Infant Development: The Essential Readings

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.