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He, Jie; Hane, Amie Ashley; Degnan, Kathryn Amey; Henderson, Heather A.; Xu, Qinmei; Fox, Nathan A. – Infancy, 2013
We examined two aspects of temperamental approach in early infancy, positive reactivity and anger, and their unique and combined influences on maternal reports of child surgency and attention focusing at 4 years of age. One hundred and fourteen infants were observed for their positive reactions to novel stimuli at 4 months, and their anger…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers, Psychological Patterns
Harel, Hagar; Gordon, Ilanit; Geva, Ronny; Feldman, Ruth – Infancy, 2011
Although research has demonstrated poor visual skills in premature infants, few studies assessed infants' gaze behaviors across several domains of functioning in a single study. Thirty premature and 30 full-term 3-month-old infants were tested in three social and nonsocial tasks of increasing complexity and their gaze behavior was micro-coded. In…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Infants, Premature Infants, Recognition (Psychology)
Reynolds, Greg D.; Courage, Mary L.; Richards, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
In this study, we had 3 major goals. The 1st goal was to establish a link between behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) measures of infant attention and recognition memory. To assess the distribution of infant visual preferences throughout ERP testing, we designed a new experimental procedure that embeds a behavioral measure (paired…
Descriptors: Infants, Recognition (Psychology), Attention, Infant Behavior
Watanabe, Hama; Homae, Fumitaka; Taga, Gentaro – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
In young infants, activation or inhibition of body movements on perception of environmental events is important to enable them to act on the world or understand the world. To reveal the development of this ability, we observed movement patterns in all four limbs under the two experimental conditions. Infants assigned to the interaction condition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Human Body, Motion
Richards, John E. – Developmental Review, 2010
The study of visual attention in infants has used presentation of single simple stimuli, multi-dimensional stimuli, and complex dynamic video presentations. There are both continuities and discontinuities in the findings on attention and attentiveness to stimulus complexity. A continuity is a pattern of looking that is found in the early part of…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Attention, Infants, Video Technology
Leppanen, Jukka M.; Peltola, Mikko J.; Puura, Kaija; Mantymaa, Mirjami; Mononen, Nina; Lehtimaki, Terho – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: Allelic variation in the promoter region of a gene that encodes tryptophan hydroxylase isoform 2 (TPH2), a rate-limiting enzyme of serotonin synthesis in the central nervous system, has been associated with variations in cognitive function and vulnerability to affective spectrum disorders. Little is known about the effects of this gene…
Descriptors: Attention, Infants, Anatomy, Cognitive Processes
Bigelow, Ann E.; Walden, Laura M. – Infancy, 2009
Infants' response to maternal mirroring was investigated in 4-month-old infants. Mother-infant dyads participated in the still face and replay tasks. Infants were grouped by those whose mothers did and did not mirror their behavior in the interactive phases of the tasks. In the still face task, infants with maternal mirroring showed more…
Descriptors: Infants, Mothers, Imitation, Infant Behavior
McRoberts, Gerald W.; McDonough, Colleen; Lakusta, Laura – Infancy, 2009
Four experiments investigated infants' preferences for age-appropriate and age-inappropriate infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS). Two initial experiments showed that 6-, 10-, and 14-month-olds preferred IDS directed toward younger infants, and 4-, 8-, 10-, and 14-month-olds, but not 6-month-olds, preferred IDS directed…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Language Acquisition, Experiments
Moll, Henrike; Richter, Nadja; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Infancy, 2008
People often express excitement to each other when encountering an object that they have shared together previously in some special way. This study investigated whether 14-month-old infants know precisely what they have and have not shared in a special way (and with whom). In the experimental condition an adult and infant shared an object (the…
Descriptors: Infants, Instructional Effectiveness, Experiments, Infant Behavior
Meins, Elizabeth; Fernyhough, Charles; Arnott, Bronia; Vittorini, Lucia; Turner, Michelle; Leekam, Susan R.; Parkinson, Kathryn – Infancy, 2011
Relations between infant-mother attachment security at 15 months and infants' (N = 206) joint attention behaviors (a) with an experimenter at 8 and 15 months, and (b) with their mothers at 15 months were investigated. No concurrent or longitudinal relations were observed between attachment security and infants' tendency to respond to an…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences
Fidler, Ashley E.; Zack, Elizabeth; Barr, Rachel – Infancy, 2010
The present study examines coviewing of "Baby Mozart" by 6- to 18-month-old infants and their caregivers under naturalistic conditions. We had two questions. First, extending the method of Barr, Zack, Garcia, and Muentener (Infancy, 13 [2008], 30-56) to a younger population, we asked if age, prior exposure, and caregiver verbal input would predict…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Caregivers, Infants, Age Differences
Schwier, Christiane; van Maanen, Catharine; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Infancy, 2006
Gergely, Bekkering, and Kiraly (2002) demonstrated that 14-month-old infants engage in "rational imitation." To investigate the development and flexibility of this skill, we tested 12-month-olds on a different but analogous task. Infants watched as an adult made a toy animal use a particular action to get to an endpoint. In 1 condition there was a…
Descriptors: Imitation, Infants, Intention, Infant Behavior

Millar, W. Stuart – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1988
Examines whether infant awareness of efficacy and control relates to increases in socioaffective behavior. Focuses on the relationship between socioaffective behavior and infant experience of contingent and noncontingent events. Explores alternative means of assessing response acquisition. (RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Infant Behavior, Research Methodology
Johnson, Susan C.; Ok, Su-Jeong; Luo, Yuyan – Developmental Science, 2007
The current study distinguishes between attributions of goal-directed perception (i.e. attention) and non-goal-directed perception to examine 9-month-olds' interpretation of others' head and eye turns. In a looking time task, 9-month-olds encoded the relationship between an actor's head and eye turns and a target object if the head and eye turns…
Descriptors: Infants, Human Body, Eye Movements, Attention

Giacoman, Sharon L. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention, Hunger, Infant Behavior