13TH BIENNIAL
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFANT STUDIES
Toronto 2002


Friday, April 19th
 


Fr01: Symposium: New Directions in Statistical Learning
Chairs: Natasha Z. Kirkham & Jonathan A. Slemmer
9:00 - 10:50
Ballroom

Statistical learning of visual shape sequences and spatial arrangements by 8-month-olds
Richard N. Aslin, József Fiser, Koleen C. McCrink-Gochal

How does a child grow a learning mechanism?
Gary Marcus

Variability and detection of invariant structure
Rebecca L. Gomez

Statistical learning and rule abstraction in infancy
Jonathan A. Slemmer, Natasha Z. Kirkham, Scott P. Johnson

Integrating multiple probabilistic cues: Going beyond distributional statistics
Morten Christiansen

Discussant: Scott P. Johnson


Fr02: Symposium: How Do Infants Conceptualize Self-Moving Objects?
Chair: Renee Baillargeon & Diane Poulin-Dubois
9:00 - 10:50
Ontario Room

Causal attribution of animate motion in 7-month-olds
Sabina Pauen, Birgit Träeuble

Infants’ association between type of motion onset and object kinds
Rachel Baker, Diane Poulin-Dubois, Valentina Munoz

Does a self-moving box possess an “internal force” and “mind”?
Yuyan Luo, Renee Baillargeon

Following the “gaze” of non-canonical agents in non-canonical orientation
Susan Johnson

Discussant: Alan M. Leslie


Fr03: Invited Symposium: Affective Interaction: A Tool for Social and Cognitive Development
Chair:
Maria Legerstee
9:00 - 10:50
Tudor Room

Making and breaking human connections: Dyadic expansion of consciousness and moving away from entropy
Edward Tronick

The dialogical self during the first two years of life
Alan Fogel, Ilse de Koeyer, Francesca Bellagamba, Holly Bell

Maternal affect and development of intentional understanding
Maria Legerstee, Tricia Striano

Effects of mother-infant attunement on specific infant abilities across cultures
Marc Bornstein


Fr04: Symposium: The Importance of Visual Proprioception in Infancy
Chair: Joseph J. Campos
9:00 - 10:50
Territories Room

The functional significance of visual proprioception for human development
David I. Anderson

Peripheral optic flow sensitivity in neonates
François Jouen, Michel Molina

The contribution of visual proprioception to the emergence of wariness of heights
Joseph J. Campos, David I. Anderson, Kevin A. Davis

Crawling proficiency and crawling experience as predictors of infants’ postural compensation to peripheral optic flow
David I. Anderson, Joseph J. Campos, Kevin A. Davis

Discussants: Marianne A. Barbu-Roth, Ichiro Uchiyama


Fr05: Symposium: “Talk to the Hand because the Face ain’t Listenin”: Origins, Continuities, and Implications of Distractibility in Infancy
Chair:
Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.
9:00 - 10:50
Salon A

Infant distractibility (or indistractibility) – Is it just eye movement control?
Sharon Hunter

Distractibility and attention allocation across competitive contexts
Kathleen N. Kannass

The role of distractibility in novel word learning
Wallace E. Dixon, Jr., P. Hull Smith

Getting distracted from the main task: Infants and preschoolers watching TV!
John E. Richards

Discussant: John Colombo


Fr06: Discussion Session: Talk with Journal Editors
Chair:
Philip D. Zelazo
9:00 - 10:50
Salon B

Participants:

  • Marc Bornstein, Parenting: Science and Practice
  • Gavin Bremner, British Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Leslie Cohen, Infancy
  • James Dannemiller, Developmental Psychology
  • Mark Johnson, Developmental Science
  • Lynn Liben, Child Development
  • Geert Savelsbergh, Infant Behavior and Development
  • Philip D. Zelazo, Journal of Cognition and Development

Poster Session
9:30 - 11:20
Canadian Room

Fr07: Reaching

1. Taking risks: Prehension skill under dual conditions of postural support in early standing infants
J. Paul Boudreau, Claes von Hofsten, Gustaf Gredeback, Kerstin Rosander

2. Learning to eat with the right hand: A comparative study in France and Côte d’Ivoire
Blandine Bril, Estelle Hombessa-Nkounkou, Daniela Corbetta

3. Cognitive effects on the kinematics of infant reaching behavior
Laura J. Claxton, Michael E. McCarty, Rachel K. Clifton

4. Instability of infants’ hand preferences: Is it linked to lack of arm control or postural achievements?
Daniela Corbetta

5. Feet reaching: The interaction of experience and ability
James C. Galloway, Jill Heathcock, Anjana Bhat, Michele Lobo

6. Object representation and predictive reaching: Evidence for continuity from infants and adults
Susan Hespos, Claes von Hofsten, Elizabeth Spelke, Gustaf Gredeback

7. Visually guided reaching in 15-month-old infants
Renee L. Johnson, Neil E. Berthier

8. A dynamic field model of complex manual behaviors
Virgil Whitmyer, Esther Thelen


Fr08: Feeding Behavior

9. Maternal core beliefs and infant feeding difficulties
Jackie Blissett, Caroline Meyer, Claire Farrow, Gillian Harris, Judi Cunningham, Helen Coulthard

10. Maternal problem solving in the context of infant food refusal.
Helen Coulthard, Gill Harris, Jackie Blissett, Judi Cunningham

11. Solihull Approach: Psychotherapeutic and behavioural approach for sleeping, feeding, toileting, behavioural difficulties
Hazel Douglas, Andrew Brennan, Michelle Ginty

12. Differences in temperament perception according to the timing of feeding problems in the first year of life
Gill Harris, Helen Coulthard, Jackie Blissett, Judi Cunningham

13. Diagnosis of feeding difficulties in a clinic population
Geneviève Janveau-Brennan, Maria Ramsay, Patricia Forbes, Louise Auger, Terry Sigman

14. Feeding behavior as an index of developmental outcomes
Barbara Medoff-Cooper, Jacqueline McGrath, Justine Shults

15. Feeding proficiency in preterm neonates following hydrotherapy in the NICU setting
Jane K. Sweeney


Fr09: Intermodal Perception

16. Intersensory redundancy is most effective when skills are first learned
Lorraine E. Bahrick, Robert Lickliter, Ross Flom

17. Visual-proprioceptive intermodal perception with degraded featural and contingency information
Derryn T. Jewell, Mark A. Schmuckler

18. Intersensory perception in infancy: Response to competing amodal & modality-specific attributes
David J. Lewkowicz, Bena B. Schwartz

19. A study of intermodal perception using delayed display
Kazuo Hirak, Naoko Dan, Sotaro Shimada, Shoji Itakura

20. Intermodal processing and the development of imitation in infancy
Shana Nichols, Nicolle Vincent, Chris Moore, Isabel Smith

21. How prior tactile exposure can influence visual reasoning
Amy Putthoff Schweinle, Teresa Wilcox

22. Infants’ learning, memory, and generalization-of-learning for bimodal events
Barbara A. Morrongiello, Jennifer Lasenby


Fr10: Maternal Speech

23. Infant-directed speech produces differential activation of cortical areas in 8-month-old infants
Robin P. Cooper, Martha Ann Bell

24. Neural network categorization of infant-directed and adult-directed emotional speech
Steve R. Howell, Laurel J. Trainor

25. Maternal speech to infants in Mandarin Chinese: Lexical tone is exaggerated in infant-directed speech in a tonal language
Huei-Mei Liu, Feng-Ming Tsao, Patricia K. Kuhl

26. Does an infant-directed speech style aid in the separation of different streams of speech?
Rochelle Newman, Tammy Weppelman, Isma Hussain

27. Salivary cortisol responses to maternal speech and singing
Tali Shenfield, Sandra E. Trehub, Takayuki Nakata


Fr11: Social Contingency

28. Early sensitivity to social contingency in infants: A “double video” study of face-to-face communication between 2- to 3-month-olds and their mothers
Hanne Braarud, Kjell M. Stormark

29. Contingency detection and triadic social competence in 6-month-olds.
Agnès Danis, Josette Ruel

30. The relationship of maternal affect to mother-infant coordinated interpersonal timing in 12-month-old infants
Keng-Yen Huang, Stanley Feldstein, Erik Barr, Amie Ashley Hane, Brian Morrison

31. A comparison between infant-mother and infant-stranger communication in a “Double Video” setting
Petter Alexander Olsen, Kjell Morten Stormark


Fr12: Symbols and Symbolic Processing

32. Social construction of pictorial symbols in 6- to 18-month-old infants
Tara Callaghan, Philippe Rochat

33. Social gaze and the development of symbolic play
Sue Leekam, Antonino Gagliano, Elizabeth Meins, Fabia Franco

34. Maternal guidance of children’s symbolic play
Rebekah A. Richer, Gabrielle F. Simcock, Angeline S. Lillard, Judy S. DeLoache

35. Memory for symbol mediated information
Gabrielle F. Simcock, Judy S. DeLoache

36. Individual differences in using a spatial symbol: Do boys and girls interpret scale models differently?
Tracy Solomon, Juan Carlos Gomez

37. Detecting correspondence and constructing symbolic relations
Georgene L. Troseth, Judy S. DeLoache, Tamkeen Manasia

38. Infants’ comprehension of toy replicas as symbols for real objects
Barbara Younger-Rossmann, Kathy E. Johnson, Stephanie Furrer


Fr13: Problem Solving

39. Infants’ gradually emerging ability to relate the means and ends to use domain general problem-solving strategies.
Katherine H. Grobman, Rick O. Gilmore

40. Memory constraints on the generation of problem solving strategies in 24-month-old infants
Daniel D. McCall, Elizabeth Zack, Rebecca Popkave, Kendra Lach

41. The roles of memory generalization and goal-state cues in problem solving in 20- and 30-month-old infants
Rebecca M. Starr, Patricia J. Bauer


Fr14: Social Interaction

42. The role of family interactions in shaping toddler social competence: Initial reports from the R.E.A.C.H. project
Holly E. Brophy-Herb, Robert E. Lee, Gary Stollak, Laura Nathans, Alytia Levendosky, Deborah Kashy, Angela Casady

43. Social play interaction among cocaine exposed toddlers and caregivers
Susan M. Brunner, Daniel S. Messinger, Genise Vertus, Charles R. Bauer

44. Humorous bodies and humorous minds: Humor within the social context of a child care setting
Eleni Loizou

45. The course of mother-infant interactions: A longitudinal study with postnatally depressed and well mothers
Carla Martins, Lynne Murray, Elizabeth Gaffan

46. Relations between marital quality and toddlers’ behavior: Does coparenting mediate?
Melanie C. McConnell, Allison Lauretti, Regina Kuersten-Hogan, Kevin Blot, James P. McHale

47. Hostility in parent-infant interactions
Hedwig J. A. van Bakel, J. Marianne Riksen-Walraven

48. Infant socioemotional and cognitive development: Links to maternal caregiving types
Laurie A. Van Egeren, Marguerite S. Barratt, Mary A. Roach


Fr15: Temperament

49. Does difficult temperament moderate the link between negative maternal mood and parenting efficacy?
Feyza Corapci, Theodore D. Wachs

50. Understanding toddler temperament: Associations among temperament, maternal, and child characteristics
Marissa Diener, Annette Bradshaw

51. Infant behavior questionnaire-revised: New evidence in support of reliability and validity
Maria A. Gartstein, Samuel P. Putnam, Laura Becken Jones, Mary K. Rothbart

52. Early infant temperament as an independent predictor of internalizing and externalizing tendencies at age 2
Ellen Leen, Esther Leerkes, Susan Crockenberg

53. Toddler peer interaction: Associations with temperament and emotion socialization
Amy Mariaskin, Celia A. Brownell

54. Socialization of temperamental anger
Cindy P Polak, Heather A Henderson, Nathan A. Fox

55. The Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire: Development, psychometrics, factor structure, and relations with behavior problems
Samuel P. Putnam, Laura B. Jones, Mary K. Rothbart


Fr16: Caregiving and Abuse

56. Parental involvement in early intervention services as predicated by family resources and parental locus of control
Margo A. Candelaria

57. Infant child abuse: Variables in the decision to report suspicion
Connie S. Goldfarb

58. Becoming a family: Parental involvement and its implications for family and infant development
Karissa Greving, Bridget Gaertner, Tracy Spinrad

59. The nature of play among mother-toddler dyads in early head start
Ronit Kahana-Kalman, Elisa Vele

60. Caring for infants in child care: Caregivers’ reflections on their first year in infant group care
Susan L. Recchia, Eleni Loizou

61. Sexual abuse during childhood and parenting among mothers of infants: Modeling direct and indirect pathways
Pamela Schuetze, Rina Das Eiden

62. Predicting child-teacher attachment relationships in child care
Eva Marie Shivers, Carollee Howes

63. The quality of caregiving interactions experienced by infants and toddlers in group child care
Dale Walker, Deborah L. Linebarger, Kathryn M. Bigelow, Cathleen J. Small, Sanna Harjusola-Webb, Daniela Rodrigues, Christa Anderson


Fr17: Debate: Can babies really do math?
11:00 - 12:50
Ontario Room

Karen Wynn, Leslie Cohen, participants
Yuko Munakata, Moderator


Fr18: Symposium: Studies of Early Language Acquisition in Atypical Populations
Chairs:
Sarah Paterson & Thierry Nazzi
11:00 - 12:50
Tudor Room

Assessing speech perception and language abilities of deaf infants before and following cochlear implantation
Derek M. Houston, David B. Pisoni, Karen Iler Kirk, Elizabeth A. Ying, Richard T. Miyamoto

Causes of lexical acquisition delay in infants with Williams syndrome: Word segmentation and object categorization
Thierry Nazzi, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Early word learning in infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome and Down’s syndrome
Sarah Paterson, Thierry Nazzi, Elena Longi, Sandra Ewing, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Holoprosencephaly: Assessing language, cognition, and perceptual processing in children with severe brain insult
April A. Benasich, Judy F. Flax, Cindy Roesler, Naseem Choudhury, Hongkui Jing, Hilary J. Leevers

Discussants: Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff


Fr19: Symposium: Progress in the Developmental Approach to Infant Colic
Chair:
Ian St James-Roberts
11:00 - 12:50
Territories Room

Systematic review of variations of cry/fuss amounts across countries: Do universal criteria for colic make sense?
Marissa Alvarez, Dieter Wolke

Progress in the developmental approach to infant colic: Sleep and infant colic
Turkka Kirjavainen, Liisa Lehtonen, Pentti Kero

Negative (crying), positive (smiling) and motor limb responsivity on Kagan-type tasks in infants with and without colic
Ronald Barr, Jodi A. Paterson, Lisa M. MacMartin, Liisa Lehtonen, Nicole Calinoiu, Lea Wertheim, Simon N. Young

What Sorts Of Stimulation Trigger Crying In Reactive Babies?
Ian St James-Roberts


Fr20: Symposium: What Does Novelty Preference Tell us About Memory Development?
Chair:
Olivier Pascalis
11:00 - 12:50
Salon A

Novelty preference: A neurobiological perspective
Michelle de Haan

Neurophysiological correlates of habituation and novelty preferences in human infants
Kelly Snyder

The influence of social learning on infant recognition
Astri Robinson, Olivier Pascalis

Novelty detection: A measure of explicit memory?
Harlene Hayne, Jenny Richmond

Discussant: Melanie J. Spence


Fr21: WAIMH Symposium: Challenges to Father Involvement in Research: Insights Gained From the Early Head Start National Evaluation
Chair:
Hiram E. Fitzgerald
11:00 - 12:50
Salon B

Methodological issues in qualitative research with low-income fathers: Switching to the paternal lens
Jean Ann Summers, Gina Barclay McLaughlin

Residential status of biological and social fathers: Impact on father-toddler interaction
Lorraine M. McKelvey, Rachel F. Schiffman, Hiram E. Fitzgerald

Observational data on father play with infants: Challenging to get but valuable to have
Lori. A. Roggman, Lisa K. Boyce, G. A. Cook, A. G. Hart

Father involvement in early Head Start programs: Methodological challenges and lessons from mature programs
Helen Raikes, Wolmoet van Kammen, Kim Boller, John Love

Discussants: Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Natasha Cabrera


Poster Session
11:30 - 1:20
Canadian Room


Fr22: Methodology

1. Priming infants to look left and right during a visual preference task
Donna Fisher-Thompson, Kelly Marolf, Kari Nelson, Sarah Piskor, Jamie O’Grady

2. Presentation patterns, side biases, and novelty preferences during a visual perception task
Donna Fisher-Thompson, Dawn Romagnola, Kelly Marolf, Julie Pettapiece, Kari Moorhead

3. Infant behaviors scored using a new general purpose video coding system
Anjanie McCarthy, Marc Baron, Jamie Wheatley, Larry Symons, Christine Hains, Kang Lee, Darwin Muir

4. Effects of D4 dopamine receptor gene and serotonin transporter promoter region polymorphisms on infants’ response to novelty
Krisztina Lakatos, Emma Birkas, Zsofia Nemoda, Zsolt Ronai, Ildiko Toth, Krisztina Ney, Maria Sasvari-Szekely, Judit Gervai

5. Visual habituation at 5 months: Short-term reliability of measures obtained with a new polynomial regression criterion.
Chantale Lavoie, Stéphan Desrochers

6. A dynamic field model of infant visual habituation
Esther Thelen, Gregor Schoener


Fr23: Temperament

7. Associations between temperament and cognitive processing during infancy
Martha Ann Bell

8. The assessment of temperament in five-month twins: What are we measuring?
Caroline Brunelle, Etienne Dubreuil, Adèle Rochon, Robert Pihl, Richard Tremblay, Daniel Perusse, Michel Boivin

9. Scaling reactivity, explaining regulation: Temperament, infant regulatory behaviors, and dyadic interaction
Jenifer D. Clark, Yasuo Miyazaki, Arnold Sameroff

10. The effect of infant temperament on mothers’ response to infant crying
Wilberta Donovan, Lewis Leavitt

11. Maternal perception of her infant as mediated by depression, maternal childhood, and social support
Barbara A. McFall, Blanca X. Zeas, Nancy Aaron Jones

12. Newborn behavior and temperament
J. Kevin Nugent, Jerome Kagan, Nancy Snidman, Jennifer T. Liske, I. Simona Bujoreanu

13. Measuring infant stress: The IRSS and infant visual behaviors
Patricia A. Self


Fr24: Auditory and Music Perception

14. Memory for music in infancy: The role of style and complexity
Beatriz Ilari

15. A study on infants’ listening response to children’s songs by the use of the headturn preference procedure
Hiromi Nito, Akiko Hayashi, Yoko Minami

16. Effects of auditory stimulation in low and high light conditions on behavioral organization in preterm infants
Pia Strunk, Robert Lickliter, Jonathan Roberts, Gretchen Godfrey, Lindsey Litwiller

17. Long-term memory for music in infancy
Laurel J. Trainor, Luann Wu, Christine D. Tsang, Judy Plantinga

18. Timbre perception in infants: Spectral slope and nasal resonance
Christine D. Tsang, Laurel J. Trainor, Joanne Leuzzi, Kathleen Bloom, David J. Zajac

19. Infants’ responsiveness to soothing and playful singing
Sandra E. Trehub, Takayuki Nakata, Tonya R. Bergeson

20. Musical interval discrimination at 6 and 12 months
Catherine Weir, Stefani Previdi, Ruth Crutchfield


Fr25: The Self

21. The development of visual self-recognition: Cross-sectional and longitudinal samples
Shannon C. Edison, Mark L. Howe, Mary L. Courage

22. The development of the objective self
Nancy Garon, Chris Moore

23. The Pounding Frame: A window on the development of infant’s self-in-relation
Ilse de Koeyer, Alan Fogel

24. Social awareness and mirror self-recognition in 12- to 65-month-olds
Philippe Rochat, Daniel Genest, Tara Callaghan


Fr26: Vocabulary Development

25. Growth curves for receptive vocabulary inventories in non-speaking toddlers with developmental disabilities
Cynthia J. Cress, Melody Hertzog

26. Comparison of receptive vocabulary development by semantic category for non-speaking toddlers with developmental disabilities
Cynthia J. Cress, Megan Stewart

27. Direct and indirect effects of parental reading practices on infant language development
Deborah F. Deckner, Lauren B. Adamson, Roger Bakeman

28. Assessing vocabulary comprehension in late infancy: Sustaining compliance with an engaging computer interface
Melanie Keplinger, Margaret Friend

29. Low-income parents’ report of toddlers’ vocabulary: developmental sensitivity and utility in measuring program effectiveness
Barbara Alexander Pan

30. The relationship between partially known words and vocabulary size at 22-months of age
Christopher W. Robinson, Brian Bramstedt, Wendelyn J. Shore, Peg Hull Smith


Fr27: Learning

31. Variability in associative learning as a function of very premature birth
Jane Herbert, Jennifer Greer, Ricki Goldstein, Mark E. Stanton, Carol O. Eckerman

32. Maternal/infant synchrony in cortisol and behavior: Relations with learning in 3-month-old infants
Laura A. Thompson, Wenda R. Trevathan, Leila Diaz, Denisse Licon, Heather Gonzales, Lori Fields


Fr28: Object Individuation

33. Using property/kind information for object individuation in infancy: Evidence from a simplified manual search procedure
Allison Baker, Fei Xu

34. The importance of property information in object individuation
Erik Cheries, Lisa Feigenson, Susan Carey

35. Young infants’ ability to use “what” information when the salience of “where” information is reduced
Stacie L. Kovacs, Mandy J. Maguire, Nora S. Newcombe

36. Nine-month-old infants’ inferences about the human body: The hand as an agent and an object
Kirsten M. O’Hearn, Susan C. Johnson

37. The primacy of agency cues in object individuation
Luca Surian, Stefania Caldi

38. Ducks, trucks, and blocks: Object complexity and infant object individuation
Gretchen Van de Walle


Fr29: Attachment

39. Relations between adult attachment classifications, infant interactive behavior, and attachment in a sample of adolescent mothers
Heidi N. Bailey, Greg Moran, David R. Pederson

40. The relationship between attachment security, affect sharing, and joint attention in 14- to 17-month olds
Carol Hartung, Barbara D’Entremont

41. Socioemotional functioning at 24 and 36 months: Relations to maternal sensitivity and attachment security
Anne Hungerford, Celia A. Brownell, Susan B. Campbell

42. Depressive symptoms, marital quality, and attachment: The mediating role of synchrony in father- and mother-infant interactions
Brenda L. Lundy

43. Parenting stress, infant temperament, and parent-infant attachment security
Brian M. Morrison, Keng-Yen Huang, Amie Ashley Hane, Jennifer Peters, Stanley Feldstein

44. The pathway to problem behavior: Does attachment security mediate the influence of temperament?
Karen Rosen, Meghan Terry Broadstone

45. Infants’ attachments to fathers and mothers: The roles of sensitivity and child gender
Sarah J. Schoppe, Marissa L. Diener, Geoffrey L. Brown, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf


Fr30: Maternal Psychopathology

46. Maternal psychopathology and infant cortisol levels
Patricia Brennan, Kelley Calhoun, Elaine Walker, Zachary Stowe

47. The impact of infant epilepsy on maternal sleep disruption and socio-emotional functioning
Lesley Epperly Cottrell, Melissa Atkins, Atiya Khan

48. Correlates of anxiety among mothers of VLBW infants in the first year of life
Nancy Feeley, Laurie Gottlieb, Phyllis Zelkowitz

49. Postpartum depression, adolescent mothering, and infant socioemotional development
Isabelle Ménard, Louise Cossette, Julie Chamberland, Isabelle Neault, Mélina Mc Intyre, Vida Dardachti

50. Language development in infants with craniofacial anomalies: Group differences and relations to maternal psychological adjustment
Harriet Oster, Dawn Marie Daniels, Marcie K. Handler

51. Prenatal maternal mood disturbance and alcohol use as predictors of behavioral and physical health outcomes in young children
Vladislav Ruchkin, Walter S. Gilliam, Linda C. Mayes

52. Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA)-axis functioning in mothers with childhood violent trauma history
Daniel S. Schechter, Susan A. Brunelli, Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., Michael M. Myers, Susan W. Coates, Patricia Bacam, Myron A. Hofer

53. Infant fussiness and maternal psychosocial well-being
Bethany J. Sallinen, Marie J. Hayes, April Nesin, Janice Zeman

54. Infants of mothers with panic disorder: Salivary cortisol levels and sleep disturbances
Susan L. Warren, Megan Gunnar, Emily Aron, Andrea Douglas


Fr31: Predictors of Cognitive Functioning

55. The developmental course of infant attention and toddler cognitive and language outcomes
John Colombo, D. Jill Shaddy, W. Allen Richman, Julie M. Maikranz, Otilia M. Blaga, Andrea F. Greenhoot

56. Predicting IQ and language abilities at 32 months from static and sequentially presented visual stimuli at 4 months
David P. Laplante, Philip R. Zelazo

57. Effects of prenatal maternal stress on infant cognitive and linguistic development
David P. Laplante, Suzanne King, Ronald G. Barr, Alain Brunet, Jean-Francois Saucier, Michael Meaney

58. Factors contributing to changes in cognitive functioning in a high and low risk sample of infants
Jean-Pascal Lemelin, George M. Tarabulsy, Marc A. Provost, Diane St-Laurent, Johanne Maranda

59. Event-related potential indices of neonatal recognition memory are correlated with preschool cognitive function
Raye-Ann deRegnier, Heather Whitney, Sandi Wewerka, Michael K. Georgieff, Charles A. Nelson


Fr32: Autism – Language, Cognition, and Emotion

60. Measuring early language development in pre-school children with autism spectrum disorder using the MacArthur CDI
Tony Charman, Auriol Drew, Gillian Baird, Claire Baird

61. Infant motor dyspraxia as a predictor of speech in childhood autism
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, H. Hill Goldsmith, Maureen C. O’Reilly, Eve A. Sauer, Jamie L. DeRuyter, Margery Blanc

62. Intermodal perception among toddlers with autism: Physical and emotional events
Ronit Kahana-Kalman, Sylvie Goldman

63. Autistic children’s responses to other people’s emotional signals
Betty Repachol, Virginia Slaughter


Fr33: Invited Talk: Alison Fleming
Chair:
Marc Bornstein
1:00 - 2:00
Ballroom

The biology of mothering


Fr34: Symposium: Beyond Child-Directed Speech: Nonverbal Aspects of Communication When Parents Talk to Young Children
Chair:
Jana M. Iverson
1:00 - 2:50
Confederation Room

The eyes of children are upon us: How adult action influences intentional nonverbal communication by infants and toddlers
Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn

The developing relation of gesture and speech when mothers talk to young children
Jana M. Iverson, Jennette Piry, Lori Conrad, Susan Goldin-Meadow

Changes in parent labeling and gesturing and early communicative development
Laura L. Namy, Susan A. Nolan

The ease of re-enacting motionese
Dare Baldwin, Rebecca Brand

Discussant: Elizabeth Bates


Fr35: Symposium: The formation and use of different spatial frames of reference in early infancy
Chair:
Jordy Kaufman
1:00 - 2:50
Tudor Room

Multimodal sensory integration and the perception of visual direction
Rick O. Gilmore

Relations between independent locomotion and spatial coding abilities reconsidered
Adina R. Lew, Helen L. Crowther

Young infants’ use of a retinocentric frame of reference for anticipatory saccades
Jordy Kaufman, Mark H. Johnson

Young infants’ use of spatial frameworks in their perception of objects.
Andrew J. Bremner, Peter E. Bryant

Discussant: Joseph J. Campos


Fr36: Symposium: Development Begins before Birth: Mood and Mood-Altering Drugs during Pregnancy and Offspring Outcomes
Chair:
Catherine Monk
1:00 - 2:50
Territories Room

Prenatal stress: Attention, motor maturity, stress reactivity and dopamine function in primates
Mary L. Schneider, Colleen Moore, Andrew D. Roberts, Onofre T. DeJesus

Newborn infants exposed to maternal psychiatric illness during pregnancy have diminished HR responses to downward tilting
Catherine Monk, William Fifer, Michael Myers, Richard Sloan

Antenatal maternal anxiety is linked with non- right handedness in the child
Vivette Glover, Thomas G. O’Connor, Jean Golding

Prevention of adolescent criminal behavior and intellectual impairment among children exposed to tobacco during pregnancy.
David Olds, Charles R.Henderson, Jr.

Discussant: Edward Tronick


Fr37: Discussion Session: Unexplored Potential: Psycho-Educational Intervention for Under Threes with Developmental Difficulties
Chair:
Bruria Koblenz
1:00 - 2:50
Salon A

Participants:

  • Bruria Koblenz
  • M. Coleman
  • M. Hunter Carsch

Poster Session
1:30 - 3:20
Canadian Room


Fr38: Emotions and Psychophysiology

1. Infant emotions and cardiac reactivity during adjustment to child care I: Perspectives from infant-mother attachment
Lieselotte Ahnert, Michael E. Lamb, Stephen W. Porges, Heike Rickert

2. Infant emotions and cardiac reactivity during adjustment to child care II: The emerging infant–care provider attachment
Lieselotte Ahnert, Michael E. Lamb, Stephen W. Porges, Heike Rickert

3. Neural network categorization of EEG measurements of infant emotional states
Steve R. Howell, Louis A. Schmidt, Laurel J. Trainor, Diane L. Santesso

4. Does parent physiological reactivity to infant signals during pregnancy predict infant temperament?
Eun Young Nahm, Alyson F. Shapiro, John M. Gottman

5. Regional brain electrical activity (EEG) and heart rate in response to affective infant-directed speech in 9-month-old infants
Diane L. Santesso, Louis A. Schmidt, Laurel J. Trainor

6. Do infants’ brain electrical activity (EEG) look like their mothers’ during the processing of emotion?
Louis A. Schmid, Sidney J. Segalowitz, Diane L. Santesso, Laurel J. Trainor, Lisa A. Galay

7. Frontal EEG activity, heart rate, and salivary cortisol during the processing of emotion in 12 week-old human infants
Susan L. Tasker, Diane L. Santesso, Louis A. Schmidt, Laurel J. Trainor


Fr39: Goal Directed Action

8. Imitation of goal-directed acts in infants is a selective interpretative process
Ildikó Király, Orsolya Koós, George Gergely

9. 5.5-month-old infants ascribe goal-directedness to self-moving objects’ actions
Yuyan Luo

10. Keeping track of two actors’ different goals
Kristine H. Onishi

11. Goal attribution without goal representation: A PDP approach to infants’ early understanding of intentional actions
Timothy T. Rogers, Richard Griffin

12. Infants’ application of the principle of rational action - a general phenomenon?
Barbara Schoeppner, Ulrike Metz, Beate Sodian

13. Infants’ sensitivity to verbal information in reasoning about others’ goals
Hyun-joo Song, Renee Baillargeon, Cynthia Fisher

14. Understanding of the pointing gesture in 10- and 12-month olds
Claudia Thoermer, Beate Sodian, Ulrike Metz


Fr40: Memory Processes

15. Delayed non-matching-to-sample by 9- to 36-month-old infants
Julien Gross, Harlene Hayne, Michael Colombo

16. Representation of the matching concept during infancy and early childhood
Kirstie Morgan, Sarah Cox, Michael Colombo, Harlene Hayne

17. Age-related changes in visual recognition memory from infancy through early childhood
Kirstie Morgan, Harlene Hayne

18. The development of visual short-term memory over the first year of life
Shannon Ross-Sheehy, Lisa M. Oakes, Steven J. Luck

19. Does additional familiarization enhance maternal voice recognition in two-day old infants?
Jill M. Therien, Cathy T. Worwa, Frank R. Mattia, Raye-Ann O. deRegnier

20. Natural feeding enhances human neonatal memory for spoken words
Grace Valiante, Simon N. Young, Ronald G. Barr, Philip R. Zelazo


Fr41: Social Interaction

21. Congratulations, it’s a [insert sex here]!: Does discovery of fetal sex lead to gender-typed parental attitudes and behaviors?
Sharon Bohjanen, Maya G. Sen, Jill Bren

22. Rhythmic units in mother-infant interaction
Maya Gratier, Emmanuel Devouche

23. Is mother-infant co-regulation enhanced by touch?
Amanda Jacobs, German Posada

24. The development of socially mediated visual attention in late infancy
David A. Leavens, Brenda K. Todd

25. Five-month-old infants can participate in rule-governed interaction
Tao Li, Starkey Duncan

26. How different are infants’ diapering experiences with mothers and fathers?
Lauren B. Robertson, Eleanor F. Chaffe, James P. McHale

27. Attention to social partners in 9- to 18-month-old infants
Philippe Rochat, Nathalie Goubet, Celine Maire-Leblond, Ishani Bhattacharyya


Fr42: Face and Person Perception

28. Facedness vs non-specific structural properties: What is crucial in determining face preference at birth
Viola Macchi Cassia, Eloisa Valenza, Donatella Pividori, Francesca Simion

29. Infants’ discrimination of normal and atypical human and non-human body shapes
Michelle Heron, Virginia Slaughter

30. Recognition of upright and inverted faces in infants
Yuko Hirata, Masami K Yamaguchi

31. Is that a face? The role of visual experience during infancy in the development of face detection
Richard Le Grand, Catherine J. Mondloch, Daphne Maurer, Scania de Schonen, Henry P. Brent

32. Infant preferences for feminine male faces: Early detection of parental investment?
Jennifer L. Ramsey, Judith H. Langlois

33. Processing speed and face recognition
Susan A. Rose, Jeffery J. Jankowski, Judith F. Feldman

34. Constructing the prototype face in human and Japanese macaque infants
Masami K. Yamaguchi, Masaki Tomonaga, So Kanazawa


Fr43: Preterm and Very Low Birthweight Infants

35. The buffering effects of coping on psychological distress in mothers of high-risk and low-risk very low birth weight infants
Sheri P. Eisengart, Lynn T. Singer, Sarah Fulton, Jill Baley

36. Developmental changes in respiratory behaviors in preterm infants
Diane Holditch-Davis, Mark Scher, Todd Schwartz

37. Impact of preterm birth on mother-infant interaction: A cross-situational analysis
Anna Kovács, Patricia Medgyesi, Ildikó Tóth, Marianna Zsuppányi, Judit Gervai, Magda Kalmár

38. Comparison of feeding behaviors in Israeli and American preterm infants
Barbara Medoff-Cooper, Ruben Bromiker, Jacqueline McGrath, Ilan Arad

39. A longitudinal study of depressive symptoms in mothers of prematurely-born-infants
Margaret S. Miles, Diane Holditch-Davis, Mark Scher, Todd Schwartz

40. Effect of holding on cortisol levels of mothers and their preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care nursery
Madalynn Neu, Mark Laudenslager

41. Cardiac and behavioral responses to stressful events in premature infants
E.L. Townsend, E.P. Davis, M.R. Gunnar, M.K.Georgieff, S.F. Guiang, R.F. Cifuentes, R.C. Lussky

42. Psychosocial and medical factors associated with developmental outcome in very low birthweight toddlers
Phyllis Zelkowitz, Apostolos Papageorgiou, Claudette Bardin


Fr44: Speech and Pointing

43. A statistical basis for speech sound discrimination
Jennifer L Anderson, James Morgan

44. Sensory experiences in the pharynx during infancy
Regis Brunod

45. Young word learners’ ability to perceive phonemic detail in well-known words
Christopher T. Fennell, Janet F. Werker

46. Infant speech perception is sensitive to statistical properties of the input
Jessica Maye, Janet Werker, LouAnn Gerken, Karla Kaun

47. The ability of 4-month-olds to discriminate changes in vocal information within multimodal displays
Jason McCartney, Robin Cooper

48. The audiovisual speech perception of consonants in infants.
Ryoko Mugitani, Masahiro Hirai, Sotaro Shimada, Kazuo Hiraki


Fr45: Cigarettes, Cocaine, and Other Drug Exposure

49. Follow-up study on the long-term benefits of early intervention for children prenatally exposed to cocaine
C. Francoise Acra, Angelika H. Claussen, Peter C. Mundy

50. Prenatal cocaine exposure: Analysis of direct and indirect effects on 36-month developmental outcome
Fonda Davis Eyler, Marylou Behnke, Cynthia Wilson Garvan, Kathleen Wobie, Weir Hou

51. Infant sleep and arousal following prenatal alcohol exposure
M.J. Hayes, B. J. Sallinen, A. Gilles, J. Zeman, S. Nathani, A. Nesin, M.E. Toothaker, A. Booth

52. Effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on neurobehavioral status of Japanese newborn infants.
Toru Hosokawa, Keigo Kumamoto, Kunihiko Nakai, Kunihiro Okamura, Takeo Sakai, Ken Nagai, Hiroshi Satoh

53. Longitudinal assessment of language in children with prenatal cocaine exposure: Birth to 5 years
Lemmietta G. McNeilly, Fonda Davis Eyler, Marylou Behnke, Cynthia Garvan

54. The relationship of prenatal cocaine and polydrug exposure to infant behavioral regulation,
Sonia Minnes, Lynn Singer, Robert Arendt

55. Social play between 18-month-old toddlers and their cocaine-and-other-drug-using mothers
Adriana Molitor, Anna Ward, Linda C. Mayes

56. Relationship of the Fagan test of infant intelligence to later cognitive functioning in drug-exposed children
Krestin J. Radonovich, Margaret B. Pulsifer, Megan O’Reilly, Arlene Butz

57. Effects of maternal and environmental cigarette-exposure during pregancy on rhythms in neonatal heart rate variability
Laura E. Stephens, Philip S. Zeskind, Catherine H. O’Grady


Fr46: Poster Workshop: Revealing Variability in Infant Development: Perceptual-Motor, Cognitive, Linguistic, and Physiological Perspectives
Chair:
Martha E. Arterberry
1:30 - 3:20
Canadian Room

58. Functional variability and selection in perceptual-motor development
Geert Savelsbergh, Karl S. Rosengren, John van der Kamp

59. Development of cortisol circadian rhythm in infancy variability
Carolina de Weerth, Robbert H. Zijl, Jan K. Buitelaar

60. Variability and its sources in infant categorization
Martha E. Arterberry, Marc H. Bornstein

61. Analyzing intra-individual variability in developmental data
Paul van Geert, Marijn van Dijk

62. A micro-genetic study of infants’ categorization
Ann E. Ellis, Lisa M. Oakes

Discussant: Karl S. Rosengren


Fr47: ICIS Awards and Business Meeting: The 2002 ISIS Dissertation Award and Young Investigator’s Award
3:30 – 4:30
Concert Hall


Fr48: Presidential Symposium: Hanus Papousek Through his Colleagues’ Eyes
Chair:
Arnold Sameroff
4:30 - 6:20
Concert Hall

Hanus Papousek: Pioneer in infant learning
Lewis P. Lipsitt

Parenting and family life: Personal and professional views of Hanus Papousek
Marc H. Bornstein

An evolutionary basis for intuitive parenting
Stephen Suomi


Presidential Reception
6:30 – 8:00
 

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