SynthesisSleep2024
The association between infant sleep, cognitive, and psychomotor development: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Sleep, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Infant sleep is not just a behavior: what a Middle Eastern cohort tells us about early development.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- A Multi-Stage Framework for Refining Infant Daytime Sleep-Wake Labels from Wearable Accelerometer Data.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Fecal melatonin as a biomarker of emerging circadian maturity and gut microbiota in infancy.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2026Article
- Predicting Infant Sleep Patterns From Postpartum Maternal Mental Health Measures: Machine Learning Approach.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2026Article
- Association between sleep duration and child development: the Japan Environment and Children's Study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Pediatric sleep electrophysiology: Using polysomnography in developmental cognitive neuroscience.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Navigating the complex link between infant sleep and development: feels like decoding the Escher labyrinth.Sleep · 2024Article
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Abstract
STUDY
objectivesTo synthesize findings of original articles examining the association between sleep-wake patterns of typically developing infants aged 0 to 18 months and cognitive and psychomotor development.
methodsA systematic search strategy was used to identify articles assessing the association between infant sleep (0 to 18 months) and cognitive/psychomotor development (Medline, PsycINFO, and SCOPUS). Of 7136 articles screened, 22 articles met inclusion criteria, and the results were subsequently synthesized. A quality assessment was conducted, and studies were categorized as "poor," "fair," or "good."
resultsOut of 22 studies, 2 found exclusively significant associations (SAs) between infant sleep and cognitive/psychomotor development, 2 found no SAs and 17 found mixed results (MRs). Studies with exclusively significant results used a single sleep variable and single timepoint designs. Studies finding MRs or no SAs used multiple sleep, developmental variables, or multi-timepoint designs. Eight out of 10 studies and 7 out of 8 studies investigating nocturnal and total sleep duration, respectively, found no SA with developmental outcomes. While 63% of studies were rated as having good methodological quality, all studies but one had an estimated power of less than 0.80.
conclusionsFindings of this review do not support conclusive associations between sleep-wake patterns in infancy and cognitive/psychomotor development. This conclusion contrasts with the literature in older populations, questioning if the association between sleep and development is of a different nature in infancy, potentially because of brain maturation. More studies including larger samples will be needed to clarify the presence or absence of such an association.
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