Infant development: the essential readings

Part I:Theoretical and Methodological: 1. Shifting the Focus from What to Why. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 385-400. (7,500): Carolyn Rovee-Collier (1996) 2. Explaining Facial Imitation: A Theoretical Model. Early Development and Parenting, 6, 179-192: Meltzoff, A. N., & Moore, M.K. (1997). 3. Connectionist Paper of 2,000 wds. (to be commissioned, 1999). Part II: Perceptual, Sensory And Motor: 1. Fetal ""soap"" Addiction. Lancet, 1, 1147-1148: Hepper, P.G. (1998). 2. Linguistic Experience Alters Phonetic Perception in Infants by 6 Months of Age. Science, 255, 606-608: Kuhl, P.K., Williams, K.A., Lacerda, F., Stevens, K.N. & Lindblom, B. (1992). 3. The Visual Constancies in Infant Perception. Update of 1992 Article in Irish Journal of Psychology . Slater, A. 4. The Role of Amodal Information in Infant Learning of Intermodal Information (original paper, based on talk at ICIS, 1998): Bahrick, L. (1999). Part III: Cognitive Development: 1. Psychological Foundations of Number: Numerical Competence in Human Infants. Trends In Cognitive Science . (5,698): Wynn, K. (1998). 2. Fourteen- through 18-month-old infants Differentially Imitate Intentional and Accidental Actions. Infant Behavior and Development 21, 315-330: Carpenter, M., Akhtar, N. & Tomasello, M. (1998). 3. Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent Intelligence? Infant Behavior and Development, 20, 133-140: Sigman, M., Cohen, S.E. & Beckwith, L. (1997). 4. Why Do Infants Make A Not B Errors in a Search Task, yet Show Memory for the Location of Hidden Objects in a Non-search Task? Developmental Psychology, 34, 41-453: Ahmed, A. & Ruffman, T. (1998). Part IV: Social Development: 1. Stability and Transmission of Attachment Across Three Generations. Child Development, 65, 1444-1456: Benoit, D. & Parker, K. (1994). To be shortened to 4000 words. 2. Infant Responses to Prototypical Melodic Contours in Parental Speech. Infant Behavior & Development, 13, 539-545. (2,030): Papousek, M. Bornstein, M.H., Nuzzo, C., Papousek, H., & Symmes, D. 3. Five-month-olds' Attention and Affective Responses to Still-faced Emotional Expressions. Infant Behavior and Development, 20, 563-568. -- or original by Darwin (3,000): D'Entremont, B. ,& Muir, D. (1997). 4. Repacholi, B.M. & Gopnik, A. (1997). Early Reasoning about Desires: Evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 33, 12-21. 5. Klinnert, M.D., Emde, R.N., Butterfield, P. & J.J. Campos. (1986). Social Referencing: The Infant's Use of Emotional Signals From a Friendly Adult with Mother Present. Developmental Psychology, 22, 427-432. 6. Stipek, D.J., Gralinski, J.H. & Kopp, C.B. (1990). Self-concept Development in the Toddler Years. Developmental Psychology, 26, 972-977. Part V: Communication and Language: 1. Two-day-olds Prefer their Native Language. Infant Behavior and Development, 16, 495-500 - (or Other Indication of Very Early Learning about Auditory Perception (Preference for Mother, etc.): Moon, C., Cooper, ... (Part Contents).

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This work provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by researchers in this area of developmental psychology. Infancy is one of the main topics of undergraduate study and is one of the most popular topics of postgraduate study in developmental psychology. Articles from leading researchers such as Meltzoff, Popousek and Bornstein are both introduced and contextualized by the editors and suggestions for further reading are made to give students an ideal starting point for exploration of the topics in infant development.