Advances in Infancy Research

CARLOLYN ROVEE-COLLIER is Professor II of Psychology at Rutgers University. She is recognized as having founded the field of infant long-memory and is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health for research on infant learning and memroy. She has authored more than 180 publications.LEWIS P. LIPSITT is Professor Emeritus of psychology, medical science and human development at Brown University, where he continues as research professor of psychologyHARLENE HAYNE is Professor at the department of psychology, University of Otago, New Zealand. Her focus in on the development of learning and memory in infants and young children.

• Preface Dedication Children's Dispositions and Mother-Child Interaction at 12 and 18 Months: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study, Eleanor E. Maccoby, Margaret Ellis Snow, and Carol Nagy Jacklin Malnutrition and Mother-Infant Interaction: Expanding the Model of Nutritional Effects on Development, Kathleen S. Gorman Singing to Infants: Lullabies and Play Songs, Sandra E. Trehub and Laurel Trainor Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses: A Program of Research, David L. Olds, Charles R. Henderson, Jr. Harriet Kitzman, John Eckenrode, Robert Cole, Robert Tatelbaum, JoAnn Robinson, Lisa M. Pettitt, Ruth O'Brien, and Peggy Hill Linguistic, Cognitive, and Affective Developments in Children with Pre- and Perinatal Focal Brain Injury: A Ten-Year Overview from the San Diego Longitudinal Project, Joan Stiles, Elizabeth A. Bates, Donna Thal, Doris Trauner, and Judy Reilly Introduction to Chapter 5-Turning and Looking: New Directions in Infant Language Research, Edith L. Bavin and Denis Burnham (Chapter 5 is comprised of 12 symposium papers: Paper 1-Familiarity and Novelty Preferences in Infants' Auditory-Visual Speech Perception: Problems, Factors, and a Solution, Dennis Burnham and Barbara Dodd Paper 2-Using the Headturn Preference Procedure to Study Language, Peter W. Jusczyk. Paper 3-Using the Head-Turning Technique to Explore Cross-Linguistic Performance Differences, Cecile Kuijpers, Riet Coolen, Derek Houston, and Anne Cutler Paper 4-The Infant's Response to Maternal Vocal Affect, Christine Kitamura and Dennis Burnham Paper 5-Methodological Issues in Studying the Link Between Speech-Perception and Word Learning, Christine L. Stager and Janet F. Werker Paper 6-Assessing the Speed and Accuracy of Word Recognition in Infants, Daniel Swingley, John P. Pinto, and Anne Fernald Paper 7-Reliability and Validity in Infant Auditory Preference Procedures, John P. Pinto, Anne Fernald, and Gerald W. McRoberts Paper 8-Developmental Changes in the Use of Structure in Verb Learning: Evidence From Preferential Looking, Letitia R. Naigles Paper 9-Preferential Looking: Testing Structural Knowledge, Edith L. Bavin, Roger J. Wales, and Heather Kelly Paper 10-The Use of Preferential Looking as a Measure of Semantic Development, Laraine McDonough, Soonja Choi, Melissa Bowerman, and Jean M. Mandler Paper 11-Introducing the 3-D Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm: A New Method to Answer an Age-Old Question, George J. Hollich, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Paper 12-Non-Developmental Studies of Development: Examples From Newborn Research, Bilingualism, and Brain Imaging, E. Dupoux and J. Mehler) Distractibility During Visual Fixation in Young Infants: The Selectivity of Attention, John E. Richards and Jeffrey M. Lansink Author Index Subject Index