ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2023
Equifinality in infancy: The many paths to walking.
Article in Developmental psychobiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Developmental Trajectories of Locomotor Skills in Infants With Down Syndrome.Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association · 2026Observational
- Step by Step, Day by Day: The First 3 Months of Infant Walking at Home.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Everyday positioning experience in typically developing infants and infants with or at risk for cerebral palsy.Research in developmental disabilities · 2026Article
- Moment-to-moment cascades: Infants' real-time locomotor posture structures opportunities for joint object play with caregivers.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Environments "develop": Infant motor development can inform the study of physical space.New ideas in psychology · 2025Article
- Social dynamics of supported walking in 11-month-old infants.Infant behavior & development · 2024Article
- Equifinality in infancy: The many paths to walking.Developmental psychobiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Many different pathways can lead to the same result or developmental outcome. What are the developmental routes that result in the onset of walking? In this longitudinal study, we documented patterns of infant locomotion during everyday activities at home for 30 prewalking infants. Using a milestone-based design, we focused on observations spanning the two months before the onset of walking (M age at walk onset = 11.98 months, SD = 1.27). We examined how much time infants spent in motion and when they moved, whether they were more likely to do so while prone (crawling) or upright with support (cruising or supported walking). Results showed immense variability in infants' practice regimes en route to walking-some infants spent relatively similar amounts of time crawling, cruising, and supported walking at each session, others preferred one method of travel over the alternatives, and some switched between different types of locomotion from session to session. In general, however, infants spent a larger share of their movement time in upright positions compared to prone. Finally, our densely sampled dataset revealed a clear feature of locomotor development: infants follow many distinct and variable paths to walk onset, regardless of the age at which it is attained.
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