Sunday, April 21, 2002

Su01

Symposium
Ontogeny of Eye Gaze Processing Part II: Infants’ Use of Eye Gaze Information for Learning and Mind-Reading

Chairs: Kang Lee & Diane Poulin-Dubois

9:00 - 10:50
Ballroom

 

Joint visual attention and novel label acquisition: Attention-following and attention-switching revisited

Christina G. Phill, Ross Flom, Anne D. Pick

 

The role of gaze direction and mutual exclusivity in guiding 24-month-olds word-object mappings

Susan A. Graham, Kara Olineck

 

Infants’ use of gaze to choose objects and learn what to do with them

Donna Mumme, Leslie Adams Lariviere, Rachael Fuchs, Emily W. Bushnell

 

A fresh look at gaze: Infants’ attribution of desires from peoples behaviors toward objects

Diane Poulin-Dubois, Paula Bennett

 

Are eyes windows to a deceiver’s soul? Young children’s interpretation of triadic eye gaze cues in a deceptive situation

Alejo Freire, Michelle Eskritt, Kang Lee

 

Discussant: Darwin Muir

 

Su02

Symposium
Interpreting Dissociations Between Infant Looking And Reaching: A Comparative Approach

Chair: Laurie R. Santos

9:00 - 10:50
Tudor Room

 

A comparison of looking and reaching in pre-schooler’s search

Bruce Hood, Vicky Cole-Davies, Melanie Dias

 

Two-year-olds’ understanding of event outcomes when looking and reaching

Clay W. Mash, Rachel K. Clifton, Neil E. Berthier

 

Two approaches to understanding knowledge dissociations: Ancillary deficits and graded representations

Yuko Munakata

 

Monkey see versus monkey do: Dissociations between looking and acting in a non-human primate

Laurie R. Santos, Marc D. Hauser

 

Discussant: Elizabeth S. Spelke

 

Su03

Symposium
Perinatal Stress, Alleviation, and Long-Term Consequences

Chair: Karin Stjernqvist

9:00 - 10:50
Territories Room

 

Literature review on perinatal stress, stress alleviation in preterm infants, and long-term consequences of early adverse events

Ayala Nicole, Franois Ansermet, Blaise Pierrehumbert, Carole Muller-Nix, Margarita Forcada-Guex

 

Olfactory experience mediates response to pain in preterm newborns    

Nathalie Goubet

 

Profiles on the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) according to the health status among preterm babies

Margarita Forcada-Guex, Carole Muller-Nix, Ayala Nicole, Adrien Moessinger, François Ansermet

 

Family-centered developmentally supportive care in very-low-birth-weight infants

Karin Stjernqvist, Anita Kleberg, Bjrn Westrup

 

Discussant: Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern

 

Su04

Symposium
Perception Of Illusory Contours And Partly Occluded Objects In Infancy

Chair: Gergely Csibra

9:00 - 10:50
Territories Room

 

Two-month-old infants perceive kinetic illusory contours

Scott P. Johnson

 

When do infants perceive static subjective contours?

Michael J. Kavsek

 

Infant perception of occlusion: Modal and amodal completion

Kirsten Condry

 

Illusory contours form illusory objects in 8-month-old infants

Gergely Csibra

 

Discussant: Albert Yonas

 

Poster Session

9:30 - 11:20
Canadian Room

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Social Communication and Language

Family life with a one-year-old: What parents’ stories signify

Robert V. Babigian, Leo B. Waterston, Wendy DeCourcey, James P. McHale

Preverbal communication about emotional and non-emotional events in early toddlerhood

Louise Fahy, Maria Legerstee

Changing dynamics of early mother-infant communication: A multiple case-study approach

Kelly Forward, Barry Penning, Magdalena Orr, Andréa P.F. Pantoja, Maria Lyra, Micheline de Souza e Silva

Audience effects on gestural communication by chimpanzees

David A. Leavens, William D. Hopkins, Autumn B. Hostetter

Changes in caregiver speech to prelinguistic infants over time. Is there a significant shift between 6 and 16 weeks?

Myron Korman, Charlie Lewis

Individual changes in the coordination of infant smiles and gaze with age

Marygrace E. Yale, Daniel Messinger, Alan Cobo-Lewis, Susan Acosta, Laura Bolzani, Alan Fogel

 

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Word Segmentation, Recognition, and Bilingualism

Phonotactic acquisition in infancy

Kyle E. Chambers, Kristine H. Onishi, Cynthia Fisher

Morphological segmentation in 15-month-old infants

Toben H. Mintz

The relationship between perceptual dissimilarity and processing time on infant word recognition

James L. Morgan, Leher Singh, Heather Bortfeld, Karen Rathbun, Katherine White, Jennifer Anderson

Word segmentation by infants with Williams syndrome: Use of prosodic and statistical cues

Thierry Nazzi, Sarah Paterson Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Infants’ emerging comprehension of absent reference

Megan M. Saylor, Dare A. Baldwin

Sources of fragility in early word recognition: Differential effects of affect, amplitude, and absolute pitch

Leher Singh, James L. Morgan

The effects of phonological variation on infant word recognition

Katherine White, James L. Morgan

Pragmatic development of bilingual pre-school children

Liane Comeau, Fred Genesee

Native-language, cross-language, and dual-language word segmentation abilities: A comparison English, French, and bilingual infants

Linda Polka, Megha Sundara, Stephanie Blue

 

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Manual Exploration

Is there an “oblique effect” in infants’ haptic perception of orientations?

Edouard Gentaz, Arlette Streri

Sensitivity to the source of auditory input mediates the facilitation of labels on infants’ categorization: A developmental trend

Anne L. Fulkerson, Stacey S. Shull, Robert A. Haaf

Tactile exploration strategies of consistency by infants between 2.5 and 6.5 months of age

Céline Leblond-Maire

Tactile exploration in 5-month-old-infants: Link between posture and muscle tone

Carole Lefevre

Hand haptic system in neonates

Michèle Molina, François Jouen

Cross-modal recognition of shape from hand to eyes in human neonates

Arlette Steri, Edouard Gentaz

 

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Intermodal Perception

Infant attention to synchrony in a complex visual scene

Koleen McCrink-Gochal, Richard N. Aslin

Infants’ matching of preteen versus preschool children’s faces and voices

Lakshmi J. Gogate, Lorraine E. Bahrick

Intermodal numerical correspondences in 6-month-old infants

Tessei Kobayashi, Kazuo Hiraki, Toshikazu Hasegawa

Infants’ perception of bimodal temporal order

David J. Lewkowicz, Bena B. Schwartz

Intersensory redundancy enhances memory in bobwhite quail embryos

Robert Lickliter, Lorraine E. Bahrick, Hunter Honeycutt

Effects of redundant and non-redundant bimodal stimulation on heart rate response in quail embryos

Greg D. Reynolds, Hunter Honeycutt, Robert Lickliter

 

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Action and Motion Events

Young children’s verbal and nonverbal responses to events involving continuous versus discontinuous object movements

Wen-Chi Chiang

Where do event representations come from?

Peter Gordon

Action effects enhance the perception of action goals

Bianca Jovanovic, Ildiko Kiraly, Birgit Elsner, Gisa Ascherleben, Gyorgy Gergely, Wolfgang Prinz

Neural correlates of perceiving possible and impossible events in 6-month-old infants

Jordy Kaufman, Gergely Csibra, Mark H. Johnson

Infants’ sensitivity to violations in the temporal directionality of irreversible events

Shauna Kingsnorth, Mark A. Schmuckler

Four-month-old infants’ reasoning about cues of object motion: Discrimination between persons and inanimate objects

Daisuke Kosugi, Hiraku Ishida, Shoji Itakura

The effect of familiarization on multistep event recalls in 20-month-olds

Nathalie Prudhomme

Young children’s sensitivity to magical events

Kristy vanMarle, Karen Wynn

Coming to conclusions: 12-month-old infants form expectations about probable endings of motion events

Laura Wagner, Susan Carey

The development of infants’ action categories

Camille Wilson, Amanda Woodward

 

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Emotions and the Still-Face

Relations from a 4-month still-face procedure to behavior at 4 and 5 years

Margaret Fish

Dynamic systems analysis of positive emotions in the context of early mother-infant communication

Pa Her, Andréa P.F. Pantoja, Hui-Chin Hsu

Infant pre-pointing during maternal still face

Hui-Chin Hsu, Natasha Tilson

Infants’ emotional reactions to caregiver still-face and separation predict socio-emotional functioning in toddlerhood

Alison L. Miller, Jenifer D. Clark, Susan C. McDonough

Anger expressions of young infants in response to different forms of frustration

Margaret W. Sullivan, Michael Lewis

Early maternal contingency and facial expressions at 5 months predict toddlers’ responses to frustration

Margaret W. Sullivan, Michael Lewis

 

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Preterm Infants

Communicative development of infants born below 32 gestational weeks with and without neonatal white matter disorder (NWMD)

Marjorie Beeghly, Karen L. Olson, Jill Hannah, Snaltze Charlot Pierre, Nikora Downey, Linda Fetters, Edward Z. Tronick

Seasonal factors and birth weight: New evidence from the southern hemisphere

Jennifer Bodnarchuk, Warren O. Eaton

Visual expectancies in low-risk preterm infants

Kimberly Andrews Espy, Theresa E. Senn, Dana Cunningham, Diane Fox, Aisha King, Elena Rhoads, Joshua Smith

Newborn vagal tone in relation to cognitive development in VLBW premature infants

Ruth Feldman, Arthur I. Eidelman

Movement sequencing coordination of infants born very low birth weight with white matter disease

Elyonara M. Figueiredo, Linda Fetters, Elliot Saltzman, Robert Wagenaar

Motherese: Implications for its importance to preterm infants

Laura P. O’Sullivan, Samantha C. Butler, Neil E. Berthier, Rachel K. Clifton, Bhavesh L. Shah

Triplets preterm infants: Responsivity and performance on the Brazelton scale - NBAS

Angela M. Silva-Haddad, Alice D’Agostini Deutsch

Spontaneous motor activity of young infants born premature with and without white matter disease

Cheng-Chi Tsao, Linda Fetters, Elliot L. Saltzman

 

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Williams Syndrome, Down Syndrome, and Fragile X

Local and configural face processing in infants and toddlers with Williams Syndrome

Kate Humphreys, Sandra Ewing, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Event-related brain potential (ERP) and molecular measures reveal neurofunctional pathologies during infancy due to fragile X syndrome (FXS)

Jennifer Hill Karrer, Randi J. Hagerman, Rathe S. Karrer, Jennifer Vavold, Annette K. Taylor, Melanie Parks

Basic category discrimination among 12 to 24-month-old infants with Down syndrome (DS): An event-related potential study

Rathe Karrer, Jennifer Hill Karrer, Diane Barg-Marston, Meg Walker

Visual search for multiple targets and executive control in toddlers with Fragile X and Williams Syndrome

Gaia Scerif, John Wilding, Kim Cornish, Jon Driver, Kate Humphreys, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

What do I do next? Memory for event sequences in toddlers with Williams syndrome and Down syndrome

Sarah Paterson, Janice H. Brown, Michelle de Haan, Elena Longhi, Helen Hughes, Jamil Martin, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Su13

Symposium
Current Perspectives on the A-not-B Error

Chair: Stuart Marcovitch

11:00 - 12:50
Ballroom

 

A neural network model of perseveration

Jennifer Merva Stedron, Yuko Munakata

 

A cognitive capacity explanation for perseverative errors in the A-not-B task    

Sarah Berger

 

Perseverative responding in means-end support tasks

Andrea Aguiar, Karen R. Menard

 

The non-monotonic influence of the number of A trials on the A-not-B task

Stuart Marcovitch, Philip David Zelazo

 

Discussant: Philip David Zelazo         

 

Su14

Symposium
The Effects of Language on Infant Thought

Chair: Vikram K. Jaswal

11:00 - 12:50
Confederation Room

 

The effects of language on object concepts in infancy

Fei Xu

 

The importance of being a FLUM: 12-month-olds rely on shared labels and shape similarity for inductive inferences

Susan A. Graham, Cari S. Kilbreath, Andrea N. Welder

 

The effects of non-intuitive labels on toddlers’ inferences

Vikram K. Jaswal, Ellen M. Markman

 

Infants’ inductive generalizations of novel words and events: Language-specific versus domain-general processes

Laraine McDonough, Rachel R. Marsh

 

Discussant: Susan A. Gelman

 

Su15

Symposium
Learning Functional Aspects of Artifacts in Infancy

Chairs: Lori Markson & Sabina Pauen

11:00 - 12:50
Tudor Room

 

Children & “virgin objects”: How to learn to do things with novel objects

Hannes Rakoczy, Tricia Striano, Michael Tomasello

 

Object functions serve as cues to categories for infants

Amy E. Booth, Sandra R. Waxman

 

Infants’ categorization of artifacts: Similarity-based or function-based?

Birgit Träeuble, Sabina Pauen

 

Infants’ mapping of artifact functions to specific objects

Lori Markson, Elizabeth S. Spelke

 

Discussant: Elizabeth S. Spelke

 

Su16

Symposium
Maternal Expectations, Self-efficacy, and Other Cognitions: Impact on Caregiving and Infant Outcomes

Chair: Marilyn Stern

11:00 - 12:50
Territories Room

 

Maternal self-efficacy: Role of maternal illusory control and developmental outcome

Wilberta Donovan, Lewis Leavitt

 

Self-efficacy beliefs, competence in parenting, and infant and toddler outcomes

Priscilla Coleman

 

Mothers’ expectations for their infants’ performance on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development

Katherine Karraker, Melissa Atkins, Priscilla Coleman, Lesley Epperly Cottrell

 

Adults’ attitudes toward sibling rivalry

Sybil Hart

 

Discussant: Douglas Teti

Su17

Discussion Session
Methods of Computer-Based Eye-Tracking for Use with Infants

 

Chair: Richard N. Aslin

11:00 - 12:50
Salon A

 

 

Participants:

  • Richard N. Aslin
  • Claes von Hofsten
  • Sabine Hunnius
  • Scott P. Johnson
  • Eileen Mansfield
  • Bob McMurray