International Congress of Infant Studies

Cabell Williams, Allison Baines, Madelyn Nance, Emily Mortman, Sonie Bae, Sheher-Bano Ahmed and Meghan Puglia (2025): Parental bids for joint attention with infant predicts neural variability within infants’ frontal & central brain regions, alluding to importance of parental cues in forming neural networks that help social attention regulation #EarlyYears #DevelopmentalPsychology #research #infancypapers https://lnkd.in/gJAP_7K2

How do vocab and object exploration impact attention to shape and retention of object labels in 2-year-old children? Megan Lorenz & Sarah Kucker (2025) find: *vocabulary > object exploration in supporting attention to shape *better vocabulary = better attention to shape #EarlyYears #DevelopmentalPsychology #infancypapers https://lnkd.in/gVmnRdCm

Marc Antony Hullebus, Adamantios Gafos, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Ph.D., Dr. Alan Langus, Tom Fritzsche, Barbara Höhle (2025): When perceiving speech, infants can track stable relations between variable acoustic cues and intuitively prefer speech conforming to a perceptual cue relation found in adults’ categorisation of similar speech sounds compared to a reversed relation. #Research #DevelopmentalPsychology #EarlyYears #infancypapers https://lnkd.in/giMv9jXk

Angela Dou & Laura Cirelli, PhD (2025) asked caregivers how they engage musically with their infants: They cite that infants directly influence their home musical repertoire; engaged infant response to song predicts stronger dyadic attachment #EarlyYears #DevelopmentalPsychology #Research #infancypapers https://lnkd.in/gEdifvSU

🧸🔎  How Glasgow Fosters Infant Development In July 2024, Glasgow welcomed 1,100 of the world’s leading developmental neuroscientists for the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) at the Glasgow Science Centre and Scottish Event Campus (SEC). But this event was about more than just research and networking—it left a meaningful impact on the city. At Glasgow Convention Bureau, we work closely with event organisers to create opportunities for community engagement and lasting benefits. With support from Glasgow City Council, ICIS 2024 delivered a series of outreach events, bringing expert advice directly to local parents and carers, ensuring the insights shared at the congress reached beyond the venue walls. Jane Brumpton, CEO of Early Years Scotland, highlighted the significance of this approach: 🗣 “It widens the reach. For an international event to come to Glasgow and then we’re able to push [the content] out to the benefit, ultimately, of the children.” This approach aligns with VisitBritain’s BE Impactful framework, helping ensure international conferences in Glasgow leave a lasting legacy. Find out more in The Iceberg's case study: https://lnkd.in/ezRFW7iU Aileen Crawford Sam Wass Heather Corcoran, PhD, PMP, LSSGB #MEET4IMPACT Global Destination Sustainability Movement (GDS-Movement)

The 2024 International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) in Glasgow is another excellent example of delivering wider societal impacts at its core. The team at Glasgow Convention Bureau, with their dedicated Positive Impact working group, worked with organisers and relevant stakeholders to deliver community impact programmes, leveraging the attendance of global developmental neuroscientists in early infant development. The congress provided a programme of opportunities for parents and carers of early infants from across Glasgow and the region to meet with global researchers and experts to discuss the latest developments on infant development, from speech and language to nutrition and mobility. Take a look at the informative case study compiled from The Iceberg on the ICIS 2024 Congress in #Glasgow here: https://lnkd.in/ezRFW7iU Thank you and warm congratulations to all the team at Glasgow Convention Bureau, Scottish Event Campus (SEC), International Congress of Infant Studies, Early Years Scotland, Professor Sam Wass and Professor Rachel Barr!

Maeve Boylan, Bailey Garner, MS, Ethan Kutlu, Jessica Figueira (https://lnkd.in/gVbx8WJF), Ryan Barry-Anwar, PhD, Zoe Pestana, M.A., Andreas Keil & Lisa Scott (2025) studied associative learning in infancy: category- & individual-level labels direct infant attention & visuocortical processing differently; more complexities in waveform morphologies between label type for 9- and 12-month-olds but not 6-month-olds #infancypapers https://lnkd.in/gDG83YKe

Lana Karasik, PhD, Joshua Schneider, Yana Kuchirko and Rano Dodojonova (2025): in Tajikistan, infants explore objects across home spaces despite few toys, interacting with items distributed indoors and outdoors. Object play remains crucial for learning and infant development. #EarlyYears #DevelopmentalPsychology #Research #infancypapers https://lnkd.in/gXjpqP45

In a longitudinal study, Viviane Valdes, Linda Craighead, Charles A. Nelson III and Michelle Bosquet Enlow (2025) found that stressful life events in the first 5 years & maternal depressive symptoms interacted to predict child anxiety symptoms, even more than maternal anxiety symptoms or maternal neuroticism #Research #EarlyYears #DevelopmentalPsychology #infancypapers https://lnkd.in/gQqnTn_V

Babies learn best from those who respond to their babbling! 👶✨ Julia Venditti, Rachel Elkin, Rondeline Williams, Jennifer Schwade, Angela Narayan and Michael Goldstein (2025) show that infants form stronger social expectations when their babbling gets a timely response—even from a robot car! 🤖🚗 #DevelopmentalPsychology #Research #EarlyYears #infancypapers https://lnkd.in/ghg7mt-R