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Recent media

• Study shows gaps in understanding of mental health during pregnancy, UOW media release, July 29, 2019

• Calls for improvement in the quality of mental health assistance for pregnant women. WIN News Illawarra, July 29, 2019

• UOW-led study shows gaps in understanding of mental health during pregnancy. Illawarra Mercury, July 30, 2019

• There is a reason why your young child wants to read the same book over and over again. The Conversation, Nov 2, 2018

• Also in French: Pourquoi les enfants aiment lire et relire les mêmes histoires. The Conversation, Dec 12, 2018

• Also in Spanish: ¿Por qué los niños se empeñan en leer el mismo cuento una y otra vez? The Conversation, Jan 23, 2019

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You can read some of our research articles by clicking on the links below.

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Family experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Identifying Rewards Over Difficulties Buffers the Impact of Time in COVID-19 Lockdown for Parents in Australia

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Infant cognitive development

• Crawling is associated with more flexible memory retrieval by 9-month-old infants

• Changes in infant visual attention when observing repeated actions

• Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration

• Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

• Eye tracking infants: investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory

• Infant interest in their mother's face is associated with maternal psychological health

• Selective imitation in 6-month-olds: the role of the social and physical context

• Infant imitation from televised peer and adult models

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Maternal well-being during pregnancy

• The relationship between digital media use during pregnancy, maternal psychological wellbeing, and maternal-fetal attachment

• Nutrition information in pregnancy: Where do women seek advice and has this changed over time?

• A systemic review of maternal wellbeing and its relationship with maternal fetal attachment and early postpartum bonding

• Gaps in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy and the early postpartum period. Australian Midwifery News, Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring 2019: 32-33. 

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Sleep and cognition

• Remembering in the context of internal states: The role of sleep for infant memory

• Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants

• Gist extraction and sleep in 12-month-old infants

• Naps promote flexible memory retrieval in 12-month-old infants

• The relationship between prior night's sleep and measures of infant imitation

• Sleep after learning enhances flexibility of memory retrieval in 12-month-old infants

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Language and cognition​

• What paves the way to conventional language? The predictive value of babble, pointing, and socioeconomic status

• The role of verbal labels on flexible memory retrieval at 12-months of age

• Supporting early vocabulary development: what sort of responsiveness matters

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Interventions and Education

• A Randomised Controlled Trial to Test the Effect of Promoting Caregiver Contingent Talk on Language Development in Infants from Diverse SES Backgrounds.

• Efficacy of Maternal Choline Supplementation During Pregnancy in Mitigating Adverse Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Growth and Cognitive Function: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial

• Perceptual training prevents the emergence of the Other Race Effect during infancy

• Junior KICk-OFF – developing formal structured diabetes education within an informal learning environment for children aged 4-11 years

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