Toddlers are more likely than younger infants to utilize self-soothing and self-distraction as their primary regulatory strategies (Mangelsdorf, Shapiro, & Marzolf, 1995). Young children's behavioral repertoires begin to include constructive coping strategies that reflect their increasing cognitive and la...
We examined the effects of acute sleep restriction (nap deprivation) on toddlers’ emotion expression. Ten healthy children (seven females; 30–36 months old) followed a strict sleep schedule (≥12.5 h time in bed per 24-h) for 5 days, before each of two randomly assigned ...
Sex differences in oxytocin and vasopressin: implications for autism spectrum disorders? Behav Brain Res 176: 170–186. Article CAS Google Scholar Chawarska K, Volkmar F, Klin A (2010). Limited attentional bias for faces in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders. Arch Gen Psychiatry 67: 178...
I don’t remember too much about Halloweens. We have family pictures of my mom getting ready to take my brother and me out for what must have been my first trick or treating experience–I was a blonde toddler who hated the cute bunny mask and so wore it mainly around my neck on its...
age group so that the youngest children had to name a smaller set of line drawings. We assumed that younger children would not be able to name those stimuli that older children could not name. The order of presentation of stimuli was randomized for each participant. Pictures were divided int...
toddlersEarly childhood is a period of dramatic change in sleep and emotion processing, as well as a time when disturbance in both domains are first detected. Although sleep is recognized as central in emotion processing and psychopathology, the great majority of experimental data have been ...