An update of the development of motor behavior

JM Franchak, KE Adolph - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This primer describes research on the development of motor behavior. We focus on infancy
when basic action systems are acquired—posture, locomotion, manual actions, and facial …

Implementing mobile eye tracking in psychological research: A practical guide

X Fu, JM Franchak, LA MacNeill, KE Gunther… - Behavior research …, 2024 - Springer
Eye tracking provides direct, temporally and spatially sensitive measures of eye gaze. It can
capture visual attention patterns from infancy through adulthood. However, commonly used …

Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing

AH Seidl, M Indarjit, A Borovsky - Developmental science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Infants experience language in rich multisensory environments. For example, they may first
be exposed to the word applesauce while touching, tasting, smelling, and seeing …

The real‐time effects of parent speech on infants' multimodal attention and dyadic coordination

SE Schroer, C Yu - Infancy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Parental responsiveness to infant behaviors is a strong predictor of infants' language and
cognitive outcomes. The mechanisms underlying this effect, however, are relatively …

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Y Gu, E Donnellan, B Grzyb, G Brekelmans… - Scientific data, 2025 - nature.com
Communication comprises a wealth of multimodal signals (eg, gestures, eye gaze,
intonation) in addition to speech and there is a growing interest in the study of multimodal …

Visual grounding helps learn word meanings in low-data regimes

C Zhuang, E Fedorenko, J Andreas - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.13257, 2023 - arxiv.org
Modern neural language models (LMs) are powerful tools for modeling human sentence
production and comprehension, and their internal representations are remarkably well …

Controlling the input: How one‐year‐old infants sustain visual attention

AH Mendez, C Yu, LB Smith - Developmental science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, the exogenous control of gaze by external saliencies and the endogenous
control of gaze by knowledge and context have been viewed as competing systems, with …

Black Female Head Start Teachers' Multimodal Meaning-Making in Prekindergarten Read-Alouds

EM Barnes, EB Hadley… - The Elementary School …, 2025 - journals.uchicago.edu
Young children draw from verbal and nonverbal input to make meaning from texts, a skill
that is foundational for later reading comprehension and academic achievement. However …

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 …

Lexicon-Level Contrastive Visual-Grounding Improves Language Modeling

C Zhuang, E Fedorenko, J Andreas - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.14551, 2024 - arxiv.org
Today's most accurate language models are trained on orders of magnitude more language
data than human language learners receive-but with no supervision from other sensory …