13TH BIENNIAL
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFANT STUDIES
Toronto 2002
Saturday, April 20th
Sa01: Symposium: Manipulating the contents of infants’ representations
Chair: Renee Baillargeon
9:00 - 10:50
Ballroom
Priming infants to attend to height information in a physical reasoning task
Su-hua Wang, Renee Baillargeon
Facilitating infants’ reasoning about means-end support and search problems
Karen R. Menard, Andrea Aguiar
Enabling infants’ object segregation using contextual cues
Gwenden Dueker, Amy Needham
Altering infants’ sensitivity to color features in an individuation task
Teresa Wilcox, Catherine Chapa
Discussant: Dare Baldwin
Sa02: Symposium: Ontogeny of Eye Gaze Processing Part I: Early Sensitivity and Evolutionary Roots
Chairs: Kang Lee & Darwin Muir
9:00 - 10:50
Confederation Room
An evolutionary perspective on gaze following and understanding.
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call
Energy exchange, eye contact, and expectancies in the ontogeny of face preference: A biological perspective
Elliott M. Blass, Carole Ann Camp
Attentional control by gaze cues
Chris Moore
Invisible gaze following: Perspective taking at 12 months of age
Darwin Muir, Kang Lee
Discussant: Darwin Muir
Sa03: Symposium: Biosocial Rhythms in Development
Chair: Ronald Barr
9:00 - 10:50
Territories Room
Chronicity in cortisol regulation and reactivity
Michael Lewis
Disturbed daytime cortisol rhythms may reflect adverse factors in the young child’s environment
Megan R. Gunnar, Elizabeth E. Gilles
Differential early attachment experiences, HPA axis circadian rhythmicity, and biobehavioral development in rhesus monkeys
Stephen J. Suomi
Investigating longitudinal trends in correlations between maltreated foster children’s behavior and L-HPA axis activity
Philip A. Fisher, Michael Stoolmiller
Discussant: Ronald Barr
Sa04: Symposium: Determinants and Consequences of Attachment Disorganization in Infancy
Chair: Gottfried Spangler
9:00 - 10:50
Salon A
Genetic risk for attachment disorganization in infancy: The role of the D4 dopamine receptor (DRD4)
Judit Gervai, Krisztina Lakatos, Ildiko Toth, Krisztina Ney, Zsofia Nemoda, Zsolt Ronai, Maria Sasvari-Szekely
Attachment disorganization in infancy: Individual and social determinants and consequences for behavioral regulation
Gottfried Spangler, Michael Schieche
Maternal over-involvement predicts attachment disorganization among toddlers with a congenital anomaly
Douglas Barnett, Christine Butler, Melissa Kaplan-Estrin, Melissa Clements
Disorganized attachment, frightening maternal behavior, and behavior problems: A follow-up investigation
Carlo Schuengel, M.J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.H. Van IJzendoorn
Discussant: Judith Solomon
Poster Session
9:30 - 11:20
Canadian Room
Sa05: Temperament: Cross-cultural and Cross-species
1. The impact of neonatal stress and enrichment on emotional reactions and attention in infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Kim A. Bard
2. Infant temperament, cross-cultural differences, and the impact of acculturation: Russian and the United States of America.
Vicka Filanosky, Maria A. Gartstein, Yana Peleg, Helena Slobodskaya
3. Cross-cultural differences in temperament in the first year of life: U.S. and Russia
Maria A. Gartstein, Helena R. Slobodskaya, Irina A. Kinsht, Vicka Filanosky, Yana Peleg
4. Infant temperament and the impact of immigration: Russia, United States of America, and Israel
Yana Peleg, Maria A. Gartstein, Vicka Filanosky, Helena R. Slobodskaya
5. Temperament, parent-child interactions, and infant mental abilities: An information processing approach
Erri Hewitt, Joan Bihun, Kathleen Duffy, H. Hill Goldsmith
6. Difficult and unadaptable temperament: Evidence for interactive genetic processes
Kathryn S. Lemery, H. Hill Goldsmith
7. Parents’ perceptions of infant temperament: Commonalities and differences in China, the U.S., and Spain
Carmen Gonzalez, Maria A. Gartstein, Stephan Ahadi, Jose A. Carranza, Mary K. Rothbart, Suh Wen Yang
Sa06: Auditory and Speech Perception
8. Name recognition and speech segmentation
Heather Bortfeld, Karen Rathbun, Roberta Golinkoff, James Morgan, Jennifer Sootsman
9. Visual stimulation affects infant attention to rate of infant-directed speech
Jamie S. Cooper, Wendy L. Ostroff, Robin Panneton Cooper
10. Developmental change in infants’ preferences for prosodic continuousness in Japanese speech
Akiko Hayashi, Reiko Mazuka
11. Differential biases in infants gaze during speech and music
Gerald W. McRoberts, Laura Lakusta, Colleen McDonough, Amy McKee
12. Effect of a distracting noise on infant syllable discrimination
Susan Rvachew, Linda Polka, Lindsay Heggie
13. Measuring auditory temporal resolution in 2- and 3-month-old infants using event-related potentials
Laurel J. Trainor, Nancy Defina, Jennifer Hallam, Ranil R. Sonnadara
14. Infants’ preference for speech: When does it emerge?
Athena Vouloumanos, Janet F. Werker
Sa07: Risk and Resilience
15. Comparison of global and specific perinatal risk measures in predicting outcome in a biologically at-risk sample at 6 months
Joan E. Beard, Irving J. Goodman, Michael J. Painter
16. Children adopted from China: A prospective study of their development
Nancy J. Cohen, Mirella Pugliese, Mirek Lojkasek, Susan Abbey
17. Longitudinal and concurrent correlates of father-infant and mother-infant attachment stability in a high risk sample
Rina Das Eiden, Kenneth E. Leonard
18. The development of attention-seeking behaviours and physical health in high-risk dyads: The Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project
Natacha M. De Genna, Dale M. Stack, Lisa A. Serbin, Alex E. Schwartman, Jane Ledingham
19. Differential effects of prenatal management and neonatal risk in intra-utero growth retarded infants (IUGR) at 6-years of age.
Ronny Geva, Eshel Rina, Shaul Harel
20. Use of neonatal arousal-modulated attention and motor performance for evaluating current status and outcome in high-risk infants
Bernard Z. Karmel, Judith M. Gardner, Elizabeth M. Lennon, Michael J. Flory, Robert L. Freedland, Ha T. T. Phan, Inna Miroshnichenko
21. A parenting intervention targeting the special learning needs of infants with environmental and biological risks
Susan H. Landry, Karen E. Smith, Paul R. Swank, Heather M. Hebert, Michael Assel
22. Resilience of children of 0 - 30 months: Risk and protective factors identified in child abuse or neglect situations
Mareau Charlotte
23. Psychosocial risk factors associated with the development of autoimmunity in children. All babies in southeast Sweden (ABIS)
Anneli Sepa, Jeanette Wahlberg, Ann Frodi, Johnny Ludvigsson
24. Determinants of maternal sensitivity in high- and low-risk mothers: A longitudinal study
Diane St-Lauren, George M. Tarabulsy, Marc Provost, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, Johanne Maranda, Alain Juneau
25. Quality of attachment in children from families affected by HIV infection and AIDS: Risks and resilience
Mary J. Ward, Patricia Lester, Melissa B. Ilardi, Mindy Finklestein, Maran Sigman
26. Responsive home environments ameliorate possible risk factors
John Worobey
Sa08: Language Comprehension
27. Bookreading across the ages: Development and culture
Gina A. Cook, Vonda K. Jump, James Akers, Lisa K. Boyce, Mark Innocenti, Lori A. Roggman
28. Attention and the comprehension of subject and object wh-questions
Joe Hankin, George Hollich, Peter Jusczyk, Amanda Seidl
29. The beginning of cross-sentence structural comparison by 9-month-olds
Peter Jusczyk, LouAnn Gerken, Deborah Kemler Nelson
30. English-learning 10-month-olds’ reliance on phonotactic cues to segment weak-strong words from fluent speech
Elizabeth K. Johnson, Peter W. Jusczyk
Sa09: Posture and Locomotion
31. Transitions in development: The trajectory of motor skill acquisition
Karen E. Adolph, Ofronama Biu, Siriporn Pethkongathan, Jesse W. Young
32. Learning the location of risky ground
Karen E. Adolph, Amy Joh, Alyssa A. Friedman
33. The development of independent walking: What changes, how, and why
Beatrix Vereijken, Karen E. Adolph
34. Segmental relationships in turning in sitting
Patricia Bate, Esther Thelen
35. Lateralized readiness potential indexes: A promising approach for the study of infant stepping movements
Marthe Bonin, Philippe Robaey, Philip R Zelazo
36. Response perseveration in barrier crossing
Anna Maria Catanzaro, Mark Schmuckler
37. The influence of environmental and social factors on locomotor development
Mark A. Schmuckler, Vanessa Bhagoutie, Katalin Dzinas
38. The interaction between postural development and locomotor experience during the transition to independent walking.
Li-Chiou Chen, Jason S. Metcalfe, Jane E. Clark
39. The role of locomotor experience in the development of navigational memory
Melissa W. Clearfield
40. Effects of posture on newborn crying
Hung-Chu Lin, James A. Green
41. The ontogeny of perception-action co-ordination: On the use of haptic-sensory cues in postural development.
Jason S. Metcalfe, Li-Chiou Chen, John J. Jeka, Jane E. Clark
Sa10: Number and Numerical Processing
42. Toddler counting: Addition and subtraction by 3-year-old children
Kirsten Condry, Gabrielle Cayton, Elizabeth Spelke
43. Looking at the limits on numerical ability: Infants chunk large sets into smaller sets
Lisa Feigenson, Justin Halberda
44. Numerical intermodal transfer from touch to vision by 5-month-old infants
Julie Feron, Arlette Streri, Edouard Gentaz
45. Large number discrimination of auditory sequences in 9-month-old infants
Jennifer S. Lipton, Elizabeth S. Spelke
46. Infant perception of linear progression
Amy V. Plumb, Gerald Turkewitz
47. Infant arithmetic: A multiple variable approach
Christopher R. Poirier, Richard S. Bogartz
48. When twos, threes, and fours get mixed up: 12-month olds reach for toys in a box
Claudia Uller
49. 7-month-old infants’ sensitivity to number in the auditory domain
Kristy vanMarle, Karen Wynn
Sa11: Imitation
50. Observational learning of contingencies between movements and their consequences around the 1st birthday
Birgit Elsner, Gisa Aschersleben
51. Momentary behaviors in time: Relations between behavioral style and infants’ memory performance
Holly B. Eibs, Melissa M. Burch, Patricia J. Bauer
52. Event recall in 9-month-old infants: The effect of opportunity to imitate
Sandra A. Wiebe, Jennie Waters, Angela F. Lukowski, Jenny Rademacher, Jennifer Haight, Tracy DeBoer, Charles A. Nelson, Patricia J. Bauer
53. Infants’ and preschoolers’ imitation of intentionally-failed vs. accidentally-failed attempts
Chi-Tai Huang, Tony Charman, Cecilia Heyes
54. Hey, gimme a turn with that! The effect of immediate imitation on the recognition memory of 9½ -month-olds
Angela F. Lukowski, Jennie Waters, Sandra A. Wiebe, Jennifer Haight, Jenny Rademacher, Kimberly K. Yanda, Tracy DeBoer, Charles Nelson
55. What copying infants’ behaviour tells us about the development of imitation in infancy
Shana Nichols, Isabel M. Smith
56. Effects of partial reinforcement and observational reinforcement in 6- and 12-month olds
Catherine Weir, W. Stuart Millar
57. Invitations to imitate: Embodying index and icon
Patricia Zukow-Goldring
Sa12: Attachment
58. Insufficient responsiveness in mother-child dyads of resistant infants: Affective and contextual aspects
Judith Harel, Anat Scher
59. Mother’s reflections: The child’s attachment pattern as a function of his mother’s ability to reflect on his internal state
J. Harel, G. Gamzon-Kapeller, Y. Eshel
60. Bridging the gap between unresolved states of mind and disorganized attachment relationships: Links to atypical maternal behavior
Sheri Madigan, David Pederson, Greg Moran
61. Early care and infants’ secure base behavior: An ethnographic study
German Posada, Olga A. Carbonell, Gloria Alzate
62. Early Head Start: Ameliorating the effects of parenting stress on mother-infant attachment
Lori A. Roggman, Gina A. Cook, Lisa K. Boyce, Andrea D. Hart
63. A family systems approach to parental sensitivity and infant security of attachment
Diane E. Wille
64. Attachment in a Mexican origin sample: The role of sociocultural factors
Marlene Zepeda
Sa13: Symposium: Connectionist Approaches to Infant Cognitive Development
Chair: Leslie B. Cohen
11:00 - 12:50
Ontario Room
Modeling age differences in category learning
Thomas R. Shultz, Leslie B. Cohen
Connectionist approaches to memory development
Yuko Munakata
A connectionist process model of infant habituation
Sylvain Sirois, Denis Mareschal
Modeling the development of infant causal perception
Leslie B. Cohen, Harold H. Chaput
Discussant: Kim Plunkett
Sa14: Symposium: Perceptual Organization in Infancy: Bottom-up and Top-down Processes
Chair: Amy Needham
11:00 - 12:50
Confederation Room
Early object perception is a bottom-up, not a top-down, process
Scott P. Johnson
Similarity and perceptual organization in infancy
Ramesh S. Bhatt, Paul C. Quinn, Evelin Bertn
Memories of objects influence infants object segregation
Amy Needham, Gwenden L. Dueker, Avani C. Modi
Influences of experience on perceptual organization
Robert L. Goldstone
Discussant: Paul C. Quinn
Sa15: Symposium: Infants understanding of others: New research directions
Chairs: Diane Poulin-Dubois & Renee Baillargeon
11:00 - 12:50
Tudor Room
Imitative learning and emulation in human infants
Gyorgy Gergely
Implicit understanding of the seeing-knowing relation in 14- to 24-month-old infants
Beate Sodian, Diane Poulin-Dubois, Joanne Tilden, Ulrike Metz, Barbara Schoeppner
Links between absent reference comprehension and the understanding of intentions
Megan Saylor
15-month-old infants’ understanding of false belief
Kristine H Onishi, Renee Baillargeon
Discussant: Amanda Woodward
Sa16: Symposium: The Evolution and Impact of Depression Across Development
Chair: Nancy Aaron Jones
11:00 - 12:50
Territories Room
Delayed reactive cries and emotional differentiation signifies uncertain empathic development for newborns of depressed mothers
Nancy Aaron Jones, Barbara A. McFall, Blanca X. Zeas
Mother-infant regulation: Maternal depression, infant gender and attachment
Beatrice Beebe, J. Jaffe, H. Chen, P. Cohn, H. Andrews, L. Marquette, S. Ruffins, E. Helbraun
Does pitch of voice matter? Maternal vocal expression of surprise and infant emotional reaction
Nadja Reissland
Changes in maternal depression and quality of attachment: sex differences
Michael Lewis
Gender differences in emotion regulation and the path to mood and anxiety disorders in women
Pamela M. Cole, Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, Tara Chaplin
Discussant: Carolyn Saarni
Sa17: Symposium: The MacArthur Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Chair: Charles A. Nelson
11:00 - 12:50
Salon A Room
The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Electrophysiological correlates of face and emotion recognition
Susan W. Parker, Charles A. Nelson
Development of the EEG in institutionalized infants and young children in Romania
Nathan A. Fox, Peter J. Marshall
Effects of caregiving environment on the behavior of institutionalized, formerly institutionalized, and community children
Anna T. Smyke, Charles H. Zeanah, Sebastian F.M. Koga
Discussant: Megan R. Gunnar
Poster Session
11:30 - 1:20
Canadian Room
Sa18: Vision and Gaze Direction
1. Look both ways! Fourteen-month-old infants’ saccadic responses to peripheral targets following nonpredictive gaze cues
Amy Carr, Chris Moore
2. Lightness constancy in 4-month-old infants
Sarina H.L. Chien
3. Neural correlates of perceiving gaze direction in 4-month-old infants
Gergely Csibra, Agnes Volein, Leslie A. Tucker, Teresa Farroni, Mark H. Johnson
4. Gaze direction as an attentional cue in newborns
Teresa Farroni, Donatella Pividori, Francesca Simion, Stefano Massaccesi, Mark H. Johnson
5. Motion and mutual gaze in directing infants’ spatial attention
Teresa Farroni, Mark H. Johnson, Eileen Mansfield, Carlo Lai, Francesca Simion
6. Functional imaging of visual cortex of awake infants using optical topography
Gentaro Taga, Kayo Asakawa, Atsushi Maki, Yukuo Konishi, Hideaki Koizumi
7. The dynamics of infant visual foraging
Steven S. Robertson, John Guckenheimer, Amy M. Masnick, Leigh F. Bacher
8. Maternal DHA status during late pregnancy is related to measures of infant look duration and acuity at age 4 months.
Peter Willatts, Stewart Forsyth, Gary Mires, Peter Ross
Sa19: Family Processes and General Issues
9. Neonatal nurses and end of life care for families of critically ill and dying newborns
Regina M. Cusson, Arthur J. Engler, Susan Ludington
10. Kangaroo care practices, knowledge, barriers and perceptions: A national survey
Regina M. Cusson, Arthur J. Engler, Susan Ludington
11. Insights on the rise of the PDD diagnosis in an inner city pediatric population
Mara J. Hoberman, Tal Reis, Molly Nozyce, Alexandra Gordon
12. Intellectual development in children from families affected by HIV illness
Patricia Lester, Mary J. Ward, Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Melissa B. Iliardi, Juwon Song, Mindy Finklestein, Marian Sigman
13. Identifying atypical attachment patterns through infants’ reactions to friendly strangers in clinical and non-clinical samples
Mirek Lojkasek, Nancy J. Cohen
14. NICU lighting revisited: A review of research utilization
Marilyn J. Lotas, Elizabeth Seal
15. Family support for families of NICU children: Which aspects of need are reduced as a result of a developmental intervention?
Sandra Cluett Redden, Michelle Einson, Jane Barlow
16. The emotional relationship between mothers and their aggressive young children: An observation of mother-child interaction
Karen Tsuk, Sarah Landy
17. DSM-IV diagnoses for infants and toddlers seen in an infant mental health clinic and community mental health centers
Harry H. Wright, Rosetta H. Penny, Michael L. Cuccaro, Tami V. Leonhardt
18. Pretend play in preschoolers: Associations with family & child-care experiences
Stephanie Zerwas, Celia Brownell
Sa20: Speech and Sign Perception
19. Cry sounds, vocalizations, and grunts combine to create a prelinguistic sound-meaning system
Gwen E. Gustafson, James A. Green
20. Infant perception of American Sign Language and non-linguistic biological motion
Ursula C. Hildebrandt, David P. Corina
21. The developmental course of vowel differentiation in a sample of young Japanese infants
Patricia A. Osborne
22. Perceptual sensitivity for non-native contrasts that show no change in infancy Mandarin infants discriminating English /r/-/l/
Feng-Ming Tsao, Huei-Mei Liu, Patricia K. Kuhl, Chin-Hsing Tseng
23. The development of prosodic competence in German infants
Juergen Weissenborn, Barbara Höhle, Sonja Bartels, Birgit Herold, Monika Hofmann
24. The tonal acquisition of Shanghaiese
Bei Yang
Sa21: Intentions and Intentionality
25. Comprehension of the referential intent of looking at 14 months
Albert J. Caron, Kristina M. Haeussler, Elizabeth J. Kiel
26. Infant communication development and maternal interpretation of intentionality
Christine Delgado, Irene Delgado
27. The role of intentionality cues for infants’ interpretation of familiar labels
Melissa A. Koenig, Catharine H. Echols
28. Infants attribute dispositional states to agents
Valerie Kuhlmeier, Karen Wynn, Paul Bloom
29. The object of my desire: Infants’ inference of desire from behavioral cues provided by human and non-human agents.
Samantha Nayer, Paula Bennett, Diane Poulin-Dubois
30. 6-month-olds’ perception of causation-at-a-distance
Anne Schlottmann, Elizabeth Ray, Luca Surian
31. Desire attribution in 12-month-old infants
Claudia Uller
Sa22: Inhibition and Perseveration
32. Microslips in an elicited imitation task: An exploration of subtle clues to the development of prefrontal function
Melissa M. Burch, Leif M. Stennes, Rebecca M. Starr, Sandra A. Wiebe, Patricia J. Bauer
33. The development of attentional dimensions of temperament and inhibitory control: Infancy to 4 years of age
Christy Wolfe Collie, Martha Ann Bell
34. The lilliputian problem: scale errors in very young children’s response to replica objects
Judy S. DeLoache, David H. Uttal, Karl Rosengren
35. The role of object familiarity on infants’ search performance in an A-not-B task
Thomas Keenan
36. A not B errors: Do infants know the object is at B?
Ted Ruffman
37. Reasoning about height relations in a containment task: A developmental trend in perseverative responding.
Julianne Scott, Andrea Aguiar
38. Mastering the art of in-action: Developments in inhibitory control
Sandra A. Wiebe, Angela F. Lukowski, Patricia J. Bauer
Sa23: Joint Attention
39. Joint visual attention at 12 months: Is the intentional stance implied?
Yarixa Barillas, Maria Legerstee
40. Joint play and cooperative problem-solving in toddlers: Relations between social skill and social understanding
Celia A. Brownell, Geetha Balaraman, Amy Mariaskin, Kristy Perseo, Stephanie Zerwas
41. Infant gaze and maternal nonverbal behaviours during triadic play with toys at 5 and 12 months
Elka Leiba, Dale M. Stack
42. The process of developmental change in joint attention behavior: Using the longitudinal and retrospective survey
Hidehiro Ohgami, Shoji Itakura
43. A preliminary study on relationship between mother-infant interaction and joint attention in Japan: A sequential view
Taeko Teramoto, Taiko Hirose, Takahide Omori, Kumi Mikuni, Katsue Tanaka
44. Joint attention and maternal behavior during mother-infant play
Rumiko Yamano, Hidehiro Ohgami
45. Temperament and infant joint attention
Amy Vaughan, Jessica Block, Yania Gomez, Yuly Pomares, Peter Mundy
Sa24: Emotional Development
46. Observing emotion in infants: Facial expression, body behavior, and rater judgements of responses to an impossible event
Linda A. Camras, Harriet Oster, Joseph Campos
47. Differential sucking responses to emotional speech patterns in newborn infants
Diane Mastropieri, William P. Fifer, Sabrina Huda, Elizabeth R. D. Leeds, Krista Anderson
48. Development of spontaneous smiling in infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Yuu Mizuno, Hideko Takeshita, Rieko Takaya, Yukuo Konishi, Gentaro Taga, Shoji Itakura, Masaki Tomonaga, Tetsuro Matsuzawa
49. Learning emotion at home: Young infants’ generalization of parental emotional expressions
Arlene S. Walker-Andrews, William Pagan
50. Individual differences in the communication of infant distress
Rebecca M. Wood, Gwen E. Gustafson, Kerry M. O’Connor, Jessica K. Verhoosky
51. Infant affect regulation during mother-infant interaction following maternal still face
Hui-Chin Hsu
Sa25: Environmental Context
52. Can a child problem-focused intervention reduce mother´s stress and increase her sensitivity?
Monica Östberg, Berit Hagekull
53. The reliability of the dyadic adjustment questionnaire: An examination of marital quality over an infant’s first year of life
Jonae Smith, Brian Morrison, Keng-Yen Huang, Amie Ashley Hane, Stanley Feldstein
54. Nutritional predictors of developmental outcomes
John Worobey, Joan Pisuk
Sa26: Poster Workshop: The Still-Face Procedure: Historical Perspectives, Current Trends and Future Directions
Chair: Janet Frick
11:30 - 1:20
Canadian Room
55. The still-face: A history of an experimental effect
Lauren Adamson, Janet Frick
56. Infants have stable social-emotional and coping behaviors in the face-to-face still-face paradigm
Ed Tronick, M. Katherine Weinberg, K. Olson
57. Preschoolers’ reaction to their still-faced mother
M. Katherine Weinberg
58. Infant interactions with a virtual adult: The still-face effect and other perturbation effects
Darwin Muir, Christine Hains, Sylvia Hains, Elspeth Evans
59. Infants’ still-face responses and later abilities to delay gratification
Julia M. Braungart-Rieker
60. Three experimental variations on the still-face procedure and analyses
Lynne Sanford Koester, Teresa Kamman, Meg Ann Traci, Linda Thomas
61. Expectancies for contingency across clinical and typical populations of children
Jacqueline Nadel, Tiffany Field, Maria Perez
62. Developmental significance of the behaviour of mothers of infants with down syndrome in the ‘still-face’
John Oates, Derek Moore, Julia Goodwin, Peter Hobson
Discussant: Edward Tronick
Sa27: Debate: The pros and cons of cochlear implants
1:00 - 2:50
Ontario Room
Christine Yoshinaga-Otago, Derek Houston, participants
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Moderator
Sa28: Symposium: Infant Categorization Of Spatial Relationships: Developmental Changes And Its Relation To Language-Specific Semantic Categories
Chair: Marianella Casasola
1:00 - 2:50
Confederation Room
Development of an abstract category representation for the spatial relation between in 6- to 10-month-old infants
Paul C. Quinn
Spatial semantics and cognition in infancy and adulthood: A crosslinguistic study of English and Korean
Soonja Choi
Infant categorization of containment, support, and tight-fit spatial relationships
Marianella Casasola
Discussants: Melissa Bowerman, Leslie B. Cohen
Sa29: Symposium: Processes of Stability and Change in the First Year of Life
Chairs: Andréa P.F. Pantoja & Maria C.D.P. Lyra
1:00 - 2:50
Tudor Room
The quality of attractor states in early communication system
Maria C.D.P. Lyra
Changing dynamics in early emotional development
Andréa P.F. Pantoja
Stability and instability in early mother-object-infant communication
Micheline de Souza e Silva
Development of the self between 7 and 10 months
Ilse de Koeyer, Alan Fogel
Discussant: Daniel Messinger
Sa30: Symposium: How Tools Expand the Potential for Action: Hands, Handles and Handrails
Chairs: Karen E. Adolph
1:00 - 2:50
Territories Room
Effects of tool use in early infancy
Amy Needham, Tracy Barrett
Infants’ handrail use as a tool for balance control
Sarah Berger, Karen E. Adolph
Beyond the information given: Extensions of activities learned through imitation
Emily Bushnell, Jason Sidman
The planning of action in young children’s tool use
Ad W. Smitsman, Ralf Cox
Discussant: Jeffrey J. Lockman
Sa31: Discussion Session: Teaching Infant Researchers how to Research Infants: Institutionalizing Undergraduate Training
Chair: Wallace J. Dixon, Jr.
1:00 - 2:50
Salon A
Participants:
- Martha E. Arterberry
- Leslie B. Cohen
- Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.
- Arnold Sameroff
- Mark A. Schmuckler
- P. Hull Smith
Poster Session
1:30 - 3:20
Canadian Room
Sa32: Mechanisms of Word Learning
1. Infants’ use of syntactic cues to learn proper names and count nouns
Julie Belanger, D. Geoffrey Hall
2. The assignment of word forms to syntactic classes in early language acquisition
Barbara Hoehle, Juergen Weissenborn, Dorothea Kiefer, Antje Schulz, Michaela Schmitz
3. Talker variability and infant word learning
George J. Hollich, Peter W. Jusczyk, Michael R. Brent
4. Do 18-month-olds map novel labels to actions or objects?
Marina Katerelos, Diane Poulin-Dubois
5. Language experience and the organization of brain activity to phonetically similar words: ERP evidence from 14- and 20-month olds
Debra L. Mills, Chantel Prat, Christine Stager, Renate Zangl, Helen Neville, Janet Werker
6. The object formerly known as a zav: Two-year-olds show the passover effect
Erin M. Noonan, William E. Merriman
7. Lights, camera, action! Infants and toddlers create action categories
Sara J. Salkind, Jennifer L. Sootsman, Roberta M. Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Mandy J. Maguire
8. The influence of object pre-exposure on 2-year-olds’ disambiguation of novel labels
Juanita N. Turner, Annette M.E. Henderson, Susan A. Graham
Sa33: Emotional Development
9. Antecedents and outcomes of effortful control: Links to early attention regulation and later social competence
Ashley L. Hill
10. Mothers’ accurate identification of negative infant emotions: The role of childhood history and emotional competencies
Esther M. Leerkes, Susan Crockenberg
11. Age differences in the intensity of emotional expression in 7- through 13-month-old infants
Marta E. Losonczy, Linda J. Brandt
12. Exploring the correlates of contextually inappropriate affect
Robin L. Locke, H. Hill Goldsmith
13. The role of self-concept development in the development of empathy during infancy
Ronit Roth-Hanania
14. Six-month-old infants’ responses to jealousy-inducement and still-face maternal unresponsiveness
Sybil Hart, Edward Z. Tronick, Heather Carrington
Sa34: Visual Attention
15. Visual pop-out in infancy: Evidence from eye movement latencies
Scott A. Adler, Jazmine Orprecio
16. Working memory and visual expectations in infancy
Scott A. Adler, Lina Zeilikman, Sahar Mosadegh
17. Emotional modulation of attention orienting in infants: An inhibition of return study
Hanne Braarud, Kjell Morten Stormark
18. Attention and object discrimination by 4-month-old infants: Application of the structural-description approach
Robert A. Haaf, Anne L. Fulkerson, Brandon Jablonski
19. The influence of abstract and meaningful stimuli on shifts of visual attention in very young babies
Sabine Hunnius, Reint H. Geuze
20. Color and size as determinants of global and local processing in 4-month-old infants
Brandon J. Jablonski, Robert A. Haaf
21. Developmental changes in the main sequence using interesting visual stimuli
Brittany McKinney, Elizabeth Lewis, Virginia Wills, John E. Richards
22. Cortical sources of the P1 / N1 validity effect in spatial cueing in young infants
John E. Richards
23. Development of infant attention to static and dynamic stimuli
D. Jill Shaddy, John Colombo
Sa35: Object Perception
24. Young infants’ perception of unity and form in occlusion displays
J. Gavin Bremner, Scott P. Johnson, Alan M. Slater, Ursula C. Mason, Kirsty Foster
25. Self-sitters know that objects should fall straight down
Naoko Dan, Takahide Omori
26. Where do infants look during occlusion?
Gustaf Gredebäck, Claes von Hofsten, J. Paul Boudreau
27. Two-year-olds’ event reasoning and object search
Clay W. Mash, Rachel K. Clifton, Neil E. Berthier
28. The appearance-reality distinction: Are infants “captured by appearances” when reaching for objects?
Michael E. McCarty, Monica R. Sylvia, Rachel K. Clifton
29. The development of tracking over an occluder: Peripheral attention, saccadic preparedness, and predictive control
Kerstin Rosander, Claes von Hofsten
30. Are infants in the dark about hidden objects?
Jeanne Shinskey, Yuko Munakata
31. Teaching infants to reason about height in a physical reasoning task
Su-hua Wang
Sa36: Recognition Memory and Memory Processes
32. A longitudinal study of event-related brain potential (ERP) waveform morphology and visual recognition memory during the first year of life.
Jennifer Hill Karrer, Rathe S. Karrer, Jennifer Vavold, Melanie Parks, Meaghan Beever
33. Event-related potentials and recognition memory in 12-month-old infants of diabetic mothers
Tracy DeBoer, Sandi Wewerka, Alissa Borscheid, Charles A. Nelson
34. One vs. two word phrases to elicit auditory recognition memory in 1-month old infants
Raye-Ann deRegnier, Sandi Wewerka, Michael K. Georgieff, Charles A. Nelson
35. Competition for working memory resources in 9-month-old infants
Zsuzsa Kaldy, Alan M. Leslie
36. Neural correlates of cross model recognition memory in infants of diabetic mothers
Charles A. Nelson, Sandi Wewerka, Alissa Borscheid
37. Toddler working memory: A foraging task
Kevin A. Pelphrey, Anna Kroncke, Tiffany Moore, Barbara D. Goldman, Judy Morrow, J. Steven Reznick
38. Relations between explicit and implicit memory systems in infancy as measured by two event-related potential paradigms
Heather Whitney, Margarita Stolarova, Charles A. Nelson
Sa37: Autism: Identification and Treatment
39. Autism Observation Scale for infants: Data on inter-rater and test-retest reliability
Susan E. Brsyon, Catherine McDermott, Vicki Rombough, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Jessica BrianAnn Wainwright, Peter Szatmari
40. The relation between maternal self-efficacy and the functioning of children receiving early intervention services
Amy Buchanan, Elizabeth Stanley, Jeanne Wilcox
41. Preliminary findings of a joint attention-focused parent training intervention for pre-school children with autism
Tony Charman, Auriol Drew, Gillian Baird, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, John Swettenham
42. Autistic toddler expressive language development with treatment: The similar sequence hypothesis
Philip R. Zelazo, Caroline Reid, Mafalda Porporino, Nicholas Hall, Eva DeChef
43. Behavioral risk markers in 12-month-old siblings of children with autism
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Susan Bryson, Vicki Rombough, Catherine McDermott, Wendy Roberts, Peter Szatmari, Jessica Brian
Sa38: Categorization
44. Infants’ understanding of animate and inanimate motion trajectories
Tamara L. Demke, Rachel K. Baker, Diane Poulin-Dubois
45. Infants’ generalization of motion and mental properties to animals and people
Sarah Frenkiel, Diane Poulin-Dubois
46. A developmental investigation of category asymmetry: Do prior representations influence infants’ categorization of cats and dogs?
Stephanie Furrer, Barbara Younger-Rossmann
47. Anticipatory eye movements (AntiEM): A new method for assessing multi-dimensional categorization in 6-month-olds
Bob McMurray, Richard N. Aslin
48. Reversing perceptual category asymmetries in 3- to 4-month-olds
Robert M. French, Denis Mareschal, Paul C. Quinn, Martial Mermillod
49. Seven- and 9-month-olds can discriminate cats from dogs in an object examination task
Denis Mareschal, Daisy Powell
50. In the air or on the ground: Infant knowledge of the motion properties of animals and vehicles
David H. Rakison
51. The role of children’s actions in categorization performance
Jennifer Schwade
52. Newborns’ perceptual categorization for open and closed forms
Chiara Turati, Francesca Simion, Lara Zanon
Sa39: Representation and Theory of Mind
53. The influence of infant and maternal factors on perception of infant intentionality
Christine Delgado, Irene Delgado
54. Common brain behavior associations in infant joint attention and theory of mind ability
Peter Mundy, Courtney Burnette
55. Three-year-olds know that trying is not pretending
Hannes Rakoczy, Tricia Striano, Michael Tomasello
56. Toddlers’ behaviors during maternal pretense episodes
Rebekah A. Richert, Angeline S. Lillard, Amrisha Vaish
57. 16-month-olds’ understanding of seeing
Beate Sodian, Claudia Thoermer, Ulrike Metz, Barbara Schoeppner
Sa40: Parent-Infant Interactions and Other Issues
58. Correlates of an adaptive mother-infant relationship
Lisa Brown, Karen Pridham
59. Social and communication skills of post-institutionalized children
Kroupina Maria, Dana E. Kuefner, Liliana Pinete, Megan Gunnar, Dana E. Johnson
60. When mutual regulation fails in everyday contexts of parent-infant interactions
Mechthild Papoušek, Harald Wurmser
61. The effect of maternal soothing on infant stress vocalizations during inoculation.
Kjell Morten Stormark
62. Age-related associations between individual behavioral disorders in early childhood
Harald Wurmser, Mechthild Papoušek
Sa41: Parenting
63. Continuity and stability of parenting beliefs across early childhood among Japanese American and South American Families
Linda R. Cote, Marc H. Bornstein
64. Parental beliefs in cultures of origin, acculturating cultures, and cultures of destination
Marc H. Bornstein, Linda R. Cote
65. Why is the social support of infant care providers related to the quality of the care they provide?
Cheryl A. Fortner-Wood, James G. Elicker, Illene C. Noppe, La-Ruth I. Brooks
66. Exploration of social support, psychological distress, and parenting stress reported by U.S. immigrant and U.S. born mothers
Ruth Rose-Jacobs, Howard Cabral, Amber Jamanka, Carol Seval
Sa42: Invited Symposium: Perspectives on the Early Development of Consciouness
Chair: Philip D. Zelazo
3:00 - 4:50
Ballroom
Consciousness of belonging: Where infants learn what others mean
Maya Gratier, Colwyn Trevarthen
Levels of consciousness and their implications for action
Philip D. Zelazo, Philip R. Zelazo
Consciousness and intentional relations: A developmental perspective
John Barresi, Chris Moore
Discussant: Tom Dalton
Sa43: Symposium: Maternal Depression Effects On Fetal Reactivity, Infant Perception, Breast-Feeding, And Biobehavioral Responses To Interactions
Chair: Tiffany Field
3:00 - 4:50
Confederation Room
Maternal depression effects on vibratory stimulation response in late-term fetuses: Preliminary findings
John Dieter, Eugene K. Emory, Zehra Ansari
EEG responses to smells and tastes by infants of depressed mothers
Maria Hernandez-Reif, Mercedes Fernandez-Ajhar, Tiffany Field, Elliott Blass, Chris Sanders, Miguel Diego
Breastfeeding stability promotes positive infant temperament and optimal EEG patterns in infants of depressed mothers
Nancy A. Jones, Barbara A. McFall, Blanca X. Zeas, Jena Williams
Facial expressions, EEG, and cortisol responses in infants of depressed mothers with intrusive and withdrawn interaction style
Miguel A. Diego, Tiffany Field, Maria Hernandez-Reif
Discussant: Jacqueline Nadel
Sa44: Symposium: The Development of Ordinal Numerical Knowledge
Chair: Elizabeth M. Brannon
3:00 - 4:50
Tudor Room
The ability of 12- and 16-month old infants to perceive continuous and discrete ordinal relationships
Mark Strauss
Representations underlying more/less comparisons
Lisa Feigenson
Ordinal number discrimination in 9-month-old infants
Susan J. Hespos, Elizabeth S. Spelke
The development of ordinal numerical knowledge between 9 and 11 months of age
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Discussant: Karen Wynn
Sa45: Symposium: Longitudinal Approach to the Effects of Prematurity on Mother-Infant Interaction and Attachment
Chair: Magda Kalmar
3:00 - 4:50
Territories Room
The process of attachment with premature infants
Ayala Nicole, Blaise Pierrehumbert, M. Forcada-Guex, C. Muller-Nix, F. Ansermet
Preterm infants, preterm mothers: What makes their interaction different?
Magda Kalmar, Patricia Medgyesi, Anna Kovacs, Ildiko Toth, Judit Gervai
Very-low-birth-weight infants: Does early intervention improve development and mother-child interaction?
Karin Stjernqvist
Co-Naître: A home based intervention following a very premature birth
Josee Laganiere, Stephanie Larin, Line Nadeau, Réjean Tessier
Discussants: Judi Gardner, Réjean Tessier
Sa46: Keynote Address: Marc Hauser
Evolutionary constraints on object knowledge
Chair: Michael Tomasello
5:00 - 6:00
Concert Hall
Conference Reception
(Located at the Bata Shoe Museum)
7:00 – 9:30
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