Lai et al. (2026): Infants use single words (requests: “more”, protests: “no!”) to convey their needs. Caregivers are more likely to respond to infants’ multimodal requests & protests—words that are paired with gestures or actions—than to respond to words alone #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Infants' Multimodal Requests and Protests Elicit Responses From Mothers During Everyday Home Activities

During early vocabulary growth, infants use single words to express complete ideas. Requests (“milk”) and protests (“no!”) are fundamental ways that infants communicate their needs. However, understa...

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Prof Andy Bremner and our PhD researchers, Jieyi Liu and Rachel Martlew presented their recent work on infant development at ICIS2026 @infantstudies.bsky.social Thanks to the organisers, presenters, and attendees for a great week in Panama City 🌎✈️

Chai et al. (2026) find a devtal shift towards less gestural & more verbal strategies for initiating interaction ➡️ show key role of gaze & obj-oriented action in early interaction & adaptability of communicative strategies in mum-child exchanges #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Developmental Shift in Multimodal Cue Usage in Early Mother‐Child Conversational Initiation

Early mother–child conversational initiation is increasingly understood as a developmentally dynamic, embodied, and socially embedded process in which caregivers and children coordinate multimodal cu...

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- @samanthaplate.bsky.social, Schneider, & Iverson (2026) find that infant vocal production ‘dips’ around walk onset & babies only begin coordinating vocalization with walking after 1 month of walking experience #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dips in Development: Learning to Walk Temporarily Disrupts Infant Vocalization

Infant development is a dynamic, cross-domain process. Infants acquire new skills, integrate them with well-established behaviors, and do so simultaneously. New skills can bolster development of exis...

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How in sync are parents and babies, and can AI measure it? Sfeir et al. (2026) use theory-guided machine learning to predict dyadic synchrony, opening new doors for studying early relationships #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #MachineLearning #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Predicting Dyadic Synchrony: A Theory‐Driven Machine Learning Approach

Dyadic synchrony, defined as the coordination of emotional and behavioral signals between mother and child, is a central mechanism supporting early socioemotional development. However, predicting its...

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Latest from the Baby Blog: Uncovering cognition in young infants using deep neural networks and awake fMRI by @clionaod.bsky.social and @ainedineen.bsky.social infantstudies.org/uncovering-c... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #Research #science #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky

And a quick visual roundup of BabylabPAN’s talks by @agata-koziol.bsky.social and posters by @itziarlozano.bsky.social Joanna Duda-Goławska and Maria Garcia Marin at the last @infantstudies.bsky.social ICIS2026. All posters for download here babylab.edu.pl/osiagniecia/...

1/2 @agata-koziol.bsky.social, Laudańska, Babis, D'Souza, @tomalski.bsky.social (2026): 9mos' obj contact depends on interaction btwn body position & obj type, show'g patterns structured studies examining these factors in isolation can't predict #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Toward Understanding Free‐Flowing Manual Object Contact: Real‐Time Interaction Between Body Position and Object Type in 9‐Month‐Olds

Infants manually contact objects differently depending on their body position and the physical properties of objects. Previous studies have examined these factors separately, in structured laboratory...

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1/4 Great week at #ICIS2026 in Panama City, Panama! It was wonderful to catch up with colleagues, meet new people, and both share and hear about latest research.

Our team had a fantastic time at #ICIS2026 with lots of great talks, posters, discussions and plenty of inspiration for future research! Thanks @infantstudies.bsky.social and all the amazing attendees. We’re looking forward to #ICIS2028 on our home turf, Vienna 🇦🇹

Shameless plug by Courtney Filippi 😊 If you’re enjoying #ICIS2026 & are looking for another great community, come join us at @fitngin.bsky.social ! We’d love to see both familiar & new faces for a fun opportunity to connect, share ideas, & build community. Hope to see you this year at #fitng2026!

Honoured to receive the @infantstudies.bsky.social Service Award for running some of the social media accounts on the last day of #ICIS2026 in Panama yesterday. Massive thanks to @jkileyhamlin.bsky.social & Vanessa Lobue for the initial nomination and to Kiley for taking this picture for me! 🎉

Kelsey Frewin from the BLoCKS team, @ddpsyuea.bsky.social, presenting her research at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) in Panama City! 🌎👏 #ICIS2026 #InfantDevelopment #DevelopmentalPsychology

#ICIS2026 Raji Madhavan presenting MB-AtHome: Looking-While-Listening (MBAH1-LWL) 👶🏠 👏🥰 Join an info session next week to learn more! Info at: manybabies.org/MBAH1/

#ICIS2026 @mzettersten.bsky.social taking about the MB5-Meta project, a systematic meta-analytical review of infant looking time preferences for novel vs. familiar visual stimuli. 💥 👀 🍎 Learn more here: manybabies.org/MB5-Meta/

Congrats Laurel Gabard-Durnam on the @infantstudies.bsky.social Early Career Award!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @laurelgd.bsky.social #ICIS2026

You can download them from here babylab.edu.pl/osiagniecia/...

It’s a wrap! Presented my favourite PhD study today at #ICIS2026 on how peripheral visual attention might help children learning a sign or spoken language solve the reference problem. @infantstudies.bsky.social

Good discussion at the end on research funding, social contexts, and what exciting questions can (and cannot) be asked with this data

Nick Turk-Browne covers neural mechanisms underlying episodic, statistical learning, and reinforcement learning during infancy! Very cool data using personalized home video memories within awake infant fMRI tasks

@drkoraly.bsky.social gives a great overview of the HEALthy Brain & Child Development (HBCD) Study and shows some data on profiles of EEG for 3-9 month old infants @joscelinrocha.com

Last invited session we are focusing and early neural development! #ICIS2026 @infantstudies.bsky.social Chaired by @rhodricusack.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social

Honored and thrilled to receive the Early Career Award from @infantstudies.bsky.social! Thanks to my mentees and collaborators for making my research possible and to @nataliebrito.bsky.social for the very kind nomination and @drkoraly.bsky.social and Chuck Nelson for their letters of support!

Natalie Brito@nataliebrito.bsky.social · 4w ago

Congrats Laurel Gabard-Durnam on the @infantstudies.bsky.social Early Career Award!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @laurelgd.bsky.social #ICIS2026

Last day of #ICIS2026! First session of the day brings together 3 prominent researchers in the field to tell us what they think is most exciting about infant development @infantstudies.bsky.social

Today is the day! Join us for Symposium 8.4 during the the final session of ICIS (4:45-6:15) in Panama 1-3. @infantstudies.bsky.social #ICIS2026

Ellie Taylor-Robinette@elliektaylor.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm thrilled to be the chair of @infantstudies.bsky.social symposium 8.4: Community-Engaged Research Focused on Infant and Perinatal Populations next week with rockstar lineup @rachelromeo.bsky.social, Rose Perry, and @dtandon.bsky.social. Join us Thursday, 7/9 at 4:45pm to learn more! #ICIS2026

Chen Yu demonstrates how micro-level input statistics can be collected using naturalistic methods and how a computational solution can help us understand these complex datasets

Masako Myowa presented an amazing array of data integrating ECG, EEG, and microbiome within the context of parent-child co-regulation

Fabulous keynote address by @hiroyoshikawany.bsky.social! Such an inspiring presentation on conducting rigorous, culturally sensitive research on early child development within humanitarian contexts! #ICIS2026 @infantstudies.bsky.social

Amazing discussion during the Global South session (chaired by Ana Carmiol) on how the field of infancy can center the knowledge and perspectives of the global majority. Great talks by @lehersingh.bsky.social and Marigen Narea #ICIS2026 @infantstudies.bsky.social

Make sure to come to Symposium 5.5 today at 1.30pm! #ICIS2026 Attendees will get to try famous Polish krówka 🍬 With Yushan Guo, Sabrina Perkins and Lana Karasik, we will tell you about how manual and postural behaviours dynamically interact both moment-by-moment and across developmental transitions