International Society on Infant Studies
Program: 11th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies
Atlanta, Georgia, April 2-5, 1998
Saturday, April 4
Invited Address (Sa01)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Ballroom South
Mothers and infants: Suckling, opiods, analgesia, and the origins of mother love
Chair: Rachel K. Clifton
Speaker: Elliott Blass
Symposium (Sa02)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Habersham
Emotional availability, attachment, and risk
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
Symposium (Sa03)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Atlanta
Process and outcome of preterm baby care
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
Symposium (Sa04)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Sherwood
Emergence of motor organization in the fetus and neonate: Congruent themes in human and animal models
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
Symposium (Sa05)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Ansley
Environmental influences on fearful behavior in infants
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
Symposium (Sa06)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Marietta
Emotion regulation in infants and young children: Contributions of parenting and temperament
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
Symposium (Sa07)
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Roswell
Impact of parental drug use on behavioral regulation over the first 24 months of life
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
Poster Session
9:00-10:50 a.m.
Ballroom North
Spatial Matters (Sa08)
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
Speech to Infants (Sa09)
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
Expression of Emotion (Sa10)
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
Autism and Joint Attention (Sa11)
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
Atypical Communication (Sa12)
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
Poster Session
9:00-10:50 a.m.
Georgia
Studies of Memory (Sa13)
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
Understanding Numbers (Sa14)
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
Debate (Sa15)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Ballroom South
Do infants possess innate knowledge structures?
Moderator: Roberta M. Golinkoff
Participants: Renee Baillargeon vs. Linda B. Smith
Symposium (Sa16)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Habersham
Methodological questions and answers in prenatal cocaine exposure: Turning "junk" science into genuine science
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
Symposium (Sa17)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Atlanta
Development of perception of emotional expressions: The influence of multimodal, familiar, and unfamiliar contexts
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
Symposium (Sa18)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Sherwood
Neural plasticity in infant cognitive, affective, and perceptual development
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
Symposium (Sa19)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Ansley
Feeding of high risk infants: Physiological chances and parenting behaviors
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
Symposium (Sa20)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Marietta
Acquisition of early lexicon
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
Symposium (Sa21)
10:30-12:20 a.m.
Roswell
Parent and child influences on the development of self-regulation: Multiple perspectives, multiple pathways
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
Poster Session
11:00-12:50 a.m.
Ballroom North
The Emergence of Symbols (Sa22)
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
Infant Perception and Long-Term Memory (Sa23)
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
Emotional and Behavioral Reactivity (Sa24)
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
Developmental Risk (Sa25)
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
Mother-Infant Interaction (Sa26)
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
Habituation Tasks (Sa27)
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
Poster Session
11:00-12:50 a.m.
Georgia
Deafness and Early Development (Sa28)
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
Understanding Objects (Sa29)
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
Discussion Session (Sa30)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Habersham
We have never funded those who did not apply: Some obvious and less obvious secrets of grantmanship
Chair: Sarah L. Friedman
Participants: Joseph J. Campos, Sarah L. Friedman, Betsy Lozoff, Marshall M. Haith, Anita Sostek
Symposium (Sa31)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Ballroom South
Effortful control and the development of self-regulation
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
Symposium (Sa32)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Atlanta
The two month revolution
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
Symposium (Sa33)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Sherwood
Early lexical development: From form to meaning
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
Symposium (Sa34)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Ansley
Development of visual pathways: What and where and more
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
Symposium (Sa35)
12:30-2:20 p.m.
Marietta
Prematurity and motor behavior
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
Poster Session
1:00-2:50 p.m.
Ballroom North
Perceiving the World (Sa36)
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
Contingencies (Sa37)
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
Joint Attention (Sa38)
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
Early Attention (Sa39)
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
Infant Crying (Sa40)
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
Development of Reaching (Sa41)
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
Poster Session
1:00-2:50 p.m.
Georgia
Biological Bases of Behavior (Sa42)
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
Topics in Temperament (Sa43)
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)
3:00-4:20 p.m.
Ballroom South
ISIS Awards and Business Meeting including the 1998 ISIS Dissertation Award and Young Investigator’s Award as well as special recognition to Carolyn Rovee-Collier for her contributions as editor of Infant Behavior and Development.
Presidential Address (Sa45)
4:30-6:00 p.m
Ballroom South
Grounded in the world: Developmental origins of the embodied mind
Chair: Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Speaker: Esther Thelen
Presidential Reception
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Upper Lobby
Upper Lobby, Sheraton Colony Square Hotel. Light snacks will be provided. A cash bar will be available. We thank Indiana University for contributing to this event.emplate content here
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