TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Infant exuberant object play at home: immense amounts of time-distributed, variable practice
JO  - Child development
A1  - Herzberg, Orit
A1  - Fletcher, Katelyn K.
A1  - Schatz, Jacob L.
A1  - Adolph, Karen E.
A1  - Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine S.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13669
ID  - ref1
ER  -