study (MPEWS) examined whether infant sleep at 6 and 12 months postpartum predicts anxiety disorders at 2-4 years, and whether this is moderated by maternal depression, active physical…
Descriptors: Infants, Sleep, Anxiety Disorders, Pregnancy
Zuk, Jennifer; Vanderauwera, Jolijn; Turesky, Ted; Yu, Xi; Gaab, Nadine – Developmental Science, 2023
Musical training has long been viewed as a model for experience-dependent brain plasticity. Reports of musical training-induced brain plasticity are largely based on cross-sectional studies comparing musicians to non-musicians, which cannot address whether musical training itself is sufficient to induce these neurobiological changes or whether…
Descriptors: Young Children, Music, Infants, Brain
