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Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions 婴儿额叶脑电图不对称在情绪诱发任务：利用新的定量方法来辨别与亲子互动的联系

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102111

Joshua J. Underwood, Mackenzie.B. Murphy, Maria A. Gartstein

Interest in the impact of parent-child interactions on infant electroencephalography (EEG) has steadily grown, yet research is still relatively limited. Additionally, studies often rely on averages computed across trials or isolated segments, and do not examine infants’ neurophysiological responses to longer naturalistic emotion-eliciting situations. Mothers with infants (n = 106, boys = 59) 6–12 months of age were recruited with the goal of examining the effect of parent-child interactions on infant CNS response in the context of repeated trials of the Still Face Paradigm (SFP; Haley & Stansbury, 2003). First, latent growth models (LGM) were estimated to examine infant EEG asymmetry across five trials of the repeated SFP, considering parent-child interaction predictors and controlling for relevant covariates. Second, latent profile analysis (LPA) was conducted to examine groupings of frontal asymmetry trajectories over the course of the task. Overall, a reliable pattern of changes across SFP trials was not observed, however, significant inter-individual variability was noted. Latent profile analysis was thus undertaken, indicating appropriateness of a three-group solution. Because two of the groups demonstrating change were small, these were combined to form a reactive profile. Subsequent analyses demonstrated that infants who experienced more reciprocal play with their caregivers were less likely to display significant frontal asymmetry reactivity to SFP when controlling for infant age and sex, maternal age, and socioeconomic status. This work provides evidence for the utility of LPA in infant EEG research, as well support for the capability model of frontal asymmetry.

亲子互动对婴儿脑电图（EEG）影响的研究兴趣稳步增长，但研究仍然相对有限。此外，研究通常依赖于通过试验或孤立的片段计算的平均值，并且没有检查婴儿对较长时间自然情绪诱发情况的神经生理反应。招募6-12月龄婴儿（n = 106，男孩= 59）的母亲，目的是在重复试验的背景下，研究亲子互动对婴儿中枢神经系统反应的影响。哈利,斯坦,2003)。首先，考虑到亲子互动预测因子和控制相关协变量，估计潜在生长模型（LGM）在重复SFP的五个试验中检验婴儿脑电图不对称性。其次，使用潜在轮廓分析（LPA）来检查任务过程中额叶不对称轨迹的分组。总体而言，在SFP试验中没有观察到可靠的变化模式，然而，注意到显著的个体间变异性。因此进行了潜在剖面分析，表明了三组解决方案的适当性。因为其中两组表现出变化的群体很小，所以它们被组合起来形成一个反应性的剖面。随后的分析表明，在控制婴儿年龄、性别、母亲年龄和社会经济地位的情况下，与照顾者互动较多的婴儿对SFP表现出明显的额叶不对称反应的可能性较小。本研究为LPA在婴儿脑电图研究中的应用提供了证据，也为额叶不对称能力模型提供了支持。

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The infant neural mirroring system: A quarter-century in review 婴儿神经镜像系统：回顾四分之一个世纪

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102112

Lauren J. Bryant

How humans understand others’ actions is a line of critical inquiry in the psychological sciences. The neural mirroring system, which activates during both action observation and execution, has been proposed as a key mechanism underlying action understanding and related socio-cognitive functions (e.g., imitation). Examinations of the infant neural mirroring system offer valuable insights into the ontogeny of this system and its potential role in early social cognition. The 21st century has yielded the emergence and rapid expansion of research on the development of this system and its putative links to various socio-cognitive processes. However, debates within the broader neural mirroring literature question whether there is sufficient evidence supporting this system’s role in social cognition. Moreover, methodological inconsistencies across studies of the infant neural mirroring system hinder a cohesive understanding of how this functions across contexts and development. The current review examines research on the infant neural mirroring system from the past quarter-century and highlights theoretical and methodological limitations of this work, as well as critical avenues for future research.

人类如何理解他人的行为是心理科学中一个重要的研究方向。神经镜像系统在动作观察和执行过程中都被激活，被认为是动作理解和相关社会认知功能（如模仿）的关键机制。对婴儿神经镜像系统的检查为该系统的个体发生及其在早期社会认知中的潜在作用提供了有价值的见解。21世纪已经产生了对这一系统的发展及其与各种社会认知过程的假定联系的研究的出现和迅速扩展。然而，在更广泛的神经镜像文献中，争论是否有足够的证据支持该系统在社会认知中的作用。此外，在婴儿神经镜像系统的研究中，方法上的不一致阻碍了对这一系统如何在不同背景和发展中发挥作用的有凝聚力的理解。本文回顾了过去四分之一个世纪以来对婴儿神经镜像系统的研究，强调了这项工作在理论和方法上的局限性，以及未来研究的关键途径。

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Expanding the toolbox: 25 years of methodological change in infant research 扩展工具箱：25年来婴儿研究方法的变化

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102105

Nicolás Alessandroni, Laia Fibla, Miranda Gómez Díaz, Xiaowei Gong, Hilary Killam, Melanie López Pérez, Charlotte Moore, Alexandra Paquette, Andrea Sander-Montant, Krista Byers-Heinlein

The landscape of infant behavior research has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past quarter-century. In this special issue opinion article, we synthesize these methodological changes and their implications for developmental science. Drawing on a systematic comparative assessment of empirical articles published in Infant Behavior and Development in 2000 and 2024, we critically evaluate five key methodological dimensions: research contexts, sample and cell sizes, coding practices, data analysis techniques and statistical software, and open science practices. Our synthesis reveals how the field has expanded beyond traditional laboratory settings toward more diverse research environments, including remote and archival approaches that enhance ecological validity and sample diversity. We trace how sample sizes have nearly doubled and experimental cell sizes have increased 2.5-fold, strengthening statistical power and replicability. We examine the selective adoption of automated methodologies in domains like eye tracking and speech analysis, alongside the persistent value of manual coding for complex behaviors. We observe a transition from classical statistical methods to more nuanced analytical approaches, increasingly implemented in open source software, reflecting both technological capabilities and theoretical shifts toward capturing developmental complexity. Finally, we document the emergence of open science practices, which now appear in over a third of published studies. Throughout, we highlight how these methodological transformations reflect broader drivers: the replication crisis, technological innovations, and evolving theoretical perspectives. Looking forward, we offer a roadmap for methodological development that builds on these advances while addressing persistent challenges in the field.

在过去的四分之一个世纪里，婴儿行为研究领域发生了显著的变化。在这篇特刊评论文章中，我们综合了这些方法上的变化及其对发展科学的影响。根据2000年和2024年发表在《婴儿行为与发育》杂志上的实证文章的系统比较评估，我们批判性地评估了五个关键的方法维度：研究背景、样本和细胞大小、编码实践、数据分析技术和统计软件，以及开放科学实践。我们的综合揭示了该领域如何从传统的实验室环境扩展到更多样化的研究环境，包括远程和档案方法，以增强生态有效性和样本多样性。我们追踪样本大小几乎翻了一番，实验细胞大小增加了2.5倍，加强了统计能力和可重复性。我们研究了在眼动追踪和语音分析等领域选择性采用自动化方法，以及对复杂行为进行手动编码的持久价值。我们观察到从经典统计方法到更细致的分析方法的转变，越来越多地在开源软件中实现，反映了技术能力和理论向捕获发展复杂性的转变。最后，我们记录了开放科学实践的出现，这些实践现在出现在超过三分之一的已发表研究中。在整个过程中，我们强调这些方法的转变如何反映更广泛的驱动因素：复制危机、技术创新和不断发展的理论观点。展望未来，我们提供了一个方法发展路线图，以这些进步为基础，同时解决该领域的持续挑战。

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Sensitivity To natural scene statistics in infancy and its impact on development 婴儿对自然场景统计的敏感性及其对发育的影响

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102109

Taysa-Ja Newman , Philip McAdams , Nicola Yuill , Alice E. Skelton

Infant sensitivities for the statistical regularities found in their visual world are underexplored. From birth, infants are exposed to a complex visual experience with large variations in hues, textures, and forms. The extent of these visual properties means that infants must find a way to filter important information from irrelevant information, parsing visual statistics that aid in their learning of the world around them. Research has shown that infants are sensitive to some of the visual statistics of real and virtual everyday scenes (‘natural scenes’) such as colour distributions and also use these properties to facilitate actions such as target detection. These studies suggest that infants’ sensitivity to these statistics aids in creating a standardized model of their visual environment. Research has also found variations in the timeframes of when infants develop sensitivities to different natural scene statistics, with some sensitivities emerging later than others, prompting questions as to the methods and limitations behind infants’ perceptual learning. However, this area of research remains largely unexplored, and as such many questions remain unanswered. The current review investigates the existing literature from the past 25 years surrounding infant sensitivities to these natural scene statistics, how they use these statistics to find structure in their visual world now and into adulthood, and the effects that different environments’ characteristic visual statistics may have on their subsequent behaviour and development. We also propose directions for future work that will fill the gaps in this underdeveloped, but key, area of infant research.

婴儿对其视觉世界中发现的统计规律的敏感性尚未得到充分探索。从出生开始，婴儿就接触到色彩、纹理和形状变化很大的复杂视觉体验。这些视觉属性的范围意味着婴儿必须找到一种从无关信息中过滤重要信息的方法，分析视觉统计数据，帮助他们了解周围的世界。研究表明，婴儿对真实和虚拟的日常场景（“自然场景”）的一些视觉统计数据很敏感，比如颜色分布，并利用这些属性来促进目标检测等行动。这些研究表明，婴儿对这些统计数据的敏感性有助于建立他们视觉环境的标准化模型。研究还发现，婴儿对不同自然场景统计数据产生敏感性的时间框架存在差异，有些敏感性比其他敏感性出现得晚，这引发了关于婴儿感知学习背后的方法和局限性的问题。然而，这一领域的研究在很大程度上仍未被探索，因此许多问题仍未得到解答。目前的综述调查了过去25年来关于婴儿对这些自然场景统计的敏感性的现有文献，他们如何使用这些统计来发现他们现在和成年后的视觉世界的结构，以及不同环境的特征视觉统计可能对他们随后的行为和发展产生的影响。我们还提出了未来工作的方向，以填补这一不发达但关键的婴儿研究领域的空白。

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Longitudinal study of early bite profiles as predictors of eating behaviors in children: Food responsiveness and emotional overeating 儿童饮食行为预测因素的早期咬痕特征的纵向研究：食物反应和情绪性暴饮暴食

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102108

Sehyun Ju , Samantha Iwinski , Qiujie Gong , Ledan Yang , Kelly K. Bost

This study investigates eating profiles in toddlers, characterized by observed latency to first bite and bite frequency during naturalistic family mealtimes, and their predictive value for parent-reported food responsiveness and emotional overeating. The sample included 109 children and their families participating in a longitudinal birth cohort study in the United States. Video-recorded family mealtimes at 18–24 months were systematically coded for latency to first bite and bite speed. Food responsiveness and emotional overeating were measured using the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire at 36 months. Latent Profile Analysis using Gaussian finite mixture modeling identified three profiles labeled as fast-initiating, slow eaters; slow-initiating, slow eaters; and fast-initiating, fast eaters. Linear regression revealed that early bite profiles predict food responsiveness and emotional overeating at 36 months. Slow-initiating, slow eaters exhibited significantly higher food responsiveness than fast-initiating, slow eaters, while fast-initiating, fast eaters and slow-initiating, slow eaters had significantly higher emotional overeating than fast-initiating, slow eaters. These findings highlight the potential for early interventions targeting children’s bite profiles to identify those at higher risk for dysregulated eating behaviors, thereby promoting healthier eating patterns.

本研究调查了幼儿的饮食特征，其特征是在自然的家庭用餐时间观察到第一次咬的潜伏期和咬的频率，以及它们对父母报告的食物反应和情绪性暴饮暴食的预测价值。样本包括109名儿童及其家庭，他们参加了美国的一项纵向出生队列研究。录像18-24个月的家庭用餐时间，系统地编码第一次咬的潜伏期和咬速。在36个月时使用儿童饮食行为问卷测量食物反应性和情绪性暴饮暴食。使用高斯有限混合模型的潜在剖面分析确定了三种快速启动，缓慢进食的剖面；行动迟缓，吃得慢；和快速启动，快速食客。线性回归显示，早期的咬痕特征可以预测36个月时的食物反应和情绪性暴饮暴食。慢启动、慢启动的人比快启动、慢启动的人表现出更高的食物反应性，而快启动、快启动和慢启动、慢启动的人比快启动、慢启动的人表现出更高的情绪性暴饮暴食。这些发现强调了针对儿童咬痕特征进行早期干预的潜力，以识别那些饮食行为失调的高风险人群，从而促进更健康的饮食模式。

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Neural correlates of false belief understanding in 33- to 36-month-old infants 33 ~ 36个月婴儿错误信念理解的神经关联

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102106

Shuting Li, Jörg Meinhardt, Beate Sodian

Very little research has addressed the neural correlates of false belief understanding in young children. Following up on a previous event-related potential (ERP) study examining false belief understanding in 4- to 6-year-old children, the present study grouped infants (N = 45, 33–36 months old) into passers and failers according to their behavioral performance on a low-demands false belief task. Their ERP responses to false belief and true belief conditions were examined in a novel ERP paradigm. The study found that a late positive waveform over the occipital electrode sites distinguished between the false belief and true belief conditions only in infants who passed the low-demands behavioral false belief task. In contrast, a late negative waveform over the frontocentral electrode sites consistently distinguished between the false belief and true belief conditions regardless of low-demands behavioral false belief task performance. These findings raise the possibility that a sensitive neural system supporting false belief understanding may emerge early in development. Specifically, the late positive waveform observed over the occipital electrode sites appears to be a potential neural marker for false belief understanding in infants.

很少有研究涉及儿童错误信念理解的神经关联。在先前的事件相关电位（ERP）研究的基础上，本研究根据婴儿在低要求错误信念任务中的行为表现，将婴儿（N = 45,33 - 36个月）分为及格和失败两组。在一种新的ERP范式中，研究了他们对错误信念和真实信念条件的ERP反应。研究发现，只有在通过低要求行为错误信念任务的婴儿中，枕部电极部位的晚期正波形才能区分错误信念和真实信念条件。相比之下，无论低要求行为错误信念任务的表现如何，前额中央电极位置的晚期负性波形一致地区分了错误信念和真实信念条件。这些发现提出了一种可能性，即支持错误信念理解的敏感神经系统可能在发育早期就出现了。具体地说，在枕部电极上观察到的晚期正波形似乎是婴儿错误信念理解的潜在神经标记。

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Using imitation to study long-term recall in infancy 用模仿研究婴儿期长期记忆

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102107

Angela F. Lukowski , Ledan Yang

Significant advances have been made in our collective understanding of cognitive development more broadly, and recall in particular, over the past 25 years. Whereas early work established the conditions under which recall was apparent in the first years of life, more recent studies focus on social ecological factors that may promote or hinder recall. In this review paper, we first describe the elicited or deferred imitation paradigm and its variants. We then report on well-established experimental factors that impact long-term recall performance, including child age, sequence constraints, encoding manipulations, and the adult-provided supportive language in imitation tasks. We also discuss more recently identified contextual correlates, including infant language exposure and comprehension. We conclude with future directions, highlighting additional work needed on currently understudied contextual correlates of long-term recall, including sleep and cross-cultural variability in recall performance, along with providing recommendations to establish remote administration and scoring procedures that could be used by large-scale research collaboratives to further our understanding of cognitive development not only in small samples, but in infants around the world.

在过去的25年里，我们对更广泛的认知发展，特别是回忆的集体理解取得了重大进展。尽管早期的研究确定了在生命最初几年记忆明显的条件，但最近的研究更多地关注于可能促进或阻碍记忆的社会生态因素。在这篇综述文章中，我们首先描述了引出或延迟模仿范式及其变体。然后，我们报告了影响长期回忆表现的成熟实验因素，包括儿童年龄、序列约束、编码操作和成人在模仿任务中提供的支持性语言。我们还讨论了最近发现的上下文相关性，包括婴儿语言暴露和理解。我们总结了未来的发展方向，强调了目前尚未充分研究的长期回忆的上下文相关性，包括睡眠和回忆表现的跨文化差异，以及为建立远程管理和评分程序提供建议，这些程序可以被大规模的研究合作使用，以进一步了解我们不仅在小样本中，而且在世界各地的婴儿中认知发展。

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Diverse language experiences in deaf infants and in hearing infants with deaf parents: 25 years of improved understanding and recognition 聋人婴儿和聋人父母的听障婴儿的不同语言体验：25年来理解和识别的提高

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102103

Evelyne Mercure , Rain Bosworth , Teodora Gliga

Most infants first encounter language through the words spoken in their environment. However, for a smaller number of deaf and hearing infants, language can be presented in different sensory modalities, including a visual-manual signed language (e.g. American Sign Language - ASL or British Sign Language – BSL) and an auditory-oral spoken language (e.g. English). Language acquisition trajectories for children exposed to both signed and spoken language are less understood and less recognised. For hearing children with deaf parents using sign language, recent research suggests that they develop a special case of bilingualism – bimodal bilingualism - which offers some advantages in early communication skills. In deaf children, it has now been clearly demonstrated that early exposure to sign language brings about gains in both the spoken and signed modalities, suggesting an amodal impact of language experience in infancy. The present review presents progress made in the last 25 years in understanding the impact of sign language experience in infancy. It will discuss potential neurocognitive mechanisms by which learning gains in one language modality can be transferred to the other language modality. The research data collected so far leave several questions unanswered and suggest many avenues for future research.

大多数婴儿第一次接触语言是通过他们所处环境中的话语。然而，对于少数失聪和听力正常的婴儿，语言可以以不同的感官形式呈现，包括视觉-手动手语（如美国手语- ASL或英国手语- BSL）和听觉-口语（如英语）。同时接触手语和口语的儿童的语言习得轨迹很少被理解和认识。最近的研究表明，对于聋哑父母使用手语的听力正常的孩子来说，他们会发展出一种特殊的双语情况——双模双语——这在早期沟通技巧上有一些优势。在失聪儿童中，现在已经清楚地表明，早期接触手语会在口语和手语方面都有所收获，这表明婴儿时期的语言经验对他们的情绪有影响。本综述介绍了过去25年来在理解婴儿手语经验的影响方面取得的进展。它将讨论潜在的神经认知机制，通过这种机制，一种语言模态的学习成果可以转移到另一种语言模态。到目前为止收集的研究数据留下了几个未解决的问题，并为未来的研究提出了许多途径。

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Continuity, discontinuity, and atypicality in early language acquisition 早期语言习得中的连续性、非连续性和非典型性

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102102

Tadashi Koyama

Continuity and discontinuity during the development from infancy to later stages are central themes in developmental psychology. These concepts are particularly important for understanding and supporting language development in children with atypical language development. This review aimed to clarify future research issues on the early language acquisition process up to 36 months of age from the viewpoint of developmental continuity and discontinuity in early language acquisition. Recent studies on early language development support the concepts of both continuity and discontinuity, particularly in the relationship between early gestural development and later language acquisition, as well as in predicting delayed speech in children. However, focusing on 24 months of age, when the development of syntax typically begins, several studies have reported relationships between developmental domains such as gross motor and language. It is necessary to examine continuity and discontinuity in the early language acquisition process from an interdisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, it is important to consider both the speeding up and slowing down aspects of developmental trajectories in early language acquisition. Research on the language acquisition of late bloomers is important from the viewpoint of continuity and discontinuity from the prelinguistic period, domain relevance, and speed in cognitive development.

从婴儿期到后期发展的连续性和非连续性是发展心理学的中心主题。这些概念对于理解和支持非典型语言发展儿童的语言发展尤为重要。本文旨在从早期语言习得的发育连续性和发育不连续的角度，阐明未来对36月龄前的早期语言习得过程的研究问题。最近关于早期语言发展的研究支持连续性和非连续性的概念，特别是在早期手势发展与后来的语言习得之间的关系，以及预测儿童言语延迟。然而，一些研究关注的是24个月大的婴儿，这是句法发展的典型开始，研究报告了大肌肉运动和语言等发展领域之间的关系。有必要从跨学科的角度来考察早期语言习得过程中的连续性和非连续性。此外，在早期语言习得中，重要的是要考虑到发展轨迹的加速和减缓两个方面。从前语言时期的延续性和非延续性、领域相关性和认知发展速度等方面对大器晚成者的语言习得进行研究具有重要意义。

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Infant reaching and grasping: Frameworks for testing developmental cascades 婴儿伸手和抓握：测试发育级联的框架

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102104

Eliza L. Nelson , Caroline Danforth , Amy W. Needham

The goal of this review was to highlight discoveries on infant reaching and grasping from research published between 2000 and 2025. We structured the review on two examples from the last quarter century where researchers introduced new approaches for investigating developmental change in infants’ reaching and grasping from the perspective of developmental cascades—processes by which changes in one domain influence abilities within or outside that domain. In the first example, we looked at the “micro” level of dissecting the components of developmental change as measured with the experimental paradigm sticky mittens. In the second example, we zoomed out to the “macro” level to identify different trajectories of change over developmental time from infant handedness. In both, we observed how earlier experiences can lead to different skills later in infancy. These approaches illustrate how developmental scientists can begin to test developmental cascades at different levels of analysis, and these examples have broader implications for methodological and conceptual decisions that all infancy researchers must make. For the next quarter century, we outlined research directions aimed at mechanistic questions to further test how infants’ reaching and grasping experience influences downstream developmental outcomes.

本综述的目的是突出2000年至2025年间发表的关于婴儿伸手和抓握的研究发现。我们以过去四分之一世纪的两个例子为例进行综述，研究人员从发育级联的角度引入了新的方法来研究婴儿伸手和抓握的发育变化-一个领域的变化影响该领域内外的能力的过程。在第一个例子中，我们观察了“微观”层面，通过实验范式粘性连指手套来剖析发育变化的组成部分。在第二个例子中，我们缩小到“宏观”水平，以确定从婴儿惯用手到发育时间的不同变化轨迹。在这两项研究中，我们都观察到早期的经历如何导致婴儿后期的不同技能。这些方法说明了发育科学家如何开始在不同的分析水平上测试发育级联，这些例子对所有婴儿研究人员必须做出的方法和概念决策具有更广泛的影响。在接下来的25年里，我们概述了研究方向，旨在进一步测试婴儿的伸手和抓握经验如何影响下游发展结果。

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