Early exploration of one's own body, exploration of objects, and motor, language, and cognitive development relate dynamically across the first two years of life.

ABSTRACT: Early exploratory behaviors have been proposed to facilitate children's learning, impacting motor, cognitive, language, and social development. This study related the performance of behaviors used to explore oneself to behaviors used to explore objects, and then related both types of exploratory behaviors to motor, language, and cognitive measures longitudinally from 3 through 24 months of age via secondary analysis of an existing dataset. Participants were 52 children (23 full-term, 29 preterm). Previously published results from this dataset documented delays for preterm relative to full-term infants in each assessment. The current results related performance among the assessments throughout the first 2 years of life. They showed that the developmental trajectories of behaviors children u

SUBMITTER: Babik I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9589518 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature