Everyday activities are replete with contextual cues for infants to exploit in the service of
learning words. Nelson's (1985) script theory guided the hypothesis that infants participate in …

Learning to walk is one of the great achievements in human development. An aim of this
chapter is to describe the developmental progression of locomotion, ranging from the …

New motor skills supply infants with new possibilities for action and have consequences for
development in unexpected places. For example, the transition from crawling to walking is …

When parents brag about their children's accomplishments to friends and family or
document important events with camcorders and baby books for posterity, they tend to focus …

The social cognition and perception-action literatures are largely separate, both
conceptually and empirically. However, both areas of research emphasize infants' emerging …

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 …

The authors examined the effects of locomotor experience on infants' perceptual judgments
in a potentially risky situation--descending steep and shallow slopes--while manipulating …

Linguistic communication builds on prelinguistic communicative gestures, but the
ontogenetic origins and complexities of these prelinguistic gestures are not well known. The …

During an object sharing paradigm, we compared infant-caregiver interactions between two
groups: i) infants at high-risk (HR) for being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) …

When parents brag about their baby's accomplishments and document their infant's
developmental achievements on calendars and smart phones, they tend to focus on …