International Society on Infant Studies
Program: 11th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies
Atlanta, Georgia, April 2-5, 1998
Friday, April 3
Invited Address (Fr01)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Ballroom South
Touch and touch therapies
Chair: Lewis A. Leavitt
Speaker: Tiffany M. Field
Discussion Session (Fr02)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Habersham
Studying the role of fathers in the lives of low-income infants and toddlers
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
Discussion Session (Fr03)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Roswell
Social and ecological validity: Conceptional and methodological issues in infant research
Chair: Wendy E. Roth
Participants: T. G. R. Bower, Jacob L. Gewirtz, Sybil Hart, Wendy E. Roth
Symposium (Fr04)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Atlanta
Infants’ object manipulations: What do they tell us about infants’ object knowledge?
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
Symposium (Fr05)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Sherwood
Re-searching infant perseveration: Brains, dynamics, problems, and simulations
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
Symposium (Fr06)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Ansley
New insights from twin studies on cognitive and emotional development
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
Symposium (Fr07)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Marietta
The use of eye gaze and referential gestures by chimpanzees: The phylogeny of intentional communication
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
Poster Session
9:00-10:50 a.m.
Ballroom North
Speech Perception (Fr08)
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
Language Comprehension (Fr09)
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
Attachment in Context (Fr10)
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
High Risk Infants (Fr11)
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
Fetal Responses (Fr12)
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
Poster Session
9:00-10:50 a.m.
Georgia
Effects of Prenatal Drug Exposure (Fr13)
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
Culture and Ethnicity (Fr14)
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
Perceiving Objects (Fr15)
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
Debate (Fr16)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Ballroom South
Lexical principles meet social-pragmatic factors: Is a marriage possible?
Moderator: Patricia J. Bauer
Participants: Roberta M. Golinkoff & Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek vs. Michael Tomasello & Nameera Akhtar
Discussion Session (Fr17)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Habersham
Japanese psychology of socioemotional development: Search for uniquely Japanese roots
Chair: Joseph J. Campos
Participants: Joseph J. Campos, Linda Camras, Kazuo Miyake, Chen Shing-jen, Tatsuo Ujiie
Symposium (Fr18)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Atlanta
Looking where and looking when: What visual measures can (and cannot) tell us about infant perception and cognition
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
Symposium (Fr19)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Sherwood
Fathers, psychopathology, and environmental risk: Implications for infant development
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
Symposium (Fr20)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Ansley
Perspectives on adult-infant social engagements: Is social contingency really important to young infants?
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
Symposium (Fr21)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Marietta
Fetal and neonatal mother-baby interactions
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
Symposium (Fr22)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Roswell
Emotional development: Perspectives on the role of maternal perceptions of emotions and internal working models of attachment
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
Poster Session
11:00-12:50 a.m.
Ballroom North
Long-Term Memory (Fr23)
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
Parental Reports of Infants’ Language (Fr24)
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
Language Development (Fr25)
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
Emotion Regulation (Fr26)
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
Effects of Early Child Care (Fr27)
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
Problematic Attachments (Fr28)
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
Poster Session
11:00-12:50 a.m.
Georgia
Issues in Temperament (Fr29)
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
Listening to Music (Fr30)
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
Sleeping and Waking (Fr31)
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
Invited Address (Fr32)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Ballroom South
The once and future infant
Chair: Rochel Gelman
Speaker: Jean Mandler
Discussion Session (Fr33)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Sherwood
Integration of grant review from NIMH, NIAAA, and NIDA into the Center for Scientific Review (formerly, Div. of Research Grants) at NIH
Chair: Anita Sostek
Discussion Session (Fr34)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Ansley
Fetal behavior: Time to reflect and refocus for a challenging future
Chair: Jean-Pierre Lecanuet
Participants: Anthony J. DeCasper, Lawrence Devoe, William P. Fifer, Lynn Groome, Barbara S. Kisilevsky, Jean-Pierre Lecanuet, Robert E. Lickliter
Symposium (Fr35)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Habersham
Effects of experience on perception
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
Symposium (Fr36)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Atlanta
Joint attention: New research on social, cognitive, and neurological processes in typical and atypical development
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
Symposium (Fr37)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Marietta
One language theory or two? Toward a unified theory of language development
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
Poster Session
1:00-2:50 p.m.
Ballroom North
Auditory Perception (Fr38)
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
Compliance and Negativity (Fr39)
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
Parental Practice and Policy (Fr40)
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
Caring for High Risk Newborns (Fr41)
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
Very Low Birth Weight Babies (Fr42)
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
Poster Session
1:00-2:50 p.m.
Georgia
Toddler Topics (Fr43)
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
Stepping and Walking (Fr44)
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
G12 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
Taste and Smell (Fr45)
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
Presidential policy symposium (Fr46)
2:30-4:20 p.m.
Ballroom South
Infant research, public policy, and the media
Chair: Esther Thelen
Participants: Mark I. Applebaum, Sandra Blakeslee, Robert N. Emde, Megan R. Gunnar, Deborah Phillips, Esther Thelen, Barry Zuckerman
Discussion Session (Fr47)
2:30-4:20 p.m.
Habersham
Talk with Journal Editors
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
Symposium (Fr48)
2:30-4:20 p.m.
Atlanta
Cognitive approaches to the role of parental sensitivity in the development of attachment security
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
Symposium (Fr49)
2:30-4:20 p.m.
Sherwood
Thinking beyond the first step: Infants’ and toddlers’ problem solving strategy and choice
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
Symposium (Fr50)
2:30-4:20 p.m.
Ansley
The role of fathers in early affective development
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
Symposium (Fr51)
2:30-4:20 p.m.
Marietta
Infants and other "animals": The problematic study of subjectivity
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
Symposium (Fr52)
2:30-4:20 p.m.
Roswell
Feeding disturbances in infancy: Physiology, parent-child relationships and diagnostic classification
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
Keynote Address (Fr53)
4:30-6:00 p.m
Ballroom South
Ontogeny and phylogeny revisited, or why the child is not the evolutionary father to the man
Chairs: Esther Thelen, Roger Bakeman
Speaker: Stephen Jay Gould
Garden Party and Dinner Buffet
6:30-10:00 p.m.
Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Tickets are limited and must be purchased in advance. Buses to and from the garden will be provided, although the athletically inclined may prefer to walk the 5 or so blocks. We thank Georgia State University for supporting the planning for this event.
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