Having a tough time deciding which sessions to attend at #ICIS2026? To help navigate the programme, we will be sharing a few session spotlights & highlights over the coming days.
If you are interested in naturalistic studies, join the Play session with Masako Myowa & Chen Yu on Wed July 8 👪👀
- @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/...
- @meliscetincelik.bsky.social, @yayun23.bsky.social, @carorowland.bsky.social and @mpi-nl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gutiérrez-Ruiz & Santoya Montes (2026) explore nurturing care practices & early socio-cog devt in underrepresented Afro-Colombian community - highlights imptance of including culturally diverse caregiving contexts in devtal science #DevPsySky #infancypapers 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...
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
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/...
International Congress of Infant Studies
International Congress of Infant Studies
International Congress of Infant Studies
ICIS 2026 is less than a month away! 🇵🇦👶🏽 Read more about this year’s theme: Infancy in Context!
infantstudies.org/2026-congres...
International Congress of Infant Studies
International Congress of Infant Studies
International Congress of Infant Studies
International Congress of Infant Studies
International Congress of Infant Studies
International Congress of Infant Studies
Natalie Brito
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...
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...
The first 1000 days of life represent a sensitive period for socio-cognitive development, during which culturally embedded caregiving plays a foundational role. However, evidence from Afrodescendant ...
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
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...
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...
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...
