Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Infancy Research: History and Methods: Darwin Muir and Alan Slater.
Part I: Theoretical Issues.
Introduction.
Why Do Infants Do What They Do?.
Introduction.
1. Shifting the Focus From What to Why: C. Rovee-Collier.
The Origins of Knowledge: Nature versus Nurture.
Introduction.
2. Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge: E.S. Spelke.
Connectionist Modeling.
Introduction.
3. Connectionist Modeling and Infant Development: D.Mareschal.
Part II: Sensation and Perception.
Introduction.
Fetal Sensitivity to Touch.
Introduction.
4. Maturation of Human Fetal Responses to Vibroacoustic Stimulation: B.S. Kisilevsky, D.W. Muir, and J.A. Low.
Early Visual perception.
Introduction.
5. Visual perception in the Young Infant: Early Organization and Rapid Learning: A. Slater.
Intermodal Perception.
Introduction.
6. Increasing Specificity in the Development of Intermodal Perception: L. Bahrick. Social Perception.
Introduction.
7. Look at Me: Five-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Very Small Deviations in Eye-Gaze During Social Interactions: L.A. Symons, S.M. Hains, and D.W. Muir.
Speech Perception.
Introduction.
8. Becoming a Native Listener: J.F. Werker.
Part III: Cognitive Development.
Introduction.
Newborn Imitation.
Introduction.
9a. Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates: A.N. Meltzoff, and M.K Moore.
9b. Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation: A.N. Meltzoff, and M.K. Moore.
Infant Counting.
Introduction.
10. Addition and Subtraction by Human Infants: K. Wynn.
Learning About the Physical World.
Introduction.
11. How Do Infants learn About the Physical World? R. Baillargeon.
The A-not-B Error.
Introduction.
12. Why Do Infants Make A-not-B Errors in a Search Task, Yet Show Memory for the Location of Hidden Objects in a Nonsearch Task? A. Ahmed, and T. Ruffman.
Predicting Later Intelligence.
Introduction.
13. Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent Intelligence? M. Sigman, S.E. Cohen, and L. Beckwith.
Part IV: Social Development and Communication:.
Introduction.
Infant-Directed Speech.
Introduction.
14. Infant Responses to Prototypical melodic Contours in Parental Speech: M. Papoušek, M.H. Bornstein, C. Nuzzo, H. Papoušek, and D. Symmes.
15. Early Word Comprehension in 6-Moth-Olds: R. Tincoff, and P.W. Jusczyk.
Social Referencing.
Introduction.
16. Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff Behavior of 1-Year-Olds: J.F. Sorce, R.N. Emde, J. Campos, and M.D. Klinnert.
Infant Understanding of Others' Intentions and Theory of Mind.
Introduction.
17. Fourteen-Through 18-Month-Old Infants.
Differentially Imitate Intentional and Accidental Actions: M. Carpenter, N. Akhtar, and M. Tomasello.
Social Attachments.
Introduction.
18. Stability and Transmission of Attachment across Three Generations: D. Benoit, and K. Parker.
Infants with Autism.
Introduction.
19. An Experimental Investigation of Social-Cognitive Abilities in Infants with Autism: Clinical Implications: T. Charman, J. Swettenham, S. Baron-Cohen, A. Cox, G. Baird, and A. Drew.
Index.
