TY - JOUR
T1 - Antecedents of information-processing skills in infants
T2 - Habituation, novelty responsiveness, and cross-modal transfer
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
AU - Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
N1 - Funding Information:
In memory of Jeffrey Tanaka, colleague, collaborator, and friend. This research was supported by grants (HD20559) and (HD20807) and by a Research Career Development Award (HDOO521) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to M.H.B. We thank H. Bomstein, L. Cyphers, J. Genevro, 0. M. Haynes, S. Linnemeyer, J. Tal. and B. Wright for comments and assistance.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Three skills which characterize cognitive functioning in human infants in the middle of the first year of life-habituation, novelty responsiveness, and cross-modal transfer-predict mental ability in later childhood. Antecedents of each skill at 5 months postnatal were examined in a short-term prospective longitudinal study of infant ability and maternal intelligence and interaction style. Infant perceptuocognitive performance at 2 months, maternal intelligence, and maternal responsiveness at 5 months relate to the expression of the three infant cognitive skills, but in different ways. Variation in infant information-processing abilities can be explained by specific child and maternal factors that are evident soon after birth.
AB - Three skills which characterize cognitive functioning in human infants in the middle of the first year of life-habituation, novelty responsiveness, and cross-modal transfer-predict mental ability in later childhood. Antecedents of each skill at 5 months postnatal were examined in a short-term prospective longitudinal study of infant ability and maternal intelligence and interaction style. Infant perceptuocognitive performance at 2 months, maternal intelligence, and maternal responsiveness at 5 months relate to the expression of the three infant cognitive skills, but in different ways. Variation in infant information-processing abilities can be explained by specific child and maternal factors that are evident soon after birth.
KW - cross-modal transfer
KW - habituation
KW - novelty responsiveness
KW - parenting interactions
KW - prediction
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U2 - 10.1016/0163-6383(94)90029-9
DO - 10.1016/0163-6383(94)90029-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0011024035
SN - 0163-6383
VL - 17
SP - 371
EP - 380
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
IS - 4
ER -