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- Infants worldwide engage in object play, which is crucial for learning, although the types of objects vary by culture.
- A study focused on Hispanic infants examined their interactions with toys and household items through extensive video observations, finding that these interactions took up about 60% of their time.
- As infants switch between different objects, they create spontaneous learning opportunities that aid their overall development.
Article Abstract
Infants everywhere engage with objects throughout the day, even if the objects of play differ across cultures. Indeed, object play is a universal context for learning. Yet, the characteristics of object play at home remain largely unexamined, especially in infants from non-English-speaking backgrounds. Through frame-by-frame video coding, we documented Hispanic infants' object interactions based on 1-2 h of naturalistic home observations. Infants interacted with a wide variety of toys and household objects in brief bouts that summed to ~60% of their time. As infants transition among objects, they serendipitously generate opportunities for learning that support development across domains.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101712 | DOI Listing |
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