Executive function in the first three years of life: Precursors, predictors and patterns

A Hendry, EJH Jones, T Charman - Developmental Review, 2016 - Elsevier
Executive function (EF) underpins the ability to set goals and work towards those goals by co-
ordinating thought and action. Its emergence during the first 3 years of life is under-studied …

Emotion-related self-regulation and its relation to children's maladjustment

N Eisenberg, TL Spinrad… - Annual review of clinical …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The development of children's emotion-related self-regulation appears to be related to, and
likely involved in, many aspects of children's development. In this review, the distinction …

Infant exuberant object play at home: Immense amounts of time‐distributed, variable practice

O Herzberg, KK Fletcher, JL Schatz… - Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Object play yields enormous benefits for infant development. However, little is known about
natural play at home where most object interactions occur. We conducted frame‐by‐frame …

Executive function in preschoolers: a review using an integrative framework.

N Garon, SE Bryson, IM Smith - Psychological bulletin, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
During the last 2 decades, major advances have been made in understanding the
development of executive functions (EFs) in early childhood. This article reviews the EF …

Joint attention without gaze following: Human infants and their parents coordinate visual attention to objects through eye-hand coordination

C Yu, LB Smith - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The coordination of visual attention among social partners is central to many components of
human behavior and human development. Previous research has focused on one pathway …

Effortful control

N Eisenberg, CL Smith, A Sadovsky… - Handbook of self …, 2004 - books.google.com
O ur purpose in this chapter is to discuss the construct of effortful control and review
literature relevant to its importance, development, and significance for optimal development …

Distracted walking: cell phones increase injury risk for college pedestrians

D Stavrinos, KW Byington, DC Schwebel - Journal of safety research, 2011 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: Distraction on cell phones jeopardizes motor-vehicle driver safety, but few
studies examine distracted walking. At particular risk are college students, who walk …

The social origins of sustained attention in one-year-old human infants

C Yu, LB Smith - Current biology, 2016 - cell.com
The ability to sustain attention is a major achievement in human development and is
generally believed to be the developmental product of increasing self-regulatory and …

A bottom-up view of toddler word learning

AF Pereira, LB Smith, C Yu - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2014 - Springer
A head camera was used to examine the visual correlates of object name learning by
toddlers as they played with novel objects and as the parent spontaneously named those …

Hand–eye coordination predicts joint attention

C Yu, LB Smith - Child development, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The present article shows that infant and dyad differences in hand–eye coordination predict
dyad differences in joint attention (JA). In the study reported here, 51 toddlers ranging in age …