The first goal of this article is to review recent advances in understanding how new motor
skills facilitate infants' exploration—the active acquisition of information about their …

Studies of dyadic interaction often examine infants' social exchanges with their caregivers in
settings that constrain their physical properties (eg, infant posture, fixed seating location for …

How do postural developments affect infants' access to social information? We recorded
egocentric and third‐person video while infants and their caregivers (N= 36, 8‐to 16‐month …

Infants' developing motor skills—including mastery of new postures such as sitting and
standing—affect opportunities for learning that facilitate cognitive development. But how …

Acquisition of walking changes not only infants' locomotion itself but also infants' exploratory
behavior and social interaction, such as gaze communication. To understand the ecological …

This study aimed to explore the rates of motor difficulties in children from the Australian
Autism Biobank, and how early motor concerns impacted on children functionally. Children …

Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development.
However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate …

The ability to coordinate the hands together to act on objects where each hand does
something different is known as role-differentiated bimanual manipulation (RDBM). This …

Attention-sensitive signalling is the pragmatic skill of signallers who adjust the modality of
their communicative signals to their recipient's attention state. This study provides the first …

Independent locomotion provides autonomy for infants, drastically changing their
relationship with their surroundings. From a dynamic systems perspective, the interaction …