- @meliscetincelik.bsky.social, @yayun23.bsky.social, @carorowland.bsky.social and @mpi-nl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New on the Baby Blog - 2026 Congress Overview by the ICIS Programme Chairs @nataliebrito.bsky.social, Silvia Benavides-Varela, Ana M. Carmiol and Ori Ossmy infantstudies.org/2026-congres... #infantstudies #ICIS2026 #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research
Mahlke et al (2026): during free play, parents' speech unsuccessful at leading infants' visual attn; mostly follows infants' attn both temporally & topically. Parental speech mainly object-focused for familiar objs, varied utterances for novel objs #Attention #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Düfeld and @sarahjessen.bsky.social (2026) show that the father’s odour influences neural responses to emotional faces in 7-month-old infants, and that this influence appears to be specific to male faces👶🧠 #infancypapers #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #emotions doi.org/10.1111/infa...
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Karadağ, @marinabazhydai.bsky.social @gertwestermann.bsky.social (2026) coded 47 hour-long home obs videos (13, 18 & 23mos) for toddler interaction to meet communicative goals: expressive > requestive > info/help seeking > info giving intentions #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Defty & Southwood (2026) examined lang input to 5mos in a low-SES, rural & urban Afrikaans-speaking community in S Africa: types, no. of utterances & amount of CDS used did not pattern the same as in other low-SES majority-world communities #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New on the Baby Blog - Cradled cognition: Enough (unrestricted movement) is enough by Rano Dodojonova, Lana B. Karasik and Scott R. Robinson infantstudies.org/cradled-cogn... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #Research #Movement #Cradle #science #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky
- @jennisander.bsky.social et al. (2026) show that social operationalisation of joint attention (JA) better predicts vocab than gaze-based one, emphasizing critical role of methodological choices in understanding how & why JA predicts vocab size #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Coyne et al. (2026) long'l study: T1 ⬆️technoference ➡️ ⬇️child talk quantity; T2 children w/ ⬆️TV screen time showed ⬇️child talk quantity & fewer convo turns. No sig links btwn joint attn/technoference on child talk quantity/convo turns over time #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ICIS 2026 is less than a month away! 🇵🇦👶🏽 Read more about this year’s theme: Infancy in Context!
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Despite decades of research, we still know less than we would like about the association between joint attention (JA) and language acquisition. One reason for this is that we still have not agreed ho...
Despite decades of research, we still know less than we would like about the association between joint attention (JA) and language acquisition. One reason for this is that we still have not agreed ho...
Social odor plays an important role for various facets of early development, including communication and social processing. Previous research focusing on maternal odor has shown that smelling the mot...
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Media has the potential to hinder children's language development if it disrupts or displaces parent-child interactions. However, little research has examined the wider family media ecology and how t...
New on the Baby Blog - 2026 Congress Overview by the ICIS Programme Chairs @nataliebrito.bsky.social, Silvia Benavides-Varela, Ana M. Carmiol and Ori Ossmy infantstudies.org/2026-congres... #infantstudies #ICIS2026 #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research
Most studies on child language acquisition occur in the minority world (countries which make up the minority of the world's population). Their findings are not generalizable to majority-world context...
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Successful coordination of infant attention and parent speech during free play supports infants' language development. Parents' responsive linguistic input reduces uncertainty in label-referent assoc...
Children readily respond to others' bids for communicative interactions from early childhood and actively initiate these themselves. However, the extent and variety of early child-initiated communica...
