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  • Title: Object play in the everyday home environment generates rich opportunities for infant learning.
    Author: Swirbul MS, Herzberg O, Tamis-LeMonda CS.
    Journal: Infant Behav Dev; 2022 May; 67():101712. PubMed ID: 35378342.
    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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