International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 days ago

Parents' Decisions Regarding Digital Media Use by Their Children Under Three Years Old in the United Arab Emirates As young children's digital media use increases, more research on parents' decisions, such as preferred digital content and mediation strategies, is necessary, particularly with underrepresented popu...

Raffaele et al. (2026): While most Arab children in UAE <3yo do not use digital media, those who do typically co-view Arabic-language or other educational content w/ parents. Findings show imptance of family & culture in shaping early digital media experiences #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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1 week ago

@soccoglab.bsky.social #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #WebcamResearch #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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1 week ago

Neonatal Mimicry of Caregivers at Home: Feasibility of an Asynchronous Online Paradigm While early life sets the stage for later learning, comparatively less is known about newborns' cognition than that of older infants. A striking example is the lack of consensus regarding the extent ...

Casey, @lauriebayet.bsky.social @simpson.bsky.social et al. (2026) assessed & demo'd feasibility of webcam-based, asynchronous online behavioral studies w/ 0–6wos & caregivers ➡️ findings provide a foundation for future research on neonatal mimicry of caregivers #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 weeks ago

In the Living Room and Across the Screen: Intergenerational Play Between Infants and Grandparents In-person co-play between infants and adults develops rapidly during infancy, but little research has examined how families play together over video chat. Research demonstrates that video chat may su...

Neely et al. (2026) analysed playful activities during video chats recorded by infants/parents/grandparents: play in-person = video chat, highlights potential of digital tools to enhance intergen family r/s and social interactions thru play #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 weeks ago

Crying, Cradles, and Cellphones: A Longitudinal Examination of Infant Media Emotion Regulation and Socio‐Emotional Development in Early Infancy Parents use digital media to manage children's emotions—known as media emotion regulation. While research has focused on toddlers/preschoolers, media emotion regulation may begin in early infancy, po....

McDaniel et al. (2026): Prevalence of media emotion regulation (using media to calm infants) ⬆️ from 12% at 2mos to 23% at 5mos. This may initially be a coping response to maternal emotional dysregulation, but may become habitual over time #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 weeks ago

Mutual Sensitivity Between Caregivers Predicts Infant Affective State During Video Chat Infancy is an extraordinary period of human development, in which babies turn sensory and environmental information into meaning in the cradle of their caregivers' affective and attentional cues. Bab...

(2/2) @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social @drzosh.bsky.social @geotro.bsky.social #JointAttention #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 weeks ago

Mutual Sensitivity Between Caregivers Predicts Infant Affective State During Video Chat Infancy is an extraordinary period of human development, in which babies turn sensory and environmental information into meaning in the cradle of their caregivers' affective and attentional cues. Bab...

(1/2) @ellroche.bsky.social & @dougpiper.bsky.social et al. (2026): parent-grandparent mutual sensitivity linked w/ infant affective states but not likelihood that they would engage in joint attn w/ on-screen grandparent #JointAttention #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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1 month ago

Screen Media Exposure and Inhibitory Control: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Toddlerhood Inhibitory control, a core executive function, supports children's ability to manage automatic and prepotent responses and regulate behavior. Screen media may disrupt its development by displacing ac....

Uzundağ, Güven, Sıvış & Başpınar (2026): New longitudinal research reports associations between greater screen exposure and inhibitory control skills during infancy and toddlerhood, independent of parental perceptions #EarlyYears #ScreenTime #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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1 month ago

Impact of Surgical Masks on Newborns' Spontaneous Face Processing Skills At birth, newborns prefer upright faces over other stimuli, indicating that they already pay specific attention to facial internal features, with expectations about their featural configuration. The ....

Bertrand et al. (2026): masked & unmasked static faces attract newborns’ attention w/o disrupting face config processing. But results are restricted to static stimuli; may not generalise to dynamic, multisensory contexts or vulnerable popns #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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1 month ago

Infant Sitting Status, Sitting Age, and Everyday Positioning Experience Across the Transition to Independent Sitting Positioning—the body's physical configuration and relations to supports and restraints—is a fundamental aspect of infants' everyday experiences. How do everyday positioning experiences (the amount of...

Kretch et al. (2025): chronological age and overall sitting age but not hands-free sitting age predicted everyday sitting experience; continuous development of sitting skill changes positioning composition of infants' everyday unrestrained floor time #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 months ago

Mapping Research on Early Ethnic‐Racial Awareness Development Among Infants and Toddlers: A Scoping Review The purpose of this study is to expand understanding of the early stages of the lifespan model of ethnic-racial identity by summarizing and mapping existing research on the development of ethnic-raci...

Eddie et al. (2025) scoping review: infants & toddlers notice differences in race & language. More research needed to explore individual differences & caregiver socialization practices #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 months ago

Infants' Visual Preference for Upright Faces During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Japan The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic required face masks to be worn in public spaces, changing daily face-to-face communication. This study investigated whether infants perceived masked f....

Shirai et al. (2025): During COVID in Japan, masked faces provided natural test of face detection under occlusion. Both 4-5 and 7-8mos infants preferred upright > inverted masked faces➡️successful face detection despite extensive mask exposure #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 months ago

Parental Values Are Associated With How Parents Feel About Their Infants' Sleep, but Not the Quality of Infants' Sleep Values help shape behavior and influence how individuals assess themselves and others. Previous research on the relation between values and parenting has largely overlooked the impact of values on pa...

Berger et al. (2025) studied parents' value systems on infant sleep: value profiles depended on parent gender & linked w/ cognitions about infant sleep & parents' interactions w/ infants, but not quality of infants' sleep #EarlyYears #Sleep #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 months ago

Complementary Feeding Approach and Maternal Communicative Functions During Mealtimes in 12‐Month‐Old Infants The literature on alternative approaches to complementary feeding, especially Baby-Led Weaning (a complementary feeding approach in which infants participate in family meals and eat finger food indep...

Di Prete et al. (2025) studied complementary feeding (parent-led vs. baby-led weaning) & maternal communication in 12mos. Both methods foster similar communicative envts, tho parent-led weaning involves more maternal instructional talk #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 months ago

Caregiver Holding, Not Vocalizing, Supports Real‐Time Vagal Regulation Caregivers play a critical role in infant physiological regulation. Lab-based studies show that more responsive mothers have infants that are better regulators, indexed by a decrease in infant respir...

Micheletti et al. (2025): new research using home observations & wearable sensors shows that when moms hold their crying babies, both moms & babies show vagal withdrawal. Physical touch, not vocalizing, may be key for regulation in the wild #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 months ago

Holistic and Analytic Attention in Infancy: A Cross‐Cultural Study in Sweden and Zimbabwe This pre-registered eye-tracking study assesses whether there are differences in infants' attention allocation across diverse cultural contexts while taking several social-environmental factors into ...

Tu et al. (2025) studied 9mo infants in Sweden & Zimbabwe via eye-tracking: attention allocation is diff in these cultures in infancy, but each culture has a unique dynamic attentional style that includes holistic & analytic components #EarlyYears #Attention #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 months ago

Social Influences on Early Fairness Expectations in Toddlers: Siblings, Peers, and Caregivers This study examined how social factors such as parental mental state language, sibling presence, and preschool attendance influence their expectations of fairness in 18-month-old toddlers. Fifty-four...

Meristo et al. (2025): preschool attendance (but not parents' mental state lang & having siblings) showed ⬆️sensitivity to unfair outcomes => early social interactions w/ peers in preschools impt in devt of toddlers' fairness expectations #EarlyYears #Morality #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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2 months ago

Tiny Screens, Big Impact: Effects of Maternal Smartphone Use on Maternal and Infants' Physiological and Behavioral Stress and Interaction Dynamics Smartphones can absorb attention and abruptly interrupt social interactions, a dynamic particularly critical in early parent-infant exchanges where infants rely on emotionally available caregivers fo...

Dinzinger et al. (2025) show how maternal smartphone use affects mother–infant interaction, behavior, and autonomic arousal. Even short periods of phone use disturb interactions and lead to infant distress. #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 months ago

Time to Talk: Variability in Caregiver‐Child Verbal Engagement During Everyday Activities Sampled From Daylong Recordings Children learn language through interactions with others. To document variation in how caregivers engage verbally with their 2-year-old children, we sampled six 10-min segments of dense child-directe...

Bang, @vmarchman.bsky.social et al. (2025): Caregivers talk the most to their toddlers in more activities than just books & play! Daylong recordings reveal ind diffs in child-directed speech across daily activities in Eng- & Spanish-speaking families in the US #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 months ago

Deferred Imitation: A 9‐Month Revolution or an Emerging Ability at 6 Months? The ability to engage in deferred imitation is by many scholars considered as one of several social-cognitive abilities that emerge during what has been coined the “9-month revolution”. Meanwhile, ev....

Beyer, Sonne, Kingo, & Krøjgaard (2025): Deferred imitation present at 6 months with different objects but performance increases from 6 to 12 months → extends prior work on early emergence and development of deferred imitation in infancy #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 months ago

A Meta‐Analysis of the Correlation Between Socioeconomic Status and Direct Measures of Young Children's Word Comprehension What can we learn from the empirical body of literature on the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and children's word comprehension? To answer this question, a systematic review was carri....

Scaff, Coffey & Cristia (2025) meta-analysis (N=8,200, 15-46mo): correlation btwn SES & children's word comprehension increased w/ child age; touch-based measures had smaller effects than both looking- and pointing-based measures #EarlyYears #WordLearning #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 months ago

Cross‐Cultural Applicability and Psychometric Properties of an Infant Social‐Emotional Screening Instrument In this study, the psychometric properties of the 6-month age interval of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ:SE-2) in its English and traditional Chinese versio....

Chen (2025) found notable diffs in self-regulation, adaptive functioning, social comm & interaction domains btwn US and Taiwanese infants on ASQ:SE-2, showing importance of culturally sensitive adaptation when used in international contexts #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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3 months ago

Input Properties Shape Word Segmentation Performance Across Child Development: A Computational Modeling Study This study investigates how the linguistic properties of child-directed speech (CDS) change across child development and how these changes affect segmentation performance in computational models. We ...

Chai & Ko (2025) analysed devtal changes in linguistic properties of Korean CDS of 35 children (6-30mo): findings suggest that shifts in CDS structure systematically shape the learnability of linguistic units during early language devt #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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4 months ago

Stevelt et al. (2025) analysed mother-infant interactions in a collectivist caregiving community in The Gambia using the Demba Yaal Interaction Scale, providing a potential framework for dev'g contextually tailored ax of caregiving practices #infancypapers #EarlyYears doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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4 months ago

Sleep and Selective Memory Consolidation in Infants: Exploring the Impact of Learning Contexts Post-encoding sleep facilitates memory consolidation from early infancy. Learning from digital content might also benefit from post-encoding sleep. However, infants find it more difficult to learn an...

Hermesch et al. (2025) find that naps can boost infants’ memory for live & video content. Results highlight sleep’s role in early memory, but also show that learning from digital sources poses greater challenges to infants than learning from social interactions doi.org/10.1111/infa... #infancypapers

International Congress of Infant Studies

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5 months ago

- @joscelinrocha.com, Ostlund et al. (2025) assessed infants pre-/post-pandemic onset. Negative affect ⬆️ as expected pre-pandemic but ⬇️ afterward. Yet contextual risk (maternal anxiety, neighborhood disadvantage) still predicted ⬆️ neg affect #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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5 months ago

Brain‐Behavior Associations During Interactions Between Caregivers and Infants Previous research has shown that infants' abilities to sustain attention are influenced by caregivers' attentional behaviors. Here, we inquired whether brain function in infants was linked to brain f...

- @aimeetheyer.bsky.social and @drswijeakumar.bsky.social (2025) found that temporo-parietal function in caregivers & infants during episodes of joint attention in play interactions was linked to visual short-term memory in infants #EarlyYears #JointAttention #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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5 months ago

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...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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5 months ago

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...

International Congress of Infant Studies

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6 months ago

The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics The Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ) has been widely used to assess infant temperament traits, though there is limited empirical support for the recommended three-factor structure. The present stu...

- @annamzhou.bsky.social, @drkoraly.bsky.social, Lobue & @kabuss.bsky.social (2025): The Infant Behavior Questionnaire’s 3-factor structure varies across sociodemographic groups, highlighting the need for alternative approaches in diverse samples #PsySciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...