Infants' early interactions with adults and everyday objects are key to socio-communicative
development, but their emergence and development are still under debate. Aiming at …

Emotion regulation (ER) refers to the ability to regulate emotional reactions in response to
stimuli. Social communication involves the knowledge and skills to engage in social …

Attention following (AF) is a cornerstone of social cognitive development and a longstanding
topic of infancy research. However, there is conflicting evidence regarding the development …

Dyadic interaction is the ecological niche in which early human development occurs and
parent-infant co-regulation–the reciprocal adjustment between partners when interacting-is …

Abstract Using Porges'(2011) Polyvagal Theory as a backdrop, this study examined whether
changes in parasympathetic functioning, as indexed by baseline measures of cardiac vagal …

This study, conducted in Germany, examines the role of maternal soothing strategies to
explain the association of maternal self‐efficacy with infant regulation (crying and sleeping …

Human infants spend most of their time sleeping, but over the first few years of life their sleep
becomes regulated to coincide more closely with adult sleep (Galland et al., 2012; …

From birth, mothers and infants co-regulate their interactions that are shaped by their socio-
emotional development, relationship history, current circumstances, and goals. However …

This study examined 7‐to‐13.5‐month‐old middle‐class Western infants' visual orienting to
third‐party interactions in parallel with their social attention behavior during own social …

The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between rhythmic movements and deictic
gestures at the end of the first year of life, and to focus on their unimodal or multimodal …