ArticleInfant behavior & development2014
Not just playing around: infants' behaviors with objects reflect ability, constraints, and object properties.
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- Changes in Posture and Interactive Behaviors as Infants Progress From Sitting to Walking: A Longitudinal Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Infant born preterm have delayed development of adaptive postural control in the first 5 months of life.Infant behavior & development · 2016Article
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- Infants born preterm demonstrate impaired object exploration behaviors throughout infancy and toddlerhood.Physical therapy · 2015Article
- Independent development of the Reach and the Grasp in spontaneous self-touching by human infants in the first 6 months.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
- Object interaction and walking: Integration of old and new skills in infant development.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
- Characterization and intervention for upper extremity exploration & reaching behaviors in infancy.Journal of hand therapy : official journal of the American Society of Hand TherapistsArticle
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Abstract
This study describes infants' behaviors with objects in relation to age, body position, and object properties. Object behaviors were assessed longitudinally in 22 healthy infants supine, prone, and sitting from birth through 2 years. Results reveal: (1) infants learn to become intense and sophisticated explorers within the first 6 months of life; (2) young infants dynamically and rapidly shift among a variety of behavioral combinations to gather information; (3) behaviors on objects develop along different trajectories so that behavioral profiles vary across time; (4) object behaviors are generally similar in supine and sitting but diminished in prone; and (5) infants begin matching certain behaviors to object properties as newborns. These data demonstrate how infants learn to match their emerging behaviors with changing positional constraints and object affordances.
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