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Katie R. Jobson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Infancy is a period of significant change for both the brain and behavior. During the first two years of life, the brain experiences an explosion of synaptic connections and myelination, alongside rapid development in motor, linguistic, and social behavioral abilities. Understanding the relationship between brain development and behavioral…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Kent, Ray D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Developmental functional modules (DFMs) are biological modules that are defined by their structural (morphological), functional, or developmental elements, and, in some cases, all three of these. This review article considers the hypothesis that vocal development in the first year of life can be understood in large part with respect to…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Morphology (Languages), Oral Language
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Thomas, Michael S. C. – Infancy, 2004
Three developmental connectionist models simulate a purported shift from "featural" to "correlational" processing in infant categorization (models: Gureckis & Love, 2004/this issue; Shultz & Cohen, 2004/this issue; Westermann & Mareschal, 2004/this issue; empirical data: Cohen & Arthur, 2003; Younger, 1985; Younger & Cohen, 1986). In this article,…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Developmental Stages, Correlation
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Urban, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2006
This paper is a response to a review of the conference titled, "Unintegration, Disintegration and Integration", written by Cathy Urwin and Maria Rhode in the ACP Bulletin. The review mentioned Michael Fordham, noting that he referred to a "good" kind of unintegration. In this paper, I point out that this is a somewhat misleading reference to what…
Descriptors: Models, Infants, Child Development, Developmental Stages
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Davis, Barbara L.; MacNeilage, Peter F. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
This article evaluates the "Frames, then Content" hypothesis for speech acquisition, which sees babbling as a direct result of producing syllabic "frames" by rhythmic mandibular oscillation with little of the "content" seen under mandible-independent control. Analysis of 6,659 utterances of 6 normally developing…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior
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Draghi-Lorenz, Riccardo; Reddy, Vasudevi; Costall, Alan – Developmental Review, 2001
Explores current theories of emotional development in order to identify the assumptions that could explain the strong antagonism toward early nonbasic emotions. Draws on the contrasting and polarity of viewpoints to examine the logical implications of these viewpoints for the very possibility of early nonbasic emotions and their reciprocal…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Child Development
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Aguiar, Andrea; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
Eight experiments were conducted to examine 3- and 3.5-month-old infants' responses to occlusion events. The results revealed two developments, one in infants' knowledge of when objects should and should not be occluded and the other in infants' ability to posit additional objects to make sense of events that would otherwise violate their…
Descriptors: Infants, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Infant Behavior
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Heckhausen, Jutta – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Adopts a longitudinal design to track mother-child developmental change in infant task-related mastery and concomitant maternal behavior. Finds that, as infants gain more mastery across time, mothers gradually withdraw support in terms of concrete, specific and nonverbal means of instruction. Results support a one-step-ahead model for maternal…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior
Holmlund, Carin – 1986
A newborn child can identify impressions by means of the sense organs with the help of "non-visible" sensory impressions such as tactile and kinesthetic. A communication arises early between different modalities and muscle activities, which make possible an early synchronization, and identity between the infant and its surroundings.…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Biomedicine, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Lewis, Marc D. – Early Child Development and Care, 1988
Describes the personality development of a normal infant during the child's first year. Development is interpreted in terms of psychoanalytic, cognitive-developmental, and mother-infant systems perspectives. A working relationship among the theories is demonstrated through analysis of case material. (RJC)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Case Studies, Child Rearing, Developmental Psychology