Infant Behavior - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Comment on "Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation".

23 Sep 2009 Topál et al. (Reports, 26 September 2008, p. 1831) proposed that infants' perseverative search errors can be explained by ostensive cues from the experimenter. We use the dynamic field theory to test the proposal that infants encode locations more ... Read more...

Exploring objects with feet advances movement in infants born preterm: a randomized controlled trial.

25 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Previous work has shown that full-term infants who were healthy contacted a toy with their feet several weeks before they did so with their hands and that movement training advanced feet reaching. Certain populations of preterm infants ... Read more...

Moving from tube to oral feeding in medically fragile nonverbal toddlers.

30 Jul 2009 The current article describes a 14-week outpatient protocol for transitioning from gastrostomy tube to oral feeding in toddlers with medical complications. The team ensured that eating skills were mastered before treating patients for 8 weeks with ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Infant Behavior - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Comment on "Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation". 23 Sep 2009
• Exploring objects with feet advances movement in infants born preterm: a randomized controlled trial. 25 Aug 2009
• Moving from tube to oral feeding in medically fragile nonverbal toddlers. 30 Jul 2009
• Perinatal assessment of infant, parents, and parent-infant relationship: prematurity as an example. 29 Jun 2009
• The neonatal moment of meeting--building the dialogue, strengthening the bond. 29 Jun 2009
• Associations of maternal lifetime trauma and perinatal traumatic stress symptoms with infant cardiorespiratory reactivity to psychological challenge. 22 Jun 2009
• Randomized controlled trial of a paraprofessional-delivered in-home intervention for young reservation-based American Indian mothers. 30 May 2009
• Right frontal EEG asymmetry and behavioral inhibition in infants of depressed mothers. 17 May 2009
• Depressed mothers' infants are less responsive to faces and voices. 10 May 2009
• Language specific prosodic preferences during the first half year of life: evidence from German and French infants. 5 May 2009
• Infants' expressive behaviors to mothers and unfamiliar partners during face-to-face interactions from 4 to 10 months. 4 May 2009
• Maternal sleep-related cognitions and infant sleep: a longitudinal study from pregnancy through the 1st year. 29 Apr 2009
• The value of vocalizing: five-month-old infants associate their own noncry vocalizations with responses from caregivers. 29 Apr 2009
• Informing early intervention through an occupational science description of infant-toddler interactions with home space. 29 Apr 2009
• Fragmented maternal sleep is more strongly correlated with depressive symptoms than infant temperament at three months postpartum. 23 Apr 2009
• The influence of electronic sound effects on learning from televised and live models. 3 Apr 2009
• Different patterns of contingent stimulation differentially affect attention span in prelinguistic infants. 24 Mar 2009
• Altered EEG spectral activity and attentional behavioral deficits following prolonged febrile seizures: a pilot study. 11 Mar 2009
• Infants use shared experience to interpret pointing gestures. 27 Feb 2009
• Developing policy in the provision of parenting programmes: integrating a review of reviews with the perspectives of both parents and professionals. 21 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Infant Behavior'

Definition: Any observable response or action of a neonate or infant up through the age of 23 months.

Descriptor UI: D018730

Alternative terms: Infant Behavior; Behavior, Infant;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; ethnology; psychology;

Tree Number: F01.145.179.500;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: check also tag INFANT or INFANT, NEWBORN but see note there