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Direct linkTess Allegra Forest; Layla Bradford; Lorna Ginnell; Maroussia Berger; Donna Herr; Emmie Mbale; Kavindya Dalawella; Chloë A. Jacobs; Chikondi Mchazime; Celia D'Amato; Zamazimba Madi; Pious Clifford Mkaka; Claudia Espinoza-Heredia; Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa; Vukiwe Ngoma; Monique Gilmore; Marlie Miles; Jinge Ren; Nwabisa Mlandu; Reese Samuels; Michal R. Zieff; Melissa Gladstone; Kirsten A. Donald; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2025
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather information for learning. Here, caregiver-infant dyads (N = 222, 2-6-months-old, all female caregivers; data collected 2022-2023) in South Africa and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Eye Movements
Bhat, Ajaz A.; Samuelson, Larissa K.; Spencer, John P. – Child Development, 2023
The interaction of visual exploration and auditory processing is central to early cognitive development, supporting object discrimination, categorization, and word learning. Research has shown visual-auditory interactions to be complex, created from multiple processes and changing over multiple timescales. To better understand these interactions,…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary Development, Attention, Cognitive Development
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
Elizabeth B. Miller; Katherine A. Hails; Caitlin F. Canfield; Pamela A. Morris-Perez; Daniel S. Shaw; Alan L. Mendelsohn; Rachel S. Gross – Grantee Submission, 2024
Objective: To examine associations between cognitive stimulation in the home at 6 months and maternal feeding styles at 24 months, direct intervention effects of Smart Beginnings (SB) on feeding styles, and potential indirect effects of SB on feeding styles via earlier intervention effects on cognitive stimulation. Methods: Single-blind, two-site…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Infants, Mothers, Nutrition
Spit, Sybren; Geamba?u, Andreea; van Renswoude, Daan; Blom, Elma; Fikkert, Paula; Hunnius, Sabine; Junge, Caroline; Verhagen, Josje; Visser, Ingmar; Wijnen, Frank; Levelt, Clara C. – Developmental Science, 2023
We present an exact replication of Experiment 2 from Kovács and Mehler's 2009 study, which showed that 7-month-old infants who are raised bilingually exhibit a cognitive advantage. In the experiment, a sound cue, following an AAB or ABB pattern, predicted the appearance of a visual stimulus on the screen. The stimulus appeared on one side of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Bilingualism, Cues
Orr, Edna – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
For the current study, a multi-measure, micro-analytic approach was used to prospectively explore the role of preliminary symbolic play with single and multi-objects in language milestone development and vice versa. Fourteen infants followed up in monthly one hour sessions between the ages of 8 and 16 months. Their spontaneous play acts and vocal…
Descriptors: Play, Language Acquisition, Infants, Cognitive Development
Borja Blanco; Monika Molnar; Irene Arrieta; César Caballero-Gaudes; Manuel Carreiras – Developmental Science, 2025
Language learning is influenced by both neural development and environmental experiences. This work investigates the influence of early bilingual experience on the neural mechanisms underlying speech processing in 4-month-old infants. We study how an early environmental factor such as bilingualism interacts with neural development by comparing…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Speech Communication
Maria Spinelli; Diane L. Putnick; Prachi E. Shah; Marc H. Bornstein – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Understanding of preterm infant cognitive competences across the first year of life is limited regarding the developmental constructs of continuity, stability, coherence, and predictive validity as well as how they manifest by age and country of origin. This prospective longitudinal study examined and compared mean-level continuity,…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Reliability
Martha Ann Bell, Editor – APA Books, 2024
In this extensively revised edition, Martha Ann Bell and her contributors synthesize the newest research on how cognitive and emotional processes influence each other in child development. Historically, research in child development has treated cognitive processes as separate and distinct from social-emotional processes. However, many of the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Genetics
Blau, Shane Reuven – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Infants are born highly sensitive to the natural patterns found in languages. They use their perceptual sensitivity to acquire detailed information about the structure of languages in their environment. To date, most studies of infant perception and early language acquisition have investigated spoken/auditory languages and hearing infants (e.g.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Linguistic Input, Language Patterns, Infants
Download full textHassinger-Das, Brenna; Schwartz, Rebecca; Tavdgiridze, Mari; Mercedes, Nayrovi; Salerno, Marie; Takoukam, Nowou Cyrielle Talla; Gamzehlatova, Joshua; Zosh, Jennifer M. – American Journal of Play, 2023
The authors examined technological and traditional infant toys to understand the U.S. toy market facing today's care givers. They found significant differences in the two types of toys in terms of their developmental targets--with more traditional toys aimed at physical development and more technological toys aimed at cognitive development. Given…
Descriptors: Toys, Infants, Play, Technology
Francesco Poli; Tommaso Ghilardi; Roseriet Beijers; Carolina de Weerth; Max Hinne; Rogier B. Mars; Sabine Hunnius – Developmental Science, 2024
Habituation and dishabituation are the most prevalent measures of infant cognitive functioning, and they have reliably been shown to predict later cognitive outcomes. Yet, the exact mechanisms underlying infant habituation and dishabituation are still unclear. To investigate them, we tested 106 8-month-old infants on a classic habituation task and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Habituation, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Ann E. Bigelow – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Maternal mind-mindedness, which examines mothers' representational capacity to treat their children as individuals with their own minds, has traditionally been operationalized by coding mothers' mental state comments to or about their children. Mind-mindedness has been studied predominantly in Western cultures, where it predicts children's…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Kretch, Kari S.; Marcinowski, Emily C.; Hsu, Lin-Ya; Koziol, Natalie A.; Harbourne, Regina T.; Lobo, Michele A.; Dusing, Stacey C. – Developmental Science, 2023
The development of independent sitting changes everyday opportunities for learning and has cascading effects on cognitive and language development. Prior to independent sitting, infants experience the sitting position with physical support from caregivers. Why does supported sitting not provide the same input for learning that is experienced in…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Briana Ballis – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Racial disparities in infant health conditions have persisted for decades. However, there is surprisingly limited evidence regarding the long-term consequences of these disparities. Using novel linked administrative data from Texas and the shift to Medicaid Managed Care (MMC), I show that MMC-driven declines in infant health worsened cognitive and…
Descriptors: African American Children, Access to Health Care, Child Health, Health Insurance
