Infant Behavior
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Monday, November 23, 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...

The development of imitation in infancy.

25 Aug 2009 An overview of existing data on imitation in infancy suggests that changes in the direction of imitation research are underway. The widely accepted view that newborn infants imitate lacks supporting evidence. Instead, existing data suggest that ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Infant Behavior'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• To GERD or not to GERD, this is the question. 29 Sep 2009
• NIDCAP: testing the effectiveness of a relationship-based comprehensive intervention. 26 Sep 2009
• 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
• The development of imitation in infancy. 25 Aug 2009
• The status of developmental curriculum in North American psychoanalysis. 30 Jul 2009
• The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Education section. 30 Jul 2009
• Moving from tube to oral feeding in medically fragile nonverbal toddlers. 30 Jul 2009
• An evaluation of the benefits of non-nutritive sucking for premature infants as described in the literature. 30 Jul 2009
• Some indicators of nutritional status are associated with activity and exploration in infants at risk for vitamin and mineral deficiencies. 27 Jul 2009
• Early milk feeding influences taste acceptance and liking during infancy. 13 Jul 2009
• Counseling on early childhood concerns: sleep issues, thumb sucking, picky eating, and school readiness. 13 Jul 2009
• How 7-month-olds interpret ambiguous motion events: category-based reasoning in infancy. 8 Jul 2009
• A responsive feeding intervention increases children's self-feeding and maternal responsiveness but not weight gain. 6 Jul 2009
• Relational memory during infancy: evidence from eye tracking. 29 Jun 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
• Pain and distress reactivity and recovery as early predictors of temperament in toddlers born preterm. 24 Jun 2009
• Associations of maternal lifetime trauma and perinatal traumatic stress symptoms with infant cardiorespiratory reactivity to psychological challenge. 22 Jun 2009
• Tolerance of a standard intact protein formula versus a partially hydrolyzed formula in healthy, term infants. 17 Jun 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