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| Title |
The Efficiency of Infants' Exploratory Play Is Related to Longer-Term Cognitive Development
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00635 |
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| Authors |
Paul Muentener, Elise Herrig, Laura Schulz |
| Abstract |
In this longitudinal study we examined the stability of exploratory play in infancy and its relation to cognitive development in early childhood. We assessed infants' (N = 130, mean age at enrollment = 12.02 months, SD = 3.5 months; range: 5-19 months) exploratory play four times over 9 months. Exploratory play was indexed by infants' attention to novelty, inductive generalizations, efficiency of exploration, face preferences, and imitative learning. We assessed cognitive development at the fourth visit for the full sample, and again at age three for a subset of the sample (n = 38). The only measure that was stable over infancy was the efficiency of exploration. Additionally, infants' efficiency score predicted vocabulary size and distinguished at-risk infants recruited from early intervention sites from those not at risk. Follow-up analyses at age three provided additional evidence for the importance of the efficiency measure: more efficient exploration was correlated with higher IQ scores. These results suggest that the efficiency of infants' exploratory play can be informative about longer-term cognitive development. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 7 | 37% |
| Japan | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 11 | 58% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 84% |
| Scientists | 2 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 5% |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 124 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 124 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 14% |
| Researcher | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 18 | 15% |
| Unknown | 34 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 39 | 31% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 19 | 15% |
| Unknown | 39 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2018.
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