@article{ref1,
title="Infant exuberant object play at home: immense amounts of time-distributed, variable practice",
journal="Child development",
year="2021",
author="Herzberg, Orit and Fletcher, Katelyn K. and Schatz, Jacob L. and Adolph, Karen E. and Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine S.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="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 video analyses of spontaneous activity in two 2-h home visits with 13-month-old crawling infants and 13-, 18-, and 23-month-old walking infants (N = 40; 21 boys; 75% White). Regardless of age, for every infant and time scale, across 10,015 object bouts, object interactions were short (median = 9.8 s) and varied (transitions among dozens of toys and non-toys) but consumed most of infants' time. We suggest that infant exuberant object play-immense amounts of brief, time-distributed, variable interactions with objects-may be conducive to learning object properties and functions, motor skill acquisition, and growth in cognitive, social, and language domains.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-3920",
doi="10.1111/cdev.13669",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13669"
}