Thursday, April 18, 2002

Th01

Symposium
From Action to Intention

Chair: Bennett I. Bertenthal
12:00 - 1:50
Tudor Room

 

When do actions become intentional?
Claus von Hofsten

 

Early development of goal-directed actions
Bennett I. Bertenthal

 

Infants’ developing sensitivity to the intentional structure of action
Amanda Woodward, Jessica Somerville

 

Infants’ ability to perceive the structure that actors produce
Dare Baldwin

 

Discussant: Richard N. Aslin

 

Th02

Symposium
Verb Learning in Infancy

Chair: Jane B. Childers
12:00 - 1:50
Territories Room

 

Eating houseplants and biting horses ... Typicality effects in early verb learning
Kerstin Meints

Toddlers use of verbs as cues to an actor’s intentions
Douglas A. Behrend, Angelika Wittek

Syntactic flexibility is revealed in children’s first verb uses: Evidence from a cross-sectional diary study
Letitia R. Naigles, Donna Vear, Erika Hoff

Early nouns and verbs acquired by Ngas infants in Nigeria
Jane B. Childers

Discussant: Kathyrn Hirsh-Pasek

 


Th03

Symposium
Looking at Babies’ Vision

 

Chair: Terri L. Lewis
12:00 - 1:50
Salon A

 

Neural limitations on visual development in primates
Lynne Kiorpes

 

Perceptual organization at birth
Francesca Simion, Viola Macchi Cassia, Chiara Turati

 

Mechanisms of visual form processing in 4- to 5-month-old infants
Ann M. Skoczensk


Searching for visual primitives: What babies like to look at
Ruxandra Sireteanu, Manuela Wagner, Iris Bachert

Discussant: Terri L. Lewis

 

Th04

Symposium
Examining the Effectiveness of Three Models of Relationship-Focused Early Intervention

Chair: Gerald Mahoney
12:00 - 1:50
Salon B

 

Comparison of the effects of responsive teaching on young children with autism/PDD and children with other disabilities
Gerald Mahoney, Frida Perales

Supporting the infant-mother relationship from the NICU through the first year of early intervention services
Glenna Boyce, Adrienne Akers

A long term follow-up of the effects of the Hannen programs on toddlers with significant language delays
Luigi Giriametto, Elaine Weitzman

Discussant: Rosemary Tannock

 

Poster Session

12:30 - 2:20
Canadian Room

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Kicking and Movement

Effects of a motor skill intervention on infants exposed to deprived environmental conditions
Carola Frank Adalbjornsson, Mary E. Rudisill
Effects of temperature on bottle feeding and movement in young infants
Leigh F. Bacher, Steven S. Robertson, William P. Smotherman
Effects of constraints on the emergence of kicking in young infants
Yu-ping Chen, Linda Fetters, Elliot Saltzman, Kenneth G. Holt
Learning measures in infancy using a mobile task
Daniela Deman, Rosa M. Angulo-Kinzler
Age differences in perturbation-induced stretch reflex sensitivity during active leg kicking
Jing Feng, Esther Thelen
Comparative study of spontaneous movement of human and chimpanzee infants in the first few months of life
Rieko Takaya, Gentaro Taga, Yukuo Konishi, Hideko Takeshita, Yuu Mizuno, Shoji Itakura, Masaki Tomonaga, Tetsuro Matsuzawa

 

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Face and Person Perception

Face processing in infancy: Evidence of sensitivity to second-order relational information
Ramesh Bhatt, Evelin Bertin
Do 7-month-old infants use the same information as adults to process facial identity?
Kate Humphreys, Frederic Gosselin, Philippe Schyns, Jordy Kaufman, Mark Johnson
U-shaped development in infants’ processing of faces
Cara H. Cashon, Leslie, B. Cohen
The effect of the Thatcher Illusion: What can it tell us about infants developing abilities in configurational face processing?
D. J. Horney, G. Hole, B. Todd
Modulation of induced Gamma oscillations in face and object perception in human infants
Kelly Snyder
Infants’ ability to discriminate gender using facial features
Lisa Newell, Mark Strauss

 

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Social Interaction

Mutual gaze between mother and infant chimpanzees: The view across cultures

Kim A. Bard, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, Josie Quinn, Masako Tomonaga, Tetsuro Matsuzawa

The effect of maternal unresponsiveness on qualities of smiles in three groups of 6month-old  infants

Samantha L. Batten, Dale M. Stack, Nadine Girouard

A longitudinal study of dyadic and triadic interaction at 6 and 12 months of age

Barbara D’Entremont, Nalini Iype

A typology of maternal caregiving behavior

Laurie A. Van Egeren, Marguerite S. Barratt, Mary A. Roach

An examination of the role of cognitive readiness and self-efficacy in parenting stress and coping

Ellen Leen, Katherine Karraker

To have and to hold: A cross-cultural look at caregivers’ practices of touch and the effect on infant development.

Grace Lappin, Claudia V. Schrader

Universals and cultural specifics in mother-infant interaction

Maya Gratier

Violation of infant expectation for an adult’s voice during face-to-face interaction

Anjanie Mccarthy, Christine Hains, Sylvia Hains, Michelle Patterson, Darwin Muir

Frame analysis of early mother-infant communication

Michael J. Stroud, Andréa P.F. Pantoja, Mie Kito

 

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Mechanisms of Word Learning

Learning language from passive listening environments

Rochelle S. Newman, Rebecca J. Ribar

Do words and melodies facilitate infants’ heart rate and looking responses in an object categorization task?

Marie T. Balaban, Sandra R. Waxman

Word learning is ‘smart’: Evidence that conceptual knowledge affects preschoolers’ extension of novel words

Amy E. Booth, Sandra Waxman

Young children’s use of referential cues to learn proper names and count nouns

D. Geoffrey Hall, Julie Bélanger

Mutual exclusivity and taxonomic bias operate simultaneously in preschoolers word learning

Hiraku Ishida, Daisuke Kosugi, Shoji Itakura

Young children’s assumptions about a speaker’s knowledge of words influence their avoidance of lexical overlap

Gil Diesendruck

Word learning in speech and singing contexts

Sandra E. Trehub, Takayuki Nakata, Navneet Dhami

 

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Emotions and Emotional Development

Facial actions associated with adult perceptions of increased emotional intensity: Preliminary evidence

Laura H. Bolzani, Daniel S. Messinger, Danielle Sanders, Harriet Oster

Correlates of socially based emotions and behavior in Ugandan orphans

Priscilla Coleman, Ashley Nielsen

Listening and looking: Comparing borderline mothers’ and infants’ vocal and emotional expressions

Gisele Danon, Maya Gratier, Rozenn Graignic, Ouriel Rosenblum, Caroline Heroux, Annick LeNestour

Frozen frenzy: Face-to-face interactions of borderline mothers and their three-month-old infants

Gisele Danon, Ouriel Rosenblum, Rozenn Graignic, Maya Gratier, Caroline Heroux, Isabelle Patouillot, Annick LeNestour

Discrimination of facial expressions in Romanian institutionalized children

Susan W. Parker, Charles A. Nelson

Marital harmony and conflict: Links to infants’ physiological and emotional regulation

Chris L. Porter, Melissa Wouden-Miller, Staci Silva

Early temperament of subsequent SIDs victims

Marilyn L. Riese

Toddlers’ vicarious emotional responses and prosocial behaviors: Links with toddlers’ compliance and noncompliance

Tracy L. Spinrad, Cynthia A. Stifter

 

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Categorization

Developmental changes in the effect of linguistic input on infant categorization of spatial relationships

Marianella Casasola

What does a non-human primate understand about self-propelled motion?: Expectancy

violation experiments with rhesus macaques

Laurie R. Santos, Jonathan I. Flombaum, Marc D. Hauser

Blenders, brushes, and balls: intense interests in very young children

Gabrielle Simcock, Suzanne Macari, Judy DeLoache

The study of early categorization by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

Chizuko Murai, Masaki Tomonaga, Shoji Itakura

The roles of categorical and perceptual similarity in infant colour perception.

Anna Franklin, Ian Davies

Attentional differences toward natural kinds categories by cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

Julie J. Neiworth, Richard Parsons, Janice M. Hassett

Eye spy a blick: The effect of animacy cues and novel labels on infants’ categorization

Andrea N. Welder, Susan A. Graham

Putting the car before the horse: Feature preferences in sequential touching performance?

Christine A. Willey, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.

 

 

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Perceptual and Motor Risk

Contrast sensitivity deficits in infants with prenatal and perinatal thyroid hormone insufficiencies

Giuseppe Mirabella, Adena M. Perron, Carol A. Westall, Kusiel Perlman, Denise Feig, Joanne Rovet

Relationship between neonatal neurobehavioral outcomes and 6, 12, and 24 month Bayley scales scores

Lynn T. Singer, Robert E. Arendt, Sonia Minnes

Developmental characteristics of toddlers with visual impairments

Mathijs P. J. Vervloed, Jurien Lommers, Annemarie Joosten

 

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Prenatal and Fetal Behavior

The chronic effects of maternal smoking on fetal behaviour

Barbara S. Kisilevsky, Sylvia M.J. Hains

Fetal heart rate variability and learning in the 28-34 week fetus

Charlene Krueger, Diane Holditch-Davis, Anthony DeCasper, Margarete Sandelowski, Michael Belyea, Stephen Quint, Gilbert Gottlieb

Fetal cardiac responses to maternal sentences, to play back of these sentences, and to their recordings by another woman’s voice

Jean-Pierre Lecanuet, Severine Manera, Anne-Yvonne Jacquet

Fetal discrimination of mother’s and stranger’s voices

Sheri Schmidt, Ngan Lam, Xie Xing, Hefeng Huang, Ye Hai Hui, Zhang Ke, Wang Zengping, Sylvia M.J. Hains

Maturation of human fetal cardiac-movement response to airborne sound

Laura Smith, Darwin Muir, Barbara Kisilevsky

Methadone maintenance during pregnancy and fetal activity

Trecia A. Wouldes, Alistair B. Roberts, Jan E. Pryor, Tania Gunn

 

 

Th13

Invited Symposium
A Tribute to the Contributions of Peter W. Jusczyk

Chair: Richard N. Aslin
2:00 - 3:50
Ballroom

 

Infant word recognition across talker variability
Derek Houston

The emergence of verb segmentation in infancy

Thierry Nazzi

Prosodic packaging of syntactic units in infants’ speech processing
Melanie Soderstrom

Cross-linguistic implications of studies on infants’ sensitivity to syntax

Lynn Santelman

Discussant: LouAnn Gerken

 

Th14

Debate
Attachment theory: Is it relevant universally

2:00 - 3:50
Confederation Room

 

Fred Rothbaum, Everett Waters, participants                                    Susan Goldberg, Moderator

 

Th15

Symposium
Investigating Infants’ Perception And Categorization Of The Human Body

Chair: Virginia Slaughter
2:00 - 3:50
Tudor Room

 

Infants’ responses to typical and scrambled human body shapes

Virginia Slaughter, Michelle Heron, Susan Sim

 

The development of a person-concept in infancy: Evidence from violations of expectations about human point-light displays

Derek Moore

 

Infants attend to surface features in identifying goal-directed agents

Jose Guajardo, Amanda Woodward

 

Is the asymmetry in young infants’ categorization of humans versus animals based on head, body, or global gestalt information?

Paul Quinn

 

Discussant: Diane Poulin-Dubois

 

Th16

Symposium
Disentangling the Relative Contributions of Genetic and Environmental Factors in Early Child Development: A Singleton-Twin Study

Chair: Julie Brousseau
2:00 - 3:50
Territories Room

 

Family environment differences between singleton and twin infants in Quebec

Mark Zoccolillo, Antonio Ciampi, Sheila Spreng, Daniel Perusse

 

Parenting perceptions and behaviors at five months: Evidence from a twin and a singleton study 

Michel Boivin, N. Leblanc, I. Morin-Ouellet, G. Dionne, V. Saysset, N. Tremblay, M. Zoccolillo, R.E. Tremblay 

 

The relationship between infant mental-attentional capacity and SES: A population study

Julie Brousseau, Raymond Baillargeon, David Laplante, Hong-Xing Wu

 

Mental-attentional capacity in 5-month-old infants: Evaluating the genetic contribution. The Quebec Newborn Twins Study
Raymond Baillargeon, Richard E. Tremblay, Michel Boivin, Daniel Perusse

 

Prevalence and genetic-environmental etiology of externalizing behavior problems in infancy: A singleton-twin study     

Daniel Perusse, Raymond Baillargeon, Bernard Boulerice, Elisa Romano, Mark Zoccolillo, Michel Boivin, Richard E. Tremblay

 

Discussant: H. Hill Goldsmith

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poster Session

2:30 - 4:20
Canadian Room

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Atypical Development

Predictors of depression in mothers of very preterm infants during infant hospitalization and after discharge.

Leigh M. Davis, Heather Mohay, Helen Edwards

The effects of maternal depression on toddlers’ self-assertion between 19 and 26 months of age

Laura J. Dietz, Kay Donahue Jennings

Beyond the still-face: A controlled study of 12-month-old infants of mothers with borderline personality disorder

R. Peter Hobson, Matthew Patrick, Lisa Crandell, Rosa Garcia Perez, Anthony Lee

Psyochoeducational treatment of children with autism and reactive attachment disorder

Nahit Motavalli Mukaddes, F. Nimet Kaynak, Gulsevim kinali, Humeyra Besikci, Halim Issever

The stability of children’s reactions to unfamiliar stimuli: Maternal perceptions and laboratory observations

Sarrit M. Shudnow, Heather A. Henderson

 

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Visual Expectations

Predictive tracking of briefly occluded objects

Bennett I. Bertenthal, April Faith-Slaker Sarah Kenny

Temporal cues of a visual stimulus sequence can produce expectancy and endogenous ERP components by infants 6 months of age

Rathe Karrer, Jennifer Hill Karrer

Using the visual expectation paradigm to study visual deficits associated with prenatal thyroid hormone insufficiencies

Joanne Rovet, Giuseppe Mirabella Ted Balant, Elizabeth Asztalos, Kuseil Perlman, Denice Feig

Visual habituation at 3 months and contingency detection at 6 months

Josette Ruel

The development of visual expectations in 9- to 12-month-old infants

Jill P. Sullivan, Janet E. Frick

 

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Object Perception

Three-month-olds’ sensitivity to orientation cues in the 3-d depth plane

Evelin Bertin, Ramesh S. Bhatt

Dominance of configural properties in newborn visual perception

Viola Macchi Cassia, Idanna Milani, Lara Zanon, Francesca Simion

Enriched visual displays do not improve 3- to 6-month-olds’ discrimination of optic flow patterns simulating self-motion

Rick O. Gilmore

Young infants’ responsiveness to ellipsoid surfaces

Michael J. Kavsek

Viewpoint invariance of multi-part objects in 3-month-old infants

Kimberly S. Kraebel, Peter C. Gerhardstein

Can 12-month-olds individuate pairs of objects by feature?

Alan M. Leslie, Monica Glanville

Developmental changes in infants’ use of color/pattern to segregate objects

Susan Ormsbee, Amy Needham

Infants’ perception of subjective contours in static and moving figures

Yumiko Otsuka, So Kanazawa, Masami K. Yamaguchi

Is object recognition viewpoint-invariant at 3 months of age?

Rebecca West, Peter Gerhardstein

 

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Parent-Infant Interaction and Language Development

The reach of maternal speech to toddlers

Lauren B. Adamson, Roger Bakeman

Do mothers and fathers differ in their book reading styles with their young children?

Joanna Blake, Silvana Macdonald, Vanessa Agosta, Lisa Bayrami, Andrea Milian

Sometimes mothers make their babies cry: Ontogeny of vocal protests in the second half-year

Xin Chen, Gwen E. Gustafson

The influence of contingent maternal responsiveness on production of prelinguistic vocalizations

Michael H. Goldstein

A dyadic approach to the relation between mother-infant vocal contingency and language development: A preliminary report

Amie Ashley Hane, Stanley Feldstein, Keng-yen Huang, Brian Morrison

Verbal and behavioral measures of responsiveness and directiveness as predictors of children’s language development

Elise Frank Masur, Valerie Flynn, Doreeen L. Eichorst

Caregivers contingent comments to 9-month-old infants and subsequent vocabulary comprehension

Pamela Rosenthal Rollins

How maternal actions are adjusted in pretend play contexts

David C. Witherington, Angeline Lillard

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Spatial Processing

Spatial estimation from 18 to 36 months: Categorical coding?

Janette B. Benson, Leah M. Kelly, Amanda B. Brown

Six-month-olds can rotate attentional markers: Eye tracking evidence of dynamic spatial indexing.

Natasha Z. Kirkham, Daniel C. Richardson, Michael J. Spivey, Scott P. Johnson

The development of spatial relationships processing in infancy.

Astri Robinson, Olivier Pascalis

 

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Emotional Regulation

Emotion regulation and peer social competence in young preschool children

Geetha Balaraman, Celia Brownell

Maternal predictors of toddlers’ self-regulation

Susan D. Calkins, Kathryn Amey, Anne Hungerford

Maternal positive affect promotes the development of emotion regulation and child competence

Anne Conway, Susan C. McDonough, Arnold Sameroff

Emotion regulation in early infancy: In search of regulatory behaviors

Martine Gaudreau, Louise Cossette, Isabelle Neault

Regulation and reactivity: Relations with maternal stress and parenting

Ashley L. Hill, Jan Karrass, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker

Maternal regulation of early infant reactivity

Laudan Jahromi, Cynthia A. Stifter

Emotion regulation, behavior regulation and language as predictors of skill in responding to joint attention

Audra Lewis, Tedra Walden, Marygrace Yale, Megan E. Masterson

Maternal strategies for regulating emotion and toddler language skills

Michael Morales, Mathew Broderick, Nicole Brindle, Karen Weierstall, Amy Krutz

Behavioral regulation and the transition from infancy to toddlerhood

Anat Scher, Eleanor Schneider

Emotion regulation and attachment in unstructured interactions: Infants and their mothers in emotionally challenging episodes

Holli A. Tonyan

The relation between maternal behavior and later infant self-regulation of emotion

Crystal N. Wiggins, Cynthia A. Stifter

 

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Memory Retrieval

Retrieval protracts retrieval: Six-month-olds exhibit protracted retention after active and passive reminders

Rachel Barr, Aurora Vieira, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Reactivation duration affects reforgetting in infants

Jill Grodkiewicz, Amy Joh, Becky Sweeney, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Memory reactivation at 15 and 18 months of age: The paradox of reminder duration

Vivian Hsu, Rachel Barr, Aurora Vieira, Payal Dixit, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Olfactory context and memory retrieval in 2-month-old infants

Fiona Radcliffe, Marjorie H. Carroll, Barbara Brennan, Stacey Bromberg, Joyce Prigot, Jeffrey W. Fagen

Protracting memories via retrieval in 6-month-olds

Aurora Vieira, Rachel Barr, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

 

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Joint Attention

Joint attention in late talkers

Alessandra Assanelli, Laura D’odorico, Nicoletta Salerni, Fabia Franco, Mirco Fasolo

The effect of training infant joint visual attention on novel word learning

Melissa S. Atkins, Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker, Jaclyn G. Carroll, Ashley B. Shafer

Joint attention development and its relation to cognitive and language outcomes

Jessica J. Block, Yuly B. Pomares, Peter Mundy, Amy E. Vaughan, Yania Gomez, A. Rebecca Neal, Courtney P. Burnette, Christine E. F. Delgado

The eyes have it: What infants know about others’ seeing

Rechele Brooks, Jacqueline E. Mullen, Andrew N. Meltzoff

The conditional relations of infant joint attention skill and attachment quality to caregiver-child shared attention and language

Mary M. Crowson, Peter C. Mundy

Individual differences in temperament, joint attention, and early language

Jan Karrass

Toddlers’ use of joint attention with familiar peers, caregivers, and parents and the relation of this use to language development

Joan Test

Family language differences and the development of joint attention at 9 and 12 months

Yania Gomez, Christine Delgado, Peter Mundy, Jessica Block, Amy Vaughan, Yuly Pomares

 

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Touch, Soothing, and Stress

Mother-infant contact in a randomized trial of kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care

Gene C. Anderson, Sheau-Huey Chiu, Jeffrey Albert, Mary Alice S. Dombrowski

Touch for the needy: Effects of infant massage in touch-deprived orphanages

Vonda Jump, Katie Christiansen

Reliability of measure of salivary cortisol as an index of stress in newborn infants

Kiyobumi Kawakami, Kiyoko Takai-Kawakami

Prenatal maternal mood is related to maternal-fetal attachment and postnatal infant neurobehavior

Amy Salisbury, Linda LaGasse, Monica Bocanegra, Barry Lester

Newborns’ responses to tape-recordings of their own and peers’ distress crying

Kjell Morten Stormark

Effect of maternal perceptions of stress and anxiety during the third trimester of pregnancy on neonatal health

Minhnoi Wroble

 

Th26

Keynote Address

Paul Bloom

How children learn the meaning of words

Chair: Sandra Waxman
4:30 - 5:30
Concert Hall

 

 

Welcoming Reception

 

 

 

 

5:30 – 7:00