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Direct linkShimpei Yamamoto; Yeonghee Lee; Umi Matsumura; Toshiya Tsurusaki – Infants and Young Children, 2025
Crawling is considered an important motor skill for infants. Although infants show variations in their crawling, the association between crawling variations and subsequent development is unexplored. This study investigates the difference in amount of crawling variation between infants with and without subsequent developmental delays. This…
Descriptors: Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Child Development
Sabine Seehagen; Christina Bartnick; Joscha Kärtner; Julia Krasko; Maike Luhmann; Nora Schaal; Silvia Schneider; Sarah Witt; Norbert Zmyj – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
The broaden-and-build theory is a prominent framework in positive psychology that considers positive emotions as essential for people to flourish. The theory does not specify the origins of positive emotions during development, although experiences in the first years of life are considered influential for long-term adjustment and well-being. In…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Child Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Sense of Belonging
Teresa Wilcox; Jacqueline Stotler Hammack; Lindsey Riera-Gomez – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Interpersonal synchronization between infants and parents emerges early in life and serves as a critical foundation for the development of cognitive, social, and communicative abilities. Traditionally, researchers have assessed this synchrony using composite scores that capture the overall degree of reciprocal, coordinated interaction within a…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
Mendoza, Jennifer K.; Fausey, Caitlin M. – Cognitive Science, 2022
Experience-dependent change pervades early human development. Though trajectories of developmental change have been well charted in many domains, the episode-to-episode schedules of experiences on which they are hypothesized to depend have not. Here, we took up this issue in a domain known to be governed in part by early experiences: music. Using…
Descriptors: Music, Infants, Child Development, Environment
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2025
The influences in a child's developmental environment, both positive and negative, interact to shape the development of their brain, the integrated systems in their body--including the immune, metabolic, and cardiovascular systems--and even how their genes are expressed. Clean air is an essential part of a healthy developmental environment, and…
Descriptors: Pollution, Child Development, Young Children, Child Health
Seungyoun Lee – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2024
The capacity for growth and development is an integral part of being human. Infant social-emotional development is critically important to overall development and begins in the first months of life. These processes encompass how we relate to ourselves and others in our everyday lives (Malti & Cheah, 2021). Social-emotional development includes…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Infants, Child Caregivers
Karlis Kanders; Louis Stupple-Harris; Laurie Smith; Jenny Louise Gibson – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is rapidly becoming ubiquitous in many contexts. There is limited scholarship, however, in the fields of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education exploring the implications of generative AI for babies and young children. In this Perspectives piece, we discuss potential use cases,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Infants
Irene Guevara; Cintia Rodríguez; María Núñez – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Research on gesture development has mostly focused on home environments. Little is known about early communicative development in other relevant contexts, such as early-year-schools. These settings, rich in diverse educative situations, objects, and communicative partners, provide a contrast to parent-child interactions, complementing our…
Descriptors: Infants, Early Childhood Education, Nonverbal Communication, Nonverbal Learning
Download full textStephen Newman; Nathan Archer – Journal of Montessori Research, 2024
Maria Montessori's work remains popular and influential around the world. She provided fascinating descriptions of her observations of children's learning. Yet at the heart of her work is a lacuna: the issue of how children learn their first language. For Montessori, it was a marvel, a miracle--but a mystery. We argue that the later philosophy of…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Educational Philosophy
Petry, Isabela; Trettim, Jéssica Puchalski; de Matos, Mariana Bonati; Rubin, Bárbara Borges; Scholl, Carolina Coelho; Firpo, Pedro de Oliveira; Pinheiro, Karen Amaral Tavares; Quevedo, Luciana de Avila; Ghisleni, Gabriele Cordenonzi; Tavares Pinheiro, Ricardo; Motta, Janaína Vieira dos Santos – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This was a cross-sectional study that aimed to evaluate the association between breastfeeding and motor development of infants at 3-4 months of age in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. The outcome, infant motor development, was evaluated through the Bayley Scale of Infant Development (Bayley III). The prevalence of infants that stopped…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Motor Development, Foreign Countries
Aaron DeMasi; Emiel Schoneveld; Sarah E. Berger – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infant motor development is affected by the sociocultural context in which it takes place. Because societal and cultural practices are dynamic, this exploratory study examined whether the ages at which infants typically learned to crawl, cruise, and walk changed over the past 3 decades. We compiled archival data from 1,306 infants born between…
Descriptors: Infants, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Social Influences
John M. Franchak; Kellan Kadooka; Caitlin M. Fausey – Developmental Psychology, 2024
How do age and the acquisition of independent walking relate to changes in infants' everyday experiences? We used a novel ecological momentary assessment (EMA) method to gather caregiver reports of infants' restraint, body position, and object holding via text messages sparsely sampled across multiple days of home life at 10, 11, 12, and 13 months…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Activities, Child Development
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Or Lipschits; Ronny Geva – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Communication is commonly viewed as connecting people through conscious symbolic processes. Infants have an immature communication toolbox, raising the question of how they form a sense of connectedness. In this article, we propose a framework for infants' communication, emphasizing the subtle unconscious behaviors and autonomic contingent signals…
Descriptors: Infants, Models, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Teresa Ribas-Prats; Gaël Cordero; Diana Lucia Lip-Sosa; Sonia Arenillas-Alcón; Jordi Costa-Faidella; María Dolores Gómez-Roig; Carles Escera – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The aim of the present study is to characterize the maturational changes during the first 6 months of life in the neural encoding of two speech sound features relevant for early language acquisition: the stimulus fundamental frequency (f[subscript o]), related to stimulus pitch, and the vowel formant composition, particularly F[subscript…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Processes, Speech, Child Development
