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Majority Influence in Infancy
Majority influence is an integral aspect of many human societies; it is an important catalyst of learning and promotes transmission of cultural knowledge. Given the importance that majorities play in human societies, it is not surprising that young children are sensitive to information gleaned from …
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Object Segregation in Infancy
… the development of object segregation in infancy. Infants aged 4 and 8 months were presented with display involving partly occluded and adjacent objects, and the experiments examined which sources of information infants could use to parse the displays. The results indicated that at four …
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Reasoning about leadership in infancy
Three experiments investigated infants’ understanding of authority-based asymmetrical relations and in particular asked whether infants possess expectations about how leaders will act towards subordinates. I presented infants with live events involving interactions between three puppets of the same …
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Origins of empathy development in infancy
… involved in the generation of empathy in infancy. This thesis endorses the combination of developmental and cognitive neuroscience techniques for a more comprehensive understanding of empathy. In support of this view, the current work has adopted a multi-method approach in which …
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Modes of Feeding and Eczema In Infancy
<p>Eczema is common in infancy, and some modes of feeding may be risks factor for the disease. However, most studies on infant feeding do not sufficiently differentiate between the various modes of feeding, particularly not between direct breast feeding and feeding of expressed breast milk. Data …
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Bone marrow transplantation in infancy and childhood
During a bone marrow transplant there is a major risk of infection either due to the specific disease or as a result of the required preconditioning. Severely neutropenic patients benefit from receiving prophylactic antimicrobial agents within a protected environment and the thesis opens with a …
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Parental Mind-Mindedness And Language Development In Early Infancy
<p>Research suggests that mother-child interactions, including sensitivity, responsiveness, and stimulation, are linked to children’s early language. Mind-mindedness refers to mothers’ proclivity to consider and treat their infant as having an active and autonomous mental life of thoughts, …
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Regression periods in infancy and maternal post-natal depression
… which accompany developmental transitions in infancy. In fullterm normal infants these periods occur at specific ages. The present study had two central aims. Firstly, to see if the Plooijs' finding of Regression Periods at 12, 17 and 26 weeks postpartum could be replicated. Secondly, to …
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Grandparents as Interaction and Social Support Agents in Infancy
The contemporary role of grandparents in infancy was examined in a comparative analysis of grandparent-grandinfant and parent-infant interaction patterns. A second focus of the study was an exploration of the extent to which grandparents function as social support agents for their adult children …
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A study of iron nutrition and immunity in infancy
… design: Iron deficiency is a common condition in infancy, particularly in lower socio-economic groups. In Cape Town it remains a problem in spite of public health measures taken against it: a recent survey found a prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia of 34% in healthy 1-year old term infants who …
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Exploring Developmental Change in Ego-Motion Experience Across Infancy
… environment. How does this ability develop in infancy? One possibility is that the development of visual representations for navigation is driven by passive exposure to the visual statistics of scenes. Another possibility is that active navigation experience using vision to plan and guide …
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Observations on wasting as a sign of disease in infancy
… of pregnancy, labour, the early days of infancy, and of breast feeding, is a factor of vast importance in prophylaxis.
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Effects of musculoskeletal dysfunction in excessive crying syndromes of infancy.
… (or infant colic) is a common pain syndrome of infancy without any specific known aetiology or effective management and it is costly in both social and economic terms. Many cases result in long-term poor sleep, behavioural problems and parental stress. The biomechanical aspects of this condition …
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The development of spatially-accurate reaching behaviour in early infancy
This study was concerned with young infants capacity to coordinate their perception of the spatial characteristics of objects with their reaching and prehensile behaviours. The reaching behaviour of infants ranging in age from two to seven months was videotaped to determine whether they tended to …
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The development of spatially-accurate reaching behaviour in early infancy
This study was concerned with young infants capacity to coordinate their perception of the spatial characteristics of objects with their reaching and prehensile behaviours. The reaching behaviour of infants ranging in age from two to seven months was videotaped to determine whether they tended to …
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The Effects of Social Interactions on Brain Development in Infancy
Studies have provided evidence that infants exhibit distinct neural responses to social stimuli (e.g., faces) compared to non-social stimuli (e.g., toys) shortly after birth. This specialization for processing social input further evolves over months and years, leading to a sophisticated network of …
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