Chair: Abraham Sagi

Participants: Motti Gini, Tirtsa Joels, Nina Koren-Karie, Abraham Sagi, Yair Ziv

Chair: Molly Nozyce

Survival of infants with birth weight less than 501 grams, Charles E. Mercier

Neurofunctional development of the micro premie, Bernard Z. Karmel, Judith M. Gardner, Anantham Harin, Anthony Barone

Pain responses of <1000 gram newborn infants and their relationship to temperament at six months, Fran L. Porter, Joan Luby, Cynthia Wolf, Rhonda Ferrett, Justine A. Wayne, J. Philip Miller

The neurodevelopmental course of micro premies during the first two years, Debra Fagan, Molly Nozyce, Mara J. Hoberman, Lawrence M. Noble, Ivan L. Hand

Discussant: Cecilia McCarton

Chair: Ross A. Flom

Perceiving eye-to-eye: Caregiver gestures cultivate the lexical development of Latino and Euro-American infants, Patricia R. Zukow-Goldring

An ecological approach to joint attention and early language, Ross A. Flom, Rachel C. Burmeister, Anne D. Pick

Symbolic gestures in the service of infant-initiated "joint attention", Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn

The gestural communication of apes and human infants, Michael Tomasello

Discussant: Susan Goldin-Meadow

Chair: Geert J. P. Savelsbergh

What information drives smooth pursuit in young infants, Claes von Hofsten

Information for infant catching, Geert J. P. Savelsbergh, J. van der Kamp

Strategies in the visual control of posture by infants, James L. Rose, Bennett I. Bertenthal

Perception-action coupling and the development of walking, Jane E. Clark, J. A. Barela, F. Jeka

Discussant: Jeffrey J. Lockman

Chair: Dario Maestripieri

Sexual differentiation in Rhesus monkey infants: The role of prenatal androgen exposure and postnatal experience, Kim Wallen

The ontogeny of pigtail monkey (Macaca nemestrina) recruitment screams, Harold Gouzoules, Sally Gouzoules

Determinants of infant abuse and neglect in monkeys, Dario Maestripieri

Maternal influences on the development of hand preference in infant chimpanzees, William D. Hopkins

Discussant: Kelly A. Carroll

Chair: Jacob L. Gewirtz

Theory building, hypothesis testing, and the nature of reinforcement in newborn learning, T. G. R. Bower

Assessing social and nonsocial reinforcers: Contributions of contemporary conditioning studies with infants, Martha Peláez-Nogueras

The efficacy of contingent attention and of other social stimuli as reinforcers of diverse infant responses in operant learning, Jacob L. Gewirtz

Discussant: Carolyn Rovee-Collier

B01 Still-face phenomenon as social cognition by 7 and 10-month-olds, Tricia Striano, Philippe Rochat

B02 Infant affective responses in the still-face at 6 months predict maternal ratings of 18 month behaviors, Ginger Moore, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Susan B. Campbell

B03 Infant response to parental gaze direction during face-to-face/ still-face paradigms, Christine E. Fullmer, Daniel S. Messinger

B04 Face-to-face interaction between preterm infants and mothers: Use of the still-face procedure, Regina M. Cusson, Tao Yin

B05 Determinants of the still-face phenomenon by 2- to 6-month-olds, Lynda Reyes, Tricia Striano, Philippe Rochat

B06 Exploration of self-agency by newborns and 2-month-olds, Tricia Striano, Philippe Rochat

B07 Early grammatical development and the emergence of self, Jessica A. Seiden, Moshe Anisfeld

B08 Intermodal self-perception: Infants match their voices with their faces, Natasha del Pino, Lakshmi J. Gogate, Lorraine E. Bahrick

B09 The onset of self-recognition and the emergence of self-awareness, Douglas S. Ramsay, Michael Lewis

B11 Gender differences in neonatal temperament, Judith J. Lillie, Moshe Anisfeld

B12 The relationship between testosterone and visual attention in infancy: Gender differences in novelty discrimination, David P. Laplante, Daniel Pérusse, Richard E. Tremblay

B13 Gender and emotion in infancy: Direct observations and parental perceptions, Rosemarie DiBiase, Courtney Vareschi, Jennifer Brunell

B14 "Boys don’t make breakfast!": Toddler’s differential memory for same-sex events, Maya G. Sen

B16 Gender-specific implications of shyness for development, Heather A. Henderson, Genevieve E. Erb, Nathan A. Fox

B17 Metaphorical gender knowledge in the second year of life, Julie A. Eichstedt, Lisa A. Serbin, Diane Poulin-Dubois

B18 Paternal sex-typing of newborns: Standardization of a rating scale, Rebecca T. Leeb, F. Gillian Rejskind

B19 Gender differences in synchrony, matching, and rate of repair in mother-infant interactions, M. Katherine Weinberg, Edward Z. Tronick, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Karen L. Olson

B20 Microanalysis of mother-infant gaze and infant self-comforting behavior in dyads reporting high, mid-range, and low maternal depressive symptoms, Lisa D. Marquette, Elizabeth Helbraun, Beatrice Beebe, Joseph Jaffe

B22 Conflict and depression predict maternal sensitivity to infant cries, Wilberta L. Donovan, Lewis A. Leavitt, Reghan O. Walsh

B23 Severity and chronicity of maternal depressive symptoms during the first postpartum year, Marjorie M. Beeghly, M. Katherine Weinberg, Karen L. Olson, Henrietta Kernan, Edward Z. Tronick

B24 Maternal depression and anxiety: The relation between maternal self-reports of functioning and mother-infant interaction, M. Katherine Weinberg, Edward Z. Tronick, Lee S. Cohen, Karen L. Olson

B25 Depressive symptoms and parenting in foster, kin, and biological mothers caring for infants sero-positive for HIV, Margaret S. Miles, Diane H. Holditch-Davis

B26 Infant-directed speech, maternal depression, and infant learning, Ahna L. Hoff, Peter Kaplan, Patricia J. Zarlengo-Strouse, Jo-Anne Bachorowski

B27 Maternal depression and cognitive and behavioral development over the first 9 years of life, Dieter Wolke, Sophie Kuertjens

B28 Postnatal maternal depression and patterns of infant attachment, Ouriel Rosenblum, Gisele Danon, P. Mazet

B29 Process underlying cognitive and emotional development in infants of depressed mothers, Charlie Stanley, Lynne Murray

B30 The effect of maternal depression in the context of risk in a poor urban sample of mothers and their toddlers, Martina B. Albright, Mary C. O’Hearn, Odelia Bawnik, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Benard P. Dreyer, Alan Mendelsohn

B31 The relationship of maternal post partum depression to child outcomes in preterm and term infants, Lynn T. Singer, Marilyn R. Davillier, Suzanne Hawkins, Ann E. Salvator, Adela F. Kuc, Martin Manuel, Lois Klaus, Sarah E. Fulton

B32 Depressed mothers’ interaction styles influence infants’ toy exploration and affect in a teaching situation, Sybil Hart, Tiffany M. Field, Nancy Aaron Jones, Brenda L. Lundy

B33 EEG patterns and inhibition in infants of depressed mothers, Nancy Aaron Jones, Tiffany M. Field, Marisabel Davalos, Sybil Hart, Brenda L. Lundy

B34 Modeling neonatal head circumference percentile: Results from a prospective study examining effects of prenatal cocaine use, Cynthia W. Garvan, Fonda Davis Eyler, Marylou Behnke, Mike Conlon, Kathleen Wobie, John Marron

B35 Neuropsychological functioning, psychological distress, and maternal infant interaction in cocaine using women, Sonia Minnes, Lynn T. Singer, Kathleen J. Farkas, Adela F. Kuc, Martin Manuel, Joanne Robinson, Kristen Weigand, Robert Arendt

B36 Visual recognition memory and developmental outcomes of cocaine-exposed and non-exposed infants, Lynn T. Singer, Robert Arendt, Sonia Minnes, Ann E. Salvator, Joanne Robinson, Kristen Weigand

B37 "Cocaine-exposed" children: Is the label itself a risk factor?, Lisa Maag, Fonda Davis Eyler, Nanci Stewart Woods, Marylou Behnke, Bridget Franks, Cynthia W. Garvan, Mike Conlon

B38 Temperament and exploration in eight-month-old cocaine-exposed infants, Marla S. Zucker, Linda L. Lagasse, Rebecca VanVorst, Susan Brunner, Barry M. Lester

B39 Posture and fine motor assessment of substance exposed infants at eight months, Rosemarie Bigsby, Jane Case-Smith, Barry M. Lester

B40 Maternal cocaine and maternal sensitivity: 6-month outcome, Neena Roumell, Diane E. Wille

B41 Longitudinal investigation of motor skills in infants and toddlers prenatally exposed to cocaine, Rebecca R. Fewell, Angelika Hartl Claussen, Keith G. Scott

B42 Self-recognition at 18 months as a function of prenatal cocaine exposure, Margaret I. Bendersky, Michael Lewis

G01 Effects of demonstrations of continuous or partial reinforcement on performance of 6- and 12-month olds, Catherine G. Weir, Rose Ann King, Cynthia Toland

G02 Contingency learning and heart rate changes in well and risk infants, W. Stuart Millar, Catherine G. Weir

G03 Infant learning and generalized expectancies, Margaret W. Sullivan, Michael Lewis

G04 Infant learning, emotion, and memory, Daniel F. A. Hitchcock, Michael Lewis

G05 Delay classical eyeblink conditioning in 4- and 5-month-old infants, Dragana Ivkovich, Kimberly L. Collins, Norman A. Krasnegor, Mark E. Stanton, Carol O. Eckerman

G06 The nature of attention and its reinforcer efficacy for infant behavior, Hiselgis Perez

G07 Three-month-old infants can learn constrained motor solutions elicited by changes in environmental information, Rosa M. Angulo-Kinzler

G08 Early experience and auditory learning: The role of sensory stimulation in bobwhite quail chicks’ preferences for maternal cues, Rebecca F. Columbus, Robert E. Lickliter

G09 Is there an optimal duration for observation of play?, Philip Roman Zelazo, Brian R. Rotsztein, Caroline A. Reid, Pal E. Carlin

G10 Mother-infant social play related to infant language and play behaviors at 11 and 14 months, Lisa A. Newland, Lori A. Roggman, Lisa K. Boyce, Gina A. Cook

G11 The relationship between choice co-construction and symbolic play in mother-child dyads, Lisa M. Noll, Carol G. Harding, Stephanie R. Stilson, Lenore R. Weissmann

G12 Mothers’ and infants’ solicitations of imitation during play, Elise Frank Masur

G13 State organization in excessively crying infants, Amy L. Salisbury, Melissa Hunsley, Evelyn B. Thoman

G14 Temporal patterning and individual differences in excessively crying infants throughout the 24-hour day, Melissa Hunsley, Amy L. Salisbury, Evelyn B. Thoman

G15 Diary indices of pacifier use: Convergence with interview measures, Nicole Calinoiu, Ronald G. Barr, Liisa Lehtonen, Lea Wertheim, Fabien W. Barr, Simon N. Young

G16 Pacifier use in infants with and without colic: Is it really effective?, Liisa Lehtonen, Ronald G. Barr, Nicole Calinoiu, Lea Wertheim, Fabien W. Barr, Simon N. Young

G17 Maternal caregiving style and infant fussing and crying in a Danish community sample: Preliminary findings, Marissa Alvarez

G18 Parental ideas about infant crying: A grounded theory study, Ann D. Murray

G19 Effect of selected soothing techniques on parent-infant interaction and on infant crying, M. Ruth Elliott, Sandra M. Reilly

G20 The differential impact of infant cry and fuss behaviors on parental involvement and perceptions, Michael A. Bono, Cynthia A. Stifter

G21 Parent concerns about infant regulatory problems: Excessive crying, sleep problems, and feeding difficulties, Susan C. McDonough, Katherine Rosenblum, Ellen Devoe, Sheila Gahagan, Arnold Sameroff

Moderator: Lois Bloom

Participants: Joseph J. Campos vs. Carroll Izard & Brian Ackerman

Chair: Nathan A. Fox

Attachment and emotion, Michael Lewis

Stability and instability of infant temperament, Nathan A. Fox, Heather A. Henderson

Change and continuity in neurobiological development, Charles A. Nelson

Defining a "radical middle" in the study of cognitive development, Nora S. Newcombe

Discussant: Michael Tomasello

Chair: Tony J. Simon

Further evidence for infants’ numerical competence, Gavin N. Huntley-Fenner, Fei Xu

Representation of number: How do data bear on the debate?, Susan Carey

Arguments against non-numerical accounts of infants’ numerical competence, Karen Wynn

A fully operationalized, demonstrably sufficient, non-numerical account of infant "numerical competence", Tony J. Simon

Discussants: Rochel Gelman, Annette D. Karmiloff-Smith

Chairs: Andrea P. F. Pantoja, G. Christina Nelson-Goens

Narrative analysis and the development of representational thought in toddlers, Linda L. Sperry, Douglas E. Sperry

Getting in touch with oneself: Narratives of infant self-reference in the first half year, Alan Fogel

The process of construction of narratives in mother-infant communication, Maria Lyra, Micheline Souza, Pompeia V. Lyra

Narratives and the development of early emotional life, Andrea P. F. Pantoja, G. Christina Nelson-Goens

Discussant: Andrew Lock

Chairs: Ian St James-Roberts, Cynthia A. Stifter

Perceiving the causes of infant crying, Gwen E. Gustafson, James A. Green

What’s distinct about infants’ colic cries?, Ian St James-Roberts

The short and long term consequences of infant excessive crying: A case for differentiating perceptions of "colic" from more objectively-based assessments, Cynthia A. Stifter

Excessive crying in early infancy: Challenges and risks for the developing parent-infant relationships, Mechthild Papoušek, Nikolaus von Hofacker

Pathways to and from colic: Three complementary hypotheses, Ronald G. Barr, Liisa Lehtonen

Chair: Paul C. Quinn

Global before basic perceptual category representations in connectionist networks and 2-month-old infants, Paul C. Quinn, Mark H. Johnson

Formation of global versus differentiated categories by infants: Effects of between category contrast and age, Barbara A. Younger-Rossman, Dru D. Fearing

A connectionist model of early infant memory and categorization, Denis Mareschal, Robert M. French, Paul C. Quinn

Infants’ categorization at the superordinate and basic level: The taxonomic fallacy, David H. Rakison

Discussant: Linda B. Smith

B01 Perception of infant expression in women with schizophrenia, Paula J. Pitterle, Joyce Hopkins, Jennifer S. Schneps

B02 Maternal recognition of newborn features, Áine de Róiste, Gwyneth Bonnet

B03 Predictors of maternal perceptions of infant behavior among mothers in poverty, Hannah W. Moore, Jenifer Goldman-Fraser, Beth Kurtz-Costes

B04 Mothers’ views about children’s play and language activities: Relations to parenting behavior, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Mark Spellmann, Jacqueline Shannon

B05 Effects of eye size on adults’ aesthetic ratings of faces and 5-month-olds’ looking times, Sybil S. Geldart, Daphne Maurer

B06 The effects of adoption at infancy versus childhood on teachers’ perceptions of children and their mothers, Sonya Organ Slater, Cynthia L. Crown, W. Michael Nelson III

B07 Maternal social cognition and object relations: Connection with perceptions of self and relationships with one’s child and family, Zeynep Biringen, Aaron Matheny, Inge Bretherton

B08 Attachment to mothers and fathers: Effects on infant-sibling relationships, Michelle P. Poris, Brenda L. Volling, Carla Herrera

B09 Attachment and sleep patterns in the first two years of life, Abraham Sagi, Emanuel Tirosh, Yair Ziv, Sarit Guttman, Peretz Lavie

B10 Mother-infant attachment security, mothers’ interactive style, and infants’ communicative, symbolic, and social-affective function, Melanie A. Barwick, Nancy J. Cohen

B11 Four-month mother-infant gaze contingencies predict one-year infant attachment, Limor Kaufman-Balamuth, Beatrice Beebe, Joseph Jaffe, Stanley Feldstein, Cynthia L. Crown

B12 Attachment and maternal responsivity: The context of infant affect and temperament, Lori A. Roggman, Vonda K. Jump, Lisa K. Boyce, Gina A. Cook

B13 Maternal responses to infant emotional expressions relate to infant attachment, Mirek Lojkasek, Nancy J. Cohen, Diana Durek, Hema Zbogar

B14 Interactional origins of attachment: The role of context and frequency of observation in measuring maternal behavior, Russell A. Isabella

B15 Mastery motivation and functional abilities of infants and toddlers with myelomeningocele, Judy D. Morrow, Ruth Humphry, Rebecca E. Edmondson

B16 Plasticity in the development of ex-SCBU graduates: The Bavarian longitudinal study, Dieter Wolke, Renate Meyer, Joerg Schulz

B17 Attachment and maternal reaction to child diagnosis among toddlers with birth defects, Douglas Barnett, Christine M. Butler, John McCaskill, Kelli Hill Hunt, Melissa Kaplan-Estrin

B18 The development of lateralized functions in a sample of high-risk infants, Pamela Schuetze, Stacy MacKenzie, Rina D. Eiden

B19 Risk factors and otitis media in children: Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES III), Robert H. MacTurk, Howard J. Hoffman

B20 The cognitive development of full-term small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants at 12 and 18 months of age, Leslie F. Halpern, Cynthia T. Garcia Coll, Karen Bendersky, Elaine C. Meyer

B21 Developmental outcomes in infants who have undergone surgery for their congenital heart defect, Cheryl L. Mroz, Rabi F. Sulayman, Alex J. Jaivois, Katie Tubeszewski, Jennifer M. Rosinia

B22 Behavioral, affective, and attentional responses of developmentally delayed and nondelayed preschoolers to task difficulty, Cheryl-lynn Rogers, Philip Roman Zelazo, Morton J. Mendelson, Brian R. Rotsztein

B23 The perception of social causality in 3- to 9-month-old infants, Rachel E. Morgan, Philippe Rochat

B24 Infants’ use of emotional expressions to predict adults’ actions, Heather L. Birks, Andrea S. Heberlein, Anne Fernald

B25 Do one-year-old infants represent human action as guided by perception?, Beate Sodian, Claudia Thoermer

B26 6-month-old infants dishabituate to a change in an object’s actual position and not to a change in an object’s egocentric position, Jordy Kaufman, Amy Needham

B28 Two-year-olds’ sensitivity to the knowledge of others in interaction with naïve and knowledgeable adults, Deanne W. Swan

B29 Two-year-olds’ understanding of attentional focus and seeing=knowing, Paula Bennett, Diane Poulin-Dubois

B30 Relations between self regulation and social cognition in at-risk preschool children, Stephen J. Sheinkopf, Peter C. Mundy, Jessica Markus, Joycelyn Lee

B31 Infant gaze direction during a novel labeling task, Marygrace E. Yale, Peter C. Mundy

B32 Word learning in the context of referential and salience cues, Christopher L. Moore

B34 Lexical acquisition: The role of cross-situational learning, Nameera Akhtar, Lisa Montague

B35 Learning words through eavesdropping, Nameera Akhtar, Jennifer L. Jipson, Maureen A. Callanan

B36 Breaking the word barrier: How infants learn their first words, George Hollich, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta M. Golinkoff, Rebecca Brand, Cindy Hankey, Camille Rocroi, Elizabeth Hennon

B37 Naming and exclaiming: 17-month-olds’ sensitivity to the pragmatics of naming contexts, Laura L. Namy

B38 Pragmatic contributions to lexical development, Pamela R. Rollins, Virginia A. Marchman

B41 Three-year-olds’ acquisition of novel adjectives: Support from the basic-level kind, Raquel Stote Klibanoff, Sandra R. Waxman

B42 A longitudinal analysis of the role of stress and position in determining first words, Lawrence B. Lewis, Carol Antone, Jacqueline S. Johnson

G01 Gestures and words in book reading situation: Conventionalization of referents and gesture-word combination, Toshiki Murase

G02 Maternal responses to children’s labeling in joint picture-book reading situation, Toshiki Murase, Aki Mahieu, Tamiko Ogura, Yukie Yamashita, Philip S. Dale

G03 The development of narrative skills: The contributions of toddler and maternal language and symbolic play, Carol J. Andreassen, Linda R. Cote, Charles W. Rahn

G04 Question-response structure in parent-toddler book-reading interactions, Patricia A. Mills, Cecilia M. Shore, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., Ling-yi Zhou, James H. Bodle

G05 Early behaviors in children later diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Phyllis S. Ohr, Giovanna Pasquariello

G06 An individual growth curve analysis of activity level from infancy to 6 years, Darren W. Campbell, Kimberly J. Saudino, Warren O. Eaton, Nancy A. McKeen

G07 Maternal speech to toddlers as a function of the child’s activity level, Danuta Bukatko, Joann P. Benigno

G08 Feeding method and motor activity in early infancy, John Worobey

G09 Predictive head movements in 6-month old infants, Bert Jonsson, Claes von Hofsten

G10 Two-month-olds make predictive saccades: Evidence for early frontal lobe function, Elliott G. Smith, Richard L. Canfield

G11 Follow your head (and your heart?): Cardiac and motor indices of anticipation in 15-month-old infants in a two-alternative, cued location memory task, Elizabeth E. Garner, W. Keith Berg

G12 Stability and prediction of childhood RT and IQ from infancy, Nancy A. Raitano, Richard L. Canfield, Mandi Burnette, Elliott G. Smith

G13 Cross-sectional study on the development of reactive and anticipatory saccadic eye-movements, Tara S. Wass, Joan T. Bihun, Lisa D. Hager, Marshall M. Haith

G14 Infants’ sensitivity to temporal parameters of the Visual Expectation Paradigm, Tara S. Wass, April A. Lewis, Marshall M. Haith

G15 Infants form temporal visual expectations based on the average rate of information flow, Scott A. Adler, Marshall M. Haith

G16 Infant visual expectations for events’ color content, Scott A. Adler

G17 Behavioral and cortical measures of infants’ visual expectations, Naomi Wentworth, Marshall M. Haith, Rathe S. Karrer

G18 Infants predicting location of visual events: Rules or transitional probabilities, Katarzyna H. Chawarska, J. Steven Reznick

Chair: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Speaker: Jerome S. Bruner

Opening Reception

Chair: Lewis A. Leavitt

Speaker: Tiffany M. Field

Chair: Kimberly Boller

Participants: Kimberly Boller, Natasha Cabrera, Martha Cox, Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Michael E. Lamb, Martha Moorehouse, Helen Raikes, Lori A. Roggman, Paul Spicer, Jean Ann Summers, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Melvin N. Wilson

Chair: Wendy E. Roth

Participants: T. G. R. Bower, Jacob L. Gewirtz, Sybil Hart, Wendy E. Roth

Chair: Susan J. Hespos

Infants incorporate their knowledge about support relationships when retrieving objects: On versus against, Susan J. Hespos

Using young infants’ tendency to reach for object boundaries to explore perception of connectedness: Rectangles, ovals, and faces, Peter M. Vishton, Sara N. Stulac, Eliza K. Calhoun

Effects of perceived display composition on infants’ actions on objects, Amy Needham

Why babies don’t reach the way they look, Neil E. Berthier, Rachel K. Clifton, Bennett I. Bertenthal

Discussant: Jeffrey J. Lockman

Chairs: Yuko Munakata, Andrea Aguiar

Perseverative errors in action and non-action tasks: Implications for a model of problem solving in infancy, Andrea Aguiar

A dynamic theory of perseverative errors: Distinctive targets, Frederick J. Diedrich, Tonia M. Highlands

Infant perseveration and implications for cognitive development: A neural network model of the A-not-B task, Yuko Munakata

A cognitive neuroscience perspective on children’s perseverative errors, Adele Diamond

Discussant: J. Steven Reznick

Chair: Claude L. Normand

Similarities and dissimilarities in the temperament of 5-month-old twins, Claude L. Normand, Daniel Pérusse, Richard E. Tremblay

Attention regulation and physiological arousability: Interindividual differences at 5-months, Anna Pecchinenda, David P. LaPlante, Michel Boivin, Daniel Pérusse

The growth of mental attentional capacity in infancy: Evaluating the genetic contribution, Raymond H. Baillargeon, Richard E. Tremblay, Daniel Pérusse

Infant visual habituation and parental psychopathology, David P. Laplante, Daniel Pérusse

Discussants: Lisabeth F. DiLalla, H. Hill Goldsmith

Chairs: Connie L. Russell, David A. Leavens

Joint attention in young chimpanzees: Foundations of intentional communication, Connie L. Russell

Integration of gesture and gaze orienting behavior throughout the lifespan of laboratory chimpanzees, David A. Leavens, William D. Hopkins

Indexical pointing in language-trained chimpanzees: Methodological issues and a comparison of rearing histories, Mark A. Krause

Discussants: Kim A. Bard, George Butterworth

B01 Matching phonetic information in lips and voice by 4-month-old infants, Michelle L. Patterson, Janet F. Werker

B02 Young infants’ perception of lexical and functional categories, Rushen Shi, Janet F. Werker, James L. Morgan

B03 Statistical learning of non-linguistic stimuli by 8-month-olds, Elizabeth K. Johnson, Jenny R. Saffran, Richard N. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport

B04 7.5-month-olds’ segmentation of three-syllable words from fluent speech, Derek M. Houston, Lynn Santelmann, Peter Jusczyk

B05 Six-month-olds’ memory for clausal units, Thierry Nazzi, Deborah G. Kemler Nelson, Peter Jusczyk, Ann Marie Jusczyk

B06 Infants can recognize words using partial phonetic information, Anne Fernald, John P. Pinto, Daniel Swingley, Amy Perfors, Kalee Magnani, Andrew Bradley

B07 What acoustic information supports infant perception of vowels in natural coarticulated syllables?, Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Linda Polka

B08 Long term auditory non-word priming in 2.5-year-old children, Caroline M. Hunt, Cynthia L. Fisher, Barbara Ann Church

B10 Effects of task difficulty on infants normalization of naturalistic speech, C. Nathan Marti

B11 The role of final position in infants’ identification of words in speech, Marlena A. Creusere, Jane B. Childers, Catharine H. Echols

B12 Stimulus-alternation preference procedure to test infant speech discrimination, Catherine T. Best, Cathleen Jones

B13 Maternal bimodal communication style matches the infant’s level of lexical comprehension, Lakshmi J. Gogate, Lorraine E. Bahrick, Jilayne Watson

B14 The effect of a supportive context on 15-month-old word comprehension: A partial knowledge perspective, Brenda K. Davidson, Chris W. Robinson, Wendelyn J. Shore, Peg Hull Smith

B16 Infants’ responses to named and unnamed familiar objects, Ruth Tincoff, Peter Jusczyk

B17 Some child-directed verbs are more equal than others in accounting for 13-month linguistic comprehension, Jennifer L. Myers, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., Peg Hull Smith, Laura Hayden

B18 The interaction of animacy and syntax in sentences comprehension, Jane B. Childers

B19 The context of attachment security in family child care, James G. Elicker, Cheryl A. Fortner-Wood, Illene C. Noppe

B20 Predicting infant-father attachment: Families in context, Suzanne A. Courtney, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker, Molly M. Garwood

B21 Stability, concordance, and correlations of attachment security for infants in child care centers, Illene C. Noppe, James G. Elicker, Cheryl A. Fortner-Wood

B22 Social support of infants’ parents and child care providers: Does it influence attachment security or adult involvement?, Cheryl A. Fortner-Wood, James G. Elicker, Illene C. Noppe

B23 The relation between infant attachment quality and social competence at age three: Validation of the California Attachment Procedure, Virginia D. Allhusen, K. Alison Clarke-Stewart

B24 Mother-infant and father-infant attachment in dual-earner and single-earner families, Benjamin J. Gorvine, Brenda L. Volling

B25 Security of attachment, family-level dynamics, and toddler adaptation, James P. McHale, Allison Lauretti, Jean Talbot

B26 Examining teacher-child relationships: Children in foster care compared to children from similar economic backgrounds, Holli A. Tonyan, Carollee Howes

B27 Reflexes and motor functions in high risk infants at six months, Joan E. Beard, Irving J. Goodman, Michael J. Painter

B28 Prediction of reflex and motor functioning at six months from perinatal complications, Joan E. Beard, Irving J. Goodman, Michael J. Painter

B29 Behavioral and EEG measures of sleeping and waking in preterm infants, Diane H. Holditch-Davis, Mark Scher, Lloyd J. Edwards, Randall Rieger

B30 Theophylline and caffeine alter movement patterning and behavioral state in premature infants, Marie J. Hayes, Brian J. Piper, Jamie L. Cronin, Frederick Wirth

B31 Sex differences in asymmetries of high-risk premature infants, Mary P. Grattan, Michael N. Nelson, Rosemary C. White-Traut, Guoguang Gu, Susan Latteau

B32 Minor cranial ultrasound abnormalities at birth and their relationship to neurobehavioral outcome: A prospective, longitudinal study of high-risk newborns, Marylou Behnke, Fonda Davis Eyler, Cynthia W. Garvan, Kathleen Wobie, Mike Conlon, Nanci Stewart Woods, William Cumming

B33 Thyroid hormone deficiency in pregnancy and early life: Effects on attention, learning, and memory in infancy, Giuseppe Mirabella, Nancy J. Lobaugh, Sandra C. Newton, Denice S. Feig, Joanne Rovet

B35 Development of synchronous limb activity and motor set organization in the fetal rat, Maura H. Stansfield, Scott R. Robinson

B36 Maternal smoking during pregnancy disrupts rhythmic organization of fetal heart rate, Philip Sanford Zeskind, Jeannine L. Gingras

B37 A comparison of heart periods obtained by electrocardiogram and ultrasound for application in the 28-34 week old fetus, Charlene A. Krueger, Keita Ikeda, Diane H. Holditch-Davis, Stephen R. Quint

B38 The effects of maternal depression on fetal heart rate and fetal heart rate response to vibroacoustic stimulation, Lauren Allister, Yvonne Masakowski, Steve Carr, Lynne M. Andreozzi, Barry M. Lester

B40 Differential maturation of responses to airborne sound in high-risk human fetuses, Michelle L. Butt, Li-Hui Pang, Barbara S. Kisilevsky

B41 Vibroacoustic elicited fetal heart rate patterns in fetuses of diabetic women, Cynthia L. Allen, Barbara S. Kisilevsky

B42 Effect of vibroacoustic stimulation and airborne sound on fetal breathing from 32 weeks to term, Li-hui Pang, Fen Xu, Michelle L. Butt, Barbara S. Kisilevsky

G01 Responsiveness to the audible and visible components of the human face in high-risk and cocaine exposed infants, David Lewkowicz, Judith M. Gardner, Bernard Z. Karmel

G02 Prenatal cocaine exposure, neonatal CNS injury, and pattern complexity: Effects at 4 and 7 months, Robert L. Freedland, Bernard Z. Karmel, Judith M. Gardner

G03 Effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure on mastery motivation, Peter M. Vietze, Ewa Kozlowski, Bernard Z. Karmel, Judith M. Gardner

G04 Inhibitory control at 34 months of cocaine-exposed neonates, Ronny Geva, Judith M. Gardner, Bernard Z. Karmel

G05 Social development of children prenatally drug-exposed, Kristi Carter Guest, Rhonda C. Conerly, Fred J. Biasini

G06 Longitudinal cognitive development of children prenatally drug-exposed, Rhonda C. Conerly, Kristi Carter Guest, Fred J. Biasini

G07 Physical growth and neurobehavior in at-risk preterm neonates, Kimberly Andrews Espy, David J. Francis, Marilyn L. Riese

G08 Rearing environment and attention regulation in prenatally drug exposed infants, Valerie A. Ahl, Jennifer J. Omdoll

G09 Play in two cultures: Universality of process, specificity of structure, Marc H. Bornstein, Oswald Maurice Haynes, Liliana Pascual, Kathleen M. Painter, Celia Galperin

G10 Infant’s attention and maternal activities: Changes over the first year in three dyadic contexts, Birgit Leyendecker

G11 Modeling the development of Kenyan infants, Alok Bhargava

G12 Infant irritability and maternal responsiveness in two low-income samplings, Elizabeth B. Owens, Daniel S. Shaw

G13 Emotional availability in 3 ethnic groups, Marcela C. Acevedo, JoAnn Robinson

G14 Cross-ethnic equivalence of maternal functioning, Ayelet Talmi, Marcela C. Acevedo, Lisa M. Pettitt, David L. Olds

G15 The socialization of emotion by middle-class Anglo-Saxon mothers, Marcia Zumbahlen, Angela Koch, Caroline Pyevich

G16 Differences in spontaneous affective control among Chinese-American and Caucasian-American preschoolers, Patricia T. Garrett-Peters

G17 Perceiving objects while on the move, Martha E. Arterberry

G18 Infants’ perception of solid objects, Kathryn S. Marks, Jeffrey T. Coldren

G19 Mechanisms of development in the perception of object unity, Denis Mareschal, Scott P. Johnson

G20 The role of good form in infants’ perception of object unity, Scott P. Johnson

G21 Perceptual completion and object segregation in infancy, Lincoln G. Craton, Christopher R. Poirier, Cristin A. Heagney

Moderator: Patricia J. Bauer

Participants: Roberta M. Golinkoff & Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek vs. Michael Tomasello & Nameera Akhtar

Chair: Joseph J. Campos

Participants: Joseph J. Campos, Linda Camras, Kazuo Miyake, Chen Shing-jen, Tatsuo Ujiie

Chair: Martha Ann Bell

Looking as a measure of perceptual preference in infants, Robin Panneton Cooper

Individual differences in infant looking: Old questions and new directions, Janet E. Frick

Do young infants represent occluded objects?, Richard S. Bogartz, Jeanne L. Shinskey

A looking version of the A-not-B task: Frontal EEG and infant cognitive functioning, Martha Ann Bell

Discussant: Susan A. Rose

Chair: Rina D. Eiden

What dads know about babies: Relations with attitudes, well-being, and social support, Lori A. Roggman, Lisa K. Boyce, Brad Benson

Father contributions to infant and family risk, Ronald Seifer, Susan Dickstein, Arnold Sameroff

Fathers and sons: Structuring autobiographical memory of alcohol careers during infancy and early childhood, Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Robert A. Zucker

Paternal alcoholism: Impact on family functioning and parent-infant interactions, Rina D. Eiden, Felipa Chavez, Kenneth Leonard

Discussant: Marguerite Stevenson Barratt

Chair: Darwin W. Muir

Early development of social monitoring, Philippe Rochat, Tricia Striano

Social contingency and optimal social structures, Kyle L. Snow

Which components of adult stimulation drive young infants’ social responses?, Barbara A. D’Entremont, Sylvia M. J. Hains, Lawrence A. Symons, Darwin W. Muir

On relationships and relatedness: Wincott’s Set Situation, Peter Hobson

Discussants: Darwin W. Muir, Jacqueline Nadel

Chair: Vivette Glover

Depressed mothers and their newborns, Tiffany M. Field

Links between antenatal maternal anxiety and the fetus, Vivette Glover, Jeronima Teixeira, Rachel Gitau, Nicholas Fisk

Non-pharmacological reduction of hypercortisolaemia in preterm infants, Neena Modi, Vivette Glover

Disorders of mother-to-infant bonding, Channi Kumar, Emily Hughes, Maureen Mark

Chair: Judy A. Ungerer

Attachment and expectant mothers’ responses to infant emotion, Kirsten Blokland, Susan Goldberg

Adult attachment and maternal perceptions of toddler temperament and emotion, Emma K. Adam, Akiko Tanaka, Laurie Brodersen, Megan R. Gunnar

A longitudinal study of maternal perceptions of emotions and the development of attachment relationships in the first year, Judy A. Ungerer, Nicky Sygall

Discussants: Robert S. Marvin, Charles Zeanah

B01 Young children’s use of photographs as reminders, Joanne L. Agayoff, Judith A. Hudson

B02 Infants’ attentional preferences: Evidence of a long-term recognition memory, Mary L. Courage, Mark L. Howe, Leanne Fitzgerald

B03 Infants’ long-term memory for arbitrary sight-sound pairings, Barbara Morrongiello, Naomi Lee

B04 An examination of child and parent individual differences as predictors of long-term memory in 2-year-olds, Michelle E. Boyer-Pennington

B05 Infant long-term retention of a visual discrimination, Marjorie Carroll, Jeffrey Fagen, Adriana Franco, Jennifer Byrnes

B06 Use of the short form of the Communicative Development Inventory with African American infants and families, Joanne E. Roberts, Margaret R. Burchinal, Susan Zeisel

B07 Assessing infant vocabulary development using a British CDI, Antonia F. Hamilton, Kim Plunkett, Graham Schafer

B08 Normative data for the short form versions of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories, Larry Fenson, Steve Pethick, Connie Renda, Philip S. Dale, J. Steven Reznick

B09 Language and gesture in lower income and middle class Spanish-speaking children: Can parental report be used?, Rosa Patricia Bárcenas, Donna Jackson-Maldonado, Donna J. Thal

B10 Validity of a parent report instrument of language development for Spanish-speaking toddlers from two social classes, Donna J. Thal, Donna Jackson-Maldonado, Dora Acosta

B11 Prediction of language delay at 16 months of age using parent report, Donna J. Thal, Karen Swaine, Daniel Harrison, Georg Matt

B12 A parent report measure of language development for three-year-olds, Philip S. Dale, J. Steven Reznick, Donna J. Thal

B13 Early language development and the emergence of phonemic awareness, M. Jeffrey Farrar, Lisa Maag

B14 Determining the basis of abstraction in artificial language acquisition, Rebecca L. Gomez, LouAnn Gerken

B15 Pragmatically natural assessment of novel and familiar nouns, Alison Hauser, Rosa I. Arriaga, Susan Carey

B16 Effects of practice on the naming errors children produce, Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe

B17 Mothers’ labeling of novel and familiar objects during play: Implications for infants’ development of lexical constraints, Elise Frank Masur

B18 What does that robot want from me? Young children’s abilities to repair contingent queries, Suzanne N. Ferrier, Philip Dunham

B19 Relations between parental conversational intent and toddlers’ linguistic style and conversational sophistication, Sarah B. P. Blackmore, Janet Strayer, Susan A. Graham

B20 The transition from affective to linguistic meaning, Margaret Friend, Lotte Korsholm, Helen Heyming

B21 Infant babbling in relation to ambient language, Daisy Edmondson

B22 Gestures, grunts, and other preliminaries in the transition to language, Lorraine McCune, Ann Greenwood, Wendy Jankowski

B23 The interplay of lexical, facial, and vocal affect during early language development, Julia M. Lacks, Ina C. Uzgiris

B24 Talking about emotions during the toddler years and beyond: Mothers’ and fathers’ coaching of children’s emotion understanding, Regina Kuersten-Hogan, James P. McHale

B25 Emotion expression and regulation of pleasure and fear in earlier- and later-talking toddlers, Lorraine F. Kubicek, Robert N. Emde

B26 Parent-child talk about fearful events in the past: Possible links to early emotion regulation, Lorraine F. Kubicek, Barbara A. Danis, Robert N. Emde

B27 Relations between language competence and emotion regulation in toddlers, Carolyn O. Kurowski, Jannette M. McMenamy, Wendy S. Grolnick, Lisa J. Bridges

B28 Parents, infants and siblings: Emotion regulation in a triadic context, Alison L. Miller, Nancy L. McElwain, Brenda L. Volling

B29 Emotion regulatory processes during the first year of life, Jody M. Ganiban

B30 The family context of toddler emotional regulation, M. Ann Easterbrooks, Jana H. Chaudhuri, Melissa J. Slaboda, Jasanna S. Poodiack, Kristen Roberto, Carrie Morgan

B31 The socialization of toddler emotion regulation: Contributions of parents and day care teachers, Robin Hornick Parritz, Andrea M. Jara

B32 Relating quality of center care to early cognitive and language development longitudinally, Margaret R. Burchinal, Joanne E. Roberts, Donna M. Bryant

B33 The association between time spent in daycare and infants’ exploratory behaviors, Pamela Schuetze, Deborah DiMartino, Audra Lewis

B34 Quality of care and infants’ records of their experience in child-care, Miriam K. Rosenthal, Anat Geller

B35 Supporting the development of sensitive caregiving relationships for toddlers in child care, Susan L. Recchia, Yumiko Sekino

B36 Prediction of behavior problems in early adolescence from early experiences in child care, Carollee Howes

B37 Interaffectivity, attachment, and perinatal vulnerability, Lenore R. Weissmann, Susan Kromelow, Carol G. Harding, Kerry Brown

B38 Relation between birth status and attachment security, Josée Laganière, Réjean Tessier, Line Nadeau, Christiane Piché

B39 Temperament, attachment, and heart rate variability: Comparisons of secure, avoidant, and disorganized infants, Margaret Fish, Stephen E. Fish

B40 Coercive attachment, marital distress, and ineffective parenting as predictors of disruptive behavior in preschool children, Crystal DeVito, Joyce Hopkins

B41 Outcomes of two infant-mother therapies: Association between attachment security and mother-infant play, Nancy J. Cohen, Mirek Lojkasek, Elisabeth Muir

B42 Attachment and feeding problems: Reexamination of non-organic failure to thrive and attachment security, Irene Chatoor, Jody M. Ganiban

G01 Prenatal stress and infant temperament: A preliminary study, Nancy C. Snidman, Pathik D. Wadhwa, Kimberly Herbel, Christine Dunkel-Schetter, Jerome Kagan, Curt A. Sandman

G02 A comparison of child temperament as a mediator in mother-toddler problem solving in a high-risk vs. community sample, Beverly I. Fagot, Katherine C. Pears

G03 Normative changes in mothers’ ratings of infant temperament, Melinda B. Maher, Katherine H. Karraker

G04 The relation between developmental achievements and mothers’ perceptions of infant temperament, Melinda B. Maher, Katherine H. Karraker

G05 The development of temperament in infancy: Continuity and change, Carmen Gonzalez, Jose A. Carranza, Manuel Ato

G06 Sociability and vocabulary size: A true relationship or an assessment issue?, Heidi K. Schwartz

G07 Temperament over time and tests: A case for continuity, Claire Novosad, Alissa Drasch, Evelyn B. Thoman

G08 Relationship between infant temperament characteristics and children’s adaptation to formal schooling, Ramie Robeson Cooney, Deborah L. Holmes

G20 A multiple method approach to temperament from infancy to early childhood: Associations with parental involvement and marital quality, Jean L. McHale, Cynthia A. Frosch, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf

G09 Infants prefer higher-pitched singing, Laurel J. Trainor, Christine A. Zacharias

G10 Changes between 6 and 8 months in the segmentation of tone patterns, Erika Nurmsoo, Laurel J. Trainor

G11 Mothers’ singing to infants and preschool children, Tonya R. Bergeson, Sandra E. Trehub

G12 Developmental issues in melody discrimination, E. Glenn Schellenberg, Sandra E. Trehub

G18 The perception of emotion in music by eight-month-old infants, Suzanne E. Sullivan, Douglas A. Gentile, Anne D. Pick

G13 Development of behaviors on preterm infants: Relation to sleep-wake states, Debra H. Brandon, Diane H. Holditch-Davis, Michael Belyea

G14 Sleep-wake behavior and temperament as predictors of performance during a paired-comparison task, Donna Fisher-Thompson, Diane K. Rieger, Melissa R. Kreiger, Patricia A. Lynch, Gina Aguayo

G15 Maternal perception of night awakenings and infant self-soothing behavior during the first year of life, Erika E. Gaylor, Beth L. Goodlin-Jones, Melissa M. Burnham, Thomas F. Anders

G16 Night-to-night consistency of sleep variables over the first year: A preliminary analysis, Melissa M. Burnham, Thomas F. Anders, Erika E. Gaylor, Beth L. Goodlin-Jones

G17 Relation of infant waking behavior and mother-infant free play, Amy K. Morgan, Karen Throckmorton, Debra A. Harkins

Chair: Rochel Gelman

Speaker: Jean Mandler

Chair: Anita Sostek

Chair: Jean-Pierre Lecanuet

Participants: Anthony J. DeCasper, Lawrence Devoe, William P. Fifer, Lynn Groome, Barbara S. Kisilevsky, Jean-Pierre Lecanuet, Robert E. Lickliter

Chair: Amy Needham

Increasing specificity in the development of intermodal perception, Lorraine E. Bahrick

Infants’ use of experience in object segregation, Amy Needham

Representation expressed by action on unseen objects, Rachel K. Clifton

Infants’ perception and representation of biological objects, Bennett I. Bertenthal, Xinzi Wu, Jeannine Pinto

Discussant: Albert Yonas

Chair: Peter C. Mundy

The relation of joint attention at 13 months to subsequent language, verbal IQ, and nonverbal IQ measures through middle childhood, Lars Smith, Stein Ulvund

Brain development and joint attention in 14- to 18-month-olds, Judith Card, Peter C. Mundy, Nathan A. Fox

Joint attention as a predictor of language skills and peer engagement in children with autism, Marian D. Sigman

Joint attention and behavioral outcome in cocaine exposed infants, Jennifer C. Willoughby, Peter C. Mundy

Discussant: Lauren B. Adamson

Chair: Elena M. Nicoladis

Prosodic phonology in bilingual two year olds: One system or two?, Johanne Paradis

The interplay between language specific development and cross-linguistic influences: Evidence from the simultaneous acquisition of German and French, Susanne Döpke

Evidence for transfer in a French-Dutch bilingual child, Aafke Hulk, Elisabeth van der Linden

The development of word meaning: From monolingual to bilingual acquisition, Suzanne Quay

Discussants: Elizabeth Lanza, Rosemarie Tracy

B01 Perception of the pitch of the missing fundamental by 4-month-old infants, Marsha G. Clarkson, Christie R. Montgomery, Sheridan G. Miciek, Meredith E. Larson

B02 The effects of prior experience on auditory localization in infants, Amy L. Brown, Linda L. LaGasse, Lauren Schwartz, Rebecca VanVorst

B04 Mismatch negativity (MMN) as a measure of gap detection in 8-month-old infants and adults, Renée N. Desjardins, Laurel J. Trainor, Cindy Polak

B05 The psychometric function of infants detecting broadband noise, Lynne A. Werner, Julianne M. Siebens

B06 A longitudinal investigation of infant auditory sensitivity, Daniel H. Ashmead, Anne Marie Tharpe

B07 The relation between infants’ capacity to regulate negative reactivity and later noncompliance, Tracy L. Spinrad

B08 Predicting early self-regulation from maternal and child characteristics, Anne E. Hungerford, Celia A. Brownell

B09 Negativism and ego-related behaviors among Japanese children, Tatsuo Ujiie

B10 Children’s responsiveness to mother in imitation and compliance tasks: A link between two arenas of socialization, David R. Forman

B11 Transgression behavior and heart rate by temperament and birth order, Doreen Arcus, Christine Aftuck, Gail Agronick, Gail Andrick, Susannah Beals, Ruth Bell, Sherry Gardner, C. Edward Shackleford

B12 When is maternal SES not really maternal SES?, Doreen Arcus

B13 Parental leave in the United States: Behavior and satisfaction of new parents, Amy L. Sussman, Ruth Feldman

B14 Mothers’ re-adjustment to work following the birth of a first child, Ruth Feldman, Roni Nadam

B15 Predictors of intervention success and failure in a preventive home visiting program, Jon Korfmacher

B16 Parental stress, psychosocial problems, and responsiveness in help-seeking parents with small (2-45 months old) children, Monica Ostberg

B17 The influence of child-centered perspectives with sensitive parenting and children’s social responsiveness, Cynthia L. Miller-Loncar, Susan H. Landry, Karen E. Smith, Paul R. Swank

B18 Community-based family resource program model: A state-wide evaluation, Anne McDonald Culp, Rex E. Culp, Pam Marr, Tara S. Wells, Christina S. Howell

B19 The relationship between parents’ expectations, beliefs, and behavior from pregnancy to four-months post-partum, Patricia Hrusa Williams

B20 Parents’ explanations of their children’s behaviors and their relation to parenting behaviors, Catherine Burns, Lynne Bond

B21 Parent-infant interaction and triadic family relationship, Kai von Klitzing, Heidi Simoni, Dieter Bürgin

B22 Premature infant responses to taped maternal voice, Maryann Bozzette

B23 A comparison of maternal verbal interaction with premature and term infants from birth to two months, Nadja Reissland

B24 The effect of premature infants’ speech preferences on mother-preterm interaction, Alisa Nowik-Stern, Marsha G. Clarkson, Mary K. Morris, Roger Bakeman

B25 Self-regulatory mothering vs. nursery routine care postbirth: Effect on salivary cortisol and interactions with gender, feeding, and smoking, Gene Cranston Anderson, Charles E. Wood, Hui-Ping Chang

B26 Environmental intensity of the NICU based upon NIDCAP ratings, Jana L. Pressler, Joseph T. Hepworth, Nancy L. Wells, James M. Helm, William F. Walsh

B27 Psychosocial factors during late gestation and the early neonatal period predict child growth at 18 and 36 months, Cynthia Larkby, Nancy L. Day, Gale A. Richardson

B28 Perinatal factors associated with the need for assisted ventilation in neonates, Shyang-Yun Pamela K. Shiao

B29 Factors associated with frozen pulse oximeter readings, Shyang-Yun Pamela K. Shiao

B30 Kangaroo-mother care during phototherapy: Effect on bilirubin profile, Joan Swinth, Susan M. Ludington-Hoe

B31 Predictiveness of early patterns of maternal interactive behaviors on preschool outcomes, Karen E. Smith, Susan H. Landry, Cynthia L. Miller-Loncar, Paul R. Swank

B32 "Co-Naître": A home based intervention program for extremely premature infants and their mothers, Pascale Mercier, Stéphanie Larin, Réjean Tessier

B33 What matters most - born underweight or born too early?, Tina Gutbrod, Dieter Wolke

B34 Characterization of habituation in very low birth weight and full term infants, Jennifer J. Thomas, Hilary J. Leevers, Priya Khanna, April Ann Benasich

B35 The social behavior of extremely premature and VLBW children at 7 years old: A transactional model, Line Nadeau, Réjean Tessier, Josée Laganière, Francine Lefebvre, Philippe Robaey

B36 Supportive parenting strategies for facilitating the development of VLBW infants: A parenting intervention, Susan H. Landry, Karen E. Smith, Cynthia L. Miller-Loncar, Paul R. Swank

B37 VLBW infants, co-managed health care, and sampling procedures, C. J. R. Simons, M. Mandich, S. Ritchie, M. Mullett, M. Polak, S. Lynch

B38 Development at 8-12 months of an Alberta sample of preterm VLBW versus full term infants, Deborah Dewey, Dianne E. Creighton, Reg S. Sauve

B39 Follow-up of extremely low birthweight (ELBW) infants: Outcome at 8 to 12 Years, Catherine A. Vander Haar, Joseph A. Holahan, Lois J. Hochberg

B40 Self-regulatory behaviors and cardiorespiratory reactivity of very low birthweight preterm infants in the NICU, Rosemarie Bigsby, Barry M. Lester

B41 Vagal regulation in the prediction of outcome in low birthweight infants, Bonita D. McClenny, Jane A. Doussard-Roosevelt, Stephen W. Porges

B42 Neurophysiologic assessment of auditory brain maturation in extremely premature infants, Frank R. Mattia, Raye-Ann O. deRegnier

G01 Observations of conscience development in young children, Lisa R. Grinde, Barbara J. Myers

G02 Toddlers’ and mothers’ behaviors in an injury risk situation: Implications for sex differences in childhood injuries, Barbara Morrongiello, Dawn Guthrie, Tess Dawber

G03 Laboratory-based assessments of ego control during the toddler period, Aaron D. Krasnow, Regina Kuersten-Hogan, Allison Lauretti, James P. McHale

G04 Mothers of toddlers: Annoyances and difficulties, Claire B. Kopp, Donna Bean

G05 Influence of social interaction and duplicate objects on toddler conflict from ten to twenty-four months, Jeanne T. Karns

G06 Toddler play activities during small and large group play, Jeanne T. Karns

G07 Motor imitation in the second year of life, Cynthia D. Littleford, Wendy L. Stone

G09 Development of the vestibulo-ocular responses in toddlers learning to walk, Annick Ledebt, Sylvette R. Wiener-Vacher

G10 Supported walking of children with periventricular leucomalacia, Magdalien S. M. Waardenburg, Renate Albers, Beatrix Vereijken, Geert J. P. Savelsbergh

G11 The effect of mass perturbation on infant kicking during early development, Juliette Vaal, Knoek van Soest, Brian Hopkins

G121 Infant learning about balance control across changes in body posture, Karen E. Adolph, Anthony M. Avolio, Katherine E. Melton, Heather S. Arnet, Marion A. Eppler

G13 The nature of support in supported walking, Beatrix Vereijken, Renate Albers

G14 Treadmill stepping in preterm infants, Deborah Winders Davis, Beverly D. Ulrich, Shirley A. Wilkerson

G15 Qualitative description of changes in stepping patterns in infants born preterm, Carolyn B. Heriza, Ronda S. Baxter

G26 A longitudinal study of interlimb and intralimb coordination in fullterm and preterm infants, Jan P. Piek

G19 Responses of neonates to the odors of their mother’s breast and amniotic fluid, Richard H. Porter, Heili Varendi, Jan Winberg

G20 Infant facial expression in response to gustatory stimuli of different qualities and intensities, Rebecca Johnson, Gillian Harris

G21 Effects of exposure on taste preference development in infancy, Rebecca Johnson, Gillian Harris

Chair: Esther Thelen

Participants: Mark I. Applebaum, Sandra Blakeslee, Robert N. Emde, Megan R. Gunnar, Deborah Phillips, Esther Thelen, Barry Zuckerman

Chair: John Worobey

Participants: Marc H. Bornstein, James L. Dannemiller, Carol O. Eckerman, Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Carolyn Rovee-Collier, M. Suzanne Zeedyk, Philip D. Zelazo

Chair: Peter Fonagy

Deciphering sensitive care: Mother-infant interactions across contexts, Judit Gervai, Júlia Frigyes, Krisztina Lakatos, Krisztina Ney, Ildikó Tóth

Mentalization as a core component of parental sensitivity, Peter Fonagy, Pasco Fearon, Miriam Steele, Howard Steele

Affect-mirroring as a mechanism of parental sensitivity, György Gergely, Orsolya Koós, Júlia Frigyes, Krisztina Lakatos, Krisztina Ney, Ildikó Tóth

Describing mother-infant interaction in the home: The Pederson-Moran Maternal Behavior Q-sort, David R. Pederson, Greg Moran, Sandi Bento

Discussant: Edward Z. Tronick

Chair: Robert Siegler

Infants’ and toddlers’ strategies for grasping and using tools, Michael McCarty, Rachel K. Clifton

Ready, set, goal: The effect of cues on generalization and problem solving in young children, Jennifer A. Schwade, Patricia J. Bauer

Development of means-end planning in the second year of life, Peter Willatts

Not beyond their grasp: Microgenetic analyses of infants’ strategy discovery and generalization, Zhe Chen, Robert Siegler

Discussant: Judy S. DeLoache

Chair: Brenda L. Volling

Infant affect and affect-regulation during still-face with mothers and fathers: The role of infant characteristics and parental sensitivity, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker, Molly M. Garwood, Bruce P. Powers, Paul C. Notaro

Differences and similarities in maternal and paternal emotion socialization: Effects on infant affect and attention, Brenda L. Volling, Carla Herrera, Paul C. Notaro, Nancy L. McElwain

A longitudinal investigation of infant emotion regulation with mothers and fathers, Lisa J. Bridges, Wendy S. Grolnick

Fathers’ and mothers’ parenting during the first three years: Predictors and correlates, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, Cynthia A. Frosch, Jean L. McHale

Discussant: Michael E. Lamb

Chair: Paul H. Morris

The importance of emotions and intersubjectivity in the development of communication in chimpanzees, Kim A. Bard

An intersubjective psychology for infancy?, Vasudevi Reddy

What is it like to be a pig in a small barren pen? The scientific study of subjective experience in farm animals, Françoise Wemelsfelder

Drawing the line: The differentiation of "human" and the "subhuman" in developmental and comparative psychology, Paul H. Morris, Alan Costall

Discussant: Alan Fogel

Chair: Martin Maldonado-Durán

Diagnosis and treatment of infantile anorexia, Irene Chatoor

The physiology of feeding and its implication in the treatment of infant feeding disorders, Maria Ramsay, Vicki Veroff

A proposed diagnostic classification of feeding difficulties: How diagnosis informs treatment recommendations, Martin Maldonado-Durán, Richard Holigrocki, Christine Moody

Garden Party and Dinner Buffet

Chair: Rachel K. Clifton

Speaker: Elliott Blass

Chair: Zeynep Biringen

Adapting the emotional availability scales for 4-month old infant-mother dyads: Associations with molecular coding and maternal psychopathology, Alice Carter, Christina B. Little, Frances Beth Garrity-Rokous

Infant-caregiver interactions in developing attachment relationships: Emotional availability in foster care dyads, Kathleen E. Albus, Mary Dozier

Atypical maternal behavior and infant attachment as predictors of emotional availability in middle school, M. Ann Easterbrooks, Gretchen Biesecker, Karlen Lyons-Ruth

"Apparent sensitivity": A methodological note and a proposed link with the C-attachment classification, Zeynep Biringen

Discussant: Robert N. Emde

Chair: Elvidina Nabuco Adamson-Macedo

Attitudes of the medical and nursing professions towards psychological interventions in the neonatal unit, Áine de Róiste

Sensitivity and susceptibility to deep or light touch?, Elvidina Nabuco Adamson-Macedo, Julie A. Hayes

Assessment of spontaneous general movements as a measure for brain maturation in preterm infants, Janet C. Constantinou, Elvidina Nabuco Adamson-Macedo, Majid Mirmiran, B. E. Pleisher

Coactions between the physiological, behavioral, and immunologic systems of the ventilated preterm neonate, Julie A. Hayes, Elvidina Nabuco Adamson-Macedo

Discussants: Fairo Werner Jnr., Peter Willatts

Chair: Marie J. Hayes

Organizational principles in the prenatal development of motor behavior, Scott R. Robinson

Antenatal and neonatal development of motor organization, C. Robert Almli

The sleep/wake states as patterned motor behaviors, Evelyn B. Thoman

Noise in early behavioral organization, Steven S. Robertson

Discussants: Marie J. Hayes, Mark S. Blumberg

Chair: Jacob L. Gewirtz

Infants’ approach and avoidance to strangers influenced by maternal contingencies, Kerrie Lum Lock, Jacob L. Gewirtz, Martha Peláez-Nogueras

Environmental influences on fearfulness in young children, Patrice M. Miller

Determinants of fear-denoting protests in darkness and in illuminated settings, Aida I. Sanchez, Jacob L. Gewirtz, Martha Peláez-Nogueras

Discussants: Lewis P. Lipsitt, Martha Peláez-Nogueras

Chairs: Marissa Diener, Tracy L. Spinrad

Reactions to frustration and novelty in infancy: Physiological and behavioral consistencies and inconsistencies, Samuel P. Putnam, Norman Turk, Cynthia A. Stifter

Mother-father differences and paternal correlates of infant emotion regulation, Marissa Diener, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, Jean L. McHale, Cynthia A. Frosch

Predicting individual differences in toddlers’ behavioral control: Contributions of maternal responsivity and emotion regulation in infancy, Tracy L. Spinrad, Cynthia A. Stifter

Patterns of mother-child interaction in two-year-old children with externalizing-type behavior problems, Cynthia L. Smith, Laura E. Lomax, Susan D. Calkins

Discussant: Cynthia A. Stifter

Chair: Claire D. Coles

Arousal and arousal modulation in 8-week-old infants as a function of gestational age and prenatal drug exposure, Kim A. Bard, Claire D. Coles, Kathleen A. Platzman, Mary E. Lynch

The behavioral regulation skills of 6- and 12-month-old infants exposed prenatally to cigarette smoke and/or alcohol, Julie A. Kable, Claire D. Coles, Arthur Falek

Attachment and empathy among infants of alcoholic parents, Rina D. Eiden, Kenneth Leonard

Regulatory dysfunction at 24 months in children of women using cocaine and other drugs, Kathleen A. Platzman, Claire D. Coles, Josephine V. Brown, Mary E. Lynch

Discussant: Philip Sanford Zeskind

B01 Spatial memory in five-month-olds is more than categorical, Nora S. Newcombe, Janellen Huttenlocher, Amy Learmonth

B02 The role of visual and movement information in infant search, Mark A. Schmuckler, Hannah Y. Tsang

B03 The continuity as the basic infant representation space knowledge, Elena A. Sergienko

B04 Global influences on the development of spatial relation and natural object categorization: Evidence from preterm infants, Clay Mash, Paul C. Quinn, Velma Dobson, Dana B. Narter

B05 Relational use of landmarks by 9-month-old infants in a spatial orientation task, Adina R. Lew, Gavin Bremner

B06 Detour behavior and side preferences at ages 9 and 12 months, Marion A. Eppler, Nicole L. Norfleet, Kotoe Bruce, Jeff Wendt

B07 Categorical representation of specific versus abstract above and below spatial relations in 3- to 4-month-old infants, Paul C. Quinn, Jennifer L. Polly, Velma Dobson, Dana B. Narter

B08 The impact of maternal speech on children’s linguistic development, Michelle Lee Morse, Deborah L. Holmes

B10 Analyzing adult time talk to infants and toddlers, Janette B. Benson, Ayelet Talmi, Marshall M. Haith

B11 Infants’ categorization of infant-directed utterances produced by a single speaker, Ilse J. Wambacq, Melanie J. Spence, Virginia A. Marchman

B12 Acoustic differentiation of affective vocalizations to infants by mother and fathers, Gerald W. McRoberts, Malcolm Slaney

B13 The role of rate in directing attention to infant-directed speech: A replication, Jamie S. Cooper, Wendy L. Ostroff, Robin Panneton Cooper

B14 Maternal speech to 1- and 4-month-old infants: A content analysis, Pia Christina Strunk, Carrie Green, Robin Panneton Cooper

B15 Six-month-olds’ discrimination in infant-directed speech, Heather M. Theaux, Jason S. McCartney, Kemie Alexander, Robin Panneton Cooper

B16 ID pitch contours are not sufficient to elicit preferences in 4-month-olds, Jason S. McCartney, Heather M. Theaux, Kemie Alexander, Robin Panneton Cooper

B17 EEG patterns during different emotions, Nancy Aaron Jones, Tiffany M. Field, Marisabel Davalos, Carlos J. Gomez

B18 The development of negative emotions in early infancy, Louise Cossette

B19 Neonatal smiles, Daniel S. Messinger, Marco Dondi, G. Christina Nelson-Goens, Alessia Beghi, Alan Fogel, Francesca Simion

B20 Infant expressiveness: The influences of infant affective stability, maternal mood, and maternal affective behavior, Erika E. Forbes, Adena J. Zlochower, Jeffrey F. Cohn

B22 Toddler smiling in the context of mother-child water play, G. Christina Nelson-Goens, Karen DeBirk

B23 Characteristics of infant laughter during the first six months of life, Hui-Chin Hsu, Evangeline E. Nwokah, Alan Fogel

B24 The development of positive affect from 8 to 23 months, Katherine C. Coy

B25 Effect of treatment on play in intact and impaired processors, Philip Roman Zelazo, Richard B. Kearsley, Anna K. Kruzynski, Caroline A. Reid

B26 The relationship between joint attention and symbolic play in autism, Mary M. Crowson, Peter C. Mundy, Joycelyn Lee, A. Rebecca Neal

B27 Early identification of autism in 8-10 month old infants using home video tapes, Emily C. Brown, Geraldine Dawson, Julie Osterling, Nuhad Dinno

B28 Infant precursors of theory of mind abilities in autism and developmental disabilities, Norman H. Kim, Marian D. Sigman

B29 Stability of joint attention skills in children with autism, Cynthia D. Littleford, Marian D. Sigman, Donna W. Liau

B30 Autism and resisting joint attention, Lauren B. Adamson, Duncan McArthur, Yana Markov, Barbara Dunbar

B31 Comprehension profiles of toddlers with severe spoken communication impairments, Rose A. Sevcik, Mary Ann Romski, Lauren B. Adamson

B32 Gestural imitation and contingent parent responses in nonspeaking children with physical impairments, Cynthia J. Cress, Teresa A. Andrews, Collin D. Reynolds

B33 Communicative gesture use by preschoolers with Williams syndrome: A longitudinal analysis, Jacquelyn Bertrand, Carolyn B. Mervis, Ivy Neustat

B34 The shape of expressive vocabulary growth in children with Williams syndrome, Byron F. Robinson, Carolyn B. Mervis

B35 Attention to faces in infancy: Comparison of an infant with Williams syndrome to typically developing infants, Carolyn B. Mervis, Bonita P. Klein, Jacquelyn Bertrand, Susanna Kwitny, L. Gregory Applebaum

B36 Maternal interpretation during social interaction with infants having Down syndrome, Samera M. Baird, Rebecca Ingram, JoEllyn Peterson

B37 Effects of didactic strategies on symbolic behavior in infants with and without Down syndrome, Maria Legerstee, Yolanda van Beek, Jean Varghese

B38 Conversational interactions between blind infants and mothers, Gina Conti-Ramsden, Miguel Perez-Pereira

B41 Verbal and nonverbal communication skills in infants with late onset of canonical syllables, A. Rebecca Neal, Peter C. Mundy, D. Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E. Eilers

B42 Prelinguistics communication in congenitally blind infants, Jana M. Iverson, Heather L. Tencer, Susan Goldin-Meadow

G01 Retention of specific motor solutions in three month-olds using a constrained contingent reinforcement procedure, Christen L. Horn, Rosa M. Angulo-Kinzler, Esther Thelen

G02 Processing speed and working memory in infancy: Evidence from a dissociation in performance on the Visual Expectation Paradigm, Thomas M. Dougherty

G03 Maternal stylistic differences and 24-month-olds’ nonverbal memory performance: Effects at encoding, retrieval, or both?, Patricia L. Dropik, Rebecca A. Niedfeldt, Christine R. Leehey, Patricia J. Bauer

G04 Recycling event knowledge: Facilitating generalization in 30-month-olds, Patricia J. Bauer, Jennifer A. Schwade, Tara M. van Brederode

G05 Developmental changes in declarative memory, Jane Herbert, Harlene Hayne

G06 Bridging the gap: Adults’ language facilitates infants’ memory, Jane Herbert, Harlene Hayne

G07 The influence of amount of stimulus experience on event-related potential measures of memory in 3-month-old infants, David G. Thomas, Margaret R. Letterman, Vickie M. Little, Rima G. Najm, Kyle Chambers

G08 Information overload: Effects of narration and temporal order on 20-month-olds’ recall, Elysia Poggi Davis, Tiffany A. West, Patricia J. Bauer

G09 Neurophysiologic assessment of auditory recognition memory in newborn infants of diabetic mothers, Raye-Ann O. deRegnier, Michael K. Georgieff, Kathleen M. Thomas, Sandi M. Wewerka, Stephanie R. Tribby-Walbridge, Charles A. Nelson

G10 Electrophysiological assessment of pre-explicit memory in at-risk 6-and 8-month-old infants, Sandi M. Wewerka, Kathleen M. Thomas, Stephanie R. Tribby-Walbridge, Michael K. Georgieff, Charles A. Nelson

G11 Easy does it? The role of task difficulty and age in infants’ recall of events, Leslie J. Carver

G12 As time goes by: Forgetting and remembering in 9- and 10-month-olds, Leslie J. Carver

G20 Effects of visual and auditory distractors on infants’ short term spatial memory, Jana D. Axelrad, Elizabeth E. Garner, W. Keith Berg

G13 Electrophysiological correlates of number discrimination in infants, Rosa I. Arriaga, Kelly Snyder, Charles A. Nelson

G14 Infants’ understanding of 1+1: New evidence, Claudia Uller

G15 Large number discrimination in 6-month-old infants: Evidence for the accumulator model, Fei Xu, Elizabeth Spelke

G16 Numerical knowledge in infancy: The number/mass distinction, Lisa Feigenson, Elizabeth Spelke

G17 Infants’ understanding of quantity: "More" versus "less", Lynne S. C. Tan

Moderator: Roberta M. Golinkoff

Participants: Renee Baillargeon vs. Linda B. Smith

Chair: Robert Arendt

Accuracy in detecting prenatal drug exposure, Robert Arendt, Lynn T. Singer, Sonia Minnes, Joanne Robinson, Ann E. Salvator

Examiner masking in research on the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure, Fonda Davis Eyler, Marylou Behnke, Kathleen Wobie, Nanci Stewart Woods, Mike Conlon

Prenatal cocaine exposure: Controlling for covariates of use, Gale A. Richardson, Nancy L. Day

Sampling in research on prenatal cocaine exposure: Vexing problems and practical solutions, Heather Carmichael Olsen, Susan K. Toth

Discussants: Barry M. Lester, Lynn T. Singer

Chair: Arlene S. Walker-Andrews

The role of facial and vocal information in the discrimination of affect by 5-month-olds, Linnea Dickson, Marjorie A. Ryder

The influence of facial, vocal, and multimodal emotional signals of infant behavior, Donna L. Mumme, Anne Fernald

The perception of emotional expressions by 4-month-old infants: Familiarity effects, Ronit Kahana-Kalman, Diane Montague

The specification of emotion in music and dance: Evidence for structural cues, R. Thomas Boone, Joseph G. Cunningham

Discussant: Darwin W. Muir

Chair: Louis A. Schmidt

Frontal lobe function and the A-not-B task: Evidence for neural plasticity in cognitive development during infancy, Martha Ann Bell

Plasticity in language and music acquisition in infancy, Laurel J. Trainor, Renée N. Desjardins

Neural plasticity and affective development in human infants, Louis A. Schmidt, Nathan A. Fox

Cardiac vagal regulation and neural plasticity, Jane A. Doussard-Roosevelt, Stephen W. Porges

Discussant: Daphne Maurer

Chair: Margaret S. Miles

Maternal perception of parenting an infant who cannot eat: Infants with severe gastrointestinal disorders, Margaret S. Miles, Jennifer Daniels

Interactions between mothers and their premature infants during feeding and non-feeding periods, Diane H. Holditch-Davis, Michael Belyea

Preterm infant physiological regulation during feeding: Dyad and feeding episode predictors of higher oxygen saturation, Suzanne M. Thoyre

Nutritive sucking and neurobehavioral development in VLBW infants from 34 weeks PCA to term, Barbara S. Medoff-Cooper, Jacqueline M. McGrath

Discussant: Josephine V. Brown

Chair: Kim Plunkett

Learning prosody: Infants’ learning of two word stress rhythms, Todd M. Bailey, Kim Plunkett

What’s in a name? Preferential orienting by 17-month-olds to images whose names they comprehend, Graham Schafer

When does an ostrich become a bird? The role of typicality in early word comprehension, Kerstin Meints, Paul L. Harris

Speech processing in very young children, Daniel Swingley

Discussant: Peter Jusczyk

Chair: Celia A. Brownell

Early development of self-regulation: Maternal and child contributions, Anne E. Hungerford, Celia A. Brownell

Self-regulation in toddlers: Construct validity and the impact of maternal behavior, Kristin N. Newby, Susan B. Campbell

Predicting emotion regulation from infancy to preschool-age: The influence of negative emotionality, marital relations, and parenting, Erin M. Ingoldsby, Daniel S. Shaw, Elizabeth B. Owens, Emily Winslow

Predicting emotion regulation during sibling conflict in childhood from infant difficulty and early marital conflict, Monica M. Garcia, Daniel S. Shaw, Elizabeth B. Owens, Kirsten Yaggi

Discussant: C. Cybele Raver

B01 Toddlers’ understanding of the correspondence between television and reality, Kelly L. Schmitt

B02 The impact of iconicity on early understanding of graphic symbols, Tara C. Callaghan

B03 The emergence of early graphic symbol production, Tara C. Callaghan

B04 Infants’ and toddlers’ abilities to visually discriminate written words, Robert C. Titzer

B05 Infants’ manual investigation of pictures as a function of exposure to the objects depicted, Sophia L. Pierroutsakos

B06 Young children’s use of directly-experienced vs. symbol-mediated information, Georgene L. Troseth, Judy S. DeLoache

B07 Memory load effects on retention of list information at 6 months, Michelle Gulya, Becky Sweeney, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

B08 Reinstating infant memory using multiple reminders, Kristen Hartshorn, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

B10 How and when postevent information impairs memory for a prior event, Alba Rossi-George, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

B11 Priming memory at 9 months: The latency of retrieval, Karen Hildreth, Kristen Hartshorn, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

B12 Repeated reminders facilitate memory retrieval, Harlene Hayne, Karen Hildreth, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

B13 Effect of maternal soothing on infant stress reactivity, Douglas S. Ramsay, Michael Lewis

B14 Infants’ emotional reactivity and regulation in states of fatigue and wakefulness, Christine Nelson Ross, Katherine H. Karraker

B15 Reactivity to a looming stimulus: A twin study, Etienne Dubreuil, Bernard Boulerice, Daniel Pérusse, Robert O. Pihl

B16 Relationship between behavioral reactivity to novelty and cortisol activity in infancy, Nathalie Tremblay, Anna Pecchinenda, Michel Boivin, Valérie Saysset, Daniel Pérusse, Richard E. Tremblay

B17 Using home environment variables as predictors of resiliency in a sample of low-birthweight, Hispanic infants, Stacey I. Gould, Karen M. Finello

B18 Use of the performance qualifier scale with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development as outcome measures evaluating developmental risk factors, Ruth Rose-Jacobs, Howard H. Cabral, Marjorie M. Beeghly, Deborah A. Frank

B19 Environmental risk and developmental outcome at 8 months of age, Wanda F. Grant, Margaret I. Bendersky, Michael Lewis

B20 Validation of prenatal screening procedure for risk of child abuse, Lara M. Cady, Catherine Crain-Thoreson, Deborah Kirby Forgays, Ira Hyman

B21 Maternal childhood risk status as a predictor of emotional availability in mother-child interactions: An intergenerational study, Vivanne M. Bentley, Dale M. Stack, Lisa A. Serbin

B22 The relationship between determinations of clinical risk status and the quality of adolescent mother infant interactions, Holly E. Brophy-Herb, Alice Sterling Honig

B23 The Vulnerable Child Syndrome and maternal adjustment among mothers of high risk infants, Paula A. Scheye, Douglas M. Teti, Jeanne H. Laliberte, Christine D. Reiner, Walter Meyer, Lynda Evans, Melissa A. O’Connell, Rose M. Viscardi

B24 The relation of personal and professional supports to maternal well-being for mothers of infants hospitalized in a NICU, Christine D. Reiner, Douglas M. Teti, Lynda Evans, Jeanne H. Laliberte, Walter Meyer, Melissa A. O’Connell, Paula A. Scheye, Rose M. Viscardi

B25 Perspectives on the analysis of maternal vocal responsiveness, Marguerite Stevenson Barratt, Mary A. Roach

B26 Co-occurrence and sequential analyses of non-structured mother-infant interaction in 2- to 6-month-old infants, Thomas E. Hannan, Adriana Molitor

B27 Developmental changes in the configuration of infant communicative actions: Vocalization, gazing, and sucking, Hui-Chin Hsu, Alan Fogel, Daniel S. Messinger

B28 Developmental changes in early mother-infant face-to-face communication, Manuela Lavelli, Alan Fogel

B29 Frame analysis of real-time and developmental-time transitions in early mother-infant communication, Andrea P. F. Pantoja, Maria B. Cranor, Alan Fogel

B30 When infants gaze and mothers smile: Competing agenda?, Daniel S. Messinger, Alan Fogel, K. Laurie Dickson

B31 Rating interactional synchrony between seven month old infants and their mothers, Chinnon M. Jaquay, Chrysostomos A. Lazarou, Peg Hull Smith, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., Frank J. Bernieri

B32 Mothers’ and infants’ use of touch during face-to-face play with and without objects, Karen A. Colburne, Dale M. Stack, Vivanne M. Bentley, Marni C. Switkin

B34 Doula support: A risk free alternative for pain relief during labor, Susan K. McGrath, John H. Kennell, Vijay S. Varadarajulu

B35 The effect of doula support during labor on mother-infant interaction at 2 months, Scott Martin, Susan H. Landry, Laura M. Steelman, John H. Kennell, Susan K. McGrath

B36 Touch during mother-infant interactions, Emily L. Fergus, Jeffrey Pickens, Jennifer Schmidt

B37 Do measures of infant habituation organization predict childhood vocabulary and IQ scores?, Peter Willatts, Stewart Forsyth, Mary Katherine DiModugno, Karen Rosie

B38 Visual scanning during the peak habituation trial: A further look at individual differences, Sharon J. Krinsky-McHale, Louise Hainline

B41 Measuring attention of 2-and 4-month-old infants during a habituation task, Donna Fisher-Thompson, Gina Aguayo, Patricia A. Lynch, Julie Peterson, Kelly Such

B42 The biasing nature of subject loss in an infant habituation task, J. Clare Bell, Alan Slater, Karen J. Thorpe

G01 Early sign language memories: The emergence of maternal style in a deaf dyad, Tiffany A. West, Patricia J. Bauer

G02 Self-recognition responses among deaf and hearing 18-month-old infants, Lynne S. Koester, Debara Sue Forest

G03 Word learning strategies of young deaf children, Amy R. Lederberg, Amy K. Prezbindowski, Patricia E. Spencer

G04 Representational abilities in the second year of life and the hearing status of child/mother dyads, Marc H. Bornstein, Ann M. Selmi, Oswald Maurice Haynes, Kathleen M. Painter, Eric S. Marx

G05 Emotional availability and language gain in deaf/hard-of-hearing and hearing toddlers with hearing mothers, Leah J. Pressman, Sandra L. Pipp-Siegel, Christina Yoshinago-Itano, Lorraine F. Kubicek, Robert N. Emde

G06 Early language and academic development in deaf children: Families with and without fathers, Sabina M. Low, Rosemary Calderon

G07 Characteristics of hearing families and their young hearing-impaired children: Early intervention through preschool, Rosemary Calderon, Jill Y. Bargones, Susan Sidman

G08 Outcomes of early intervention for children with moderately-severe to profound hearing loss: Family, child, and program factors, Rosemary Calderon, Jill Y. Bargones, Susan Sidman

G20 Motoric constraints link manual babbling and early signs, Adrianne Cheek, Kearsy Cormier, Christian Rathmann, Ann Repp, Richard P. Meier

G09 The emergence of an ontological distinction in infancy, Rosemary A. Rosser, Rebecca Hill, Dana B. Narter

G10 The origins of an intuitive biology in infancy, Rebecca Hill, Rosemary A. Rosser

G11 Can 9-month-olds identify by shape?, Patrice D. Tremoulet, Nancy Lee, Alan M. Leslie

G12 Object identification by feature conjunction in 12-month-olds, Alan M. Leslie, Patrice D. Tremoulet, Kathleen Krauss, Nitin Mathur

G13 Infants’ representation of collections: "Not an object" or "A non-object individual"?, Wen-Chi Chiang, Karen Wynn

G14 Limits to object knowledge in 8-month-olds, Karen Wynn, Wen-Chi Chiang

G16 Handedness and haptic memory in 2- and 4-month-old infants, Myriam Lhote, Arlette Streri

G17 Transfer of information about object shape between hands in 2- and 4-month-old infants, Arlette Streri, Christelle Lemoine, Agnès Bontemps

G18 Ten-month-old infants’ recognition of objects in contexts, Christopher S. Monk, Trent N. Toepper, Charles A. Nelson

Chair: Sarah L. Friedman

Participants: Joseph J. Campos, Sarah L. Friedman, Betsy Lozoff, Marshall M. Haith, Anita Sostek

Chair: Mary K. Rothbart

Concept and method in the study of effortful control, Mary K. Rothbart, Laura B. Jones

Focused attention in infancy and the development of effortful control: A longitudinal study from 8 to 22 months, Grazyna Kochanska, Kathleen T. Murray

The development of sustained attention: A longitudinal study from infancy to childhood, Carmen Gonzalez, Jose A. Carranza

Cognitive processes and effortful control, Claire B. Kopp

Discussant: Megan R. Gunnar

Chair: Philippe Rochat

The newly objectified world of 2 month-olds, Philippe Rochat

Moving into the two-month revolution: An action-based account, Brian Hopkins

Reflections on N-shaped curves in early infancy: Regulated or re-organized development?, Ronald G. Barr

Behavioral changes around two months of age in a population of African hunter-gatherers, Melvin Konner

Chair: Catharine H. Echols

Early recognition of morphophonological alterations, James L. Morgan

Auditory implicit memory as a mechanism for lexical-phonological acquisition, Cynthia L. Fisher, Barbara Ann Church

The identification of words and their meanings in the transition into language, Catharine H. Echols

Babies’ learning about words and non-word signals in a communicative context, Amanda L. Woodward

Discussant: William E. Merriman

Chair: Scott P. Johnson

Visual processing and action control in 6-month-olds: An HD-ERP Study, Gergely Csibra, Mark H. Johnson

The development and neural basis of representations for action, Rick O. Gilmore

A competition model of early exogenous orienting, James L. Dannemiller

Contributions from motion discrimination mechanisms to two-month olds’ perception of illusory contours, Scott P. Johnson

Discussant: Bennett I. Bertenthal

Chair: Eugene C. Goldfield

Dynamic organization of leg movements in VLBW infants, Linda Fetters, Johanna Jonsdottir, Edward Z. Tronick

Emergence of alternation patterns during nutritive sucking by full term and preterm infants, Eugene C. Goldfield

Motor responses of VLBW infants to caregiving: Effects of stimulus context, Patricia T. Becker, Jane E. Brazy, Patricia C. Grunwald

Discussant: Evelyn B. Thoman

B01 Eight-month-old infants’ perception of possible and impossible events, Leslie B. Cohen, Cara H. Cashon

B02 Infants’ perception of causal chains, Leslie B. Cohen, Leslie J. Rundell, Cara H. Cashon, Barbara A. Spellman

B03 Infants’ perception of bouncing-ball collisions, Lisa M. Oakes, Kathleen N. Kannass

B04 The perception of the spatial structure of a cylinder in 5- and 8-month old human infants, Michael J. Kavšek

B05 Infants’ perception of textural changes induced by features and feature conjunctions, Evelin Bertin, Ramesh S. Bhatt

B06 Infants’ perception of 3-D information in static images, Ramesh S. Bhatt, Jamie L. Gilbert, Laura L. Dutton, Susan E. Waters

B07 The detection of intermodal rate synchrony relations in 6- and 8-month-old infants, David Lewkowicz, Robert E. Lickliter

B08 Infants discriminate colors on the basis of perceptual distance, not category, Peter Gerhardstein, Peggy Renner, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

B09 3- to 5-month-olds prefer social contingency over eye contact, Lawrence A. Symons, Sylvia M. J. Hains, Lyana Sisca, Darwin W. Muir

B10 Perception of self-generated contingencies in normal and autistic children, Judit Magyar, György Gergely

B11 The role of infant-generated stimulus-contingencies in affect regulation and the development of attachment security, Orsolya Koós, György Gergely, Judit Gervai, Krisztina Ney, Ildikó Tóth

B12 Infants’ sensitivity to familiar contingencies in social interaction, Ann E. Bigelow

B13 Maternal contingency and the socialization of emotions in early infancy, Élène Léveillé, Louise Cossette

B14 Scaffolding in low-income mother-child dyads: Relations with joint attention and reciprocity, Jason T. Hustedt, C. Cybele Raver

B15 Infants gaze following, joint attention, and vocabulary development, Pamela R. Rollins, Virginia A. Marchman, Jyutika Mehta

B16 Early gaze following, receptive language, and subsequent child-caregiver joint attention episodes, Jessica Markus, Michael Morales, Peter C. Mundy

B17 Nonverbal communication, joint attention, and attachment in infants at risk, Angelika Hartl Claussen, Peter C. Mundy, Jennifer C. Willoughby

B18 The strategic use of gaze to face in joint attention, Vasudevi Reddy

B19 Joint attention and toddler characteristics: Race, sex, and socioeconomic status, Terrill F. Saxon, John T. Reilly

B20 Gaze following to moving and stationary targets at 3 and 6 months of age, Barbara A. D’Entremont

B22 Facilitation, interference and auditory context: Are six-month-olds breaking tradition?, Lisa Pescara-Kovach, Janice M. Vidic, Robert A. Haaf

B23 The development of the ability to disengage gaze, Phillipa R. Butcher, Alex F. Kalverboer

B24 Intersensory redundancy guides infant attention, Lorraine E. Bahrick, Robert E. Lickliter

B25 Individual differences in look duration, choice trial length, and paired-comparison task performance, John Colombo, W. Allen Richman, Julie E. Harlan, Janet E. Frick

B26 Individual differences in infants’ recognition of briefly presented visual stimuli, Janet E. Frick, John E. Richards

B27 Adult’s eyes trigger shifts of visual attention in human infants, Bruce M. Hood, J. Douglas Willen, Jon Driver

B28 Peripheral stimulus localization during visual attention in 5-, 8-, 11-, and 14-week-old infants, Sharon K. Hunter, John E. Richards

B29 Theoretical implications of infant distractibility in selective attention, Jeffrey M. Lansink, John E. Richards

B30 Localizing the development of covert attention in infants using scalp event-related-potentials, John E. Richards

B31 Physiologic regulatory problems during infancy, Katherine Rosenblum, Susan C. McDonough, Ellen Devoe, Sheila Gahagan, Arnold Sameroff

B32 Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of infant crying, Michael P. Robb, Alexander M. Goberman, Anthony T. Cacace

B33 The infant cry: Facial, vocal, and body action in the perception of distress, Julia R. Irwin

B34 Fetal movement frequencies predict the amounts infants will cry, Ian St James-Roberts, Praveen Menon-Johansson

B35 "Newborns’ attention hypothesis" concerning a stimulus presentation during a stress situation, Kiyobumi Kawakami, Kiyoko Takai-Kawakami, Yukiko Shimizu, Takumi Yanaihara

B36 Effects of temporal variation in acoustics on adults’ proposed responses to infant crying, Rebecca M. Wood, Gwen E. Gustafson

B37 The effect of developing reaching skill on infant perseverative reaching errors, Melissa Wechsler Clearfield, Esther Thelen

B38 Object retrieval and interlimb coordination in infancy, Kathryn E. Gadacz, Daniela Corbetta

B39 The roles of recent reaching history and looking behavior in intercepting a moving object, Daniel J. Robin

B40 Evidence for the anticipation of material kind in infants’ reaching for objects and portions of sand, Gavin N. Huntley-Fenner, Donna Hanson

B41 Arm weight as possible control parameter in the development of prehension, Raymond H. Wimmers, Geert J. P. Savelsbergh

B42 Reaching in the dark: Role of vision in selection of power and precision grips, George Butterworth, Lucy Farnworth, Layla Esposito

G01 Event-related brain potentials depict delayed development of cerebral inhibition processes among infants with Down Syndrome, Jennifer Hill Karrer, Rathe S. Karrer

G02 The relationship of looking time and heart rate responses in four-month-olds, Gregory J. Austin, W. Keith Berg

G03 Time course of adrenocortical activity in mothers and young children, Mary J. Ward, Shelley Lee, Evelyn G. Lipper

G04 Physiological response to an emotional challenge is related to parental care received in juvenile Goeldi’s monkeys (Callimico Goeldii), Andrea Dettling, Chris R. Pryce, Robert D. Martin

G05 Visual activity in relation to head movement in infants with leukomalacia, Isabelle Carchon, Joëlle Provasi

G06 Rhythmical synchronisation between 2- and 4-year-old children, Joëlle Provasi

G07 Visual evoked potential measure of texture discrimination in infants: A longitudinal study, E. Eugenie Hartmann, Mary M. Conte, Keith P. Purpura

G08 Three- and six-month-old infants’ haptic processing and discrimination of texture, Mary Tsonis, Dale M. Stack

G09 The relationship between cardiac vagal tone at two and six weeks and state behavior at six weeks, Norman Turk

G10 EEG index of motor inhibition in 11-month-old infants, Tatiana A. Stroganova, Elena V. Orekhova, Irina N. Posikera

G19 Essential fatty acid formula supplementation and neuromotor capabilities in nursery-reared rhesus monkey neonates, Maribeth Champoux, Joseph R. Hibbeln, Courtney Shannon, J. Dee Higley, Norman Salem, Jr., Stephen Suomi

G20 Orthostatic tilt at 5 months: A twin study on autonomic control, Etienne Dubreuil, Bernard Boulerice, Daniel Pérusse, Robert O. Pihl

G11 Temperamental features of infants who suffered early visual deprivation, Marina Tsetline, Tatiana A. Stroganova

G12 Relations between state at 6 weeks and frustration reactivity at 5 and 10 months, Samuel P. Putnam, Norman Turk, Cynthia A. Stifter

G13 Mothers’ and fathers’ responsiveness to infant distress: Relations with perceived infant temperament and infant responsiveness, Mari Anne Paraskevas, Patricia Hrusa Williams

G14 Mothers’ reports of the salience of infant personality traits, Katherine H. Karraker, Melinda B. Maher, Brady Reynolds

G15 Who’s controlling whom?: Infant habituation rate and toddler temperament uniquely contribute to maternal play behavior, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., Peg Hull Smith, Laura Hayden, Jennifer L. Myers, Kristen M. Bell

G16 Sociability and cognitive processing: Linkages between temperament, habituation, and sequential memory, Peg Hull Smith, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., Chinnon M. Jaquay, Tim Loboschefski, Kristen M. Bell

G17 Differential maternal treatment of twins: Does temperament make a difference?, Lisabeth F. DiLalla, Sylvia D. Jones, E.G. Bishop, Sefali Bhutwala

ISIS Awards and Business Meeting (Sa44),

Chair: Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Speaker: Esther Thelen

Presidential Reception

8:30-9:50 a.m.

Limited space available. Signup at the ICIS registration desk in the Sheraton Colony Square Hotel.

Ronald G. Barr, Crying and emotional development in infants: Is crying a sign, a signal, both or neither?

Gavin Bremner, Alternative conceptualisations of infant development: Direct realist, dynamical systems, and cognitivist approaches

Claire D. Coles, Primary versus secondary disabilities: Understanding development in infants of substance abusers

Carol O. Eckerman, Integrating human and non-human infancy research

Peter Hobson, Relationships in infancy: What are they?

Susan H. Landry & Karen E. Smith, Developmental frameworks for early parent-infant intervention research

Charles A. Nelson, Neuroimaing and electrophysiology in infant development

J. Steven Reznick, Sharing the fruits of our labors: How should we disseminate research findings to a broader audience?

Scania de Schoen, Functional cortical plasticity for cognitive competences in infancy: What do we hope, what do we believe, and what do we know?

Sandra E. Trehub, Songs as caregiving tools

Claes von Hofsten & Rachel K. Clifton, Aspects of infant reaching behavior

Tedra A. Walden, Daycare, Santa Claus, and grandma: Parents’ strategies for controlling children’s emotional reactions