This post is based on a poster with the same title that I and Suzy J. Styles presented at #ICIS2024, but given a different spin for the Infancy Baby Blog. Recently, I was describing my research on kinship terms to a friend, and how in Chinese culture, we never ever...
The formation of neural circuitry is an astonishing feat. Within a matter of months, two individual cells transform into a fully functioning nervous system. By adulthood, a single cubic millimeter of human brain tissue, roughly the size of a sharpened pencil tip,...
Introduction In 2017, 535 million children (one quarter) of the world’s children lived in countries affected by armed conflict, violence, disaster and/or chronic crisis.[1] In 2018, over 29 million babies were born in conflict-affected areas, starting their lives in...
By Catia M. Oliveira1, Amy Atkinson2, Michelle St Clair3, Gareth Gaskell1, Lisa Henderson1 1 University of York, 2 University of Lancaster, 3 University of Bath Humans spend a large portion of their lives asleep. Whilst this unconscious state leaves us more...
The ICIS Founding Generation Summer Fellowship for Undergraduates aims to develop the next generation of scholars to advance innovative research on infancy and translation of research for the public good. The program pairs promising students with research mentors from...
Understanding and nurturing parenting as the place where development happens Vision: […] But before I go, I feel I must know. What am I? Wanda Maximoff: […] You are a body of wires and blood and bone […] You are my sadness and my hope. And mostly you're my love....
