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Experimenting with Babies

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by Shaun Gallagher


  50. Don’t You Know?

  EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  10. A Memorable Smile

  18. The Face Matches the Feeling

  19. Stress Busting

  30. Be Still, My Face

  38. Taking Cues

  49. Punishing the Bad Guy

  LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

  23. Natural Interference

  24. The Gestation of Gestures

  33. The Importance of an Audience

  35. Shapes or Kinds?

  45. Power Napping

  46. Same or Similar?

  47. The Ambiguous “One”

  MOTOR SKILLS

  6. Feet Lead the Way

  11. Out on a Limb

  12. Grasping Prep

  13. Tongue Testing

  24. The Gestation of Gestures

  25. Sizing Things Up

  28. Grabby Hands

  39. Walking Tour

  41. The Retriever

  43. Using Your Head

  MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT

  15. Pitch Patterns

  22. A Cappella Strikes a Chord

  PERCEPTION

  20. Propulsive Perceptions

  PRIMITIVE REFLEXES

  3. En Garde

  4. Happy Feet

  7. Response Under Pressure

  8. I’m Hip to That

  9. This Little Piggy Was Named Babinski

  SENSORY DEVELOPMENT

  1. Soothing Scents

  SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

  13. Tongue Testing

  29. I Want What You Want

  30. Be Still, My Face

  33. The Importance of an Audience

  34. A Gazy Connection

  37. Defending What’s Mine

  40. Familiarity and Foods

  44. A Questioning Look

  48. Helping the Helper

  49. Punishing the Bad Guy

  50. Don’t You Know?

  References

  1. SOOTHING SCENTS

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  Rattaz, Cécile; Goubet, Nathalie; and Bullinger, André. The calming effect of a familiar odor on full-term newborns. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics 26(2):86–92, April 2005.

  2. BABY BLUEPRINTS

  Macchi Cassia, Viola; Valenza, Eloisa; Simion, Francesca; and Leo, Irene. Congruency as a nonspecific perceptual property contributing to newborns’ face preference. Child Development 79(4):807–820, July/August 2008.

  Simion, Francesca; Valenza, Eloisa; Macchi Cassia, Viola; et al. Newborns’ preference for up-down asymmetrical configurations. Developmental Science 5(4):427–434, November 2002.

  3. EN GARDE

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  4. HAPPY FEET

  Thelen, Esther; Fisher, Donna M.; and Ridley-Johnson, Robyn. The relationship between physical growth and a newborn reflex. Infant Behavior and Development 7(4):479–493, October–December 1984.

  Thelen, Esther; Smith, Linda B.; Damon, William (ed.); and Lerner, Richard M. (ed.). Dynamic systems theories. Handbook of Child Psychology 1(5): 563–634. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 1998.

  5. A PENCHANT FOR PATTERNS

  Fantz, Robert L. Pattern vision in newborn infants. Science 140(3564): 296–297, April 19, 1963.

  6. FEET LEAD THE WAY

  Galloway, James C. and Thelen, Esther. Feet first: object exploration in young infants. Infant Behavioral Development 27(1):107–112, February 2004.

  7. RESPONSE UNDER PRESSURE

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  8. I’M HIP TO THAT

  Berne, Samuel A. The primitive reflexes: considerations in the infant. Optometry & Vision Development 37(3):139, September 2006.

  9. THIS LITTLE PIGGY WAS NAMED BABINSKI

  Singerman, Jennifer and Lee, Liesly. Consistency of the Babinski reflex and its variants. European Journal of Neurology 15(9):960–964, September 2008.

  10. A MEMORABLE SMILE

  Turati, Chiara; Montirosso, Rosario; Brenna, Viola; et al. A Smile enhances 3-month-olds’ recognition of an individual face. International Society on Infant Studies 16(3):306–317, May–June 2011.

  11. OUT ON A LIMB

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  Watanabe, Hama and Taga, Gentaro. General to specific development of movement patterns and memory for contingency between actions and events in young infants. Infant Behavior and Development 29(3):402–422, September 2006.

  12. GRASPING PREP

  Bhat, Anjana N. and Galloway, James C. Toy-oriented changes during early arm movements: hand kinematics. Infant Behavior & Development 29(3): 358–372, July 2006.

  13. TONGUE TESTING

  Chen, Xin; Reid, Vincent M.; and Striano, Tricia. Oral exploration and reaching toward social and non-social objects in two-, four-, and six-month-old infants. European Journal of Developmental Psychology 3(1): 1–12, 2006.

  14. PICTURE: IMPOSSIBLE

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  Shuwairi, Sarah M.; Tran, Annie; DeLoache, Judy S.; and Johnson, Scott P. Infants’ responses to pictures of impossible objects. Infancy 15(6): 636–649, December 2010.

  15. PITCH PATTERNS

  Fox, Donna Brink. An analysis of the pitch characteristics of infant vocalizations. Psychomusicology 9(1):21–30, 1990.

  Moog, Helmut. The development of musical experience in children of preschool age. Psychology of Music 4(2):38–45, 1976.

  16. SPIDER SENSE

  Rakison, David H. and Derringer, Jaime. Do infants possess an evolved spider-detection mechanism? Cognition 107(1):381–393, September 2007.

  17. PUT AN AGE TO THAT FACE

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  Walker-Andrews, Arlene S.; Bahrick, L. E.; Raglioni, S. S.; and Diaz, I. Infants’ bimodal perception of gender. Ecological Psychology 3(2):55–75, 1991.

  18. THE FACE MATCHES THE FEELING

  Bennett, David S.; Bendersky, Margaret; and Lewis, Michael. Does the organization of emotional expression change over time? Facial expressivity from 4 to 12 months. Infancy 8(2):167–187, September 2005.

  19. STRESS BUSTING

  Crockenberg, Susan C. and Leerkes, Esther M. Infant and maternal behaviors regulate infant reactivity to novelty at 6 months. Developmental Psychology 40(6):1123–1132, November 2004.

  Diener, M. L. and Mangelsdorf, S. C. Behavioral strategies for emotion regulation in toddlers: associations with maternal involvement and emotional expressions. Infant Behavior & Development 22(4):569–583, 1999.

  Stifter, C. A. and Braungart, J. M. The regulation of negative reactivity in infancy: function and
development. Developmental Psychology 31(3): 448–455, May 1995.

  20. PROPULSIVE PERCEPTIONS

  Cicchino, Jessica B. and Rakison, David H. Producing and processing self-propelled motion in infancy. Developmental Psychology 44(5):1232–1241, September 2008.

  Markson, Lori and Spelke, Elizabeth S. Infants’ rapid learning about self-propelled objects. Infancy 9(1):45–71, January 2006.

  21. BODY STRETCHES

  Slaughter, Virginia and Heron, Michelle. Origins and early development of human body knowledge. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 69(2):1–113, 2004.

  Zieber, Nicole; Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Hayden, Angela; et al. Body representation in the first year of life. Infancy 15(5):534–544, September–October 2010.

  22. A CAPPELLA STRIKES A CHORD

  Ilari, Beatriz and Polka, Linda. Music cognition in early infancy: infants’ preferences and long-term memory for Ravel. International Journal of Music Education 24(1):7–20, April 2006.

  Ilari, Beatriz and Sundara, Megha. Music listening preferences in early life. Journal of Research in Music Education 56(4):357–369, January 2009.

  23. NATURAL INTERFERENCE

  Newman, Rochelle S. The cocktail party effect in infants revisited: listening to one’s name in noise. Developmental Psychology 41(2):352–362, March 2005.

  Polka, Linda; Rvachew, Susan; and Molnar, Monika. Speech perception by 6- to 8-month-olds in the presence of distracting sounds. Infancy 13(5): 421–439, September 2008.

  24. THE GESTATION OF GESTURES

  Iverson, Jana M. and Fagan, Mary K. Infant vocal-motor coordination: precursor to the gesture-speech system? Child Development 75(4):1053–1066, July–August 2004.

  Iverson, Jana M. and Thelen, Esther. Hand, mouth, and brain: the dynamic emergence of speech and gesture. Journal of Consciousness Studies 6(11–12):19–40, 1999.

  25. SIZING THINGS UP

  Corbetta, Daniela and Snapp-Childs, Winona. Seeing and touching: the role of sensory-motor experience on the development of infant reaching. Infant Behavior and Development 32(1):44–58, January 2009.

  26. MIRROR, MIRROR

  Fiamenghi, Geraldo A. Emotional expression in infants’ interactions with their mirror images: an exploratory study. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 25(2):152–160, May 2007.

  Amsterdam, Beulah. Mirror self-image reactions before age two. Developmental Psychobiology 5(4):297–305, 1972.

  27. CAPTURING THE CUP

  Daum, Moritz M.; Vuori, Maria T.; Prinz, Wolfgang; and Aschersleben, Gisa. Inferring the size of a goal object from an actor’s grasping movement in 6- and 9-month-old infants. Developmental Science 12(6):854–862, November 2009.

  von Hofsten, Claes and Ronnqvist, Louise. Preparation for grasping an object: a developmental study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 14(4):610–621, November 1988.

  28. GRABBY HANDS

  Fagard, Jacqueline and Marks, Anne. Unimanual and bimanual tasks and the assessment of handedness in toddlers. Developmental Science 3(2): 137–147, May 2000.

  Fagard, Jacqueline; Spelke, Elizabeth; and von Hofsten, Claes. Reaching and grasping a moving object in 6-, 8-, and 10-month-old infants: laterality and performance. Infant Behavior and Development 32(2):137–146, 2009.

  29. I WANT WHAT YOU WANT

  Hamlin, J. Kiley; Hallinan, Elizabeth V.; and Woodward, Amanda L. Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others’ goals. Developmental Science 11(4):487–494, August 2008.

  30. BE STILL, MY FACE

  Meadow-Orlans, Kathryn P.; Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth; and Koester, Lynne Sanford. The World of Deaf Infants: A Longitudinal Study. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

  Nadel, Jacqueline; Croue, Sabine; Mattlinger, Marie-Jeanne; et al. Do children with autism have expectations about the behaviours of unfamiliar people? Autism 4(2):133–145, June 2000.

  31. THE IN-PLAIN-SIGHT SWITCHEROO

  Munakata, Yuko. Perseverative reaching in infancy: the roles of hidden toys and motor history in the AB task. Infant Behavior and Development 20(3):405–416, July 1997.

  Smith, Linda B.; Thelen, Esther; Titzer, Robert; and McLin, Dewey. Knowing in the context of acting: the task dynamics of the A-not-B error. Psychological Review 106(2):235–260, April 1999.

  32. THE GOLDILOCKS EFFECT

  Kidd, Celeste; Piantadosi, Steven T.; and Aslin, Richard N. The Goldilocks effect: human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex. PLoS ONE 7(5):e36399, May 2012.

  33. THE IMPORTANCE OF AN AUDIENCE

  Goldstein, Michael H.; King, Andrew P.; and West, Meredith J. Social interaction shapes babbling: testing parallels between birdsong and speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America 100(13):8030–8035, 2003.

  34. A GAZY CONNECTION

  Beier, Jonathan S. and Spelke, Elizabeth S. Infants’ developing understanding of social gaze. Child Development 83(2):486–496, March–April 2012.

  35. SHAPES OR KINDS?

  Dewar, Kathryn and Xu, Fei. Do early nouns refer to kinds or distinct shapes? Evidence from 10-month-old infants. Psychological Science 20(2):252–257, February 2009.

  36. DEMONSTRATION AND DEDUCTION

  Elsner, Birgit; Hauf, Petra; and Aschersleben, Gisa. Imitating step by step: a detailed analysis of 9- to 15-month-olds’ reproduction of a three-step action sequence. Infant Behavior & Development 30(2):325–335, May 2007.

  37. DEFENDING WHAT’S MINE

  Hay, Dale; Hurst, Sarah-Louise; Waters, Cerith; and Chadwick, Andrea. Infants’ use of force to defend toys: the origins of instrumental aggression. Infancy 16(5):471–489, September/October 2011.

  38. TAKING CUES

  Corkum, Valerie and Moore, Chris. The origin of joint visual attention in infants. Developmental Psychology 34(1):28–38, January 1998.

  Mumme, Donna L. and Fernald, Anne. The infant as onlooker: learning from emotional reactions observed in a television scenario. Child Development 74(1):221–237, February 2003.

  39. WALKING TOUR

  Adolph, Karen E.; Vereijken, Beatrix; and Shrout, Patrick E. What changes in infant walking and why. Child Development 74(2):475–497, March 2003.

  40. FAMILIARITY AND FOODS

  Shutts, Kristin; Kinzler, Katherine D.; McKee, Caitlin B.; and Spelke, Elizabeth S. Social information guides infants’ selection of foods. Journal of Cognitive Development 10(1–2):1–17, January 2009.

  41. THE RETRIEVER

  Karasik, Lana B.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; and Adolph, Karen E. Transition from crawling to walking and infants’ actions with objects and people. Child Development 82(4):1199–1209, July–August 2011.

  42. I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON’T KNOW

  Baron-Cohen, Simon. The development of a theory of mind in autism: deviance and delay. The Psychiatric Clinics of North America 14(1):33–51, March 1991.

  Onishi, Kristine H. and Baillargeon, Renée. Do 15-month-old infants understand false beliefs? Science 308(5719):255–258, April 8, 2005.

  Surian, Luca; Caldi, Stefania; and Sperber, Dan. Attribution of beliefs by 13-month-old infants. Psychological Science 18(7):580–586, July 2007.

  43. USING YOUR HEAD

  Gergely, György; Bekkering, Harold; and Király, Ildikó. Rational imitation in preverbal infants. Nature 415(6873):755, February 14, 2002.

  Paulus, Markus; Hunnius, Sabine; Vissers, Marlies; and Bekkering, Harold. Imitation in infancy: rational or motor resonance? Child Development 82(4):1047–1057, July–August 2011.

  44. A QUESTIONING LOOK

  Vaish, Amrisha; Demir, Özlem Ece; and Baldwin, Dare. Thirteen- and 18-month-old infants recognize when they need referential information. Social Development 20(3):431–449, August 2011.

  45. POWER NAPPING

  Gomez, Rebecca L.; Bootzin, Rich
ard R.; and Nadel, Lynn. Naps promote abstraction in language-learning infants. Psychological Science 17(8):670–674, August 2006.

  Mander, Bryce A.; Santhanam, Sangeetha; Saletin, Jared M.; and Walker, Matthew P. Wake deterioration and sleep restoration of human learning. Current Biology 21(5):183–184, March 8, 2011.

  46. SAME OR SIMILAR?

  Stager, C. L. and Werker, J. F. Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word-learning tasks. Nature 388(6640):381–382, July 24, 1997.

  Werker, Janet F.; Fennell, Christopher T.; Corcoran, Kathleen M.; and Stager, Christine L. Infants’ ability to learn phonetically similar words: effects of age and vocabulary size. Infancy 3(1):1–30, January 2002.

  47. THE AMBIGUOUS “ONE”

  Lidz, Jeffrey; Waxman, Sandra; and Freedman, Jennifer. What infants know about syntax but couldn’t have learned: experimental evidence for syntactic structure at 18 months. Cognition 89(3):65–73, October 2003.

  48. HELPING THE HELPER

  Dunfield, Kristen A. and Kuhlmeier, Valerie A. Intention-mediated selective helping in infancy. Psychological Science 21(4):523–527, April 2010.

  49. PUNISHING THE BAD GUY

  Hamlin, J. Kiley; Wynn, Karen; Bloom, Paul; and Mahajan, Neha. How infants and toddlers react to antisocial others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108:19931–19936, 2011.

  50. DON’T YOU KNOW?

  Moll, Henrike; Carpenter, Malinda; and Tomasello, Michael. Social engagement leads 2-year-olds to overestimate others’ knowledge. Infancy 16(3): 248–265, May/June 2010.

  Luo, Yuyan; and Baillargeon, Renée. Do 12.5-month-old infants consider what objects others can see when interpreting their actions? Cognition 105(3):489–512, December 2007.

  DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME

  Sidebar: Dyer, Jim. Ethics and orphans: the “monster study.” San Jose Mercury News, June 10, 2001.

 

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