Caregivers use a range of verbal and nonverbal behaviours when responding to their
infants. Previous studies have typically focused on the role of the caregiver in providing …

Everyday caregiver‐infant interactions are dynamic and multidimensional. However, existing
research underestimates the dimensionality of infants' experiences, often focusing on one or …

Background In developmental research, infants are commonly assumed to be early
stakeholders in interactions with their caregivers. The tools that infants can use to interact …

Adult-infant early dyadic interactions have been extensively explored by developmental
psychologists. Around the age of 2 months, infants already demonstrate complex, delicate …

Infants interact with their caregivers, using visual contact, smiling, vocalizations, and motor
activity. Most of the studies on infant motor activity during dyadic interaction provided …

Children's rhythmic movements during the first year of life possess a meaningful predictive
validity for later communicative development. However, their role within adult-child …

Parental responsiveness to infant behaviors is a strong predictor of infants' language and
cognitive outcomes. The mechanisms underlying this effect, however, are relatively …

The ability to share and direct attention is a pre-requisite to later language development and
has been predominantly studied through infant pointing. Precursors to pointing, such as …

Mother–infant interactions during feeding and play are pivotal experiences in the
development of infants' early social abilities (,;). Stern indicated distinctive characteristics of …

Parental communication styles and language usage may undergo changes during the
course of child development, exhibiting variations across language backgrounds and …