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Did you call me? : 5-month-old infants own name guides their attention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
An infant's own name is a unique social cue. Infants are sensitive to their own name by 4 months of age, but whether they use their names as a social cue is unknown.
Parise, E.   +9 more
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Is birth weight the major confounding factor in the study of gestational weight gain?: an observational cohort study

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018
Background Much interest has been focussed on both maternal obesity and gestational weight gain (GWG), particularly on their role in influencing birth weight (BW).
Amy C. O’Higgins   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the referential nature of looking: infants’ preference for object-directed gaze [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In four experiments, we investigated whether 9-month-old infants are sensitive to the relationship between gaze direction and object location and whether this sensitivity depends on the presence of communicative cues like eye contact.
Johnson, Mark H.   +5 more
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Infants in control: Rapid anticipation of action outcomes in a gaze-contingent paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Infants' poor motor abilities limit their interaction with their environment and render studying infant cognition notoriously difficult. Exceptions are eye movements, which reach high accuracy early, but generally do not allow manipulation of the ...
Rothkopf Constantin A.   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Direct gaze modulates face recognition in young infants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
From birth, infants prefer to look at faces that engage them in direct eye contact. In adults, direct gaze is known to modulate the processing of faces, including the recognition of individuals.
Johnson, Mark H.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Inhaled nitric oxide in preterm infants: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
BACKGROUND: Preterm infants requiring assisted ventilation are at significant risk of both pulmonary and cerebral injury. Inhaled Nitric Oxide, an effective therapy for pulmonary hypertension and hypoxic respiratory failure in the full term infant, has ...
Field, David   +99 more
core   +1 more source

Neonatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic - a global survey of parents’ experiences regarding infant and family-centred developmental care

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions affect provision and quality of neonatal care. This global study explores parents’ experiences regarding the impact of the restrictions on key characteristics of infant and family-centred developmental care (
Johanna Kostenzer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Infants’ attraction to infant vocalizations – A catalyst for infant development

open access: yesInfant Behavior and Development
Infant vocalizations play a key role in infant behavior and development, yet we know very little about how infants perceive speech signals with infant vocal properties. In this perspective paper, we summarize recent developmental studies capitalizing on technical breakthroughs in speech synthesis that have allowed for rigorous exploration of this topic.
Linda Polka   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Object-centred spatial reference in 4-month-old infants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
An appreciation of object-centred spatial relations involves representing a 'within-object' spatial relation across changes in the object orientation. This representational ability is important in adult object recognition [Biederman, I.
Bryant, P. E.   +9 more
core   +1 more source

A claw is like my hand: Comparison supports goal analysis in infants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Item does not contain fulltextUnderstanding the intentional relations in others' actions is critical to human social life. Origins of this knowledge exist in the first year and are a function of both acting as an intentional agent and observing movement ...
Amanda L. Woodward   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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