13TH BIENNIAL
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFANT STUDIES
Toronto 2002
Thursday, April 18th
Th01: Symposium: From Action to Intention
Chair: Bennett I. Bertenthal
12:00 - 1:50
Tudor Room
When do actions become intentional?
Claus von Hofsten
Early development of goal-directed actions
Bennett I. Bertenthal
Infants’ developing sensitivity to the intentional structure of action
Amanda Woodward, Jessica Somerville
Infants’ ability to perceive the structure that actors produce
Dare Baldwin
Discussant: Richard N. Aslin
Th02: Symposium: Verb Learning in Infancy
Chair: Jane B. Childers
12:00 - 1:50
Territories Room
Eating houseplants and biting horses ... Typicality effects in early verb learning
Kerstin Meints
Toddlers use of verbs as cues to an actor’s intentions
Douglas A. Behrend, Angelika Wittek
Syntactic flexibility is revealed in children’s first verb uses: Evidence from a cross-sectional diary study
Letitia R. Naigles, Donna Vear, Erika Hoff
Early nouns and verbs acquired by Ngas infants in Nigeria
Jane B. Childers
Discussant: Kathyrn Hirsh-Pasek
Th03: Symposium: Looking at Babies’ Vision
Chair: Terri L. Lewis
12:00 - 1:50
Salon A
Neural limitations on visual development in primates
Lynne Kiorpes
Perceptual organization at birth
Francesca Simion, Viola Macchi Cassia, Chiara Turati
Mechanisms of visual form processing in 4- to 5-month-old infants
Ann M. Skoczensk
Searching for visual primitives: What babies like to look at
Ruxandra Sireteanu, Manuela Wagner, Iris Bachert
Discussant: Terri L. Lewis
Th04: Symposium: Examining the Effectiveness of Three Models of Relationship-Focused Early Intervention
Chair: Gerald Mahoney
12:00 - 1:50
Salon B
Comparison of the effects of responsive teaching on young children with autism/PDD and children with other disabilities
Gerald Mahoney, Frida Perales
Supporting the infant-mother relationship from the NICU through the first year of early intervention services
Glenna Boyce, Adrienne Akers
A long term follow-up of the effects of the Hannen programs on toddlers with significant language delays
Luigi Giriametto, Elaine Weitzman
Discussant: Rosemary Tannock
Poster Session
12:30 - 2:20
Canadian Room
Th05: Kicking and Movement
1. Effects of a motor skill intervention on infants exposed to deprived environmental conditions
Carola Frank Adalbjornsson, Mary E. Rudisill
2. Effects of temperature on bottle feeding and movement in young infants
Leigh F. Bacher, Steven S. Robertson, William P. Smotherman
3. Effects of constraints on the emergence of kicking in young infants
Yu-ping Chen, Linda Fetters, Elliot Saltzman, Kenneth G. Holt
4. Learning measures in infancy using a mobile task
Daniela Deman, Rosa M. Angulo-Kinzler
5. Age differences in perturbation-induced stretch reflex sensitivity during active leg kicking
Jing Feng, Esther Thelen
6. Comparative study of spontaneous movement of human and chimpanzee infants in the first few months of life
Rieko Takaya, Gentaro Taga, Yukuo Konishi, Hideko Takeshita, Yuu Mizuno, Shoji Itakura, Masaki Tomonaga, Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Th06: Face and Person Perception
7. Face processing in infancy: Evidence of sensitivity to second-order relational information
Ramesh Bhatt, Evelin Bertin
8. Do 7-month-old infants use the same information as adults to process facial identity?
Kate Humphreys, Frederic Gosselin, Philippe Schyns, Jordy Kaufman, Mark Johnson
9. U-shaped development in infants’ processing of faces
Cara H. Cashon, Leslie, B. Cohen
10. The effect of the Thatcher Illusion: What can it tell us about infants developing abilities in configurational face processing?
D. J. Horney, G. Hole, B. Todd
11. Modulation of induced Gamma oscillations in face and object perception in human infants
Kelly Snyder
12. Infants’ ability to discriminate gender using facial features
Lisa Newell, Mark Strauss
Th07: Social Interaction
13. Mutual gaze between mother and infant chimpanzees: The view across cultures
Kim A. Bard, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, Josie Quinn, Masako Tomonaga, Tetsuro Matsuzawa
14. The effect of maternal unresponsiveness on qualities of smiles in three groups of 6month-old infants
Samantha L. Batten, Dale M. Stack, Nadine Girouard
15. A longitudinal study of dyadic and triadic interaction at 6 and 12 months of age
Barbara D’Entremont, Nalini Iype
16. A typology of maternal caregiving behavior
Laurie A. Van Egeren, Marguerite S. Barratt, Mary A. Roach
17. An examination of the role of cognitive readiness and self-efficacy in parenting stress and coping
Ellen Leen, Katherine Karraker
18. To have and to hold: A cross-cultural look at caregivers’ practices of touch and the effect on infant development.
Grace Lappin, Claudia V. Schrader
19. Universals and cultural specifics in mother-infant interaction
Maya Gratier
20. Violation of infant expectation for an adult’s voice during face-to-face interaction
Anjanie Mccarthy, Christine Hains, Sylvia Hains, Michelle Patterson, Darwin Muir
21. Frame analysis of early mother-infant communication
Michael J. Stroud, Andréa P.F. Pantoja, Mie Kito
Th08: Mechanisms of Word Learning
22. Learning language from passive listening environments
Rochelle S. Newman, Rebecca J. Ribar
23. Do words and melodies facilitate infants’ heart rate and looking responses in an object categorization task?
Marie T. Balaban, Sandra R. Waxman
24. Word learning is ‘smart’: Evidence that conceptual knowledge affects preschoolers’ extension of novel words
Amy E. Booth, Sandra Waxman
25. Young children’s use of referential cues to learn proper names and count nouns
D. Geoffrey Hall, Julie Bélanger
26. Mutual exclusivity and taxonomic bias operate simultaneously in preschoolers word learning
Hiraku Ishida, Daisuke Kosugi, Shoji Itakura
27. Young children’s assumptions about a speaker’s knowledge of words influence their avoidance of lexical overlap
Gil Diesendruck
28. Word learning in speech and singing contexts
Sandra E. Trehub, Takayuki Nakata, Navneet Dhami
Th09: Emotions and Emotional Development
29. Facial actions associated with adult perceptions of increased emotional intensity: Preliminary evidence
Laura H. Bolzani, Daniel S. Messinger, Danielle Sanders, Harriet Oster
30. Correlates of socially based emotions and behavior in Ugandan orphans
Priscilla Coleman, Ashley Nielsen
31. Listening and looking: Comparing borderline mothers’ and infants’ vocal and emotional expressions
Gisele Danon, Maya Gratier, Rozenn Graignic, Ouriel Rosenblum, Caroline Heroux, Annick LeNestour
32. Frozen frenzy: Face-to-face interactions of borderline mothers and their three-month-old infants
Gisele Danon, Ouriel Rosenblum, Rozenn Graignic, Maya Gratier, Caroline Heroux, Isabelle Patouillot, Annick LeNestour
33. Discrimination of facial expressions in Romanian institutionalized children
Susan W. Parker, Charles A. Nelson
34. Marital harmony and conflict: Links to infants’ physiological and emotional regulation
Chris L. Porter, Melissa Wouden-Miller, Staci Silva
35. Early temperament of subsequent SIDs victims
Marilyn L. Riese
36. Toddlers’ vicarious emotional responses and prosocial behaviors: Links with toddlers’ compliance and noncompliance
Tracy L. Spinrad, Cynthia A. Stifter
Th10: Categorization
37. Developmental changes in the effect of linguistic input on infant categorization of spatial relationships
Marianella Casasola
38. What does a non-human primate understand about self-propelled motion?: Expectancy violation experiments with rhesus macaques
Laurie R. Santos, Jonathan I. Flombaum, Marc D. Hauser
39. Blenders, brushes, and balls: intense interests in very young children
Gabrielle Simcock, Suzanne Macari, Judy DeLoache
40. The study of early categorization by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)
Chizuko Murai, Masaki Tomonaga, Shoji Itakura
41. The roles of categorical and perceptual similarity in infant colour perception.
Anna Franklin, Ian Davies
42. Attentional differences toward natural kinds categories by cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
Julie J. Neiworth, Richard Parsons, Janice M. Hassett
43. Eye spy a blick: The effect of animacy cues and novel labels on infants’ categorization
Andrea N. Welder, Susan A. Graham
44. Putting the car before the horse: Feature preferences in sequential touching performance?
Christine A. Willey, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.
Th11: Perceptual and Motor Risk
45. Contrast sensitivity deficits in infants with prenatal and perinatal thyroid hormone insufficiencies
Giuseppe Mirabella, Adena M. Perron, Carol A. Westall, Kusiel Perlman, Denise Feig, Joanne Rovet
46. Relationship between neonatal neurobehavioral outcomes and 6, 12, and 24 month Bayley scales scores
Lynn T. Singer, Robert E. Arendt, Sonia Minnes
47. Developmental characteristics of toddlers with visual impairments
Mathijs P. J. Vervloed, Jurien Lommers, Annemarie Joosten
Th12: Prenatal and Fetal Behavior
48. The chronic effects of maternal smoking on fetal behaviour
Barbara S. Kisilevsky, Sylvia M.J. Hains
49. Fetal heart rate variability and learning in the 28-34 week fetus
Charlene Krueger, Diane Holditch-Davis, Anthony DeCasper, Margarete Sandelowski, Michael Belyea, Stephen Quint, Gilbert Gottlieb
50. Fetal cardiac responses to maternal sentences, to play back of these sentences, and to their recordings by another woman’s voice
Jean-Pierre Lecanuet, Severine Manera, Anne-Yvonne Jacquet
51. Fetal discrimination of mother’s and stranger’s voices
Sheri Schmidt, Ngan Lam, Xie Xing, Hefeng Huang, Ye Hai Hui, Zhang Ke, Wang Zengping, Sylvia M.J. Hains
52. Maturation of human fetal cardiac-movement response to airborne sound
Laura Smith, Darwin Muir, Barbara Kisilevsky
53. Methadone maintenance during pregnancy and fetal activity
Trecia A. Wouldes, Alistair B. Roberts, Jan E. Pryor, Tania Gunn
Th13: Invited Symposium: A Tribute to the Contributions of Peter W. Jusczyk
Chair: Richard N. Aslin
2:00 - 3:50
Ballroom
Infant word recognition across talker variability
Derek Houston
The emergence of verb segmentation in infancy
Thierry Nazzi
Prosodic packaging of syntactic units in infants’ speech processing
Melanie Soderstrom
Cross-linguistic implications of studies on infants’ sensitivity to syntax
Lynn Santelman
Discussant: LouAnn Gerken
Th14: Debate: Attachment theory: Is it relevant universally
2:00 - 3:50
Confederation Room
Fred Rothbaum, Everett Waters, participants
Susan Goldberg, Moderator
Th15: Symposium: Investigating Infants’ Perception And Categorization Of The Human Body
Chair: Virginia Slaughter
2:00 - 3:50
Tudor Room
Infants’ responses to typical and scrambled human body shapes
Virginia Slaughter, Michelle Heron, Susan Sim
The development of a person-concept in infancy: Evidence from violations of expectations about human point-light displays
Derek Moore
Infants attend to surface features in identifying goal-directed agents
Jose Guajardo, Amanda Woodward
Is the asymmetry in young infants’ categorization of humans versus animals based on head, body, or global gestalt information?
Paul Quinn
Discussant: Diane Poulin-Dubois
Th16: Symposium: Disentangling the Relative Contributions of Genetic and Environmental Factors in Early Child Development: A Singleton-Twin Study
Chair: Julie Brousseau
2:00 - 3:50
Territories Room
Family environment differences between singleton and twin infants in Quebec
Mark Zoccolillo, Antonio Ciampi, Sheila Spreng, Daniel Perusse
Parenting perceptions and behaviors at five months: Evidence from a twin and a singleton study
Michel Boivin, N. Leblanc, I. Morin-Ouellet, G. Dionne, V. Saysset, N. Tremblay, M. Zoccolillo, R.E. Tremblay
The relationship between infant mental-attentional capacity and SES: A population study
Julie Brousseau, Raymond Baillargeon, David Laplante, Hong Xing Wu
Mental-attentional capacity in 5-month-old infants: Evaluating the genetic contribution. The Quebec Newborn Twins Study
Raymond Baillargeon, Richard E. Tremblay, Michel Boivin, Daniel Perusse
Prevalence and genetic-environmental etiology of externalizing behavior problems in infancy: A singleton-twin study
Daniel Perusse, Raymond Baillargeon, Bernard Boulerice, Elisa Romano, Mark Zoccolillo, Michel Boivin, Richard E. Tremblay
Discussant: H. Hill Goldsmith
Poster Session
2:30 - 4:20
Canadian Room
Th17: Atypical Development
1. Predictors of depression in mothers of very preterm infants during infant hospitalization and after discharge.
Leigh M. Davis, Heather Mohay, Helen Edwards
2. The effects of maternal depression on toddlers’ self-assertion between 19 and 26 months of age
Laura J. Dietz, Kay Donahue Jennings
3. Beyond the still-face: A controlled study of 12-month-old infants of mothers with borderline personality disorder
R. Peter Hobson, Matthew Patrick, Lisa Crandell, Rosa Garcia Perez, Anthony Lee
4. Psyochoeducational treatment of children with autism and reactive attachment disorder
Nahit Motavalli Mukaddes, F. Nimet Kaynak, Gulsevim kinali, Humeyra Besikci, Halim Issever
5. The stability of children’s reactions to unfamiliar stimuli: Maternal perceptions and laboratory observations
Sarrit M. Shudnow, Heather A. Henderson
Th18: Visual Expectations
6. Predictive tracking of briefly occluded objects
Bennett I. Bertenthal, April Faith-Slaker Sarah Kenny
7. Temporal cues of a visual stimulus sequence can produce expectancy and endogenous ERP components by infants 6 months of age
Rathe Karrer, Jennifer Hill Karrer
8. Using the visual expectation paradigm to study visual deficits associated with prenatal thyroid hormone insufficiencies
Joanne Rovet, Giuseppe Mirabella Ted Balant, Elizabeth Asztalos, Kuseil Perlman, Denice Feig
9. Visual habituation at 3 months and contingency detection at 6 months
Josette Ruel
10. The development of visual expectations in 9- to 12-month-old infants
Jill P. Sullivan, Janet E. Frick
Th19: Object Perception
11. Three-month-olds’ sensitivity to orientation cues in the 3-d depth plane
Evelin Bertin, Ramesh S. Bhatt
12. Dominance of configural properties in newborn visual perception
Viola Macchi Cassia, Idanna Milani, Lara Zanon, Francesca Simion
13. Enriched visual displays do not improve 3- to 6-month-olds’ discrimination of optic flow patterns simulating self-motion
Rick O. Gilmore
14. Young infants’ responsiveness to ellipsoid surfaces
Michael J. Kavsek
15. Viewpoint invariance of multi-part objects in 3-month-old infants
Kimberly S. Kraebel, Peter C. Gerhardstein
16. Can 12-month-olds individuate pairs of objects by feature?
Alan M. Leslie, Monica Glanville
17. Developmental changes in infants’ use of color/pattern to segregate objects
Susan Ormsbee, Amy Needham
18. Infants’ perception of subjective contours in static and moving figures
Yumiko Otsuka, So Kanazawa, Masami K. Yamaguchi
19. Is object recognition viewpoint-invariant at 3 months of age?
Rebecca West, Peter Gerhardstein
Th20: Parent-Infant Interaction and Language Development
20. The reach of maternal speech to toddlers
Lauren B. Adamson, Roger Bakeman
21. Do mothers and fathers differ in their book reading styles with their young children?
Joanna Blake, Silvana Macdonald, Vanessa Agosta, Lisa Bayrami, Andrea Milian
22. Sometimes mothers make their babies cry: Ontogeny of vocal protests in the second half-year
Xin Chen, Gwen E. Gustafson
23. The influence of contingent maternal responsiveness on production of prelinguistic vocalizations
Michael H. Goldstein
24. A dyadic approach to the relation between mother-infant vocal contingency and language development: A preliminary report
Amie Ashley Hane, Stanley Feldstein, Keng-yen Huang, Brian Morrison
25. Verbal and behavioral measures of responsiveness and directiveness as predictors of children’s language development
Elise Frank Masur, Valerie Flynn, Doreeen L. Eichorst
26. Caregivers contingent comments to 9-month-old infants and subsequent vocabulary comprehension
Pamela Rosenthal Rollins
27. How maternal actions are adjusted in pretend play contexts
David C. Witherington, Angeline Lillard
Th21: Spatial Processing
28. Spatial estimation from 18 to 36 months: Categorical coding?
Janette B. Benson, Leah M. Kelly, Amanda B. Brown
29. Six-month-olds can rotate attentional markers: Eye tracking evidence of dynamic spatial indexing.
Natasha Z. Kirkham, Daniel C. Richardson, Michael J. Spivey, Scott P. Johnson
30. The development of spatial relationships processing in infancy.
Astri Robinson, Olivier Pascalis
Th22: Emotional Regulation
31. Emotion regulation and peer social competence in young preschool children
Geetha Balaraman, Celia Brownell
32. Maternal predictors of toddlers’ self-regulation
Susan D. Calkins, Kathryn Amey, Anne Hungerford
33. Maternal positive affect promotes the development of emotion regulation and child competence
Anne Conway, Susan C. McDonough, Arnold Sameroff
34. Emotion regulation in early infancy: In search of regulatory behaviors
Martine Gaudreau, Louise Cossette, Isabelle Neault
35. Regulation and reactivity: Relations with maternal stress and parenting
Ashley L. Hill, Jan Karrass, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker
36. Maternal regulation of early infant reactivity
Laudan Jahromi, Cynthia A. Stifter
37. Emotion regulation, behavior regulation and language as predictors of skill in responding to joint attention
Audra Lewis, Tedra Walden, Marygrace Yale, Megan E. Masterson
38. Maternal strategies for regulating emotion and toddler language skills
Michael Morales, Mathew Broderick, Nicole Brindle, Karen Weierstall, Amy Krutz
39. Behavioral regulation and the transition from infancy to toddlerhood
Anat Scher, Eleanor Schneider
40. Emotion regulation and attachment in unstructured interactions: Infants and their mothers in emotionally challenging episodes
Holli A. Tonyan
41. The relation between maternal behavior and later infant self-regulation of emotion
Crystal N. Wiggins, Cynthia A. Stifter
Th23: Memory Retrieval
42. Retrieval protracts retrieval: Six-month-olds exhibit protracted retention after active and passive reminders
Rachel Barr, Aurora Vieira, Carolyn Rovee-Collier
43. Reactivation duration affects reforgetting in infants
Jill Grodkiewicz, Amy Joh, Becky Sweeney, Carolyn Rovee-Collier
44. Memory reactivation at 15 and 18 months of age: The paradox of reminder duration
Vivian Hsu, Rachel Barr, Aurora Vieira, Payal Dixit, Carolyn Rovee-Collier
45. Olfactory context and memory retrieval in 2-month-old infants
Fiona Radcliffe, Marjorie H. Carroll, Barbara Brennan, Stacey Bromberg, Joyce Prigot, Jeffrey W. Fagen
46. Protracting memories via retrieval in 6-month-olds
Aurora Vieira, Rachel Barr, Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Th24: Joint Attention
47. Joint attention in late talkers
Alessandra Assanelli, Laura D’odorico, Nicoletta Salerni, Fabia Franco, Mirco Fasolo
48. The effect of training infant joint visual attention on novel word learning
Melissa S. Atkins, Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker, Jaclyn G. Carroll, Ashley B. Shafer
49. Joint attention development and its relation to cognitive and language outcomes
Jessica J. Block, Yuly B. Pomares, Peter Mundy, Amy E. Vaughan, Yania Gomez, A. Rebecca Neal, Courtney P. Burnette, Christine E. F. Delgado
50. The eyes have it: What infants know about others’ seeing
Rechele Brooks, Jacqueline E. Mullen, Andrew N. Meltzoff
51. The conditional relations of infant joint attention skill and attachment quality to caregiver-child shared attention and language
Mary M. Crowson, Peter C. Mundy
52. Individual differences in temperament, joint attention, and early language
Jan Karrass
53. Toddlers’ use of joint attention with familiar peers, caregivers, and parents and the relation of this use to language development
Joan Test
54. Family language differences and the development of joint attention at 9 and 12 months
Yania Gomez, Christine Delgado, Peter Mundy, Jessica Block, Amy Vaughan, Yuly Pomares
Th25: Touch, Soothing, and Stress
55. Mother-infant contact in a randomized trial of kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care
Gene C. Anderson, Sheau-Huey Chiu, Jeffrey Albert, Mary Alice S. Dombrowski
56. Touch for the needy: Effects of infant massage in touch-deprived orphanages
Vonda Jump, Katie Christiansen
57. Reliability of measure of salivary cortisol as an index of stress in newborn infants
Kiyobumi Kawakami, Kiyoko Takai-Kawakami
58. Prenatal maternal mood is related to maternal-fetal attachment and postnatal infant neurobehavior
Amy Salisbury, Linda LaGasse, Monica Bocanegra, Barry Lester
59. Newborns’ responses to tape-recordings of their own and peers’ distress crying
Kjell Morten Stormark
60. Effect of maternal perceptions of stress and anxiety during the third trimester of pregnancy on neonatal health
Minhnoi Wroble
Th26: Keynote Address
How children learn the meaning of words
Paul Bloom
Chair: Sandra Waxman
4:30 - 5:30
Concert Hall
Welcoming Reception
5:30 – 7:00
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