Contingency and Synchrony: Interactional Pathways Toward Attentional Control and Intentional Communication

SV Wass, EAM Phillips, IM Haresign… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In this article we examine how contingency and synchrony during infant–caregiver
interactions help children learn to pay attention to objects and how this, in turn, affects their …

Survey of automated methods for nonverbal behavior analysis in parent-child interactions

B Karaca, AA Salah, J Denissen… - 2024 IEEE 18th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social interactions are fundamental for human beings, motivating the abundance of studies
into the behavioral correlates of constructs such as personality and relationship. The primary …

Embedding play to enrich physical therapy

ALF Fiss, RB Håkstad, J Looper, SA Pereira… - Behavioral …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Play is an active process by which an individual is intrinsically motivated to explore the self,
the environment, and/or interactions with another person. For infants and toddlers, engaging …

Moment-to-moment cascades: Infants' real-time locomotor posture structures opportunities for joint object play with caregivers.

JL Schneider, LR Pugeda… - Developmental Psychology, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Developmental cascades—the view that development in one domain can induce change in
another—provide unique flexibility for researchers to examine relations among multiple …

Consistency and variability in multimodal parent–child social interaction: An at-home study using head-mounted eye trackers.

SE Schroer, RE Peters, C Yu - Developmental Psychology, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Real-time attention coordination in parent–toddler dyads is often studied in tightly controlled
laboratory settings. These studies have demonstrated the importance of joint attention in …

Parental supportive and intrusive directives during dyadic interactions in relation to concurrent skills of preterm and full-term toddlers at age 2 years

M Ataman-Devrim, J Quigley, E Nixon - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
This study investigates whether parental supportive (following) and intrusive (redirecting
child's attention) verbal directives are influenced by parent gender and birth status, and …

Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free‐Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time

M Perapoch Amadó, EAM Phillips… - Child …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Joint attention (JA) has been found to correlate with many developmental outcomes.
However, little is known about how naturalistic JA is established and develops during early …

Decoding Contact: Automatic Estimation of Contact Signatures in Parent-Infant Free Play Interactions

M Doyran, AA Salah, R Poppe - … of the 26th International Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In parent-child interactions (PCIs), there is frequent physical contact between the two actors.
Quantifying this contact provides valuable input to assess the nature of the interaction or the …

Early caregiver predictability shapes neural indices of statistical learning later in infancy

TA Forest, SA McCormick, L Davel… - Developmental …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Caregivers play an outsized role in sha** early life experiences and development, but we
often lack mechanistic insight into how exactly caregiver behavior scaffolds the …

Infants' Contributions to Prelinguistic Conversations Drive Language Learning

CD Vallotton, R Albert - WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood …, 2024 - Springer
Infants engage in conversations with caregivers using facial expressions and body
language, gaze, vocalizations, and gestures. These cues quickly become more complex and …