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New on the Baby Blog - Every Baby Is Different: Using Personalised Brain Science to Understand How Infants Engage with Others by Anna Gui, @a-jordanbarros.bsky.social & Emily Jones infantstudies.org/every-baby-i... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EEG #science #research

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Important contribution to the ongoing debate on what are executive functions and how to assess them in a genuinely culturally sensitive ways. Thanos to @pauloglaurence.bsky.social for this piece, now available at our “Mind, Brain & Education”

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Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Could a toddler lose their keys? Proactive interference says yes by Candice Koolhaas, Zane Mourad and Zsuzsa Kaldy against an image background of three infants giggling together on the left corner and a toddler drawing a picture of a globe on the right

New on the Baby Blog - Could a toddler lose their keys? Proactive interference says yes by @ckoolh.bsky.social, Zane Mourad and @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social infantstudies.org/title-could-... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #memory

School changes minds: A meta-analysis shows that schooling modestly improves children’s executive functions Formal schooling places new demands on young children, requiring the inhibition of prepotent responses, sustained attention to instructions, and compl…

Have you ever wondered whether going to school IN AND OF ITSELF improves children’s thinking skills? We found that it does! But not by much (about 1/4 standard deviations). Meta-analysis with Jamie Donenfeld and @erikblaser.bsky.social #DevPsySky #PsySciSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond the Dyad: Infant Vocal Cues Organize Conversational‐Turn Taking in Infant‐Toddler Classrooms Conversations with caregivers scaffold infant language development. The importance of conversational turn-taking is widely demonstrated in dyadic interactions, particularly in home environments. Less...

- @rachelralbert.bsky.social et al. (2025): Infants’ directed & mature vocalisations predict ⬆️ educator convos in ECE classrooms. Group size did not predict convo length ➡️ educators skillfully maintain multi-turn convos w/ multiple infants #DevPsySky #PsySciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - A funny thing happened in the infant lab: What humor can teach us about how infants think by Gina Mireault against an image background of three infants giggling together on the left corner and a toddler drawing a picture of a globe on the right

New on the Baby Blog - A funny thing happened in the infant lab: What humour can teach us about how infants think by Gina Mireault infantstudies.org/a-funny-thin... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #Laughter

Selective Attention in Early Word Learning: An Eye‐Tracking Study on Viewing Naturalistic Egocentric Scenes To learn a word from an everyday context, infants need to be able to link the heard word with the correct object perceived. A prevailing view of the early learning environment is that infants' world ....

Zhang & Yu (2025) eye-tracking study: 12mos selectively focus on only a few objects at naming moments while viewing cluttered scenes; gaze highly constrained by visual saliency of scenes➡️highlights perception’s role in early word learning #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Roberti, @stefaniehoehl.bsky.social (2025): By 10 months, infants link emotions to actions: seeing happiness prepares them for positive rather than negative actions, showing early brain sensitivity to social cues #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #Emotions #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Language learning in a digital world: How screen time impacts children’s language development by Sarah Kucker against an image background of three infants giggling together on the left corner and a toddler drawing a picture of a globe on the right

New on the Baby Blog - Language learning in a digital world: How screen time impacts children’s language development by Sarah Kucker @skucker.bsky.social infantstudies.org/language-lea... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #LanguageLearning

Early Childhood Development and Family Adaptation During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions in daily life. This mixed-methods study aimed to connect the developmental levels of children aged 1–3 years in 2020–2021 who grew up during the p...

Quezada-Ugalde et al (2025) studied early childhood devt & family adaptation during COVID in Latin Am: quant results showed devt delays esp fine motor skills, qual findings showed coping strategies parents used to navigate new challenges #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Ossmy & Serinos (2025) reviewed embodied cogn during infant play and argue that the next step must be testing causality which is essential for the future of early education, policy, and intervention programmes #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Automated Infant Eye Tracking: A Systematic Historical Review Automated eye tracking has emerged as a powerful method in psychology, and has special benefits when studying infant populations. The field has developed much during the last decades, and while there...

Nyström et al. (2025) systematic review of automated eye tracking w/ <2yo children: WEIRD popns, broad research topics (mtds, language, attention) & specific topics (autism, faces) dominate field, leaving many research areas understudied #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

"Don't seat the baby near the door" 👶 Thanks to @infantstudies.bsky.social for the chance to discuss our task force work on making pilot study insights more transparent to improve psyc science!

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Why Are Kids So Funny? The emergence of humor so early in life suggests something important about human nature.

Is humour serious enough for science? Fabulous @newyorker.com article on the insights gained from research by Elena Hoicka & orhers on the development of humour 👶🧪 #cogsci #psychscisky #devpsysky #earlyyears #infantstudies
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Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Making pilots public and improving developmental science by Agata Bochynska and Mary Beth Neff against an image background of an infant lying in a supine position reading a book

New on the Baby Blog - Making pilots public and improving developmental science by @agataboch.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #infantstudies infantstudies.org/making-pilot...

Gazing Into Language Development: Exploring Individual Variability in Early Word Recognition in Infancy Through Eye‐Tracking Previous research suggests that early word recognition is an important foundation for subsequent vocabulary development. However, the optimal method for assessing this ability in infancy remains uncl...

Gerbrand, Wengman & Forssman (2025) found that eye-tracking, especially the preferential looking paradigm, can offer an objective complement to parental reports for predicting children’s early vocabulary development. #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EyeTracking #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Tempering Temperament: Exploring the Influence of Maternal Mind‐Mindedness on Infant Temperament in Shaping Socioemotional Wellbeing Although several studies independently explore temperament and parenting, research on connections between temperament and mind-mindedness are largely absent. This study examined relationships between...

👶 How do babies’ temperament and what mums say during playtime affect babies’ emotional wellbeing?
🧠 Latest research from @fran-doyle.bsky.social's team dives into answering this question. Tiny interactions, big impact! #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - From the mouths of babes: Saying the (im)perceptible by Elika Bergelson against an image background of three infants giggling together on the left corner and a toddler drawing a picture of a globe on the right

New on the Baby Blog - From the mouths of babes: Saying the (im)perceptible by Elika Bergelson @bergelsonlab.bsky.social #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #infantstudies infantstudies.org/from-the-mou...

Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants Caregivers across many cultures modify their speech when interacting with infants or young children. This type of speech, commonly known as “parentese”, is characterized by greater pitch variations, ...

Su et al. (2025) analysed daylong home recordings: both neurotypical & autistic infants make more speech-like sounds when spoken to in parentese➡️ parentese supports early lang growth by encouraging infants to vocalize & interact #DevPsySky #Autism #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Bilingual Language Input to Infants in Bolivia and the United States Characterizing dual language input in children's environments is critical to understand how early language experiences influence bilingual language development. However, little is known about how dua...

(2/2) Cychosz, Villanueva et al. (2025): This sheds light on how bilingual infants' language exposure is distributed across interactional contexts #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Socioeconomic Status Predicts Infant Word Recognition: Evidence From a Linguistically, Ethnically, and Socioeconomically Diverse Community Sample in Singapore Prior research has demonstrated that infants have the capacity to recognize some familiar words. However, past studies have not analyzed the sociodemographic generalizability of research findings. In...

Rajendra, @lehersingh.bsky.social et al. (2025): Family SES predicted Singaporean 5-12 month-old multilingual infants’ word recognition ability, demonstrating the key role SES plays in early language development, even before babies learn to talk. #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

The Role of Early Maternal Cultural Orientation on Spanish‐English Child‐Directed Speech and Vocabulary Knowledge in Mexican‐American Children Cultural contexts shape numerous child development outcomes and may be particularly salient for dual language learning children who experience heritage and societal cultures. Previous research sugges....

Castellana & Benitez (2025): Mexican immigrant mothers’ Mexican & Anglo cultural orientations differently predict child-directed speech and child’s Spanish & English vocab, emphasizing the role of cultural contexts on childhood bilingualism #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Before and after lockdown: The COVID-19 pandemic and early social cognition skills by Rose M. Scott and Gabriel Nguyentran against an image background of a baby lying on its back holding a book

New on the Baby Blog - Before and after lockdown: The COVID-19 pandemic and early social cognition skills by Rose M. Scott and Gabriel Nguyentran #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky infantstudies.org/before-and-a...

A Longitudinal Study of Preterm Infants at 12 and 30 Months: Links Among Object Interactions, Joint Engagement, and Cognitive Development Development takes place when change in one domain cascades into change in another domain. Preterm infants exhibit disruptions to their object play and the maintenance of a joint focus of attention wi...

Liu et al. (2025): At 12mos, preterm infants spent most of their time interacting w/ objects, and parents were often engaged. Freq of infant-object interaction bouts per minute at 12mos was negatively associated w/ 30mo cognitive scores #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD Social smiling is the earliest gained social communication skill, emerging around 2 months of age. From 2 to 6-months, infants primarily smile in response to caregivers. After 6 months, infants coord...

In a study of infants w/ elevated (EL) or low likelihood (LL) for ASD, Yurkovic-Harding & Bradshaw (2025) found both EL & LL infants looked & smiled at caregiver similarly, but 3mo ELs showed more looking to caregiver after smile offset #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood Current research indicates likely developmental connections between the evolution of sleep patterns, motor skills progression, and the expansion of vocabulary. These connections are grounded in the w...

Belia et al. (2025) show dynamic links btwn language, motor skills & sleep patterns, esp during periods of marked devtal change in these domains ➡️ need to study vocab growth as part of a dynamic system involving mind, body and environment #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Gupta et al. (2024) found that 12-15mo infants produce the same gesture types (deictic, iconic, non-referential, conventional) as adult co-speech gesture categories, and that they have comparable linguistic properties before speech-emergence #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Infants' Knowledge of Individual Words: Investigating Links Between Parent Report and Looking Time Assessing early vocabulary development commonly involves parent report methods and behavioral tasks like looking-while-listening. While both yield reliable aggregate scores, findings are mixed regard...

López Pérez et al. (2025): Parent report of which words infants say predict lab-measured word recognition, but not after controlling for age and vocab size. New methods needed to reliably capture word-specific knowledge #DevPsySky #LanguageDevelopment #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts From early in development, humans use imitation to express social engagement, to understand social affiliations, and to learn from others. Nevertheless, the social and instrumental goals that drive i....

Yasuda et al. (2025) on understanding imitation: 15mos expect imitators to approach targets of imitation *only* when imitators don't also have object goals (even for simple shapes w/o eyes moving in 2D grid worlds) #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...