Hermesch et al. (2025) find that naps can boost infants’ memory for live & video content. Results highlight sleep’s role in early memory, but also show that learning from digital sources poses greater challenges to infants than learning from social interactions doi.org/10.1111/infa... #infancypapers

#infantstudies Founding Generation Summer Fellowship now open for student applications! The program pairs promising students with researchers from around the world who conduct cutting-edge science. Apply by November 25. infantstudies.org/founding-gen...

Abstract Submissions for #ICIS2026 is now open till 1 December 2025! The XXV Biennial Congress will be held on July 6-9 2026 in Panama City, at the RIU Hotel Riu Plaza Panama. infantstudies.org/abstracts/ #infantstudies

- @joscelinrocha.com, Ostlund et al. (2025) assessed infants pre-/post-pandemic onset. Negative affect ⬆️ as expected pre-pandemic but ⬇️ afterward. Yet contextual risk (maternal anxiety, neighborhood disadvantage) still predicted ⬆️ neg affect #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

And this year, ICIS 👶🧠 will be followed by the annual meeting of the FIT'NG society @fitngin.bsky.social 🥳 I'm looking forward to seeing you all in Panama 🌴☀️ #FTNG2026

Abstract Submissions for #ICIS2026 is now open till 1 December 2025! The XXV Biennial Congress will be held on July 6-9 2026 in Panama City, at the RIU Hotel Riu Plaza Panama. Click here for submission guidelines: infantstudies.org/abstracts/ #infantstudies

New on the Baby Blog - Why Dad’s Voice Matters for Premature Brains – and Why Public Support for Research Does, Too by Efthymios Papatzikis infantstudies.org/why-dads-voi... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #Parenting #Research #Dads #science

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Attention ICIS members! Here's your chance to guide and inspire emerging talents in infant studies. Join us as a mentor for the Founding Generation Summer Fellowship. Together, let's build a brighter future for #InfantResearch. Sign up now. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

- @aimeetheyer.bsky.social and @drswijeakumar.bsky.social (2025) found that temporo-parietal function in caregivers & infants during episodes of joint attention in play interactions was linked to visual short-term memory in infants #EarlyYears #JointAttention #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

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Are you passionate about nurturing young minds in #InfantResearch? Volunteer as a mentor for the ICIS Founding Generation Summer Fellowship Program! Be a guiding light for the next generation of infant researchers. Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

- @rachelralbert.bsky.social et al. (2025): Infants’ directed & mature vocalisations predict ⬆️ educator convos in ECE classrooms. Group size did not predict convo length ➡️ educators skillfully maintain multi-turn convos w/ multiple infants #DevPsySky #PsySciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

New on the Baby Blog - A funny thing happened in the infant lab: What humour can teach us about how infants think by Gina Mireault infantstudies.org/a-funny-thin... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #Laughter

Zhang & Yu (2025) eye-tracking study: 12mos selectively focus on only a few objects at naming moments while viewing cluttered scenes; gaze highly constrained by visual saliency of scenes➡️highlights perception’s role in early word learning #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

- @annamzhou.bsky.social, @drkoraly.bsky.social, Lobue & @kabuss.bsky.social (2025): The Infant Behavior Questionnaire’s 3-factor structure varies across sociodemographic groups, highlighting the need for alternative approaches in diverse samples #PsySciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

While this research is important and this blog post a good read (imo), the real hero here is the funding that supported the work in the first place. Props to @infantstudies.bsky.social for helping to highlight the work!

Roberti, @stefaniehoehl.bsky.social (2025): By 10 months, infants link emotions to actions: seeing happiness prepares them for positive rather than negative actions, showing early brain sensitivity to social cues #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #Emotions #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

New on the Baby Blog - Language learning in a digital world: How screen time impacts children’s language development by Sarah Kucker @skucker.bsky.social infantstudies.org/language-lea... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #LanguageLearning

Quezada-Ugalde et al (2025) studied early childhood devt & family adaptation during COVID in Latin Am: quant results showed devt delays esp fine motor skills, qual findings showed coping strategies parents used to navigate new challenges #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Ossmy & Serinos (2025) reviewed embodied cogn during infant play and argue that the next step must be testing causality which is essential for the future of early education, policy, and intervention programmes #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Nyström et al. (2025) systematic review of automated eye tracking w/ <2yo children: WEIRD popns, broad research topics (mtds, language, attention) & specific topics (autism, faces) dominate field, leaving many research areas understudied #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

New on the Baby Blog - Making pilots public and improving developmental science by @agataboch.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #infantstudies infantstudies.org/making-pilot...

Gerbrand, Wengman & Forssman (2025) found that eye-tracking, especially the preferential looking paradigm, can offer an objective complement to parental reports for predicting children’s early vocabulary development. #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EyeTracking #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Murillo et al. (2025): From 9-12mos, caregivers use tactile cues w/ speech to support joint attention & lexical development. Object-mediated touch is often combined w/ speech, potentially enhancing word-referent mapping & lexical development #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

👶 How do babies’ temperament and what mums say during playtime affect babies’ emotional wellbeing? 🧠 Latest research from @fran-doyle.bsky.social's team dives into answering this question. Tiny interactions, big impact! #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

lil blogpost ab a cool paper led by the amazing @erinecampbell.bsky.social thnx to NSF. also features a coda ab the very active threat to science funding we’re facing (cc @standupforscience.bsky.social) & a ht to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social’s good work. thnx @infantstudies.bsky.social!

New on the Baby Blog - From the mouths of babes: Saying the (im)perceptible by Elika Bergelson @bergelsonlab.bsky.social #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #infantstudies infantstudies.org/from-the-mou...

Su et al. (2025) analysed daylong home recordings: both neurotypical & autistic infants make more speech-like sounds when spoken to in parentese➡️ parentese supports early lang growth by encouraging infants to vocalize & interact #DevPsySky #Autism #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Ní Choisdealbha, @gertwestermann.bsky.social & Reid (2025) studied action-related ERPs to see if 9-11mo infants encode the means of doing an action similarly to how they encode action goals. Effects were found for mid-latency semantic & social ERP components #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Our new paper is out in @infantstudies.bsky.social! We examined the IBQ-R's factor structure + measurement invariance. Findings suggest the standard model may need adjustment for use across populations. w/ @drkoraly.bsky.social, Vanessa LoBue, & @kabuss.bsky.social

A new paper w/ @kabuss.bsky.social & Vanessa LoBue, and led by @joscelinrocha.com & Brendan Ostlund now in Infancy @infantstudies.bsky.social When the World Pivots: Changes in Infant Negative Affect Trajectories Following the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

daSilva & Bertenthal (2025): At 4-6mos, more vocal bids during a still-face episode were linked to higher RSA and greater physiological synchrony with mothers. This highlights early links between social engagement and physiological regulation #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Lazarus et al. (2025): A simple act with a lasting impact: Holding babies skin-to-skin in the NICU helped support their development and reduced differences linked to family income. Early touch can be a powerful way to promote equity from the very start #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Meet the members of #ICIS, Connecting w/ our Community series #9: Emeritus Prof Marilyn Vihman shares her retirement writing plans, her research discoveries about early child speech & her advice on taking linguistics AND psychology. Full video: youtu.be/423GBdfjuew #infantstudies

Silletti et al. (2025) reveal, for the first time, distinct maternal mind-mindedness profiles across Europe (Italy, Germany & the Netherlands), challenging simplistic West-East views, and calls for culturally tailored caregiver support #PsychSciSky #DevPsychSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

(1/2) Boyne, @camilaalviar.bsky.social & @miriamlense.bsky.social (2025): Parents’ social and musical characteristics are associated with how much they sing to their infant #DevelopmentalPsychology #MusicDevelopment #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

New on the Baby Blog - Episodic-like memory in infancy: Insights from the developing hippocampus by Tristan S. Yates #EarlyYears #DevPsychSky #PsychSciSky #infantstudies infantstudies.org/episodic-lik...

(1/2) Cychosz, Villanueva et al. (2025): In 2 bilingual communities, infants heard majority societal language from children > adults, and in child‐directed > adult-directed speech, opposite pattern for minoritized language #EarlyYears #PsySciSky #DevSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Rajendra, @lehersingh.bsky.social et al. (2025): Family SES predicted Singaporean 5-12 month-old multilingual infants’ word recognition ability, demonstrating the key role SES plays in early language development, even before babies learn to talk. #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Herbers et al. (2025) studied motor & lang devt of children staying in family homeless shelters: 1) include parent functioning in devtal screening; 2) shelter design, policy & practices shld consider early childhood devt & parent empowerment #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Vanoncini, @stefaniehoehl.bsky.social,‬ @kinderstudien.bsky.social et al (2025): dyadic coupling (not predictability) in mum-infant cardiac synchrony linked w/ 9mo's adv word segmentn ➡️ caregiver-infant bio'l coregulation may play foundational role in lang acqn #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Castellana & Benitez (2025): Mexican immigrant mothers’ Mexican & Anglo cultural orientations differently predict child-directed speech and child’s Spanish & English vocab, emphasizing the role of cultural contexts on childhood bilingualism #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Know someone who’s shaped the field of infant development? Nominate them for the ICIS Distinguished Contribution Award! Honoring a lifetime of scientific impact. Deadline: June 30, 2025. infantstudies.org/merit-awards/

New on the Baby Blog - Before and after lockdown: The COVID-19 pandemic and early social cognition skills by Rose M. Scott and Gabriel Nguyentran #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky infantstudies.org/before-and-a...

Liu et al. (2025): At 12mos, preterm infants spent most of their time interacting w/ objects, and parents were often engaged. Freq of infant-object interaction bouts per minute at 12mos was negatively associated w/ 30mo cognitive scores #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Can infants tell when your phone is getting in the way? 📱👀 Cao et al. (2025) found that 20mo infants expect adults distracted by phones to do worse at simple tasks. Even babies may realise the consequences of multitasking! #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reminder! The next #ICISWebinar is tomorrow – June 19! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear the latest from leading researchers in infant studies. infantstudies.org/icis-online-...

The ICIS Distinguished Contribution Award recognizes a lifetime of excellence in infant research Help us honor the giants of the field. Submit your nomination by June 30! infantstudies.org/merit-awards/ #InfantScience #InfantStudies #InfantResearch

Cutting-edge science in infancy research is just a click away! Join us June 19 for the next #ICISWebinar: “Beyond Who’s Speaking When: Machine Learning Tools to Extract Rich Multi-Dimensional Features from Home Audio Recordings.” infantstudies.org/icis-online-... #InfantStudies #InfantResearch