Infant Behavior - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation.

24 Sep 2008 Having repeatedly retrieved an object from a location, human infants tend to search the same place even when they observe the object being hidden at another location. This perseverative error is usually explained by infants' inability to inhibit a ... Read more...

Infant crying and sleeping: helping parents to prevent and manage problems.

30 Aug 2008 This article summarizes the current understanding of infant crying and sleeping problems, together with the implications of this understanding for services and research, with a focus on the first months of ... Read more...

Impaired word stress pattern discrimination in very-low-birthweight infants during the first 6 months of life.

30 Aug 2008 Prosodic information, such as word stress and speech rhythm, is important in language acquisition, and sensitivity to stress patterns is present from birth onwards. Exposure to prosodic properties of the native language occurs prenatally. Preterm ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Infant Behavior'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation. 24 Sep 2008
• Infant crying and sleeping: helping parents to prevent and manage problems. 30 Aug 2008
• Impaired word stress pattern discrimination in very-low-birthweight infants during the first 6 months of life. 30 Aug 2008
• Quantified activity pattern data from 6 to 27-month-old farmworker children for use in exposure assessment. 21 Aug 2008
• Parental responses to infant crying: the influence of child physical abuse risk and hostile priming. 5 Jul 2008
• Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others' goals. 29 Jun 2008
• Encoding the goal of an object-directed but uncompleted reaching action in 6- and 9-month-old infants. 29 Jun 2008
• Why won't this newborn be breast-fed? 29 Jun 2008
• Sharing sleep with breastfed babies (2). Research suggests sweet dreams result. 29 Jun 2008
• Primary cortical folding in the human newborn: an early marker of later functional development. 26 Jun 2008
• How well do clinical pain assessment tools reflect pain in infants? 22 Jun 2008
• Early attainment of breastfeeding competence in very preterm infants. 30 May 2008
• A new look at the neonate's clinical presentation after in utero exposure to antidepressants in late pregnancy. 30 May 2008
• The benefits of safe nighttime slumbers. 30 May 2008
• Learning by looking: Infants' social looking behavior across the transition from crawling to walking. 30 Apr 2008
• Lower stress responses after Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program care during eye screening examinations for retinopathy of prematurity: a randomized study. 29 Apr 2008
• Social feedback to infants' babbling facilitates rapid phonological learning. 29 Apr 2008
• Prenatal organochlorine exposure and measures of behavior in infancy using the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). 29 Apr 2008
• Maternal responsiveness to young children at three ages: longitudinal analysis of a multidimensional, modular, and specific parenting construct. 29 Apr 2008
• Rational tool use and tool choice in human infants and great apes. 29 Apr 2008

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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