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
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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
- @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...
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...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
- @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...
Seeing caresses makes babies smile. Addabbo, Licht & Turati's (2024) EMG study shows that 11mos respond to the observation of affective tactile interactions with increased activity of the zygomaticus facial muscle. #infancypapers #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Infants' facial electromyographic responses to the sight of emotional interpersonal touch
Adult studies have shown that observed interpersonal touch provides crucial information about others' emotional states. Yet, despite the unique communicative function of touch during development, ver...
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November 12, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Seeing caresses makes babies smile. Addabbo, Licht & Turati's (2024) EMG study shows that 11mos respond to the observation of affective tactile interactions with increased activity of the zygomaticus facial muscle. #infancypapers #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Romano et al. (2025): modelling short phrases w/ gestures ⬆️ likelihood of pointing specifically and gestures overall but modelling short phrases w/o gestures ⬇️ likelihood of any infant gesture in 11-25mo infants #PsychSciSky #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Getting to the Point: Examining Associations Between Adult Interactional Strategies and Infant Gestures
The developmental importance of infant gesture use is well established, yet few investigations examine what adults can do to facilitate infant gestures. We used an event lag with pauses sequential an...
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February 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Romano et al. (2025): modelling short phrases w/ gestures ⬆️ likelihood of pointing specifically and gestures overall but modelling short phrases w/o gestures ⬇️ likelihood of any infant gesture in 11-25mo infants #PsychSciSky #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
New on the Baby Blog - Investigating individual differences in social and emotional development by
@santimoralesphd.bsky.social infantstudies.org/investigatin... #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EarlyYears #infantstudies
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February 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New on the Baby Blog - Investigating individual differences in social and emotional development by
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Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology.
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Members of underrepresented communities (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy.
*1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Members of underrepresented communities (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy.
*1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend
September 25, 2023 at 3:45 PM
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Hullebus et al. (2025) speech perception study: infants track relations between acoustic cues & intuitively prefer speech conforming to perceptual cue relations in adults’ categorisation of speech sounds #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops
Acoustic variability in the speech input has been shown, in certain contexts, to be beneficial during infants' acquisition of sound contrasts. One approach attributes this result to the potential of ...
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April 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hullebus et al. (2025) speech perception study: infants track relations between acoustic cues & intuitively prefer speech conforming to perceptual cue relations in adults’ categorisation of speech sounds #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
November 15, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Koch et al. (2024) tested deferred imitation abilities of 2yos after live and video demos: pic book reading <30min/day ➡️ lower memory scores for live demos, watching video >1h/day ➡️ lower memory scores for video demos #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Toddler's memory and media—Picture book reading and watching video content are associated with memory at 2 years of age
Memory develops across the course of the first years of life and is influenced by daily experiences, such as exposure to media like books and television. Memory as tapped by Deferred imitation (DI) r...
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December 19, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Koch et al. (2024) tested deferred imitation abilities of 2yos after live and video demos: pic book reading <30min/day ➡️ lower memory scores for live demos, watching video >1h/day ➡️ lower memory scores for video demos #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
@muellerscience.bsky.social et al. (2025) find that even brief stressful encounters can disrupt infants' regulation 24 hours later, with elevated heart rate and cortisol levels persisting into neutral situations upon re-exposure to the same context #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Infants show negative changes in affect and physiology when re‐experiencing a stressor, its context, and a positive event 24‐h later
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February 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@muellerscience.bsky.social et al. (2025) find that even brief stressful encounters can disrupt infants' regulation 24 hours later, with elevated heart rate and cortisol levels persisting into neutral situations upon re-exposure to the same context #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
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November 15, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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“The (private) sense of belonging intertwines with the (public) politics of belonging, the two co-dependent on daily encounters, legislation, teaching practices & tension of values” Jaana Juutinen giving a keynote on Belonging. #ssecr2024 #suisse #enfance #devpsysky #psysky
January 10, 2024 at 12:49 PM
“The (private) sense of belonging intertwines with the (public) politics of belonging, the two co-dependent on daily encounters, legislation, teaching practices & tension of values” Jaana Juutinen giving a keynote on Belonging. #ssecr2024 #suisse #enfance #devpsysky #psysky
Johan Wengman & Linda Forssman (2025) found that joint attention alone doesn’t predict receptive vocabulary development in infancy and toddlerhood – rather, the quality of parental interactions plays a crucial role. #EarlyYears
#DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
#DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Developmental Relationships Between Early Vocabulary Acquisition, Joint Attention and Parental Supportive Behaviors
In late infancy and early toddlerhood, joint attention ability is widely recognized as a crucial foundation for children's vocabulary development, though the exact nature of its contribution remains ...
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April 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Johan Wengman & Linda Forssman (2025) found that joint attention alone doesn’t predict receptive vocabulary development in infancy and toddlerhood – rather, the quality of parental interactions plays a crucial role. #EarlyYears
#DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
#DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
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...
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...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
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...
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...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
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September 28, 2023 at 2:29 AM
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🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃
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a person dressed as a clown fish is walking down a hallway .
Alt: a toddler dressed as a clown fish (Nemo) walking down a hallway
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October 31, 2024 at 6:22 PM
🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃
We want to see MANY BABIES (or pets or non-baby children or you) in costumes! Let's make this a thread worthy of a
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
repost :)
#PsychSciSky #DevPsySky #AcademicSky
We want to see MANY BABIES (or pets or non-baby children or you) in costumes! Let's make this a thread worthy of a
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👶 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...
🧠 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...
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...
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August 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
👶 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...
🧠 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...
There is robust evidence that infants' gestures predict later child vocabulary. Recent research by van der Klis & colleagues (2025) suggests that this link may be influenced by the verbal responses caregivers provide in response to these gestures #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes
There is robust evidence that infants' gestures and vocalisations and caregivers' contingent responses predict later child vocabulary. Recent studies suggest that dyadic combinations of infants' beha...
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March 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There is robust evidence that infants' gestures predict later child vocabulary. Recent research by van der Klis & colleagues (2025) suggests that this link may be influenced by the verbal responses caregivers provide in response to these gestures #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
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...
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...
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May 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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...
Quezada-Ugalde et al. (2024) analyzed child devt in children from Costa Rica & Mexico who grew up during COVID: sig diffs comparing fine motor domain score & devt delay (linked with child's sex, age, maternal edn level & pri caregiver role) #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Findings in Child Development in Children Who Grew Up During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Two Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented situation for families worldwide, with its potential impact on child development remaining uncertain, particularly within Latin American communities. Th...
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February 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Quezada-Ugalde et al. (2024) analyzed child devt in children from Costa Rica & Mexico who grew up during COVID: sig diffs comparing fine motor domain score & devt delay (linked with child's sex, age, maternal edn level & pri caregiver role) #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Using a tablet-based cognitive control ax w/ eyetracking on 18-24mo infants, Macrae et al. (2024) found distinct attentional skills at diff ages (slower attnal disengagement at 8mo but faster at 18mo) predicted higher cog control at 24mo #infancypapers #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure
Cognitive control is a predictor of later-life outcomes and may underpin higher order executive processes. The present study examines the development of early cognitive control during the first 24-mo....
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November 5, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Using a tablet-based cognitive control ax w/ eyetracking on 18-24mo infants, Macrae et al. (2024) found distinct attentional skills at diff ages (slower attnal disengagement at 8mo but faster at 18mo) predicted higher cog control at 24mo #infancypapers #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky doi.org/10.1111/infa...
(1/2) Bothe et al. (2024) examined how multisensory cue timing affects learning in 1- and 2-year-olds. While 2-year-olds recognized word-action-object associations when cues were synchronized, 1-year-olds did not. #infancypapers #PsychSciSky #DevPsySky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word‐action‐object learning in early development
We investigated the temporal impact of multisensory settings on children's learning of word-object and action-object associations at 1- and 2-years of age. Specifically, we examined whether the tempo...
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October 31, 2024 at 3:49 PM
(1/2) Bothe et al. (2024) examined how multisensory cue timing affects learning in 1- and 2-year-olds. While 2-year-olds recognized word-action-object associations when cues were synchronized, 1-year-olds did not. #infancypapers #PsychSciSky #DevPsySky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ferjan Ramírez et al. (2024) studied parentese, turns & infant words in daylong recordings: social-interactional features of parental language input are foundations of 16-30mo infants' language skills, even in majority-childcare envts like Slovenia #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings
Daylong recordings provide an ecologically valid option for analyzing language input, and have become a central method for studying child language development. However, the vast majority of this work...
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December 10, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Ferjan Ramírez et al. (2024) studied parentese, turns & infant words in daylong recordings: social-interactional features of parental language input are foundations of 16-30mo infants' language skills, even in majority-childcare envts like Slovenia #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
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...
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....
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May 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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...