ArticleInfancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies2023
The mountain stream of infant development.
Article in Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Growing Communicators: A Fine-Grained Analysis of Toddlers' Communicative Intentions From Requestive and Expressive, to Information Seeking and Giving.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2026Article
- Ecologically-grounded observations offer unique insights into the embodied and embedded nature of infant learning.Human development · 2026Article
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- The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Fathers' unmodulated prosody in child-directed speech.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- EgoActive: Integrated Wireless Wearable Sensors for Capturing Infant Egocentric Auditory-Visual Statistics and Autonomic Nervous System Function 'in the Wild'.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Editorial: Early social experience: impact on early and later social-cognitive development.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Toward a Causal Science of Early Play?Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesReview
- Unpacking Multimodal Verb Input in English: Insights From Typically Developing Infants and Those Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
Development is complex. It encompasses interacting domains, at multiple levels, across nested time scales. Embracing the complexity of development-while addressing the challenges inherent to studying infants-requires researchers to make tough decisions about what to study, why, how, where, and when. My own view is inspired by a developmental systems approach, and echoed in Esther Thelen's (2005) mountain stream metaphor. Like a river that carves its course, the active infant navigates the social and physical environment and generates rich inputs that propel learning and development. Drawing from my experiences, I offer some recommendations to guide research on infants. I encourage researchers to embrace discovery science; to observe infants in ecologically valid settings; to recognize the active and adaptive nature of infant behavior; to break down silos and consider the nonobvious; and to adopt full transparency in all aspects of research. I draw on cascading influences in infant play, language, and motor domains to illustrate the value of a bottom-up, cross-domain, collaborative approach.
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