International Society on Infant Studies
Program: 11th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies
Atlanta, Georgia, April 2-5, 1998
Sunday, April 5
Discussion Session (Su01)
8:30-9:50 a.m.
Ballroom South
Sunday Morning Breakfast Discussion
Limited space available. Signup at the ICIS registration desk in the Sheraton Colony Square Hotel.
Crying and emotional development in infants: Is crying a sign, a signal, both or neither?
Ronald G. Barr
Alternative conceptualisations of infant development: Direct realist, dynamical systems, and cognitivist approaches
Gavin Bremner
Primary versus secondary disabilities: Understanding development in infants of substance abusers
Claire D. Coles
Integrating human and non-human infancy research
Carol O. Eckerman
Relationships in infancy: What are they?
Peter Hobson
Developmental frameworks for early parent-infant intervention research
Susan H. Landry & Karen E. Smith
Neuroimaing and electrophysiology in infant development
Charles A. Nelson
Sharing the fruits of our labors: How should we disseminate research findings to a broader audience?
J. Steven Reznick
Functional cortical plasticity for cognitive competences in infancy: What do we hope, what do we believe, and what do we know?
Scania de Schoen
Songs as caregiving tools
Sandra E. Trehub
Aspects of infant reaching behavior
Claes von Hofsten & Rachel K. Clifton
Daycare, Santa Claus, and grandma: Parents’ strategies for controlling children’s emotional reactions
Tedra A. Walden
Symposium (Su02)
10:00-11:50 a.m.
Habersham
Speech perception and word learning: New approaches
Chair: Janet F. Werker
Phonetic perception and word learning: Evidence for continuous and discontinuous changes
Janet F. Werker, Christine Stager, Judith Pegg
How infants begin to find and remember the sound patterns of words
Peter Jusczyk
Emerging understanding: Rapid gains in the speed and efficiency of word recognition by infants in the second year
Anne Fernald, Daniel Swingley, John P. Pinto
Discussant: Richard N. Aslin
Symposium (Su03)
10:00-11:50 a.m.
Atlanta
Adult-infant interaction: Observations of everyday behavior in diverse cultural settings
Chairs: Axel Schölmerich, Michael E. Lamb
Comparing contrasting developmental niches: The impact of context and age on similarities and differences
Birgit Leyendecker
Analyzing the co-occurrence of mother-infant interactive behaviors at 3 months of age in middle and lower class Quebecois families
Réjean Tessier
Culture and early infancy among central African farmers, foragers, and Euro-Americans
Barry Hewlett
Sequential analysis using hierarchical log-linear modeling: Caretaker response to infant distress in different ecological niches
Axel Schölmerich, Holger Wessels
Discussant: Gilda Morelli
Symposium (Su04)
10:00-11:50 a.m.
Sherwood
Developmental interplay between action and cognition in infancy
Chair: Daniela Corbetta
Moving thoughts: Theoretical considerations for action-cognition couplings during infancy
J. Paul Boudreau
Motor memory influences performance in the A-not-B task
Frederick J. Diedrich, Esther Thelen, Linda B. Smith
Why do infants regress to two-handed reaching at the end of the first year?
Daniela Corbetta
Step counter: Quantifying infants’ everyday walking experience
Karen E. Adolph, Anthony M. Avolio, Tracy M. Barrett, Priyadarshee Mathur, Anne M. Murray
Discussant: Claes Von Hofsten
Symposium (Su05)
10:00-11:50 a.m.
Ansley
Behavioral dysregulation in infancy: Crying, feeding, sleeping difficulties and the caretaking environment
Chair: Martin Maldonado-Durán
Does maternal depression influence feeding, sleeping, and crying patterns in healthy 2 month-old infants
Maria Ramsay, Erika Gisel, Jane McCusker, Francois Bellavance
Excessive infant crying and later behavior problems: Findings of the Bavarian longitudinal study (BLS)
Dieter Wolke, Renate Meyer
Excessive crying, feeding, and sleeping problems: Commonalities among preverbal syndromes of behavioral dysregulation
Mechthild Papoušek
Excessive and persistent crying: Correlation with infant psychopathology and the caretaking environment
Martin Maldonado-Durán, Christine Moody, Richard Holigrocki
Symposium (Su06)
10:00-11:50 a.m.
Marietta
New directions in the microanalysis of parent-infant interaction
Chair: Marguerite Stevenson Barratt
Early parent-infant interaction as a co-regulated process
Marguerite Stevenson Barratt
The historical character of the social communication systems
Maria Lyra
Automated face coding: A computer-vision based method of facial expression analysis in parent-infant interaction
Adena J. Zlochower, Jeffrey F. Cohn, James Jenn-Jier Lien, Takeo Kanade
Joint attention and attentional regulation at 6-months
Kyle L. Snow
Discussant: Alan Fogel
Poster Session
10:00-11:50 a.m.
Ballroom North
Understanding Intentions (Su07)
B01 The development of intentions: Understanding people and their actions
Maria Legerstee
B02 Twelve-month-olds can infer a goal for an incomplete action
Gergely Csibra, György Gergely, Margaret Brockbanck, Szilvia Bíró, Orsolya Koós
B03 Inferring the unseen goals of a non-human agent
Susan C. Johnson, Amy Booth, Kirsten O’Hearn
B04 Eye-gaze reveals another’s attention and intention: A theoretical account of the ontogeny of eye-gaze use
Kang Lee, Lawrence A. Symons, Sylvia M. J. Hains, Darwin W. Muir
B05 Sex differences in parent perception of infant intentionality
Stephanie A. Aubry, Nicole E. Eldridge, J. Steven Reznick
B06 Parents can predict infant intentional behaviors
J. Steven Reznick, J. Josephine Fueser, Christine Fingado, Nicole Straight
B07 Infant comprehension of looking as intentional behavior
Rechele Brooks, Albert J. Caron, Samantha C. Butler
Cognitive Development (Su08)
B08 Infant behavior during impossible events without occlusion
Eric Peterson, Bruce M. Hood
B10 Understanding physical causality in infants and chimpanzees
Jennifer A. Warren, Michael Tomasello
B11 Infants’ physical reasoning about containment and occlusion: A surprising decalage
Susan J. Hespos
B12 Infants’ encoding of grasping by humans versus machines
Amanda L. Woodward
B13 Adaptability in infants’ means/ends actions
Daniel D. McCall
B14 A new meta-analysis of the A-not-B error
Stuart Marcovitch, Philip D. Zelazo
B15 Gesture organization in an A-not-B situation with 6 to 11 month-old infants: Two pilot studies
Roger Lécuyer, Pilar Rincom, James Rivière
B16 Infant displacement and table displacement object search skills in infants 8 and 10 months of age
Jonathan E. Roberts, Martha Ann Bell, Sabrina Pope
Categorization and Reasoning (Su09)
B17 5-month-old infants distinguish between inert and self-moving inanimate objects
Lisa E. Kaufman
B18 9-month-old infants’ reasoning about collision events: Should all objects be displaced when hit?
Lisa E. Kaufman
B19 Categorical explicitness in a sequential touching task
Amy K. Crigger, Lisa M. Oakes, Peter Thompson
B20 TouchStat: A Monte Carlo program for calculating sequential touching probabilities
Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., Mark L. Merry, Timothy Woodard
B21 More than meets the eye: Infants’ categorization skills go beyond an understanding of conceptual similarities between items
Jeannette M. Whitmore, Wendelyn J. Shore, Peg Hull Smith, Kristin L. Jordan, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.
B23 Infants’ categorization of men and women from motion-carried information
Ann E. Ellis
B24 You’ve got to roll with it, baby: The effect of functional parts on infants’ categorization
David H. Rakison, Leslie B. Cohen
Mother-Infant Dyads (Su10)
B25 Styles of interaction in low-income mother-infant dyads
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Mark Spellmann, Joanne I. Roberts, Svetlana Ustinova, Poonam Ahuja
B26 Maternal stress and mother-child interactions
Dayana P. Jimenez, Lisa Baumwell, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
B29 Visual and vocal behaviors of incarcerated mothers and their infants: A comparison with two groups of non-incarcerated mothers and infants
Esther M. Tesh, Diane H. Holditch-Davis, Catherine I. Fogel, Margaret S. Miles
B30 Emotional and linguistic features of parent-child interaction: Associations with risk status and developmental outcome at 2 years
Ina F. Wallace, Lisa Seago
B31 Co-regulated patterns of communication in mother-infant dyads: Contributions of mothers’ feelings of efficacy and infant temperament and vagal tone
Christin L. Porter, Adrienne E. Porter, Todd E. Christensen, Tennille Morgan
B32 Her heart is in the right place: A mother with dextrocardia exhibits the left side cradling bias
Brenda K. Todd, George Butterworth
B34 The role of maternal personality in the mother-infant teaching interaction
Joan T. Bihun, Danielle R. Strawn, Marcie Pfeifer
B35 The story of neonatal imitation: New facts and old conclusions
Mikael Heimann
B36 Maternal input: Its role in infant gesture communication
Heather L. Tencer, Jana M. Iverson
Object Individuation (Su11)
B37 Object individuation and event mapping: Infants’ use object features
Teresa G. Wilcox, Amy M. Putthoff
B38 Object individuation and event mapping: Infants’ use of object speed
Amy M. Putthoff, Teresa G. Wilcox
B39 Object color, function, and individuation in infancy
Catherine Chapa, Teresa G. Wilcox
B40 Object individuation: Evidence from a new reaching time method
Meredith Prevor, Gretchen A. Van de Walle, Susan Carey
B41 Reaching for objects in a box: Object individuation by 12-month-old infants
Claudia Uller, Alan M. Leslie, Susan Carey
B42 The violation of expectancy method: When adults fail to see the trick
Susan Carey, Bryan Bergert
Poster Session
10:00-11:50 a.m.
Georgia
Words and Concepts (Su12)
G01 Does the availability of verbal labels facilitate sorting behavior in 16- and 22-month-olds?
Henry N. Ricciuti, Anne E. Ricciuti, Marney Thomas
G02 When all’s said and sorted: Vocabulary and categorization in 16- to 32-month-olds
Jennifer A. Schwade
G03 New words for new things: The relationship between novel labels and twelve-month-olds’ categorization of novel objects
Anne L. Fulkerson, Robert A. Haaf
G04 Labeling may help infants construct kind concepts
Fei Xu
G20 Novel nouns highlight basic over superordinate categories for 18-month-olds
Rachel K. Baker, Diane Poulin-Dubois, Susan A. Graham
G21 Cognitive foundations of word learning
Kim Plunkett, Antonia F. Hamilton, Graham Schafer
Social Referencing (Su13)
G05 "I don’t care what you say, I am not touching that snake": Biologically relevant fear and infant social referencing
Tedra A. Walden, Christine Passaretti
G06 Effect of contingent parental responsivity on infant behavior and affect
Kimberly L. Carpenter, Tedra A. Walden
G07 Gazing as a determinant of early social referencing
Hildie Cohen, Jane Yang, Tricia Striano, Philippe Rochat
G08 Infant social referencing: A meta-analytic review
Hilary B. Weinger, Moshe Anisfeld
G19 Navigating the ground ahead: Changes in social referencing in relation to development of crawling
Susan Pfister, Marion A. Eppler
Jealousy and Empathy (Su14)
G09 Is empathy an emotionally regulated response?
Kathryn L. Gill, Susan E. Dedmon, Amy L. Clark
G10 Jealousy in the first year: Evidence of early interpersonal awareness
Riccardo Draghi-Lorenz
G11 Mother-child relationship in infancy and children’s response to maternal distress at 22 months
Nicole M. Schall, Grazyna Kochanska
G12 Jealousy in infants: Measuring the social validity of laboratory research
Wendy E. Roth, Jacob L. Gewirtz, Christine Collado, Sandra Garcia
G18 Infant jealousy is predicted by depressed mothers’ interaction styles
Sybil Hart, Tiffany M. Field
Processing Faces (Su15)
G13 Priming for faces in infants and adults: Electrophysiological evidence
Sara J. Webb, Charles A. Nelson, Bonny Donzella
G14 Lack of preference for the paternal face in four-month-olds
Cynthia D. Ward, Paula M. Phillips, Robin Panneton Cooper
G15 The effect of early visual deprivation on the development of face processing
Sybil S. Geldart, Catherine J. Mondloch, Daphne Maurer, Scania de Schonen, Terri L. Lewis, Henry P. Brent
G16 Timing visual pursuit to investigate newborn interest in a face pattern
Megan A. Easterbrook, Diane Amendola
G17 Face perception in young infants
Terri L. Lewis, Catherine J. Mondloch, D. Robert Budreau, Daphne Maurer, James L. Dannemiller, Benjamin R. Stephens, Kathleen A. Kleiner
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