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Object play in the everyday home environment generates rich opportunities for infant learning.

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 backgroun...

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Published in:Infant Behavior & Development Vol. 67
Main Authors: Swirbul, Mackenzie S., Herzberg, Orit, Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier B.V. May2022
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          Swirbul, Mackenzie S.
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      ab: 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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