International Society on Infant Studies

Program

11th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies

Atlanta, Georgia, April 2-5, 1998

 

Thursday, April 2

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Habersham

Discussion Session (Th01)

Shedding further light on the NICHD study of early child care: The Israeli case

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Atlanta

Symposium (Th02)

Micro premies: What we know today

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Sherwood

Symposium (Th03)

Gestures, communication and early language

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Ansley

Symposium (Th04)

Perception-action coupling in infancy: What is the information used?

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Marietta

Symposium (Th05)

Biological and maternal influences on infant development in primates

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Roswell

Symposium (Th06)

The nature of reinforcement in infant learning

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Ballroom North

Poster Session

Reactions to a Still Face (Th07)

The Emerging Self (Th08)

Gender Differences (Th09)

Maternal Depression (Th10)

Cocaine-Exposed Infants (Th11)

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Georgia

Poster Session

Learning and Reinforcement (Th12)

Studying Play (Th13)

Crying: Pacifiers, Parents, and Excess (Th14)

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Ballroom South

Debate (Th15)

Emotions: Intrapsychic phenomena or social signals?

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Habersham

Symposium (Th16)

Domains of change or continuity: Why is infancy so important?

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Atlanta

Symposium (Th17)

Is infant numerical competence real or in the eye of the beholder?

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Sherwood

Symposium (Th18)

Narrative analysis of early developmental processes

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Ansley

Symposium (Th19)

Progress in understanding the nature and outcome of persistent infant crying

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Marietta

Symposium (Th20)

Perceptually based approaches to understanding early categorization

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Ballroom North

Poster Session

Adults’ Perception of Infants (Th21)

Attachment Relationships (Th22)

The Development of Infants with Medical Problems (Th23)

Social cognition (Th24)

Learning Words (Th25)

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Georgia

Poster Session

Book Reading (Th26)

Activity Level (Th27)

Early Expectations (Th28)

4:30-6:00 p.m

Ballroom South

Keynote Address (Th29)

If not buzzing confusion, then what?

6:00-9:00 p.m.

Crown Room

The Crown Room is on the top floor of the Sheraton Colony Square hotel with views of Atlanta, including Piedmont Park and surrounding areas. A cash bar will be available. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided, compliments of Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc.

 

Friday, April 3

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Ballroom South

Invited Address (Fr01)

Touch and touch therapies

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Habersham

Discussion Session (Fr02)

Studying the role of fathers in the lives of low-income infants and toddlers

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Roswell

Discussion Session (Fr03)

Social and ecological validity: Conceptional and methodological issues in infant research

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Atlanta

Symposium (Fr04)

Infants’ object manipulations: What do they tell us about infants’ object knowledge?

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Sherwood

Symposium (Fr05)

Re-searching infant perseveration: Brains, dynamics, problems, and simulations

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Ansley

Symposium (Fr06)

New insights from twin studies on cognitive and emotional development

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Marietta

Symposium (Fr07)

The use of eye gaze and referential gestures by chimpanzees: The phylogeny of intentional communication

9:00-10:50 a.m.

Ballroom North

Poster Session

Speech Perception (Fr08)

Language Comprehension (Fr09)

Attachment in Context (Fr10)

High Risk Infants (Fr11)

Fetal Responses (Fr12)

9:00-10:50 a.m.

Georgia

Poster Session

Effects of Prenatal Drug Exposure (Fr13)

Culture and Ethnicity (Fr14)

Perceiving Objects (Fr15)

10:30-12:20 a.m.

Ballroom South

Debate (Fr16)

Lexical principles meet social-pragmatic factors: Is a marriage possible?

10:30-12:20 a.m.

Habersham

Discussion Session (Fr17)

Japanese psychology of socioemotional development: Search for uniquely Japanese roots

10:30-12:20 a.m.

Atlanta

Symposium (Fr18)

Looking where and looking when: What visual measures can (and cannot) tell us about infant perception and cognition

10:30-12:20 a.m.

Sherwood

Symposium (Fr19)

Fathers, psychopathology, and environmental risk: Implications for infant development

10:30-12:20 a.m.

Ansley

Symposium (Fr20)

Perspectives on adult-infant social engagements: Is social contingency really important to young infants?

10:30-12:20 a.m.

Marietta

Symposium (Fr21)

Fetal and neonatal mother-baby interactions

10:30-12:20 a.m.

Roswell

Symposium (Fr22)

Emotional development: Perspectives on the role of maternal perceptions of emotions and internal working models of attachment

11:00-12:50 a.m.

Ballroom North

Poster Session

Long-Term Memory (Fr23)

Parental Reports of Infants’ Language (Fr24)

Language Development (Fr25)

Emotion Regulation (Fr26)

Effects of Early Child Care (Fr27)

Problematic Attachments (Fr28)

11:00-12:50 a.m.

Georgia

Poster Session

Issues in Temperament (Fr29)

Listening to Music (Fr30)

Sleeping and Waking (Fr31)

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Ballroom South

Invited Address (Fr32)

The once and future infant

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Sherwood

Discussion Session (Fr33)

Integration of grant review from NIMH, NIAAA, and NIDA into the Center for Scientific Review (formerly, Div. of Research Grants) at NIH

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Ansley

Discussion Session (Fr34)

Fetal behavior: Time to reflect and refocus for a challenging future

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Habersham

Symposium (Fr35)

Effects of experience on perception

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Atlanta

Symposium (Fr36)

Joint attention: New research on social, cognitive, and neurological processes in typical and atypical development

12:30-2:20 p.m.

Marietta

Symposium (Fr37)

One language theory or two? Toward a unified theory of language development

1:00-2:50 p.m.

Ballroom North

Poster Session

Auditory Perception (Fr38)

Compliance and Negativity (Fr39)

Parental Practice and Policy (Fr40)

Caring for High Risk Newborns (Fr41)

Very Low Birth Weight Babies (Fr42)

1:00-2:50 p.m.

Georgia

Poster Session

Toddler Topics (Fr43)

Stepping and Walking (Fr44)

Taste and Smell (Fr45)

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Ballroom South

Presidential policy symposium (Fr46)

Infant research, public policy, and the media

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Habersham

Discussion Session (Fr47)

Talk with Journal Editors

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Atlanta

Symposium (Fr48)

Cognitive approaches to the role of parental sensitivity in the development of attachment security

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Sherwood

Symposium (Fr49)

Thinking beyond the first step: Infants’ and toddlers’ problem solving strategy and choice

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Ansley

Symposium (Fr50)

The role of fathers in early affective development

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Marietta

Symposium (Fr51)

Infants and other "animals": The problematic study of subjectivity

2:30-4:20 p.m.

Roswell

Symposium (Fr52)

Feeding disturbances in infancy: Physiology, parent-child relationships and diagnostic classification

4:30-6:00 p.m

Ballroom South

Keynote Address (Fr53)

Ontogeny and phylogeny revisited, or why the child is not the evolutionary father to the man

6:30-10:00 p.m.

Atlanta Botanical Garden.

Tickets are limited and must be purchased in advance. Buses to and from the garden will be provided, although the athletically inclined may prefer to walk the 5 or so blocks. We thank Georgia State University for supporting the planning for this event.

Saturday, April 4

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Ballroom South

Invited Address (Sa01)

Mothers and infants: Suckling, opiods, analgesia, and the origins of mother love

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Habersham

Symposium (Sa02)

Emotional availability, attachment, and risk

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Atlanta

Symposium (Sa03)

Process and outcome of preterm baby care

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Sherwood

Symposium (Sa04)

Emergence of motor organization in the fetus and neonate: Congruent themes in human and animal models

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Ansley

Symposium (Sa05)

Environmental influences on fearful behavior in infants

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Marietta

Symposium (Sa06)

Emotion regulation in infants and young children: Contributions of parenting and temperament

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Roswell

Symposium (Sa07)

Impact of parental drug use on behavioral regulation over the first 24 months of life

9:00-10:50 a.m.

Ballroom North

Poster Session

Spatial Matters (Sa08)

Speech to Infants (Sa09)