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The Role of Early Visual Attention in Social Development
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Wagner, Jennifer B.; Luyster, Rhiannon J.; Yim, Jung Yeon; Tager-Flusberg, Helen; Nelson, Charles A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Faces convey important information about the social environment, and even very young infants are preferentially attentive to face-like over non-face stimuli. Eye-tracking studies have allowed researchers to examine which features of faces infants find most salient across development, and the present study examined scanning of familiar (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Human Body, Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Cognitive Processes
Scaffolding, Analysis and Materials: Contributing Factors in an Unexpected Finding of Advanced Infant/Toddler Pretend Play?
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Morrissey, Anne-Marie – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2014
As part of a longitudinal study, infant/toddler pretend play development and maternal play modelling were investigated in dyadic context. A total of 21 children were videotaped in monthly play sessions with their mothers, from age 8 to 17 months. Child and mother pretend play frequencies and levels were measured using Brown's Pretend Play…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Toddlers, Mothers, Play
Determining the Impact of Prenatal Tobacco Exposure on Self-Regulation at 6 Months
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Wiebe, Sandra A.; Fang, Hua; Johnson, Craig; James, Karen E.; Espy, Kimberly Andrews – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Our goal in the present study was to examine the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on infant self-regulation, exploring birth weight as a mediator and sex as a moderator of risk. A prospective sample of 218 infants was assessed at 6 months of age. Infants completed a battery of tasks assessing working memory/inhibition, attention, and…
Descriptors: Smoking, Mothers, Prenatal Influences, Pregnancy
Individual Differences in Social, Cognitive, and Morphological Aspects of Infant Pointing
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Liszkowski, Ulf; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2011
Little is known about the origins of the pointing gesture. We sought to gain insight into its emergence by investigating individual differences in the pointing of 12-month-old infants in two ways. First, we looked at differences in the communicative and interactional uses of pointing and asked how different hand shapes relate to point frequency,…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Mothers, Infants, Individual Differences
Cognitive Components of Separation Anxiety
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Littenberg, Ronnie; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Mothers
Maternal Education and Cognitive Processing at Three Months As Shown by the Infants' Vocal Response to Mother vs. Stranger.
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Roe, Kiki V.; Bronstein, Robin – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Comparison of 14 infants of highly educated mothers with 21 infants of less educated mothers indicated that infants' differential vocal responsiveness (DVR) to mother versus stranger was significantly higher among 3-month-olds with highly educated mothers, thereby suggesting that DVR is influenced by environmental factors. (RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, College Graduates, Educational Attainment
Relations between Mother-Child Interactions and the Neural Correlates of Face Processing in 6-Month-Olds
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Swingler, Margaret M.; Sweet, Monica A.; Carver, Leslie J. – Infancy, 2007
Developmental studies of face processing have revealed age-related changes in how infants allocate neurophysiological resources to the face of a caregiver and an unfamiliar adult. We hypothesize that developmental changes in how infants interact with their caregiver are related to the changes in brain response. We studied 6-month-olds because this…
Descriptors: Mothers, Caregivers, Infants, Visual Stimuli
Three-Month-Old Infants' Differential Vocal Responsiveness to Mother vs. Stranger as a Function of Maternal Education.
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Roe, Kiki V.; Bronstein, Robin – 1986
A study explored whether socioeconomic status (SES) differences could be detected in 3-month-old infants' differential vocal responsiveness (DVR) to mothers versus strangers. The study also explored whether 3-month-olds' DVR was related to environmental variables, such as the mother's behaviors toward the infant in naturalistic conditions, the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Experience, Educational Attainment, Infant Behavior