Motor development and psychological development are fundamentally related, but
researchers typically consider them separately. In this review, we present four key features …

Psychological researchers have become increasingly concerned with generalized accounts
of human behavior based on narrow participant representation. This concern is particularly …

Joint attention (JA) is an early manifestation of social cognition, commonly described as
interactions in which an infant looks or gestures to an adult female to share attention about …

In Tajikistan, infants are bound supine in a “gahvora” cradle that severely restricts
movement. Does cradling affect motor development and body growth? In three studies …

In the first years of life, infants rapidly acquire a series of new motor skills. They learn to sit
independently, to walk with skill, and to engage in a wide variety of interactions with objects …

This study evaluates whether early vocalizations develop in similar ways in children across
diverse cultural contexts. We analyze data from daylong audio recordings of 49 children (1 …

Motor skills are important for development. Everything infants do involves motor skills–
postural, locomotor, and manual actions; exploratory actions; social interactions; and actions …

Abstract Development is complex. It encompasses interacting domains, at multiple levels,
across nested time scales. Embracing the complexity of development—while addressing the …

Traditionally, the study of motor development—rooted in Western populations and culture—
has focused on establishing norms in the timing and sequence of motor skills, inspiring the …

Abstract This Presidential Address is aimed at considering how infant development can be
understood in terms of developmental cascades. Adopting a developmental cascades …