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How activity during pregnancy could impact infant motor development In the 2021 study, “Maternal Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity across Pregnancy and Early Childhood Motor Development,” Jones et al. aimed to determine whether a mother’s physical activity levels during pregnancy could predict more advanced motor skills during early childhood. The study...

Continuing our Current Project Spotlight series is Eli Anish! Eli recently presented this research at the Fredrick Honors College Research Symposium. He investigates the relationship between interaction and motor development! Check it out!

Current Project Spotlight: Eli Anish Eli's honor thesis through the Online BabyLab investigates the effects of parental resets in the BabyLab's reaching task. The reaching task sample includes infants around 3.5 months nand their parents, and the infant is encouraged to reach for and interact with a spoon. We compared the infant's inte...

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Looking at Autism, Motor Development, and Executive Function In the study, “Emerging Executive Functioning and Motor Development in Infants at High and Low Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder,” executive function and motor skills were examined in infants at lower and higher risk for an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis (ASD). Infants with a sibling are con...

Last week, lab member Eli Anish presented his research done through the Online BabyLab at the Fredrick Honors College Research Symposium. Eli researched the effects of parent interference on infant motor development. Well done Eli!

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How does gender impact play? The article “The Roles of Child Gender and Parental Knowledge of Child Development in Parent-Child Interactive Play” by Marjanovič-Umek and Fekonja-Peklaj assessed how a child’s gender impacts how parents and their children play together. They also investigated the relationship between parent...

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Links between prenatal stress in pregnancy, motor development, and infant temperament A study by Christin Haselbeck et al. in 2017 measured the effects of prenatal stress during pregnancy on infant temperament and motor skills development. This study found a link between higher overall prenatal stress and a more difficult temperament. This link was shown in infant activity levels. Th...

We are starting a new series on our blog where we highlight projects being run by our lab members! One of our graduate students, Darcy Smith, is kicking us off with her research on the ways income and socioeconomic status could affect infant development. Check it out!

Current Project Spotlight: Darcy Smith One of our graduate students, Darcy Smith, is currently investigating the impact of family education and income on infant motor development. Her previous research found socioeconomic status affects fine motor skills (small muscle movements, like picking up a toy) and perception-action skills (integr...

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Parenting in the East Asian Community In the qualitative research study, The Influence of Culture on Parenting Practices of East Asian Families and Emotional Intelligence of Older Adolescents, Helen Y. Sung aims to determine whether there is a relationship between Eastern Asian families’ parenting styles and their adolescent’s emoti...

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The Benefits of Infants Swimming In the study Effects of Baby Swimming on Motor Development and Cognitive Development: A Pilot Trial, Borioni et al. tested to see if infant swimming had any effects on cognitive and motor development. This study was conducted in Rome, Italy with 27 participants ranging from 0 to 3 years. They split....

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The acquisition of gender labels in infancy: Implications for sextyped play (2009) This study intended to assess the onset of gender labels during infant development. The longitudinal study included a sample of 82 children (36 males, 46 females) and their mothers. Families were primarily middle-class, European American. Participant criteria made sure all infants were the firstborn...

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Stimulating the motor development of very premature infants Premature births are a worldwide epidemic reaching about 15 million premature births per year. While survival has increased among premature babies, there is still potential for them to have lifelong health problems including cerebral palsy, cognitive disabilities, developmental delays, and more. A s...

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Toy preferences between boys and girls In the article “How large are gender differences in toy preferences?”, Davis and Hines (2020), they aimed to understand the magnitude of gender-related effects on children’s toy preferences that were impacted by the methods, year, types of toys, and age of children. Utilizing a meta-analysis a...