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Yoon, Jennifer M. D.; Johnson, Susan C. – Child Development, 2009
To test the hypothesis that biological motion perception is developmentally integrated with important social cognitive abilities, 12-month-olds (N = 36) were shown a display of a human point-light figure turning to observe a target. Infants spontaneously and reliably followed the figure's "gaze" despite the absence of familiar and socially…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Motion, Cognitive Ability, Developmental Stages
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Feldman, Ruth – Child Development, 2009
This study examined physiological, emotional, and attentional regulatory functions as predictors of self-regulation in 125 infants followed 7 times from birth to 5 years. Physiological regulation was assessed by neonatal vagal tone and sleep-wake cyclicity; emotion regulation by response to stress at 3, 6, and 12 months; and attention regulation…
Descriptors: Child Development, Sleep, Premature Infants, Emotional Development