ICPS
2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023
A Longitudinal Study of Preterm Infants at 12 and 30 Months: Object Interaction, Joint Engagement, and Cognitive Development
- Qin LIU
University College London - Catalina Suarez Rivera
University College London - Michelle De Haan
University College London
Abstract
This study examined the features of object interactions and parents’ joint engagement in 20 preterm infants (≤29 weeks' gestation) observed during spontaneous play at 12 months of corrected age and reported that these specific features were longitudinally associated with infants’ cognitive skills at 30 months of corrected age.
Infant