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The International Congress of Infant Studies is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion of research on the development of infants

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ICIS@Infantstudies
15 Nov 2024
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Join us on April 14th at 11am ET / 5pm CEST for a FIT’NG ICIS preview of the Panama 2026 meetings: exclusive program sneak peeks, highlighting events of shared interest, and what you gain by attending both. Register: tinyurl.com/fitngicis
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FINAL CALL! ICIS 2026 Late-Breaking Abstract submissions close March 27! Don’t miss your chance to share your latest infant research at #ICIS2026 in Panama City infantstudies.org/abstracts/
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Registration is now OPEN for the XXV ICIS 2026! At ICIS 2026 in Panama City, we will explore “Infancy in Context,” highlighting how cultural, social, environmental, and methodological contexts shape early development. Register now! infantstudies.org/registrati…
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ICIS and FIT’NG are back-to-back in Panama City this year — attend both in one trip! FIT’NG 2026 is now accepting oral, poster, and symposium proposals in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging. Deadline: 23:59 PST on Feb 25 fitng.org/2026-conference/
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Berger et al. (2025) studied parents' value systems on infant sleep: value profiles depended on parent gender & linked w/ cognitions about infant sleep & parents' interactions w/ infants, but not quality of infants' sleep #EarlyYears #Sleep #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70057

Parental Values Are Associated With How Parents Feel About Their Infants' Sleep, but Not the...

Values help shape behavior and influence how individuals assess themselves and others. Previous research on the relation between values and parenting has largely overlooked the impact of values on...

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Di Prete et al. (2025) studied complementary feeding (parent-led vs. baby-led weaning) & maternal comm in 12mos. Both methods foster similar communicative envts, tho parent-led weaning involves more maternal instructional talk @ProgettoSpoon #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70060

Complementary Feeding Approach and Maternal Communicative Functions During Mealtimes in 12‐Month‐...

The literature on alternative approaches to complementary feeding, especially Baby-Led Weaning (a complementary feeding approach in which infants participate in family meals and eat finger food...

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Tu et al. (2025) studied 9mo infants in Sweden & Zimbabwe via eye-tracking: attention allocation is different in these cultures in infancy, but each culture has a unique dynamic attentional style that includes holistic & analytic components #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70063

Holistic and Analytic Attention in Infancy: A Cross‐Cultural Study in Sweden and Zimbabwe

This pre-registered eye-tracking study assesses whether there are differences in infants' attention allocation across diverse cultural contexts while taking several social-environmental factors into...

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Micheletti et al. (2025): new research using home observations & wearable sensors shows that when moms hold their crying babies, both moms & babies show vagal withdrawal. Physical touch, not vocalizing, may be key for regulation in the wild #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70054

Caregiver Holding, Not Vocalizing, Supports Real‐Time Vagal Regulation

Caregivers play a critical role in infant physiological regulation. Lab-based studies show that more responsive mothers have infants that are better regulators, indexed by a decrease in infant...

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Meristo et al. (2025): preschool attendance (but not parents' mental state lang & having siblings) showed ⬆️sensitivity to unfair outcomes => early social interactions w/ peers in preschools impt in devt of toddlers' fairness expectations #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70055

Social Influences on Early Fairness Expectations in Toddlers: Siblings, Peers, and Caregivers

This study examined how social factors such as parental mental state language, sibling presence, and preschool attendance influence their expectations of fairness in 18-month-old toddlers. Fifty-fo...

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Dinzinger et al. (2025) show how maternal smartphone use affects mother–infant interaction, behavior, and autonomic arousal. Even short periods of phone use disturb interactions and lead to infant distress. #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70056

Tiny Screens, Big Impact: Effects of Maternal Smartphone Use on Maternal and Infants' Physiological...

Smartphones can absorb attention and abruptly interrupt social interactions, a dynamic particularly critical in early parent-infant exchanges where infants rely on emotionally available caregivers...

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ICIS@Infantstudies
24 Dec 2025
✨ The ICIS Communications Committee wishes everyone a happy holiday season! ✨ See you in 2026! Follow us - Bluesky: infantstudies.bsky.social LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/icis-infancy… YouTube: youtube.com/@infantstudies-i… Instagram: instagram.com/infantstudies TikTok: tiktok.com/@infantstudies
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ICIS@Infantstudies
23 Dec 2025
Bang et al. (2025): Caregivers talk the most to their toddlers in more activities than just books & play! Daylong recordings reveal ind diffs in child-directed speech across daily activities in English- & Spanish-speaking families in the US #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70051

Time to Talk: Variability in Caregiver‐Child Verbal Engagement During Everyday Activities Sampled...

Children learn language through interactions with others. To document variation in how caregivers engage verbally with their 2-year-old children, we sampled six 10-min segments of dense child-direc...

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ICIS@Infantstudies
18 Dec 2025
Beyer, Sonne, Kingo, & Krøjgaard (2025): Deferred imitation present at 6 months with different objects but performance increases from 6 to 12 months → extends prior work on early emergence and development of deferred imitation in infancy #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70053

Deferred Imitation: A 9‐Month Revolution or an Emerging Ability at 6 Months?

The ability to engage in deferred imitation is by many scholars considered as one of several social-cognitive abilities that emerge during what has been coined the “9-month revolution”. Meanwhile,...

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ICIS@Infantstudies
16 Dec 2025
.@camiscaff, Coffey & @CristiaAlex (2025) meta-analysis (N=8,200, 15-46mo): correlation btwn SES & children's word comprehension increased w/ child age; touch-based measures had smaller effects than both looking- and pointing-based measures #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70035

A Meta‐Analysis of the Correlation Between Socioeconomic Status and Direct Measures of Young...

What can we learn from the empirical body of literature on the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and children's word comprehension? To answer this question, a systematic review was...

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ICIS@Infantstudies
12 Dec 2025
LAST DAY for submitting your abstracts for #ICIS2026 (Fri 12 December 2025). The XXV Biennial Congress will be held on July 6-9 2026 in Panama City, at the RIU Hotel Riu Plaza Panama. infantstudies.org/abstracts/ #infantstudies
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ICIS@Infantstudies
11 Dec 2025
Chen (2025) found notable diffs in self-regulation, adaptive functioning, social comm & interaction domains btwn US and Taiwanese infants on ASQ:SE-2, showing importance of culturally sensitive adaptation when used in international contexts #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70048

Cross‐Cultural Applicability and Psychometric Properties of an Infant Social‐Emotional Screening...

In this study, the psychometric properties of the 6-month age interval of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ:SE-2) in its English and traditional Chinese...

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ICIS@Infantstudies
9 Dec 2025
This is the last week for submitting your abstracts for #ICIS2026 (due Fri 12 December 2025). The XXV Biennial Congress will be held on July 6-9 2026 in Panama City, at the RIU Hotel Riu Plaza Panama. infantstudies.org/abstracts/ #infantstudies
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ICIS@Infantstudies
4 Dec 2025
Chai & Ko (2025) analysed devtal changes in linguistic properties of Korean CDS of 35 children (6-30mo): findings suggest that shifts in CDS structure systematically shape the learnability of linguistic units during early language devt #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.70046

Input Properties Shape Word Segmentation Performance Across Child Development: A Computational...

This study investigates how the linguistic properties of child-directed speech (CDS) change across child development and how these changes affect segmentation performance in computational models. We...

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ICIS@Infantstudies
2 Dec 2025
ICIS Membership renewal for 2026 and 2027 is now OPEN! Renew or join today! infantstudies.org/membership…
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