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Latent trajectories of adaptive behaviour in infants at high and low familial risk for autism spectrum disorder.
BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterised by persisting difficulties in everyday functioning. Adaptive behaviour is heterogeneous across individuals with ASD, and it is not clear to what extent early...
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Describing the diurnal relationships between objectively measured mother and infant physical activity.
BACKGROUND: Evidence for the importance of accumulating sufficient physical activity in the early years is mounting. This study aimed to determine the relationship between maternal and infant objectively measured physical...
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Crying babies, empathic toddlers, responsive mothers and fathers
The ability to display caring responses to another child's distress is a key aspect of early empathy that is facilitated by parental socialization. However, existing studies typically involve lab settings and focus on toddlers'...
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Why won't she sleep? Screen exposure and sleep patterns in young infants.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends infants' exposure to electronic screen-based media be minimized; however, more research is needed to understand effects of viewing screen-based media. Here, we examine relations...
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Prediction of Autism at 3 Years from Behavioural and Developmental Measures in High-Risk Infants
We integrated multiple behavioural and developmental measures from multiple time-points using machine learning to improve early prediction of individual Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) outcome. We examined Mullen Scales of Early...
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Infants' visual sustained attention is higher during joint play than solo play
Previous research has suggested that when a social partner, such as a parent, pays attention to an object, this increases the attention that infants pay to that object during spontaneous, naturalistic play. There are two...
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