ArticleDevelopmental psychology2026
How infants learn (to walk): Transitions are a fundamental component of practice.
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- 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
- Infants and Adults Are Sensitive to the Costs of Upright Versus Non-Upright Locomotion.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Ecologically-grounded observations offer unique insights into the embodied and embedded nature of infant learning.Human development · 2026Article
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Learning to walk-like learning any motor skill-requires practice. But what are the critical components of infants' natural practice regimen? Traditionally, researchers focus on practicing the target behavior (e.g., days since walk onset, number of steps/hr). However, part of what makes skills truly functional is the ability to enter the task space (here, transitions from nonupright to upright postures), produce and pause the target behavior (transitions between standing and walking), and use the behavior in varied contexts (e.g., walking from one surface to another and from one place to another). Thus, we expanded the concept of practice to include moment-to-moment, self-generated transitions that require rapid adaptations to ever-changing affordances. During 2 hr of spontaneous home activities, regardless of age, infants (13-, 18-, and 23-month-olds,
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