Detailed Poster Program Thursday, March 27 08:00 Posters · XVIth International Conference 29on Infant Studies Thursday, March 27 08:00 Posters 08:00 –09:50 Thursday PosTer session

29XVIth International Conference on Infant Studies

Thursday, March 27 08:00 Posters

08:00 –09:50 Thursday PosTer session 1

aTTenTion, MeMory and Learning

Th1-01 Face-Voice Synchrony Directs Selective Listening in Four-Month-Old InfantsLorraine Bahrick, Melissa Shuman, Irina CastellanosFlorida International University, Miami, USA

Th1-02 Long-Term Recall of an Arbitrary Association in Young Infants’ Deferred ImitationAmy Bullman, Carolyn Rovee-CollierRutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Th1-03 The Temporal Parameters of Visual Proprioceptive Perception in InfancyStephanie Collins, Chris MooreDalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Th1-04 Learning Two Parameters Acting on One Item: Evidence from Response to Novelty in an Eye Tracking ParadigmJuliet Davidow, Dima AmsoSackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, WMC Cornell University, New York, USA

Th1-05 Modeling the Micro-structure of Infant Looking PreferencesDonna Fisher-Thompson1 Joshua Goldberg2 Gregor Schöner3 1. Niagara University, Niagara University, USA; 2. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indianapolis, USA; 3. Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Univer-sität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Th1-06 Speed of Recovering a Forgotten Memory after a Minimum-Duration Prime between 6 and 12 MonthsAmanda Hamilton, Carolyn Rovee-CollierRutgers University, Piscataway, USA

Th1-07 Infants Know Bad Dancing When They See It: Audiovisual Synchrony Perception of Music in 10-Month-OldsErin HannonUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Th1-08 Operant Learning in 3-Month-Old Infants is Facilitated by Congruent Visual and Tactile InformationKimberly KraebelDept. of Psychology, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, USA

Th1-09 Labels can Override Perceptual Categories in Early Infancy: A Computational ModelValentina Gliozzi1 Julien Mayor2 Kim Plunkett2 1. Dipartimento di Informatica. Universita’ di To-rino., Torino, Italy; 2. Department of Experimental Psychology. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Th1-10 Looking and Listening Patterns in 4- and 8-Month-Old Infants:Megan McIlreavy1 Robin Panneton2 1. Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA; 2. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

Th1-11 Computational Analysis of Motionese: What can Infants Learn from Parental Actions?Yukie Nagai, Katharina RohlfingBielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Th1-12 The Role of Temporal Information for 12-Month-Olds’ Processing of Self-Produced Actions Bianca Jovanovic, Gudrun SchwarzerUniversity of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Th1-13 Long-Term Influence of Motor Status on the Flexibility of Memory Retrieval during InfancySabine Seehagen, Julien Gross, Harlene HayneUniversity of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Th1-14 Spacing Effects of Extinction on Retention at 3 MonthsChristiana Shafer, Carolyn Rovee-CollierRutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Th1-15 The Developmental Change of Joint Attention and Non-Joint AttentionMegumi Shimizu, Tamiko Ogura, Sanae FukudaKobe University, Japan, Kobe, Japan

Th1-16 The Effect of Narrative Cues on Toddlers’ Imitation from Television and Picture BooksKara Garrity1 Rachel Barr1 Gabrielle Simcock2 1. Georgetown University, Washington, USA; 2. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Th1-17 Influence of Visual Contextual Cues on Manual Discrimination of Orientations in 5-Month-Old InfantsStéphanie Kerzerho1 Arlette Streri2 1. Laboratory Psychology for Perception, Paris, France; 2. Laboratory “Psychology for Perception”, University Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Th1-18 Food for Thought: Interfeed Intervals and Word Recognition Memory in NewbornsHaley Tsui1 Ronald Barr2 Philip Zelazo3 Simon Young4 Nicole Catherine1 Rollin Brant5 1. Center for Community Child Health Research, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver,

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Canada; 2. Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 3. Depart-ment of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada; 4. Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Canada; 5. Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancou-ver, Canada

Th1-19 Investigating the Nature of Physiological Self-Regulation and its Relation to Learning during InfancyHeather Wallace1 Tara Wass2 1. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; 2. For-merly of the University of Tennessee, Denver, USA

Th1-20 I’d Rather Do It Myself! The Role of Motor Practice in Infants’ Causal LearningDahe Yang, Emily BushnellTufts University, Medford, USA

Th1-21 Television Viewing Patterns in 6- and 9-Month-Olds: The Role of Infant-Parent Interactions and Joint Attention.Elizabeth Zack, Ashley Fidler, Colleen Carr, Jenny Reyes, Joanna Lee, Rachel BarrGeorgetown University, Washington, USA

BioLogicaL Processes

Th1-22 Relationship Between Palpebral Fissure Size and Rate of Spontaneous Eye Blinking in Young InfantsLeigh Bacher, Tiffany MillerState University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, USA

Th1-23 EEG Activity during Developmentally Appropriate Working Memory Tasks at 5, 10, 24, and 36 MonthsMartha Ann Bell1 Christy Wolfe2 Katherine Morasch1 Annie Cardell1 1. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA; 2. University of Louisville, Louisville, USA

Th1-24 The Rejection of Previously Accepted Foods in Infants: A Proposal for a Perceptual, Food Based Disgust Response.Steven Brown, Gillian HarrisUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Th1-25 Pre- to Postnatal Continuity in Physiological Responses to Infant Cries among Women with AnxietyElisabeth Conradt, Jennifer Ablow, Jeff Measelle, Rose McMahonUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Th1-26 The Influence of Personality on the Association between Prenatal Maternal Anxiety and Child Behavioral Problems.Anouk de Bruijn, Hedwig van Bakel, Anneloes van BaarTilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Th1-27 Infant Habituation to Repeated Maternal SeparationsCarolina de Weerth1 Jan Buitelaar2 1. Dept. of Developmental Psychology - Behav-ioural Science Institute - Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 2. Dept. of Psychiatry - University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Th1-28 Visual Performance in Infants Related to Dietary Intake of Lutein and ZeaxanthinMelissa Dengler, Janet Frick, Billy Hammond, Lisa Renzi, Krisztina VargaUniversity of Georgia, Athens, USA

Th1-29 Maternal-Rated Sex Differences in Emotion at 10 Months: Infant Self-Regulation and Frontal EEG Asymmetry Anjolii Diaz1 Katherine Morasch1 Christy Wolfe2 Martha Bell1 1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univer-sity, Blacksburg, USA; 2. University of Louisville, Louisville, USA

Th1-30 Fetal Heart Rate Reactivity: Associations with Birth Weight and Maternal Position during TestingLynn Evans1 Michael Myers2,3 Catherine Monk2 1. SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, USA; 2. Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA; 3. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA

Th1-31 Links Between the Psychobiology of Stress and Emotional Behaviors in Toddlers: A Multi-System Measurement ApproachChristine Fortunato, Amy Dribin, Douglas Granger, Kristin BussPennsylvania State University, State College, USA

Th1-32 Infants’ Brain Responses to Simple and Complex Motion Patterns Differ from Adults’Rick Gilmore1 Chuan Hou2 Anthony Norcia2 Adam Christensen1 1. Penn State University, University Park, USA; 2. Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, USA

Th1-33 Does Maternal Stress and Coping during Pregnancy Impact Fetal and Infant Stress Reactivity?Katrina Johnson, Eugene Emory, John DieterEmory University, Atlanta, USA


Thursday, March 2708:00 Posters

Th1-42 Deaf and Hearing Infants’ Preference for American Sign Language and Non-Linguistic Biological Motion Ursula Krentz1 Lindsay Klarman2 Jennifer Brinkley2 David Corina3 Patricia Kuhl2 1. Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA; 2. Univer-sity of Washington, Seattle, USA; 3. University of California, San Diego, USA

Th1-43 Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy and Attachment Narratives in ChildhoodSara Markese1 Beatrice Beebe1 Stanley Feldstein2 Joseph Jaffe1 1. New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA; 2. University of Mary-land, Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA

Th1-44 Young Children’s Sensitivity to New and Known Information in Answering QuestionsDorothé Salomo, Elena Lieven, Michael TomaselloMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropol-ogy, Leipzig, Germany

Th1-45 Learning to Form Word-Object Associations with Phonetically Similar Words: Links to Language DevelopmentJulianne Scott1 Nenagh Kemp2 Janet Werker1 Barbara Bernhardt1 Carolyn Johnson1 Linda Siegel1 1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Can-ada; 2. University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Th1-46 The Effects of Infant-Directed Speech on Brain Activity to Produced and Unknown Words at 20 Months of AgeElizabeth Sheehan1 Renate Zangl2 Debra Mills1 1. Emory University, Atlanta, USA; 2. Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Th1-47 Read My Lips: Japanese and American Infants’ Patterns of Conversational GazeElena Tenenbaum1 Megan Blossom2 Reiko Matsunaka3 Kazuo Hiraki3 James Morgan1 1. Brown University, Providence, USA; 2. University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA; 3. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Th1-48 Acoustic and Linguistic Features of Infant-directed Speech Predict Infants’ Phonetic Discrimination PerformanceFeng-ming Tsao1 Huei-mei Liu2 Ching-yun Li1 1. Department of Psychology, National Taiwan Uni-versity, Taipei, Taiwan; 2. Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Th1-49 Lexical/Segmental Influence on Tone Accuracy in Mandarin-Speaking Children: A Longitudinal Case StudyJie Yang, Barbara DavisThe University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

Th1-34 A Possible Gene-Enironment Interaction: Parenting Stress as a Moderator of Taste Sensitivity to 6-n-Propylthiouracil (PROP) as a Biological Marker Predicting Social Support SeekingDeann Jones1 Lori Roggman2 Gina Cook2 Cora Price2 1. Utah State University, Providence, USA; 2. Utah State University, Logan, USA

Th1-35 Adult versus Adolescent Preterm Birth: A Comparison of Complication and Intervention Rates across Age GroupsAndrea Clements, Kellye LingerfeltEast Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA

coMMunicaTion and Language

Th1-36 The Effect of Dialect on Toddler Identification of Imaged Words Karen Mulak1 Catherine Best1,2 Julia Irwin1 Michael Tyler2 1. Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, USA; 2. MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of West-ern Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Th1-37 Happy, but Not Sad Dynamic Speakers Facilitate Word Recognition in 11-to-13-Month-Old InfantsNaureen Bhullar1 Robin Panneton2 1. Department of Psychology, Widener Univer-sity, Chester, USA; 2. Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

Th1-38 Academic Outcomes of Very Low Birthweight Infants: The Influence of Mother-Child RelationshipsLisa Boyce, Gina Cook, Kim D’zatkoUtah State University, Logan, USA

Th1-39 Infants’ Processing of Morphophonemic Variations during Verb LearningMarilyn Cyr, Rushen ShiDept. of Psychology, University of Quebec in Mon-tréal, Montréal, Canada

Th1-40 Is It All About Imitation? The Development of Culturally Conventional Gestures and Modeled Infant Signs in 10 InfantsMaria Fusaro, Claire VallottonHarvard Graduate School of Education, Cam-bridge, USA

Th1-41 6-Month-Olds are More Sensitive to Variations in F1 than F2 in VowelsDan Hufnagle1 Suzanne Curtin1 Lori Holt2 Scott Kiesling3 1. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; 2. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA; 3. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA



Th1-58 Neural Correlates of Maternal Response to Infant Emotional Cues (in Depressed and Non-Depressed Women)Ida Moadab, Heidemarie Laurent, Erica Musser, Hannah Banagale, Jennifer AblowUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Th1-59 Temperamental Differences in Electrophysiological Responses to Auditory Novelty in 3-Year-Old ChildrenBethany Reeb1 Peter Marshall2 Nathan Fox1 1. University of Maryland Human Development Department, College Park, USA; 2. Temple Univer-sity Psychology Department, Philadelphia, USA

Th1-60 The Effect of Cumulative Risk Factors on the Quality of Infant AttachmentLuis Richter1 Kathrin Hartmann2 Janice Zeman3 1. The Virginia Consortium Program in Clini-cal Psychology, Norfolk, USA; 2. Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, USA; 3. College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, USA

Th1-61 A New Method to Observe Infants’ Internal Emotion: A Still Face Study Using Telethermography VideoYohko Shimada1 Nobuko Komori1 Kayako Nakagawa2 Michiteru Kitazaki3 Shoji Itakura1 1. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2. Osaka Uni-versity, Osaka, Japan; 3. Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

Th1-62 Maternal Responsivity as a Predictor of Toddlers’ Use of Emotional Regulation Strategies across Contexts Kassondra Silva, Tracy Spinrad, Cassandra CharlotArizona State University, Tempe, USA

Th1-63 Positive and Negative Emotionality of Mothers and Toddlers: Relations with Mother-Toddler Interaction in Two ContextsMaria Wong1 Nancy McElwain2 Jennifer Engle2 1. Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA; 2. Human and Community Development, University of Il-linois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

Th1-64 Can Neonates Triangulate?Helene TremblayUniversite de Rouen, Rouen, France

Th1-65 Restoring Exclusive Dyadic Interaction Following Jealousy Evocation among Securely and Insecurely Attached DyadsSybil Hart, Kazuko BehrensTexas Tech University, Austin, USA

eMoTionaL deveLoPMenT

Th1-50 Mothers’ Emotional Talk Influences Infants’ Attention to Fearful StimuliRebecca Brooker1 Elizabeth Kiel2 Kristin Buss1 1. Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA; 2. Depart-ment of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA

Th1-51 Economically Strained Mothers’ and Fathers’ Use of Internal State Language with their 18-Month-OldsLaura Marie Armstrong, Pamela ColeThe Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA

Th1-52 Infant-Mother and Infant-Father Attachment as Predictors of Triadic Family Interaction: The Role of Attachment ConcordanceGeoffrey Brown, Cynthia Neff, Aya Shigeto, Sarah MangelsdorfUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

Th1-53 The Role of Positive Affect and Regulation in Predicting Adaptive OutcomesJessica Dollar, Cynthia StifterPennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Th1-54 Perceptual and Acoustic Analysis of Vocalizations during Temper TantrumsJames Green1 Pamela Whitney1 Michael Potegal2 1. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA; 2. Univer-sity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Th1-55 Toddlers’ Responses to Another Person’s Request: Its Motivation and the Effect of Another Person’s Positive and Negative Emotional DisplaysTakahiro HisazakiFaculty of Humanities, Kyushu Lutheran College, Kumamoto, Japan

Th1-56 Mothers and Toddlers: Adaptations and StressesClaire KoppLos Angeles, USA

Th1-57 Smoking in Pregnancy and Maternal Psychopathology: Effects on Parenting Stress during InfancyMary Ellen Lynch, Julie Carroll, Katrina Johnson, Julie Kable, Montinique Pierre, Claire ColesPsychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA


Thursday, March 2708:00, 10:10 Posters

Th2-09 The Interrelation between Language Ability, Social Referencing Skills and Infants’ Goal Understanding at 9.5 Months of AgeRachel Brainerd1 Catharyn Crane2 Jessica Sommerville2 1. Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, USA; 2. Univer-sity of Washington, Seattle, USA

Th2-10 Young Infants’ Understanding of Failed ActionsAmanda Brandone, Henry WellmanUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Th2-11 24-Month-Olds’ Tool-Function Mappings: Mutual Exclusivity for Tools?Krista Casler, Kerry WhitemanFranklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, USA

Th2-12 A Question of Trust: Infants Attribute True Beliefs Only to Reliable LookersVirginia Chow, Diane Poulin-Dubois, Amanda Guay, Alla SorokinConcordia University, Montréal, Canada

Th2-13 Infant’s Brain Activity During Observation of Possible and Impossible Events on TVNaoko Dan1 Kazuo Hiraki2 Goh Matsuda2 Hirokata Fukushima3 Reiko Matsunaka4 Michiko Miyazaki3 1. The University of Tokyo, Tsukuba-City, Japan; 2. The University of Tokyo, Meguro-Ku, Japan; 3. The University of Tokyo, Yokohama-City, Japan; 4. The University of Tokyo, Sagamihara-City, Japan

Th2-14 Connections between Number and Space in InfancyMaria Dolores de Hevia, Elizabeth SpelkeHarvard University, Cambridge, USA

Th2-15 Toddler’s Memory for Sources of ActionSuzanne Hala1 Alisha Brown1 Valerie SanJuan2 1. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; 2. Uni-versity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Th2-16 Goal Emulation in 2-Year-OldsElizabeth Hallinan, Valerie KuhlmeierQueen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Th2-17 Infants Attribute Social Referencing to OthersElizabeth Hallinan1 Valerie Kuhlmeier1 George Newman2 1. Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada; 2. Yale University, New Haven, USA

Th2-18 Baby Do - Baby See - Baby Learn: How Action Production and Action Perception Facilitate Subsequent Actions during InfancyPetra HaufSt. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

Th2-19 The Role of Language in Guiding Infants’ Interactions With People and ObjectsKatherine Kinzler1 Emmanuel Dupoux2 Elizabeh Spelke1 1. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 2. Labora-

Th1-66 Sibling Jealousy in Early Childhood: Family and Child CorrelatesDenise Kennedy, Lisa Jackey, Brenda VollingUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA


cogniTive deveLoPMenT

Th2-01 Plural-Masculine-Singular-Feminine All in a Word: Spanish-Learners’ Processing of Grammatical Cues during Spoken Language UnderstandingNatalia Arias-Trejo1 Casey Lew-Williams2 Virginia Marchman2 1. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Oxford, UK; 2. Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Th2-02 Spanish Article-Noun Agreement AcquisitionNatalia Arias-Trejo, Alberto Falcon-Albarran, Elda Alva-CantoUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico

Th2-03 Spanish-Learners Use Cues to Grammatical Number to Facilitate Online Language ComprehensionVirginia Marchman, Nereyda Hurtado, Grace Budde, Anne FernaldStanford University, Stanford, USA

Th2-04 2-Year-Old Vs. 20-Year-Old Spanish Learners: A Side-By-Side Comparison of Online Language ProcessingCasey Lew-Williams, Anne FernaldStanford University, Stanford, USA

Th2-05 Infants’ Knowledge of Abstract Same/Different RelationshipsCaspar Addyman, Denis MareschalBirkbeck, University of London, London, UK

Th2-06 Priming Effects in 10-Month-Old Infants in a Manual Search TaskJie Li, Renee BaillargeonUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

Th2-07 Infants’ Spatial Reasoning Strategies in a Whole-Body Tool-Use TaskSarah Berger1 Alisan Kavookjian2 Karen Adolph2 1. The College of Staten Island, Staten Island, USA; 2. New York University, New York, USA

Th2-08 Inferring the Existence of Hypothetical Objects Based on Object MotionSzilvia BiroLeiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands



Th2-28 The Role of Maternal Skills in Infant Pretence at 12, 15 and 18 MonthsMaria Legerstee, Raluca Barac, Vanessa Skrainka, Giulia Zucal, Gabriela MarkovaYork University, Toronto, Canada

Th2-29 Shaking Things Up: Young Infants’ Use of Sound Information for Object IndividuationTracy Smith, Teresa WilcoxTexas A&M University, College Station, USA

Th2-30 Infants’ Sensitivity to Geometric Features of Path in Spatial EventsLulu Song1 Rebecca Seston2 Weiyi Ma1 Wendy Shallcross3 Roberta Golinkoff1 Thomas Shipley3 Kathy Hirsh-Pasek3 1. University of Delaware, Newark, USA; 2. Boston University, Boston, USA; 3. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Th2-31 Toddlers Use Disjunctive Syllogism and Fast-Mapping to Learn Multiple Novel Labels in a Single SessionChad Spiegel, Jennifer Zosh, Justin HalberdaThe Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Th2-32 Searching the Object Attended or Ignored by the Others: Efficient Search for Ignorance by the Young Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)Masaki Tomonaga, Tomoko ImuraPrimate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan

Th2-33 Predictive Gaze to Novel Animate and Inanimate Entities in Adults and Infants Tania Tzelnic, Valerie Kuhlmeier, Sarah Latimer, Randy FlanaganQueen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Th2-34 One or Two Humans? 10-Month-Olds’ Use of Ontological and Featural Information to Individuate ObjectsDi Wu, Renee BaillargeonDept. of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

Th2-35 Attention to Features in Object LabelingRachel Wu1 David Rakison2 1. Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK; 2. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Th2-36 Limits on Infants’ Ability to Update Working Memory RepresentationsMariko Yamaguchi, Lisa FeigensonJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Th2-37 Prior Animal Exposure Impacts Infants’ Attention to Specific Animals in a Preferential Looking TaskBarbara Younger1 Kathy Johnson1,2 Kerry Shaver1 Nicole Pikaard1 1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA; 2. Indi-ana University, Indianapolis, USA

toire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS, Paris, France

Th2-20 Multiple Influences on Infants’ Category LearningKristine Kovack-Lesh1 Lisa Oakes2 Bob McMurray1 1. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA; 2. University of California, Davis, USA

Th2-21 Contributions of Mother-Infant Interactions to Concurrent and Later Social Cognitive ReasoningJennifer LaBounty1 Henry Wellman1 Sarah Lopez-Duran2 Betsy Hamilton3 1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; 2. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA; 3. NYU, New York, USA

Th2-22 Do 8-Month-Old Infants Consider Situational Constraints when Interpreting Others’ Gaze as Goal-Directed Action?Yuyan LuoUniversity of Missouri-Columbia, Dept. of Psycho-logical Sciences, Columbia, USA

Th2-23 Perception and Production of Means-End Goal Structures in Eight-Month-Old InfantsNeha Mahajan1 Amanda Woodward2 Lauren Eisenband2 1. Yale University, New Haven, USA; 2. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Th2-24 20-Month-Olds Understand What Others can and cannot SeeHenrike Moll1 Danielle Matthews2 Michael Tomasello3 1. Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Uni-versity of Washington, Seattle, USA; 2. Max Planck Child Study Centre, Manchester, UK; 3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Th2-25 New Measures of Barrier Detour Ability: Developmental Sensitivity in a Cross-Sectional DesignJulia Noland, Carol WhalingVanderbilt Kennedy Center and Department of Psychology and Human Development, Nashville, USA

Th2-26 Learning Words from Videos: Extension and DisambiguationJason Scofield1 Amie Williams1 Douglas Behrend2 1. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA; 2. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

Th2-27 Which Object Is Easier for the Agent to Retrieve? Rationality Effects in 16-Month-Old InfantsRose Scott, Renee BaillargeonUniversity of Illinois, Champaign, USA



Th2-46 A Phonological Account of Place of Articulation in Early Word Production and PerceptionClara Levelt1 Paula Fikkert2 Tania Zamuner2 1. Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; 2. Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Th2-47 Perception of the Stop-Fricative Contrast in Early Word LearningPaula Fikkert1 Suzanne van der Feest2 Nicole Altvater-Mackensen1 1. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 2. University of Pennsylvania, Depart-ment of Psychology, Philadelphia, USA

Th2-48 Individual Differences in Korean Infants’ Vocabulary Development: From 12 Months to 18 MonthsKeumjoo Kwak, Yeonsoo Kim, Jieun Park, Yumi ChoiSeoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Th2-49 Speech Perception is not Species-Specific at BirthAlia Martin1,2 Athena Vouloumanos1,2 Marc Hauser3 Janet Werker4 1. Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada; 2. Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, USA; 3. Depart-ment of Psychology, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, and Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 4. Department of Psy-chology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Th2-50 Effects of Voice Quality and Face Information on Infants’ Speech Perception in NoiseJessica Versele1 Linda Polka2 Susan Rvachew2 Robin Panneton1 1. Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA; 2. School of Communication Sci-ences and Disorders, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Th2-51 Are There Individual Differences in the Way in Which the Vocabulary Spurt Impacts the Organization of the Communicative System?Meaghan Parlade, Jana IversonThe University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Th2-52 Syllable Weight Determines Stress Pattern Preference in Spanish-Learning InfantsFerran Pons, Laura BoschGrup de Recerca en Neurociència Cognitiva, Uni-versitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Th2-53 How Frequency Might Modulate the Acquisition of Morphosyntactic DependenciesMarieke van Heugten, Elizabeth JohnsonUniversity of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada

Th2-38 Beyond Vocabulary Checklists: Parental Reports of Cognitive DevelopmentMerideth Gattis1 Elena Sakkalou1 Elena Hoicka2 Katie Alcock3 Merideth Gattis1 1. School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; 2. University of California, Santa Cruz, USA; 3. Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Th2-39 Beyond Vocabulary Checklists: Parental Reports of Cognitive DevelopmentElena Sakkalou, Oliver Perra, Merideth GattisSchool of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Th2-40 Beyond Vocabulary Checklists: Parental Reports of Cognitive DevelopmentElena Hoicka, Nameera AkhtarUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, USA


Th2-41 The Acquisition of Phoneme Categories in Bilingual Infants: New Data from a New ParadigmBarbara Albareda1 Ferran Pons1 Núria Sebastián-Gallés1,2 1. Grup de Recerca Neurociència Cognitiva, Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues, Spain; 2. Parc Científic de Barcelona, Esplugues, Spain

Th2-42 Computer-Based Receptive Language Training for InfantsJoseph McCleery1,5 Mikaela Kinnear2 Karen Burner3 Aubyn Stahmer4 Leslie Carver2 Rita Ceponiene2 Laura Schreibman2 1. Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, USA; 2. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA; 3. University of Washington, Seattle, USA; 4. Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, San Diego, USA; 5. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Th2-43 The Alignability of Events Influences Verb LearningJane ChildersTrinity University, San Antonio, USA

Th2-44 Temperament Moderates Novel Word Learning at 15 MonthsWallace Dixon, Jr.1 Allison Lowe2 Betsy Caldwell1 Hannah Lawman3 Andrea Clements1 1. East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA; 2. East Tennessee State University, Bristol, USA; 3. University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

Th2-45 Temperament Moderates Responsiveness to Joint Attentional Bids at 11 and 14 MonthsJames Todd1 Wallace Dixon, Jr.2 1. University of Toledo, Toledo, USA; 2. East Ten-nessee State University, Johnson City, USA



Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada; 2. British Columbia Shaken Baby Syn-drome Prevention Program, Vancouver, Canada

Th2-62 Social Preference in 24-Month-Children with and without AutismJeslin Hancock1 Noah Merin2 Gregory Young1 Mary Beth Steinfeld1 Sally Ozonoff1 Sally Rogers1 1. University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. Insti-tute, Sacramento, USA; 2. University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, USA

Th2-63 Iron Supplementation in Infancy and Neurocognitive Functioning at 10 Years: Evidence of Long-Term Facilitation in Frontally-Mediated Executive ProcessesAngela Lukowski1 Marcela Castillo2 Betsy Lozoff1 1. Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; 2. Psychology Unit, Insitute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Th2-64 How Risky is it being a Child of an Adolescent Mother?Carla Martins1 Isabel Soares1 Bárbara Figueiredo1 Inês Jongenelen2 1. Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal; 2. Universidade Lusófona, Porto, Portugal

Th2-65 Assessment of Appetitive Behaviours in Infants with Failure to ThriveMaria Ramsay1 Mafalda Porporino1 Marie-claude Geoffroy2 1. The Montréal Children’s Hospital, Montréal, Canada; 2. University of Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Th2-66 Learning Program of Nursing Focused on Physiological Jaundice Hiroko Tsujimoto1 Sanae Saitoh2 Hiroko Kashiwado3 Mayumi Satou4 Kimiyo Suehara5 1. Women and Newborn’s Health Center, Hashim-oto City, Japan; 2. Kansai University of Social Welfare, Ako City, Japan; 3. Toyonaka Nursing School, Toyonaka City, Japan; 4. Osaka Prefectural Hospital Organization, Osaka Medical Center & Research Institute for Maternal & Child Health, Osaka, Japan; 5. Kimiyo Suehara School of Nursing, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

Th2-67 Preterm Birth, Maternal Symptomatology, and Infant Negativity in the Context of Rural PovertyKristin Voegtline1 Cynthia Stifter1 Family Life Project Key Investigators1,2 1. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA; 2. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University Park, Chapel Hill, USA

Th2-54 Understanding Early Communication Signals in Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Study on Perception of Cry in InfancyPaola Venuti, Gianluca Esposito, Simona de FalcoUniversity of Trento, Rovereto (TN), Italy

Th2-55 21-Month-Olds Learn Distributional Facts about a New Verb Via Listening ExperienceSylvia Yuan1 Rose Scott1 Cynthia Fisher1 Toben Mintz2 1. University of Illinois, Champaign, USA; 2. Uni-versity of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

high risk and PediaTric issues

Th2-56 Adolescent Mothers Providing Massage to Their 0-to 3-Month Old InfantsMariana Bianchi de Aguiar, Barbara Figueiredo, Ana Guedes, Rute Magarinho, José PombeiroMinho University, Oporto, Portugal

Th2-57 The Effects of Mother-Infant Skin-To-Skin Contact on Postpartum Depression and Maternal Behavior During FeedingAnn BigelowSt. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

Th2-58 Stability and Continuity of Preterm Infant Temperamental Characteristics: A Cross-Cultural ComparisonCharlene Hendricks1 Marc Bornstein1 Nancy Auestad2 Deborah O’Connor3 1. NIH/NICHD, Bethesda, USA; 2. Kellogg, Battle Creek, USA; 3. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Th2-59 Preliminary Findings on Mother-Infant Interactions from a Randomized Pilot Study Comparing the Efficacy of Two Parenting Interventions for Substance Abusing Mothers: the Mothers of Infants Program (MIP), an Attachment-Based Therapy Program, and a Parent Education Program (PEP)Cindy DeCoste, Nicole Castiglioni, Nancy SuchmanYale University School of Medicine, West Haven, USA

Th2-60 The Relation of FR Behaviour to AAI Scales Elspeth Evans, Sandi Bento, David Pederson, Greg MoranThe University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Th2-61 Changing Knowledge and Behavior Concerning Infant Crying and Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled TrialTakeo Fujiwara1 Ronald Barr1 Marilyn Barr2 Nicole Catherine1 Jocelyn Conway2 1. Centre for Community Child Health Research,



Th3-06 A Functional Imaging Study of Development of the Parenting Brain in AdolescentsAkio Nakai1 Ayako Sasaki2 Hirotaka Kosaka3 Ken-ichi Matsuki4 Michiko Tanabe2 1. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; 2. Department of Maternity, Child Health Nurs-ing, and Midwifery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; 3. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; 4. Department of Developmental Sciences, Faculty of Education and Regional Studies, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

Th3-07 Media Use in Infant/Toddler Child Care Settings: Differences across Arrangements and Family-Income, and CultureEva Shivers1 Claire Nugent2 Maureen Ryan2 Lauren Shuck2 Rachel Barr2 1. Indigo Cultural Center, Institute for Child Development and Social Change, Phoenix, USA; 2. Georgetown University, Washington, USA

Th3-08 Infants’ Cognitive and Motor Development in Child Care since Their First Year of LifeNathalie Bigras, Lise Lemay, Mélissa TremblayUniversité du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Th3-09 Longitudinal Associations of Maternal Beliefs, Parenting Style, and Child Cognitive and Social-Emotional Outcomes: A Mediation ModelC. Françoise Acra, Keng-yen HuangNYU Child Study Center, New York, USA

Th3-10 Measuring Family-Centred Service for Infants with Developmental Risks: Parent Perception of Service Provider BehaviourHeather Boyd1 Peter Rosenbaum2 Debra Cameron3 Harry Shannon4 Seanne Wilkins5 1. McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; 2. De-partment of Pediatrics, CanChild Centre for Child-hood Disability Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; 3. Faculty of Medicine, Depart-ment of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 4. Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatis-tics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; 5. Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Th3-11 Behaviors at 15 and 18 Months for Infants who Experience Childcare Services since Their First Year of LifeLise Lemay, Nathalie Bigras, Mélissa TremblayUniversité du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Th2-68 Developmental Assessment at 2 Years of Age: Ask the ParentsDieter Wolke1 Samantha Johnson2 Neil Marlow2 1. University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; 2. Univer-sity of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Th2-69 Feeding Attitudes and Practices of Low-income Mothers: Correlates of Early Weight Gain?John Worobey, Maria Islas Lopez, Monica MedinaRutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Th2-70 Infants Exposed Prenatally to Methamphetamine: Screening for Developmental Delay at 9 Months of AgeTrecia Wouldes1 Linda LaGasse2 Lorraine Coelho1 Barry Lester2 1. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; 2. Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, Providence, USA


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Th3-01 Infants Fail at a Transfer of Learning Task from 2D to 3D and from 3D to 2DElizabeth Zack1 Rachel Barr1 Lauren Shuck1 Elisabeth Sperle1 Gina Shroff2 Kelly Dickerson2 Stacie Miller2 Peter Gerhardstein2 Andrew Meltzoff3 1. Georgetown University, Washington, USA; 2. Binghamton University, Binghamton, USA; 3. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Th3-02 The Impact of Background Television on the Allocation of Infants’ AttentionAlissa Setliff, Ashley MurphyMemorial University, St. John’s, Canada

Th3-03 Looking at Sesame Street: Age Differences in Eye Movements during Video ViewingHeather Kirkorian, Daniel Anderson, Rachel KeenUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Th3-04 An Investigation of the Continuity of the HOME from Infancy to AdolescenceTeresa Harmon1 Bethany Craig2 Diane Wille2 1. IU Southeast, Louisville, USA; 2. IU Southeast, New Albany, USA

Th3-05 Infant Mental Health in Malaysia: A Cultural PerspectiveHasnah Toran, Mohd. Hanafi Mohd. YassinNational University of Malaysia, Bandar Baru Bangi, Malaysia



Th3-21 Psychological Preparation for Motherhood: Prediction to Postpartum Mental Health and Infant Attachment SecurityMegan Beers, Jennifer AblowUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Th3-22 The Interplay of Distress, Emotion Regulation Strategies, and Attachment SecurityRebecca Brooker1 Kristin Buss1 Elizabeth Kiel2 Lauren Bailey3 1. Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA; 2. Depart-ment of Psychological Sciences, University of Mis-souri - Columbia, Columbia, USA; 3. University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA

Th3-23 Infants’ Attention to Emotional Expressions: Evidence for Universal Biases and Individual DifferencesFrances Chen, Susan JohnsonStanford University, Stanford, USA

Th3-24 Does Similarity Between Mothers’ and Fathers’ Emotionality Relate to Toddlers’ Observed Emotional Reactivity?Benjamin Deweese, Kristin BussThe Pennsylvania State University Department of Psychology, University Park, USA

Th3-25 Trajectories of Behavioral Strategy Use with Mothers and Fathers across InfancyNaomi Ekas, Shannon Zentall, Diane Lickenbrock, Lauren Bohn, Julia Braungart-RiekerUniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

Th3-26 Emotional Contagion and Individual Differences in Cardiac Autonomic Regulation in 9-Month-Old InfantsElena Geangu1 Renata Heilman2 Oana Benga2 Andrei Miu2 1. Romanian Academy of Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2. Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Psychology/Program of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Th3-27 Do Mothers and Fathers Provide Different Socialization Experiences for the Regulation of Positive Affect in Infancy?Rachel Hutt1 Ginger Moore1 Anneliese Bass1 Jeffrey Cohen2 1. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA; 2. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Th3-28 Infant Temperament as Mediator of Postpartum Depression on Attachment Sandra Jolley1 Alyson Shapiro2 Ursula Krentz3 Susan Spieker1 1. University of Washington, Family and Child Nursing, Seattle, USA; 2. Arizona State University, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Tempe, USA; 3. Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA

Th3-12 Using Parent Empowerment in Parenting Program for a Young Child With AutismShie Jung-jiun, Wang Tien-MiauNational Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Th3-13 “Educational Toys”: Do Parents Believe the Hype?Wilkey Wong1 Kelly Fisher2 Ximena Uribe-Zarain3 Weiyi Ma1 Roberta Golinkoff1 Kathy Hirsh-Pasek2 1. University of Delaware, School of Education, Newark, USA; 2. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; 3. University of Delaware, Newark, USA

Th3-14 Shaken Baby Syndrome Measurement Needs Focus: Discipline, Soothing, and Potential for Injury AwarenessBeth RussellWorcester State College, Worcester, USA

Th3-15 Examining Fetal Education, Taekyo: Teaching Invisible Baby in the WombEun Young NahmSeoul Women’s University, Seoul, Korea


Th3-16 Correlates of Maternal Representations of and Responses to Infant Distress: Maternal Attachment and Symptoms in Mother and InfantSusan Woodhouse1 Kristina Boldebuck2 Sarah Halcrow2 Jude Cassidy2 1. Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA; 2. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Th3-17 Parental Positive Emotions and Responsiveness: Influences on the Relationship between Approach/Inhibition and Behavioral AdjustmentCynthia Stifter, Elizabeth Cipriano, Jessica DollarPennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Th3-18 Maternal Representations and Toddlers’ Regulation of Negative and Positive EmotionsRoni Nadam, Ruth FeldmanBar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Th3-19 The Dyadic Quality during the Still-Face: Associations with Maternal Attachment and Sensitivity and Infant’s Attachment OrganizationGabrielle Coppola, Tiziana Aureli, Annalisa Grazia, Maria Concetta GaritoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Chieti, Italy

Th3-20 Who’s on First? Order Effects on Male and Female Infants’ Socioemotional Behavior During Mother-Infant and Father-Infant Interaction at 3 MonthsMarjorie Beeghly1,2 Karen Olson2 Edward Tronick1,3 M. Katherine Weinberg4 1. Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital, Boston; 2. Wayne State University, Detroit, USA; 3. University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA; 4. Jewish Child and Family Services, Boston, USA



Th3-38 Mimicry Increases Prosocial Behavior in 18-Month-OldsJohanna Uebel, Malinda Carpenter, Michael TomaselloDept. of Developmental and Comparative Psychol-ogy, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthro-pology, Leipzig, Germany

Th3-39 The Development of 3rd Party Gaze Following in 12 and 18 Month Old InfantsStephanie Collins, Cherie Collicott, Chris MooreDepartment of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Th3-40 Mother-Child and Father-Child Attachment Relationship and Triadic InteractionJulia Mendonça1 Louise Cossette2 F. Strayer3 France Gravel2 1. Guararema, Brazil; 2. Montréal, Canada; 3. Bordeaux, France

Th3-41 Can Infants Resist a Mouse in a House? Another Look at Infants’ Abilities to Copy Action GoalsMalissa Durham, Erin Cannon, Amanda WoodwardUniversity of Maryland, College Park, USA

Th3-42 Relations among Aspects of Infant Temperament and Toddlers’ ShynessNatalie Eggum, Nancy Eisenberg, Tracy SpinradArizona State University, Tempe, USA

Th3-43 How Does Parents’ Attribution of Intentionality Relate to Infants’ Emerging Social Interaction Skills?Hannah Eisenbeis, Claudia Thoermer, Susanne Kristen, Beate SodianDepartment Psychology Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Th3-44 Prosocial Behavior: a Mediator of the Relationship Between Language Delay and Problem Behavior for High-Risk ToddlersAnn-marie Faria, Christine Hughes, Marygrace KaiserUniversity of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

Th3-45 The Development of Emotional Expression Discrimination in Infants: Evidence from Infant Scan Patterns Megan Fitzgerald1 Nim Tottenham2 Juliet Davidow2 Tara Gilhooly2 Dima Amso2 1. Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, USA; 2. Sackler Institute of Developmental Psychobiology, New York, USA

Th3-29 Stop Crying! Origins of Mothers’ Beliefs and Goals about CryingEsther Leerkes, Stephanie Parade, Regan BurneyThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, USA

Th3-30 The Effects of Self-Produced Locomotor Experience on the Expression of Affect in InfantsBrian Meyer1,2 Joseph Campos1 1. Department of Psychology, University of Califor-nia, Berkeley, USA; 2. Department of Psychology, Luther College, Berkeley, USA

Th3-31 Mother’s Perception of Infant Emotion: Focus on Their Own EmotionTomoko Obara1 Natsumi Ueshima2 1. Aichi Konan Collage, Nagoya, Japan; 2. Nagoya University, Nagoya-City, Japan

Th3-32 Do Infant Child Characteristics Predict Emotion Regulation Strategy Understanding at 36 Months?Caroline Pemberton, Pamela ColeThe Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA

Th3-33 Temperamental Frustration and Inhibitory Control, and Parental Responses to Temperament Displays, in Relation to Toddler Behavior ProblemsSamuel Putnam, Nicole BorundaDept. of Psychology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, USA

Th3-34 Mothers’ Response to Infant Social Looks Predicts Emotion Recognition at 4 YearsJihyun Sung, Hui-chin HsuDept. of Child and Family Development, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

Th3-35 Mother’s Perception of Infant Emotion: Focus on Infant and/or Broader ContextNatsumi Ueshima1 Tomoko Obara2 1. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; 2. Aichi Konan Collage, Nagoya, Japan

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Th3-36 The Measurement of Maternal Affect Attunement: Development of a Reliable Coding SchemeKaren Bartling, Franziska Kopp, Ulman LindenbergerMax Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Th3-37 Contingency and Affective Mirroring in Fijian and Canadian Mother-infant DyadsTanya Broesch1 James Broesch1 Joseph Henrich2 Ann Bigelow3 Philippe Rochat1 1. Emory University, Atlanta, USA; 2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 3. Saint Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada



Taipei Municipal Women’s and Child’s Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Th3-54 The Functions of Maternal Touch During a Face-To-Face Still-Face Procedure: Influence of Maternal Regulatory Behaviors During the Transition PeriodsAmelie Jean, Robin Moszkowski, Nadine Girouard, Dale StackConcordia University, Centre for Research in Hu-man Development, Montréal, Canada

Th3-55 Mothers’ Knowledge about Infant Milestones in Relation to the Age of their Own InfantsNichole Elliott, Katherine KarrakerWest Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

Th3-56 Effect of Familiar information on Reading Interaction between Toddler and TeacherMinhwa KimHanbuk University, Seoul, Korea

Th3-57 The Interactions with a Trained Tutor Improve the Synchrony of Interactions with Other Persons in Institutional 1-3 Month Old InfantsElena KruchenkovaMoscow State University, Fac. of Biology, Moscow, Russia

Th3-58 The Developmental Change in Infants’ Responses to Peek-A-Boo GameMisa Kuroki1 Aya Kutsuki1 Sonoko Egami2 Tamiko Ogura3 Shoji Itakura4 1. Japanese Science and Technology Agency, Kyoto City, Japan; 2. Hokkaido University of Education, Hokkaido City, Japan; 3. Kobe University, Kobe City, Japan; 4. Kyoto University, Kyoto City, Japan

Th3-59 Socialization Strategies used by Parents with their ToddlersJulie Laurin, Audrey Savard, Véronique Rouvès, Mireille JoussemetUniversité de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Th3-60 Supporting Toddlers’ Need for Autonomy in the Context of SocializationAudrey Savard, Julie Laurin, Véronique Rouvès, Mireille JoussemetUniversité de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Th3-61 Parental Responsiveness and Sensory Stimulation During Play with InfantsNicole McCrayUniversity of Montana, Missoula, USA

Th3-62 Infant Social Referencing Predicts Preschool Self-RegulationBerit Olsen, Betty RepacholiUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USA

Th3-46 “Mommy, Where Are You?” Maternal Responsiveness at Night and Toddlers’ Security of AttachmentMegan Blair1 Meret Keller2 Wendy Goldberg2 1. University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, USA; 2. University of California, Irvine, USA

Th3-47 Young Children Understand the Obligations of Joint Commitments: Leave-Taking Behavior in Joint ActivitiesMaria Graefenhain1,2 Tanya Behne1,3 Malinda Carpenter1 Michael Tomasello1 1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthro-pology, Leipzig, Germany; 2. University of Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Germany; 3. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Th3-48 Affect Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: How Specific Intensities Predict the Stability of Infant’s Coordinated Joint Attention SkillsLisa Greenwald, Pamela RollinsSchool of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, USA

Th3-49 Infants’ Ability to Learn and Remember Object-Affect Pairings Using Direction of GazeLaurie Hamer, Sarah Johnson, Ross FlomBrigham Young University, Provo, USA

Th3-50 Toddler-Mother Attachment Security: Maternal and Child Correlates across Interactive ContextsAshley Holland, Nancy McElwain, Maria WongUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

Th3-51 Mothers’ Attention Regulation in Infancy: Correlates and OutcomesHui-chin Hsu, Leo White, Jihyun Sung, Marina KlimenkoUniversity of Georgia, Athens, USA

Th3-52 The Roles of Prior Intentions and Object Affordances in 2-Year-Olds’ Use of Context Information to Imitate a Complex Tool UseChi-tai Huang, Guan-jay Huang, Mei-jun Tsai, Hsiao-hua Chen, Mei-yu LinDepartment of Human Development, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Th3-53 Influences of Biological Risk at Birth and Temperament on Development at Toddler and Preschool AgesHua-fang Liao1 Ai-wen Hwang1 Wei-tsuen Soong2 Kuo-su Tsou3 1. School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2. Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 3. Department of Child Psychology,



Th3-72 Dyadic and Triadic Social Interaction and Action Understanding in the First Year of LifeClaudia Thoermer, Hannah Eisenbeis, Susanne Kristen, Beate SodianUniversity of Munich, Munich, Germany

Th3-73 Whom to Help, Whom Not to Help: Mediators of Prosocial Behavior in Early ChildhoodAmrisha Vaish, Malinda Carpenter, Michael TomaselloMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropol-ogy, Leipzig, Germany

Th3-74 The Role of Rewards and Parental Control on Helping in Young ChildrenFelix Warneken, Michael TomaselloMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropol-ogy, Leipzig, Germany

Th3-75 Infant Sleep Quality, Parenting, and Infant Developmental Outcomes. Maternal Separation Anxiety as a Regulator of Infants’ SleepAnat ScherUniversity of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Th3-76 Infant Sleep Quality, Parenting, and Infant Developmental Outcomes. Sleep in Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants: Maternal Perceptions and Developmental Outcomes Amy Schwichtenberg1 Julie Poehlmann2 1. Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madi-son, USA; 2. University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Th3-77 Infant Sleep Quality, Parenting, and Infant Developmental Outcomes. Maternal Adaptation to Infant Sleep, Infant’s Sleep Quality, and Behavior Problems in the Second Year Douglas Teti, Molly Countermine, Gail MayerThe Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA



Th4-01 A New Procedure to Examine the Role of Intersensory Integration in an Operant Learning Task in 3- and 5-Month-Old InfantsKelly Armstrong, Kimberly KraebelDept. of Psychology, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, USA

Th4-02 Individual Differences in Short-term Memory: The Role of Language Development and Verbal EncodingAnnie Cardell, Katherine Morasch, Martha BellVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

Th3-63 Attachment Quality at 12-16 Months and Collaborative Symbolic Abilities at 3 Years of AgeAna Osorio1 Carla Martins1 Elizabeth Meins2 Eva Martins3 1. Instituto de Educação e Psicologia - Universi-dade do Minho, Braga, Portugal; 2. Department of Psychology - University of Durham, Durham, UK; 3. Instituto Superior da Maia, Porto, Portugal

Th3-64 Executive Function and Belief-Desire Psychology in Young ChildrenHannes RakoczyMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropol-ogy, Leipzig, Germany

Th3-65 The Effects of Shared Book Reading on Mother-child InteractionAyumi Sato, Ichiro UchiyamaDepartment of Psychology, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Th3-66 Cooperative and Social Referencing Behaviors with Strangers from Different Racial Groups in 18-Month-OldsMariah Schug1 Tricia Striano2 1. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Science, New York, USA; 2. Hunter College and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Science, New York, USA

Th3-67 Do Infants Treat Hands Like Faces or Like Objects?Virginia Slaughter, Philippa NearyUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Th3-68 Socialization in Progress: Discordant Interactions in Families with Two Year OldsLinda Sperry, Douglas Sperry, Melissa HamillIndiana State University, Terre Haute, USA

Th3-69 Mother-Infant Contingent Responsiveness in Families by Adoption and BirthJoan Suwalsky, Linda Cote, Marc Bornstein, Charlene Hendricks, O. HaynesNational Institute of Child Health & Human Devel-opment, Bethesda, USA

Th3-70 Mothers’ Mental State Talk Scaffolds Children’s Mental State Language and Emotion Understanding from 15 - 54 MonthsMele Taumoepeau, Ted RuffmanOtago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, Dunedin, New Zealand

Th3-71 Interpretation Accuracy of Infant Facial Expressions and Maternal Depression as Predictors of Maternal SensitivityCatherine Tenedios, Erica Musser, Jennifer AblowDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA



Th4-13 Influences on Infant Duration of Orienting in Low-Income LatinosKathryn Lemery-Chalfant1 Kristy McDonald1 Linda Luecken1 Felipe Castro1 Carlos Valiente1 Rose Howe2 1. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA; 2. Mari-copa County Department of Public Health, Tempe, USA

Th4-14 Background Music Interferes with Imitation from Televised and Live Demonstrations During InfancyRachel Barr1 Katherine Salerno1 Lauren Shuck1 Emily Atkinson1 Deborah Linebarger2 Nancy Miller3 1. Georgetown University, Washington, USA; 2. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; 3. Loyola University, Chicago, USA

Th4-15 Both Maternal Sensitivity and Atypical Maternal Behavior Independently Predict Attachment Security and Disorganization in Adolescent Mother-Infant RelationshipsGreg Moran1 Lindsey Forbes1 Elspeth Evans1 George Tarabulsy2 Sheri Madigan3 1. The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; 2. Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada; 3. Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Th4-16 Embodied Infant AttentionSteven Robertson, Sarah Johnson, Molly AyzikovichCornell University, Ithaca, USA

Th4-17 Development of Cross-modal Statistical LearningChristopher Robinson, Vladimir SloutskyThe Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Th4-18 Parenting Across Cultures: Different Patterns but Similar PathwaysLori Roggman1 Gina Cook2 Vonda Jump2 Mark Innocenti2 Katie Christiansen1 Cora Price2 1. Family, Consumer, & Human Development, Utah State University, Logan, USA; 2. Early Intervention Institute, Utah State University, Logan, USA

Th4-19 Infant Short-Term Memory for Non-Linguistic SoundsShannon Ross-Sheehy1 Rochelle Newman2 1. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA; 2. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Th4-20 The Role of Ostensive-Communicative Referential Cueing in Inducing the A-Not-B Perseverative Search Error: A Comparative Study on Human Infants Dogs, and WolvesJozsef Topal1 Julia Bognar2 Gyorgy Gergely1 1. Institute for Psychological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; 2. De-partment of Ethology Eotvos, University, Budapest, Hungary

Th4-03 Within-Session Variability in Infants’ Looking Time HabituationRick Gilmore, Adam ChristensenPenn State University, University Park, USA

Th4-04 What Habituates in Infant Habituation? A Psychophysiological AnalysisJohn Colombo1 Jill Shaddy1 Otilia Blaga1 Christa Anderson1 Kathleen Kannass2 Linzi Gibson1 1. The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA; 2. Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Th4-05 Domain-Dependent Refinement of Attention to RelationsColin Dawson, Louann GerkenUniversity of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Th4-06 Vigilance in Infant Attention: Individual DifferencesKaya de Barbaro, Andrea Chiba, Gedeon DeakUniversity of California, San Diego, USA

Th4-07 Predicting When Babies First PointWarren Eaton, Debra LallUniversity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Th4-08 Assessing the Influence of Amodal Cues (i.e. Shape) in a Tactile Habituation Task in 3-Month-Old Human InfantsNicole Granger, Kimberly KraebelDept. of Psychology, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, USA

Th4-09 Specific Event Schemas for the Acquisition of Japanese Topic Particle WaTomoya Hashimoto1 Shigeaki Amano2 1. Osaka City University, Kyoto, Japan; 2. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corpo-ration, Kyoto, Japan

Th4-10 The Development of Episodic Memory in Infants - Longitudinal EvidenceThorsten Kolling, Claudia Goertz, Stefanie Frahsek, Monika KnopfJohann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Th4-11 The Influence of Joint Attention on Memory Processes in InfantsFranziska KoppMax Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Th4-12 The Differential Influence of Ostensive Communicative Context on Observational Learning in Human Infants and Domesticated Dogs: A Comparative StudyKrisztina Kupan1 Jozsef Topal2 Katalin Egyed2 Kata Kreko2 Gyorgy Gergely2 1. Department of Ethology, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary; 2. Institute for Psychological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Buda-pest, Hungary



Th4-29 Processing of Action Goals in InfancyJonathan Herberg, Maria Vazquez, Megan Saylor, Dan LevinVanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

Th4-30 Using Language Cues to Facilitate the Flexibility of Infant Memory RetrievalJane HerbertUniversity of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Th4-31 Mental Rotation in Human Infants: a Sex DifferenceDavid Moore1 Scott Johnson2 1. Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate Univer-sity, Claremont, USA; 2. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Th4-32 Not Just from A to B: How Eye Movements Change Our Understanding of the A-Not-B TaskJohanna Muenke1 Natasha Kirkham2 1. Stanford University, Stanford, USA; 2. Birkbeck - University of London, London, UK

Th4-33 Can 18-Month-Olds Overcome the Reality Bias in Theory of Mind Tasks? New Evidence from Eye-TrackingAnnina Neumann, Claudia Thoermer, Beate SodianLudwig-Maximilians-University, Dept. of Psychol-ogy, Developmental Psychology, Munich, Germany

Th4-35 Attributing False Beliefs About the Internal Properties of Objects: Evidence from 18.5-Month-Old InfantsRose Scott1 Hyun-joo Song2 Renee Baillargeon1 Alan Leslie3 1. University of Illinois, Champaign, USA; 2. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; 3. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Th4-36 Understanding Relief and Achievement: Infants’ Discrimination and Crossmodal Perception of Two Positive Affective ExpressionsMelanie Soderstrom1 Disa Sauter2 James Morgan1 1. Brown University, Providence, USA; 2. University of London, London, UK

Th4-37 Beyond Action: Imitation of Strategies and GoalsAshley Pinkham1 Vikram Jaswal1 Francys Subiaul2 David Buttelmann3 Gergely Csibra4 1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; 2. George Washington University, Washington, USA; 3. Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany; 4. Birk-beck, University of London, London, UK

Th4-38 18- and 36-Month-Olds Imitate Sorting StrategiesAshley Pinkham1 Rebecca Williamson2 Vikram Jaswal1 Andrew Meltzoff2 1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; 2. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Th4-21 Effects of Feeding and Familiarity on Newborn Speech RecognitionA. Valiante1,2 Ronald Barr3 Philip Zelazo4 Emmett Francoeur5 Nicole Catherine3 Simon Young1 1. McGill University, Montréal, Canada ; 2. Uni-versity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 3. Center for Community Child Health Research, Uni-versity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 4. Concordia University, Montréal, Canada; 5. McGill University Health Center, Montréal, Canada


Th4-22 Children Attend to Part-Shapes and Part-Relations in Object CategorizationElaine Augustine, Susan JonesIndiana University, Bloomington, USA

Th4-23 Infant and Mother Play in South Korea and the United StatesDiane Putnick1 Keumjoo Kwak2 Marc Bornstein1 1. NICHD, Bethesda, USA; 2. Seoul National Uni-versity, Seoul, Korea

Th4-24 Nine-Month-Olds’ Discrimination of Ordinal InformationCaitlin Brez, Marc Tomlinson, Leslie CohenThe University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

Th4-25 Eighteen-Month-Olds Form a Spatial Category of Tight-Fit Relations: A Boost from Labels and ExperienceJui Bhagwat, Marianella Casasola, Anne BurkeCornell University, Ithaca, USA

Th4-26 Sensitivity to Physical and Psychological Constraints in Infants’ Statistical InferenceStephanie Denison, Fei XuUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Th4-27 Are Faces Necessary? 6- to 9-Month-Olds’ Gaze Following of Humans and ObjectsBarbara D’EntremontUniversity of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada

Th4-28 Does Olfaction Modulate Visual Behaviour and Learning in Newborns?Karine Durand1 Sébastien Doucet1 Gaëlle Baudon1 Alix Seigneuric1 Jean-yves Baudouin2 Robert Soussignan3 Benoist Schaal4 1. Centre Européen des Sciences du Goût UMR-CNRS 5170, Dijon, France; 2. SPMS, EA 3985, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France; 3. Centre Emotion UMR-CNRS 7593 - CHU Salpêtrière, Paris, France; 4. Centre Européen des Sciences du Goût, Dijon, France



Th4-49 Predictive Tracking of Social and Non-Social StimuliTy Boyer, Bennett BertenthalIndiana University, Bloomington, USA

Th4-50 Look Mom, No Hands! The Impact of Learning to Walk on Carrying ObjectsMelissa Clearfield1 Emily Bushnell2 Katherine Baxter1 Jordan Fitzgerald1 1. Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA; 2. Tufts University and Whitman College, Boston, USA

Th4-51 Action Tendencies Generalize from Feet to Hands: Kicking and Button-Pressing in an A-not-B TaskJoshua Goldberg1 Evelina Dineva2 Jing Feng3 Gregor Schöner4 Esther Thelen5 John Spencer2 1. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA; 2. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA; 3. Shriners Hospital for Children-Portland, Portland, USA; 4. Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 5. Deceased, Bloomington, Indiana

Th4-52 Longitudinal Studies of Very Premature Infants: Reaching for Moving ObjectsHelena GrönqvistUppsala University, Department of Psychology, Uppsala, Sweden

Th4-53 Grasping Skill Improves with Crawling Experience: Converging Data from Typically-Developing Infants at Two Ages and Toddlers with Obstetrical Brachial Plexus PalsyRosanne Kermoian, Jereen Kwong, Terri Tsang, Christine McGettigan, Tien DongStanford University, Stanford, USA

Th4-54 Exploring Effects of Early Musical Experiences on the Infant’s Physical and Motor Development During the First YearIzumi Kida, Mayumi AdachiDept. of Psychology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Th4-55 One Child’s Day: A Descriptive Case Study of Locomotor Experience in the First 18 Months of LifeEleni Mathioudakis, Daryaneh Badaly, Karen AdolphNew York University, New York, USA

Th4-56 Quantifying Variability in Phase PortraitsJohn Polk1 Jesse Spencer-Smith2 Louis DiBerardino3 Daniel Ellis4 Matthew Downen4 Karl Rosengren5 1. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; 2. Dept of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham-paign, USA; 3. Dept of MSE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; 4. Dept of Kinesiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; 5. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Th4-39 Isolating Cognitive from Motor Imitation: Evidence from Monkeys and ChildrenFrancys SubiaulGeorge Washington University, Washington, USA

Th4-40 Jumping But Not Marching? The Relationship Between Vocabulary Knowledge and the Categorization of Intransitive ActionsLulu Song1 Roberta Golinkoff1 Weiyi Ma1 Rebecca Seston2 Kathy Hirsh-Pasek3 1. University of Delaware, Newark, USA; 2. Boston University, Boston, USA; 3. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Th4-41 Understanding Exact Equality Between Quantities Through One-To-One CorrespondenceVeronique Izard1 Arlette Streri2 Elizabeth Spelke1 1. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 2. Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Paris V University, CNRS, Paris, France

MoTor and sensoriMoTor

Th4-42 Understanding Others’ Actions: Comparing Active Participation and Observational ExperienceJessica SommervilleUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USA

Th4-43 Parent-Guided Action Facilitates Infants’ Learning About Physical Events: A Cross-Cultural StudySu-hua WangUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Th4-44 Baby See, Baby Do: Parents and Infants Playing With SoundTracy Smith, Teresa WilcoxTexas A&M University, College Station, USA

Th4-45 Effects of Simulated Reaching Experience on Action and PerceptionKlaus Libertus, Amy NeedhamDuke University, Durham, USA

Th4-46 Infant Perception and Action: The Role of Functional Object AffordancesHaiko Ballieux, Denis MareschalCBCD - Birkbeck College, London, UK

Th4-47 A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Infants’ Locomotor Expertise on the Development of InhibitionSarah BergerThe College of Staten Island, Staten Island, USA

Th4-48 Using Real-Time Motion Capture to Measure Handedness in InfantsEliza Nelson, George Konidaris, Neil BerthierUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA



Th4-66 Attentional Mechanisms Involved in the Selection of an Illusory and a Non-illusory FigureHermann Bulf, Eloisa ValenzaDipt. di Psicologia dello Sviluppo, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Th4-67 Face Perception in Three-Month-Old Infants: An Eye-Movement StudyIrene Leo, Elisa Di Giorgio, Francesca SimionDPSS-Università di Padova, Padova, Italy

Th4-68 Stimulus Contingency and the Malleability of Species-Typical Auditory PreferencesChristopher Harshaw1 Isaac Tourgeman2 Robert Lickliter1 1. Florida International University, Miami, USA; 2. Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA

Th4-69 Infants’ Sensitivity to Configural Information in Human Male and Monkey FacesAngela Hayden, Ramesh Bhatt, Nicole ZieberUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Th4-70 Parts, Cavities, and the Development of Object Representation in Infancy Angela Hayden, Ramesh BhattUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Th4-71 Gender Differences in Older Infants’ Auditory-Visual Integration of Speech Using the McGurk EffectCassandra Hockman1 Jessica Versele1 Robin Panneton2 1. Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacks-burg, USA; 2. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

Th4-72 Exploring the Emergence of Intersubjectivity in an Avian Neonate: The Development of Gaze Following BehaviorMark Jaime, Robert LickliterFlorida International University, Miami, USA

Th4-73 Recognition of the Profile Pose of the Mother’s Face by 9 Week Old Infants: Evidence for the Emergence of a Broader Facial RepresentationFatma Zohra SaiAl ain, UAE

Th4-74 Processing of Face Identity and Emotional Expression in 8-Month-Old InfantsGudrun Schwarzer, Bianca JovanovicUniversity of Giessen, Department of Psychology, Giessen, Germany

Th4-75 Infants Prefer Culturally Familiar MusicGaye Soley1 Erin Hannon2 1. Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University, Cam-bridge, USA; 2. Dept. of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Th4-57 3D Object Completion Develops with Infants’ Visual-Manual ExplorationKasey Soska1 Karen Adolph1 Scott Johnson2 1. New York University, New York, USA; 2. Univer-sity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Th4-58 Nonlinear Analysis of Sitting Postural Sway Indicates Developmental Delay in InfantsNicholas Stergiou1,2 Joan Deffeyes1 Regina Harbourne3 Stacey DeJong3 Anastatia Kyvelidou1 Wayne Stuberg3 1. HPER Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Nebraska at Omaha,Omaha, USA; 2. Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health Sciences, College of Public Health, Univer-sity of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA; 3. Munroe Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA

Th4-59 Development of Cerebral Oxygenation Preceding a Reaching MovementRieko Takaya1 Akira Midorikawa2 1. Faculty of Human Development and Culture, Fu-kushima University, Fukushima, Japan; 2. Depart-ment of Psychology, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Th4-60 Sensorimotor Experience and Effects on Look and Touch Behavior in Pre-Reaching InfantsJoshua Williams, Daniela CorbettaThe University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, USA

PercePTuaL deveLoPMenT

Th4-61 Tempo Discrimination in Infants: The Roles of Intersensory Redundancy, Task Difficulty, and ExpertiseLorraine Bahrick, Robert Lickliter, Mariana Vaillant-Molina, Irina CastellanosFlorida International University, Miami, USA

Th4-62 Visual-Only Spoken Word Discrimination in InfantsTonya Bergeson, Ashley WilliamsIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapo-lis, USA

Th4-63 The Relation between Configural and Holistic Face Processing in InfancyRamesh Bhatt, Angela Hayden, Ashley KangasUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Th4-64 Infant Word Recognition Is Stress-FullHeather Bortfeld1 James Morgan2 1. Texas A&M University, College Station, USA; 2. Brown University, Providence, USA

Th4-65 Ethnic Familiarity does not Affect 6- and 10-Month-Olds’ Processing of Novel FacesTanya Broesch, Erin Robbins, Philippe RochatEmory University, Atlanta, USA



Friday, March 2808:00 Posters

Fr1-07 Encouraging Cognitive Development: The Role of Maternal Mind-mindedness in Language Acquisition of InfantsCynthia LaMorticella1 Jennifer Ablow2 Dare Baldwin2 1. University of Oregon, Elmira, USA; 2. University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Fr1-08 Sequence Learning in 4 Month-Old Infants: Do Infants Represent Ordinal Information?David Lewkowicz, Iris BerentFlorida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

Fr1-09 Further Evidence that Young Infants cannot Store Multiple Objects in Visual Short-Term MemoryLisa Oakes, Ian Messenger, Shannon Ross-Sheehy, Steven LuckUniversity of California, Davis, USA

Fr1-10 Video Comprehensibility and Attention in Very Young ChildrenTiffany Pempek1 Heather Kirkorian2 Michael Stevens3 Anne Lund4 John Richards3 Daniel Anderson2 1. Georgetown University, Washington, USA; 2. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; 3. University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA; 4. Curious Pictures, New York, USA

Fr1-11 Linking Individual Differences in Looking Behavior to Learning and RecognitionSammy Perone1 John Spencer2 1. University of Iowa, North Liberty, USA; 2. Uni-versity of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Fr1-12 Infant Sustained Attention Affects Brain Areas Controlling Covert OrientingJohn RichardsUniversity of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

Fr1-13 Infant-directed Behavior Modulates Social Preferences in 5-Month-Old InfantsAdena Schachner1 Erin Hannon2 1. Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University, Cam-bridge, USA; 2. Dept. of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Fr1-14 Repetition Suppression of Induced Gamma Activity Predicts Behavioral Responses to Novelty in 6-Month-Old InfantsKelly Snyder1 Andreas Keil2 1. Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, USA; 2. Department of Psychology and NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion & Atten-tion, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Fr1-15 The Development of Visual Working Memory: Bridging the Theoretical and Empirical Gap between Infancy and Five YearsJohn Spencer, Vanessa Simmering, Sammy Perone, Shannon Ross-SheehyUniversity of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Th4-76 Differential Processing of Newborn and Adult Faces in 6-Month-Old Infants: Evidence From ERPsAlissa Westerlund1 Katherine Hung1 Charles Nelson2 1. Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, USA; 2. Har-vard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, USA

PsychoPaThoLogy and deveLoPMenTaL deLay

Th4-77 The Validity and Modifiability of Mother Reported and Observed Infant Distress to Novelty in relation to Mother and Father Reported Social Fear at 2 1/2 Years Susan Crockenberg1 Esther Leerkes2 1. University of Vermont, Burlington, USA; 2. Uni-versity of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA

08:00 –09:50 Friday PosTers session 1


Fr1-01 Use of Geometry for Spatial Orientation in Toddlers: Does it Only Apply to Symmetric Arrays?Adina Lew, Bryony Antcliff, Caroline Murphy, Gavin BremnerLancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Fr1-02 Location Representation in Young Children: Is There an Advantage for Composite Cues?Stella Lourenco, Dede AddyEmory Univeristy, Atlanta, USA

Fr1-03 Session-Spacing Effects over the First 2 Years of LifeVivian HsuRutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscat-away, USA

Fr1-04 Individuation by Color Facilitates Visual Short-Term Memory for Location in 12-Month-Old InfantsKarinna Hurley, Lisa Oakes, Shannon Ross-Sheehy, Steven LuckUniversity of California, Davis, USA

Fr1-05 The Effects of Event Familiarity and Individual Differences on Infant DistractibilityKathleen Kannass, Nancy Miller, Adana CelikLoyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA

Fr1-06 Some Effects of Recurring Auditory Experience in the 28- to 34-Week-Old Preterm InfantCharlene Krueger, Glen SizemoreUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, USA



Fr1-23 Detecting Intentionality: Not All Contingencies are EqualJonathan Beier, Susan CareyDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Fr1-24 The Effects of Active vs. Passive Experience on Infants’ Action UnderstandingSarah Gerson, Amanda WoodwardUniversity of Maryland, College Park, USA

Fr1-25 What are You Looking At? Infants’ Neural Processing of an Adult’s Object-Directed Eye GazeStefanie Hoehl1 Jeanette Mooney1 Vincent Reid2 Tricia Striano1,3 1. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; 2. Durham University, Durham, UK; 3. Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA

Fr1-26 Infants Learn to Imitate: Evidence from Infants’ Failed Attempts at MimicrySusan JonesPsychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Fr1-27 Are Number Gestures Easier than Number Words for Preschoolers?Elena Nicoladis1 Simone Pika2 Paula Marentette3 1. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 2. Uni-versity of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 3. University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty, Camrose, Canada

Fr1-28 Can Infants Parse the Dynamic Actions of an Inanimate Agent?Diane Poulin-Dubois, Kara OlineckConcordia University, Montréal, Canada

Fr1-29 Parental Reports of Children’s Scale ErrorsKarl Rosengren, Isabel Gutierrez, Kathy AndersonUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Fr1-30 Assessing Infant’s Intention Understanding and Imitation Through a Video MethodElena Sakkalou, Merideth GattisSchool of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Fr1-31 Young Infants’ Perception and Learning about FoodsKristin Shutts1 Kirsten Condry2 Elizabeth Spelke1 1. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 2. R.I.T., Rochester, USA

Fr1-32 Infants’ Interpretation of Impossible Objects in PicturesSarah Shuwairi1 Judy DeLoache2 1. NYU Department of Psychology, New York, USA; 2. University of Virginia, Department of Psychol-ogy, Charlottesville, USA

Fr1-16 A Longitudinal Study Assessing the Development of Attention, Inhibition, Working Memory and Temperament from Infancy to 7 YearsWendy Troob, John Spencer, Lisa OakesUniversity of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Fr1-17 Can Young Infants Understand When Another’s Attentional Gaze is Directed towards the Same Object that they are Looking at? Preliminary StudyHiromi TsujiOsaka Shoin Women’s University, Kashiba, Japan

Fr1-18 Newborn Habituation and Retention of the Glabella Reflex: No Evidence of a Feeding EffectA. Valiante1,2 Ronald Barr3 Shuvo Ghosh4 Emmett Francoeur4 Philip Zelazo5 Maeve Francoeur4 Simon Young1 1. McGill University, Montréal, Canada; 2. Uni-versity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 3. Center for Community Child Health Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 4. McGill University Health Center, Mon-tréal, Canada; 5. Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Fr1-19 Developmental Changes in IOR from 3 to 6 Months of AgeKrisztina Varga, Janet Frick, Leah Kapa, Melissa DenglerUniversity of Georgia, Athens, USA


Fr1-20 Inferring the Presence of Hidden Objects from Manual ActionsVictoria Southgate, Mark Johnson, Tamsin Osborne, Gergely CsibraBirkbeck University of London, School of Psychol-ogy, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, London, UK

Fr1-21 Infants’ Predictive Looking during Eating ObservationOlga Kochukhova1 Gustaf Gredebäck2 Claes von Hofsten1 1. Uppsala University, Department of Psychology, Uppsala, Sweden; 2. University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, Oslo, Norway

Fr1-22 Perception and Production of Object-Related Grasping Movements in 6-Month-Old InfantsMoritz Daum, Wolfgang Prinz, Gisa AscherslebenMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology, Leipzig, Germany



Fr1-43 Do Nouns Influence the Alignment of Events in Verb Learning?Jane Childers, Lashelle SydenhamTrinity University, San Antonio, USA

Fr1-44 Native-Language Prosody Facilitates Segmentation: Evidence from Infant Learners of Canadian English and Canadian FrenchSuzanne Curtin1 Linda Polka2 Shani Abada2 Sally-joy Reaper3 1. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; 2. McGill University, Montréal, Canada; 3. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Fr1-45 The Role of Social Feedback in the Development of Prelinguistic Communicative PragmaticsJulie Gros-LouisIndiana University, Bloomington, USA

Fr1-46 Fast-Mapping a Proper Name in 26- and 30-Month-Old Japanese ChildrenEtsuko Haryu1 Mutsumi Imai2 Hiroyuki Okada3 Sachiyo Kajikawa3 1. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2. Keio Uni-versity, Kanagawa, Japan; 3. Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan

Fr1-47 Toddlers Use Mutual Exclusivity even when it Conflicts with Pragmatic InformationVikram JaswalUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Fr1-48 Phonetic Variability can Influence Performance in a Word Learning TaskKaren Mattock1,2 Linda Polka1 Susan Rvachew1 Madelaine Krehm1 1. McGill University, Montréal, Canada; 2. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Fr1-49 Why Japanese Parents Use Baby-TalkToshiki MuraseShimane University, Matsue, Japan

Fr1-50 The Relationship between Imitation Types and Language DevelopmentTamiko Ogura1 Shoji Itakura2 Aya Kutsuki3 Misa Kuroki3 Sonoko Egami4 1. Kobe University, Kobe, Japan; 2. Kyoto Univer-sity, Kyoto, Japan; 3. Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kyoto, Japan; 4. Hokkaido University of Education, Asahikawa, Japan

Fr1-51 Lexical Knowledge in Bilingual InfantsAnnick De Houwer1,2 Marc Bornstein2 Diane Putnick2 1. University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium; 2. NICHD, Bethesda, USA

Fr1-52 Educational Television? Children’s Potential to Learn Verbs from TelevisionSarah Roseberry, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Golinkoff, Julia Parish-MorrisTemple University, Philadelphia, USA

Fr1-33 Conflicting Prior Knowledge Hinders Category Learning in Eight- and Thirteen-Month-Old InfantsSarah Snoxall, Denis MareschalCentre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, London, UK

Fr1-34 Human Fetuses are Sensitive to Unfamiliar Sounds and Familiar VoicesHideko Takeshita, Masako Myowa-YamakoshiThe University of Shiga Prefecture, Hikone, Japan

Fr1-35 Do Infants Understand Sharpness as a Causal Property?Tania Tzelnic1 Marc Hauser2 Valerie Kuhlmeier1 1. Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada; 2. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Fr1-36 Do Babies Learn from Baby Videos?Mieke VanderBorght, Cynthia Chiong, Judy DeLoache, Kathleen Van Eron, Georgene Troseth, Gabrielle Strouse, Nadia IslamUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Fr1-37 Early Representations of Directed Motion Events in an Imitation Choice TaskAnna Yocom, Maia Greene-Havas, Laura WagnerOSU, Columbus, USA

Fr1-38 Infants’ Ability to Infer Agents’ Dispositions Based on Underlying IntentionsJung-eun Yun, Hyun-joo SongDept. of Psychology, Yonsei University, Korea, Seoul, Korea


Fr1-39 One-Year-Olds Appreciate the Referential Nature of Words and Communicative GesturesTeodora Gliga, Gergely CsibraBirkbeck College, London, UK

Fr1-40 “Talking Heads” in an Intermodal Preferential Looking TaskEmily Mather, Kim PlunkettUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Fr1-41 Three-Year-Olds Trust Inaccurate Native Language Speakers over Non-Native Language SpeakersDouglas Behrend1 Cari Bogulski2 Rachel Schwartz1 Ashley Cowles1 1. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA; 2. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Fr1-42 Examining Maternal Vocabulary Diversity in Book Sharing and Play Interactions: A Longitudinal Study of Latino Toddlers Living in PovertyLisa Boyce, Mark Innocenti, Eduardo Ortiz, Gina CookUtah State University, Logan, USA


Friday, March 2808:00, 10:10 Posters

Fr2-03 Impact of Growth, Cardiac Physiology and Paren-tal Stress on Development at 6 Months of AgeBarbara Medoff-Cooper, Sharon Irving, Danica Sumpter, Virginia Stallings, Gil Wernovsky, Babette ZemelUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Fr2-04 Methylation of Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene (NR3C1) in Newborns following Prenatal Exposure to Depressed Maternal Mood Tim Oberlander, Angela Devlin, Michael Paps dorf, Ruth Grunau, Shaila Misri, Joanne WeinbergUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Fr2-05 Neurodevelopmental Prediction of Preterm Infant Feeding PerformanceRita Pickler, Al Best, Barbara ReynaVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

Fr2-06 A Comparison of Electrophysiological Activity during Working Memory and Recognition Memory in 5 & 10 Month Old InfantsVinaya Raj, Katherine Morasch, Christy Wolfe, Martha BellVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

Fr2-07 Are Big Babies More Beautiful? Rating Infant Faces for Attractiveness Depending on Apparent Weight VariationsVictoria Maskell, Nadja Reissland, Michael BurtUniversity of Durham, Durham, UK

Fr2-08 EEG Right Asymmetry Correlates with NBASAkira Saito1 Hiroshi Tada2 Naoki Uga3 1. Tsurumi College, Yokohama, Japan; 2. Jissen Women’s University, Hino, Japan; 3. Toho Univer-sity School of Medicine, Ohtaku, Japan

Fr2-09 Infant and Child Temperament Correlates of Social Responsiveness at Age 4Brenda Salley, Angela Scarpa, Katherine Morasch, Martha Ann BellVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

Fr2-10 Effect of Prenatal SSRI and Depression on Newborn Cry CharacteristicsAimee Santucci1 Barbara Hanusa2 Katherine Wisner2 1. University of Pittsburgh, Division of General Internal Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, Pittsburgh, USA; 2. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, USA

Fr2-11 The Association between Cortisol Levels and Sleep in ToddlersAnat Scher1 Wendy Hall2 Anat Zaidman-Zait2 Joanne Weinberg2 1. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; 2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Fr1-53 Use of Syntactic Frames for Word Mapping by French-Speaking ChildrenSimcha Samuel, Yuriko Oshima-TakaneMcGill University, Montréal, Canada

Fr1-54 Cortical Responses to Lexical Pitch-Accent in Japanese InfantsYutaka Sato1 Yuko Sogabe1 Reiko Mazuka1,2 1. RIKEN, Wako, Japan; 2. Duke University, Durham, USA

Fr1-55 Building Talk: Parental Utterances During Construction PlayWendy Shallcross, Tilbe Goksun, Roberta Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Marianne Lloyd, Nora Newcombe, Sarah RoseberryTemple University, Philadelphia, USA

Fr1-56 Infant Feedback Modulates Mothers’ Infant-Directed SpeechNicholas Smith1 Laurel Trainor2 1. Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, USA; 2. McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Fr1-57 Joint Attention Helps Infants to Learn New Words: ERP EvidenceManuela Stets1,2 Tricia Striano3 Masako Hirotani4 1. Neurocognition and Development Group, Uni-versity of Leipzig; Leipzig, Germany; 2. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; 3. Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, USA; 4. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Fr1-58 Do Lexical Aspects of Maternal Input Affect the Language of Children with Autism?Lauren Swensen1 Deborah Fein2 Letitia Naigles2 1. NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmen-tal Disabilities, Staten Island, USA; 2. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

10:10 –12:00 Friday PosTer session 2

BioLogicaL Processes

Fr2-01 Mother and Infant’s Heart Rhythms Synchronize during Episodes of Face-to-Face Affect SynchronyRuth Feldman, Romi Magor-Cohen, Giora Galili, Magi Moshe, Yoram LouzounBar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Fr2-02 Event-Related EEG Mu Rhythm Responses to Point-Light Actions in 5-Month-Old InfantsPeter Marshall, Thomas Shipley, Kelly Fisher, Lauren LaFrance, Stephanie CatellaTemple University, Philadelphia, USA



Fr2-18 To Look or not to Look? Proximity and Toddlers’ Looks to Mothers in Negative and Positive Emotion TasksAmy Dribin, Kristin BussThe Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Fr2-19 Toddlers’ Behavioral Strategies during a Frustrating Situation with Mothers and FathersNaomi Ekas, Diane Lickenbrock, Shannon Zentall, Lauren Bohn, Julia Braungart-RiekerUniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

Fr2-20 Developing Confidence during Infancy: An Analyt-ical Study of Infant Emotional Behavior PatternsAngela FisherUnion Institute & University, South Orange, USA

Fr2-21 Smiles in 8-Month-Old Infants and Caretakers: Relevance of Self Produced Locomotion and Emotion DevelopmentAtsuhiko Funabashi1 Takae Funabashi2 1. Aichi University of Education, Kariya City, Japan; 2. Kyushu University, Kariya City, Japan

Fr2-22 Temperament in Infancy and the Toddler Period: Patterns Observed in Japan, Russia, and the U.S. Helena Slobodskaya, Alexandra Kolmagorova, Atsuko Nakagawa, Masune Sukigara, Rie Mizuno, Maria Gartstein, Brandi YoungState Research Institute of Physiology, SBRAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Fr2-23 Contagious Crying as an Early Precursor of EmpathyElena Geangu1 Tricia Striano2 Oana Benga3 1. Romanian Academy of Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2. Hunter Col-lege, Department of Psychology, New York, USA; 3. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Fr2-24 Infant Self Regulation and Parenting Stress in Low-and Middle Income SamplesDeann Jones1 Lori Roggman2 Kaelin Olsen2 1. Utah State University, Providence, USA; 2. Utah State University, Logan, USA

Fr2-25 Affective Intersubjectivity between Mother and Toddler as a Predictor of Emotion UnderstandingMarina Klimenko, Hui-chin HsuUniversity of Georgia, Athens, USA

Fr2-26 Longitudinal Relations of Maternal Personality and Depression to Infant Temperament in a Japanese PopulationEmiko Kusanagi1 Shigeru Nakano2 Megumi Sekine2 Kiyomi Kondo-Ikemura2 1. Kokugakuin Junior College, Takikawa City, Japan; 2. Hokkaido Health Science University, Sap-poro City, Japan

Fr2-12 An Examination of the Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Visual Perceptual NarrowingLisa Scott, Alexandra Monesson, Jessica BuchinskiUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Fr2-13 Maternal Verbal Behaviors, Parenting Stress and Cortisol Response to Immunization in Preterm InfantsMai Thanh Tu1 Ruth Grunau2 Michael Whitfield2 Joanne Weinberg3 1. Universite de Montréal, Dept. Social and Preven-tive Medicine, Montréal, Canada; 2. Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 3. Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, University of British Colum-bia, Vancouver, Canada

Fr2-14 Behavioral Stress Reactivity and Stress Regulation in NewbornsBea Van den Bergh1 Sofie De Vos2 Marijke Fraussen2 Elke Maes2 Maya Magnus2 Silvia Pinna Puissant2 Mitchell Silva3 Annelies Simons2 Sara Weckhhuyzen2 Karel Allegaert4 1. Department of Welfare, Public Health and Fam-ily, Brussels, Belgium; 2. Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 3. Depart-ment of Biosystems, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 4. Group Biomedical Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Fr2-15 Mother-Infant Synchrony of Salivary Cortisol Response to Emotional Challenge: The Role of Infant Feeding Choice and ParityKristin Voegtline1 Cynthia Stifter1 Heather Lorenc1 Family Life Project Key Investigators1,2 1. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA; 2. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University Park, Chapel Hill, USA

Fr2-16 DRD2 Genotype and Prenatal Exposure to Tobacco Interact to Influence Infant Attention and ReactivitySandra Wiebe, Kimberly Espy, Christian Stopp, Jennifer Respass, Travis Jameson, Jodi HuggenvikUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA


Fr2-17 Observed and Reported Coparenting as Predictors of Infant-Mother and Infant-Father AttachmentGeoffrey Brown1 Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan2 Sarah Mangelsdorf1 Cynthia Neff1 1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA; 2. The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA



Fr2-36 Maternal and Child Characteristics as Antecedents of Maternal Mind-MindednessIsabelle Demers, Annie Bernier, George TarabulsyUniversity of Montréal, Montréal, Canada


Fr2-37 Kangaroo Care Effects on Hospital Acquired Infections through Alteration of Stratum Corneum Barrier Function in Preterm InfantsAmel Abouelfettoh, Susan Ludington-HoeCase Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

Fr2-38 Infant-Mother Interaction Quality in Preterm Low Birthweight Infants: Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Social Interactions Jon-paul BianchiDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Fr2-39 Preterm Growth in Perception and Cognition: A Cross-cultural ComparisonNancy Auestad1 Marc Bornstein2 Charlene Hendricks2 Deborah O’Connor3 1. Kellogg, Battle Creek, USA; 2. NIH/NICHD, Bethesda, USA; 3. Univeristy of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Fr2-40 Speech Perception Capacities in VLBW Preterm Infants: Vowel Discrimination and Native Language Recognition in the First Months of LifeLaura Bosch, Melània Figueras, Martí Iriondo, Pilar PóoUniversity of Barcelona (GRNC-PCB), Spain

Fr2-41 Developing and Testing the Effects of an Early Parenting InterventionKathleen Baggett1 Edward Feil2 Betsy Davis2 Lisa Sheeber2 Susan Landry3 Carta Carta1 1. Juniper Gardens Children’s Project; University of Kansas, Kansas City, USA; 2. Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, USA; 3. University of Texas, Houston Medical School, Houston, USA

Fr2-42 Nursing Support Intervention for African American Mothers: Effect on Maternal Psychological Well-Being and the Mother-Child Relationship Diane Holditch-Davis1 Margaret Miles2 Mark Weaver2 Suzanne Thoyre2 Linda Beeber2 Beth Black2 Janice Wereszczak2 Stephen Engelke3 1. Duke University, Durham, USA; 2. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; 3. East Carolina University, Greenville, USA

Fr2-43 Fathers’ Experiences in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Search for ControlLiisa Holsti1,2,3 Vincent Arokiasamy4 Susan Albersheim3,5 1. Department of Occupational Science and Occu-pational Therapy, University of British Columbia,

Fr2-27 Attachment and Emotion Regulation at 10 Months: Psychometric Qualities of a New Measure for Assessing Dyadic Emotion RegulationEva Martins1 Isabel Soares2 Carla Martins2 Ana Osório2 1. ISMAI, Maia, Portugal; 2. Universidade Minho, Braga, Portugal

Fr2-28 Behavioral and Affective Precursors to Disorganized Attachment in the Still-Face at 4-monthsLindsey Forbes, Greg Moran, David PedersonDepartment of Psychology, The University of West-ern Ontario, London, Canada

Fr2-29 The Predictive Function of Observed and Reported Measures of Infant Temperament to Child Anger at 2 1/2 YearsKristin Mount, Susan Crockenberg, Esther LeerkesUniversity of Vermont, Burlington, USA

Fr2-30 Twelve-Month-Olds Understand Fear in Adults, but not in ChildrenSara Nichols, Margarita Svetlova, Elizabeth Posti, Catherine Henderson, Celia BrownellUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Fr2-31 Taiwanese Infants’ Response to Arm Restraint at 4 MonthsHsin-ju Tsai1 Suh-fang Jeng1 Hui-chin Hsu2 Yen-ting Yu1 Yen-tzu Wu1 1. School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2. Department of Child and Family Development, University of Georgia, USA

Fr2-32 The Development of Wariness of Heights: A Comparison of the Descent and the Locomotor Crossing Paradigms on the Visual CliffMika Ueno, Ichiro Uchiyama, Joseph Campos, David AndersonDepartment of Psychology, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Fr2-33 Parenting, Coparenting, and Infants’ 3-Month InhibitionLisa Zawistowski, Claire St.Jacques, James McHaleUniversity of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, USA

Fr2-34 Adult Attachment Classification and Maternal Mind-Mindedness in a Normative Sample of First-Time MothersMegan Beers, Jennifer Ablow, Lynne HuffmanUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Fr2-35 Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Infant Attachment: Examination in a High-Risk Sample Jennifer Ablow, Megan Beers, Cynthia LaMorticellaUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA



Fr2-52 The Relationship of Fathers and their Very Low Birthweight Infants: The Impact of Anxiety and Stress in the Neonatal Intensive Care UnitPhyllis Zelkowitz1,4 Claudette Bardin2,4 Apostolos Papageorgiou3,4 1. Department of Psychiatry, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Canada; 2. Montréal Children’s Hospital, Montréal, Canada; 3. SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Canada; 4. McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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Fr2-53 Mother-Toddler Mutual Regulatory Processes, Child Gender, and General Cognitive Functioning in a Healthy Term African American Sample at 18 MonthsMarjorie Beeghly1,2,3 Karen Olson1,2 Edward Tronick1,2,4 Elizabeth Bronkoski2,5 Laura Rose2,5 Nicole Rodier2 1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; 2. Chil-dren’s Hospital, Boston, USA; 3. Wayne State Uni-versity, Detroit, USA; 4. University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA; 5. Boston College, Boston, USA

Fr2-54 The Role of Causal and Intentional Structure of a Perceived Action in Early Moral and Social JudgementsMarine Buon, Emmanuel DupouxLaboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et de Psycholin-guistqiue, Paris, France

Fr2-55 Why Is Her Hand Doing that? 9-Month-Olds Use of Action-Effects to Infer a GoalErin Cannon, Amanda WoodwardUniversity of Maryland, College Park, USA

Fr2-56 Maternal Behaviors in a Teaching Context with Infants of 9 Months OldYi-chieh Chen, Keng-ling Lay, Su-ying HuangNational Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Fr2-57 The Relationship between Temperament and Effortful Control: The Moderating Influence of Maternal Behavior and AffectElizabeth Cipriano, Cynthia StifterPennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Fr2-58 Coparenting Adjustment is Linked to 3-Month-Old’s Eye Gaze Patterns during Still-FaceMatthew Daley, Janet Robertson, Elisabeth Fivaz-Depeursinge, James McHaleUniversity of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA

Fr2-59 Toddler’s Expectations of Responsiveness: Attention-Seeking Patterns Distinguish Social Mastery and DependencyMarie-Pierre Gosselin, Amanda Aldercotte, David FormanConcordia University, Montréal, Canada

Vancouver, Canada; 2. Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada; 3. Women’s and Children’s Health Center of British Columbia, Van-couver, Canada; 4. University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada; 5. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Fr2-44 Phonemic Perception Differences in Infants of Mothers who Smoked during PregnancyJulie Kable, Claire Coles, Mary Ellen Lynch, Katrina JohnsonEmory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

Fr2-45 Self-Regulation and Early Working Memory in Children Born ELBW (<1000 grams)Peggy MacLean, Susanne Duvall, Jean Lowe, Michele Shaffer, Kristi WatterbergUniversity of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

Fr2-46 Associations between Maternal Prenatal Risk and Protective Resources during Pregnancy and Infant TemperamentKristy McDonald1 Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant2 Linda Lueken2 1. Department of Psychology, Arizona State Uni-versity, Gilbert, USA; 2. Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

Fr2-47 Pattern of Relationships among Rural African American Mothers and Fathers of Prematurely-Born-InfantsMargaret Miles1 Diane Holditch-Davis2 Suzanne Thoyre1 Linda Beeber1 1. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; 2. Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, USA

Fr2-48 Early Screening for Autism in the Tuberous Sclerosis ComplexShafali Jeste, Mustafa Sahin, Vanessa Farley, Charles NelsonChildren’s Hospital, Boston, USA

Fr2-49 Leaving a Crying Infant Alone: An Improbable Approach to Shaken Baby Syndrome PreventionBeth RussellWorcester State College, Worcester, USA

Fr2-50 Resolution of Grief Following Preterm Birth: Implications for Early Dyadic Interactions and Attachment SecurityPrachi Shah1 Melissa Clements2 Julie Poehlmann2 1. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA; 2. University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Fr2-51 Prematurity Stereotyping and NICU HospitalizationMarilyn Stern, Monica Durrette, Rebecca Foster, Katherine KarrakerVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA


Friday, March 2810:10, 13:00 Posters

Fr2-69 Social Cognition in Everyday Life: A Longitudinal Study from 5 through 36 MonthsJoan TestMissouri State University, Springfield, USA

Fr2-70 Maternal Sensitivity over Time and its Relationship to Infant-Mother AttachmentJennifer Vu, Allison FuligniUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Fr2-71 Effects of Maternal Mirroring on Infants’ Response to the Still Face and Replay TasksLaura Walden, Ann BigelowSt. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

Fr2-72 Behavioral Problems Reported by Taiwanese Mothers of Children Ages 2 to 3Yen-tzu Wu, Suh-fang Jeng, Wu-shiun Hsieh, Pau-chung Chen, Wei-j. ChenSchool and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Fr2-76 Maternal Emotion and Use of Infant-Directed Speech Affects Infant Behavior and Brain Activity Yi Xiao1 Rebecca Bitsko2 Elizabeth Sheehan3 Molly Larson3 Debra Mills3 1. Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, USA; 2. Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA; 3. Emory University, Atlanta, USA

Fr2-77 Unhappily Married Dads are No Fun at All: A Longitudinal Investigation of Change in Father Play Predicted by Marital HappinessShannon Zentall, Diane Lickenbrock, Naomi Ekas, Julia Braungart-RiekerUniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

13:00 –14:50 Friday PosTer session 3


Fr3-01 Caught in the Act: English- and Mandarin-learning Infants’ Mapping of Novel Words to and Discrimination of Agents, Actions, and ObjectsCheri Chan, Jie Chen, Rachel Pulverman, Mari-anella Casasola, Xiangzhi Meng, Twila TardifUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Fr3-02 Developmental Transitions in Latent Learning during InfancyKimberly Cuevas, Amy Bullman, Carolyn Rovee-CollierRutgers, The State Univeristy of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA

Fr3-03 What to do Where-to Imitate or to Perserverate?Evelina Dineva1 Gregor Schöner2 Shin Maruyama3 Esther Thelen4 John Spencer1 1. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA; 2. Ruhr-

Fr2-60 Unwilling or Unable Play Partner: 2-Year-Olds’ Understanding of Their Partner’s Reason for Interrupting a Social GameMaria Graefenhain1,2 Felix Warneken1 Michael Tomasello1 1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthro-pology, Leipzig, Germany; 2. University of Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Germany

Fr2-61 Infant Behaviors in Problem Solving Contexts:Does Social Resourcefulness Matter?Su-ying Huang, Keng-ling Lay, Yi-chieh ChenDepartment of Psychology, National Taiwan Uni-versity, Taipei, Taiwan

Fr2-62 Maternal Depressive and Anxious Feelings, Accuracy in Predicting Their Toddlers’ Inhibited Behavior, and Parenting PracticesElizabeth Kiel1 Kristin Buss2 1. University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA; 2. The Pennsylvania State University, Univer-sity Park, USA

Fr2-63 Individual Differences in Maternal Contingent Responsiveness and Infant Social ExpectationsNancy Mcquaid, Maximilian Bibok, Jeremy CarpendaleSimon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

Fr2-64 A Sociocultural Approach to Preschooler’s Dream’s ContentAdrian Medina-LibertyFacultad de Psicologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Fr2-65 Developmental Trajectory of Early Social Cognition: Suggestions from Longitudinal Survey from 8 Months to 7 Years of AgeHidehiro Ohgami, Wakako Sanefuji, Atsuhiko FunabashiKyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Fr2-66 Responses to “Like-Me” Characteristics in Toddlers with/without Autism: Self, Like-Self, and OthersWakako Sanefuji, Hidehiro OhgamiKyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Fr2-67 Testing the Wear-cam. A new tool for Infant Social StudiesClara Schmitow1 Gunilla Stenberg1 Claes von Hofsten1 Helena Grönqvist2 1. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 2. Uppsala University, Department of Psychology, Sweden

Fr2-68 Gender Salience as a Predictor of Early Gender KnowledgeMaya Sen1 Amanda Rosenburg2 Erin Fettes1 Megan Johnson1 Colette Dixon1 Megan Salvano1 Craig Winkowski1 1. Psychology Dept., Northern Michigan University, Marquette, USA; 2. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA



Shaila Misri1 Joanne Weinberg1 1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 2. Yale University, New Haven, USA

Fr3-14 Short Lookers - Good Categorizers? Validating Comparator Theory for Categorization TasksJanna Pahnke, Sabina PauenUniversity of Heidelberg, Psychology Department, Heidelberg, Germany

Fr3-15 Infants’ Use of Contextual Cues for Generalizing Causal ActionsDavid Sobel1 Dahe Yang2 Emily Bushnell2 1. Brown University, Providence, USA; 2. Tufts University, Medford, USA

Fr3-16 Mother and Infant Salivary Cortisol Kathy Stansbury1 David Haley2 1. Morehouse College/Center for Behavioral Neu-roscience, Atlanta, USA; 2. University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada

Fr3-17 Imitation versus Emulation and the Role of Prepotency: One Outcome, Different ActionsDoreen ThompsonUniversity of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Fr3-18 Memory by Association: Deferred Imitation Prolongs Retention for the VRM ParadigmKaren Tustin, Julien Gross, Harlene HaynePsychology Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Fr3-19 Infants can Remember the Pitch Structure of Melodies over Long Retention IntervalsAndrea Unrau, Judy Plantinga, Laurel TrainorMcMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Fr3-20 I Know Your Goal! 12-Month-Olds Selectively Predict the Future Behavior of Humans but not AnimalsDiana Del Console1 Gretchen VandeWalle2 1. Rutgers University/Brookdale Community College, Manalapan, USA; 2. Rutgers University, Newark, USA


Fr3-21 Self-recognition Between 12 and 36 Months: Longitudinal Evidence and its Relation to Cognition, Language, and Memory DevelopmentClaudia Goertz, Thorsten Kolling, Stefanie Frahsek, Monika KnopfJohann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

Fr3-22 Developmental Trends in Self-Recognition, Language, Pretend Play, and Empathic Responsiveness during the Second YearPaola Molina, Daniela BulgarelliUniversity of Turin, Turin, Italy

Universität-Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 3. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; 4. Deceased, Bloomington, USA

Fr3-04 The Effects of Kindermusik Training on Infants’ Abilities to Encode Musical RhythmDavid Gerry, Ashley Faux, Laurel TrainorMcMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Fr3-05 Non Verbal Recall After Delays of 24 Hours and 1, 3, and 6 Weeks Among 6 and 9 Month-Old Norwegian InfantsKine Knoph, Gina H Landro, Mikael HeimannUniversity of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Fr3-06 Effects of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure on Infants’ Level of Arousal During Information Processing TasksKatrina Johnson, Julie Kable, Mary Ellen Lynch, Claire ColesEmory University, Atlanta, USA

Fr3-07 The Role of Caregiver Sensitivity and Attention-Direction within InteractionJennifer Jones1 Patricia Self2 1. Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City, USA; 2. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA

Fr3-08 Redundant, Multisensory Information Boosts Infant Numerical PerformanceKerry Jordan1 Sumarga Suanda2 Elizabeth Brannon3 1. Utah State University, Logan, USA; 2. Emory University, Atlanta, USA; 3. Duke University, Durham, USA

Fr3-09 Parasocial Interactions Increase Infants’ Learning from VideosAlexis Lauricella, Rachel Barr, Sandra CalvertGeorgetown University, Washington, USA

Fr3-10 Word-Learning in Infant- and Adult-directed SpeechWeiyi Ma, Roberta Golinkoff, Derek Houston, Kathryn Hirsh-PasekUniversity of Delaware, Newark, USA

Fr3-11 Experimentally Manipulated Unfamiliar Social Partner Responses Influence Infants’ AttentionJennifer Miller, Erin AblesIndiana University, Bloomington, USA

Fr3-12 Infants’ Ability To Recognize Speech in Noise: Effects of Noise Type and LocationRochelle NewmanUniversity of Maryland, College Park, USA

Fr3-13 Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis Function in 3 Month Old Infants with Prenatal Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SRI) Antidepressant ExposureTim Oberlander1 Linda Mayes2 Ruth Grunau1 Wayne Riggs1 Dan Rurak1 Michael Papsdorf1



Fr3-33 The Role of First-Hand Experience in the Goal-Attribution of 6-Month-OldsSu-jeong Ok1 Susan Johnson2 1. Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA; 2. Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Fr3-34 Infant and Mother Play in South Korea: A Longitudinal Study across the Second Year of Life Keumjoo Kwak1 Diane Putnick2 Marc Bornstein2 1. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; 2. NICHD, Bethesda, USA

Fr3-35 Infants’ Use of Labels and Causal Powers to Individuate Identical ObjectsMijke Rhemtulla, Fei XuUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Fr3-36 Shape vs. Color: Examining Perceptual Categoriza-tion Biases in 6- and 8-Month-Old InfantsValerie San Juan1 Suzanne Curtin2 1. Department of Human Development and Ap-plied Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto, To-ronto, Canada; 2. Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Fr3-37 Twelve-Month-Olds’ Understanding of Prior Actions and Final GoalsJames ToddUniversity of Toledo, Toledo, USA


Fr3-38 The Development of Pointing from 9 to 15 Months of Age in Imperative and Declarative Contexts: Relationships with Actions and LanguageTiziana Aureli1 Paola Perucchini2 Annalisa Palazzo1 1. University of Chieti-Pescara G. D’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy; 2. University of Rome Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Fr3-39 Coordination of Mother-Infant Vocalizations in Ten Cultures Marc Bornstein, Linda Cote, O. HaynesChild & Family Research, NICHD, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, USA

Fr3-40 Canonical Word Order in Japanese Infant-directed SpeechLaurel Fais1 Tomoya Hashimoto2 Nozomi Kido1 Shigeaki Amano3 Janet Werker1 1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 2. Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan; 3. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

Fr3-41 A Longitudinal Analysis of Changes in Vocabulary Comprehension: Do Parent Reports and Preferential Looking Offer Complementary Perspectives?Margaret Friend, Yuri Kashima, Erin SchultzSan Diego State University, San Diego, USA

Fr3-23 Infants Tracking of Objects through Occlusion in 2-D Animated DisplaysJennifer Armstrong, Teresa Wilcox, Gerianne AlexanderTexas A&M University, College Station, USA

Fr3-24 “An Eye for an Eye”? Reasoning about Reciprocated Actions in 15.5-Month-Old InfantsMatthias Bolz, Renee Baillargeon, David PremackUniversity of Illinois, Champaign, USA

Fr3-25 Action-Perception Progress in Tool-Use DevelopmentCho Kin Cheng, Mark SchmucklerUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Fr3-26 Do 9-Month-Olds Expect Distinct Labels to refer to Kind: The Effect of Object Domain Kathryn DewarUniversity of British Columbia, Surrey, Canada

Fr3-27 Temperament Moderates Cognitive Function at 15 MonthsWallace Dixon, Jr.1 Hannah Lawman2 Allison Lowe3 Hannah Abel1 Holly Stott1 1. East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA; 2. University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA; 3. East Tennessee State University, Bristol, USA

Fr3-28 Face-to-face: Visual Statistical Learning with Complex Natural StimuliLauren Emberson, Jennifer Misyak, Jennifer Schwade, Morten Christiansen, Michael GoldsteinCornell University, Ithaca, USA

Fr3-29 A Discourse-Based Account of Young Children’s Understanding of Three False Belief ProblemsMikkel HansenDepartment of Psychology, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

Fr3-30 Gender Differences in Infant Tool UseElizabeth Hodgson, Erika Feldman, Jessica SommervilleUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USA

Fr3-31 Infant Working Memory for Objects Has Two Distinct Capacities: Individuation and IdentityMelissa Kibbe, Alan LeslieRutgers University Center for Cognitive Science, Piscataway, USA

Fr3-32 Seven-Month-Old Infants Imitate Animate But Not Inanimate AgentsNeha Mahajan1 Amanda Woodward2 Leianna Ridgeway2 1. Yale University, New Haven, USA; 2. University of Maryland, College Park, USA



Fr3-52 Learning Through Overhearing: The Role of Familiarity and Age of Participants in 3rd Party InteractionsNameera Akhtar, Priya Shimpi, Kristin WeislerUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Fr3-53 First Words in Cantonese-English Bilingual InfantsVirginia Yip1 Stephen Matthews2 1. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; 2. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Fr3-54 Understanding Speaker’s Communicative Intent - Bilingual Children’s Heightened Social Awareness of Referential Gestures W. Quin Yow, Ellen MarkmanStanford University, Stanford, USA

Fr3-55 Perceptual Factors in Language Acquisition: Discovering Sounds, Words, and Grammatical RelationsJessica HayUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

Fr3-56 Perceptual Constraints on Word SegmentationJessica Hay, Jenny SaffranUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Fr3-57 Auditory Biases in the Development of Language-Specific Speech PerceptionJessica MayeNorthwestern University, Chicago, USA

Fr3-58 Infants’ Use of Gender-Marked Determiners in Online Language ProcessingMarieke van Heugten1,2 Rushen Shi1 Marilyn Cyr1 1. Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada; 2. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada


Fr3-59 Rhythm Discrimination in the Visual and Auditory Modalities By 7-Month-Old InfantsMelissa Brandon, Jenny SaffranDept. of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Fr3-60 The Role of Rigid Motion in Newborns’ Face RecognitionHermann Bulf, Chiara TuratiDipt. di Psicologia dello Sviluppo, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

Fr3-61 Auditory Influences on Low-Level Visual Processing Early in DevelopmentVivian Ciaramitaro1 Karen Dobkins2 1. UCSD/The Salk Institute, San Diego, USA; 2. UCSD, San Diego, USA

Fr3-42 Evaluation of a Dialogue Topology in Parent- Infant-DyadsUrsula Horsch, Julia Roth, Andrea Scheele, Sarah Werding, Monika-Maria GoeserUniversity of Education, Heidelberg, Germany

Fr3-43 Generics and Inductive Inferences at Two Years of AgeSamantha Nayer, Susan Graham, Natasha NickelUniversity of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Fr3-44 Japanese Infants’ Perception of the Function Morpheme, Ga, Which Marks the Morpho-Syntactic BoundarySachiyo Kajikawa1 Etsuko Haryu2 1. Tamagawa University, Machida, Japan; 2. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Fr3-45 Mother, I Don’t Really Like the High-Pitched, Slow Speech of Motherese: Cross-Linguistic Differences in Infants’ Reliance on Different Acoustic Cues in Infant Directed SpeechRyota Horie1 Akiko Hayashi2 Kyoko Shirasawa1 Reiko Mazuka1,3 1. Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan; 2. Center for the Research and Support of Educational Practice, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Japan; 3. De-partment of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, USA

Fr3-46 Word-Action Mapping in Sentential Contexts by 18-Month-Old Japanese InfantsTessei Kobayashi, Ryoko Mugitani, Shigeaki AmanoNTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corp., Keihanna, Japan

Fr3-47 Is Visual Monitoring Differentially Associated with Pointing in Infancy?David Leavens, Brenda ToddUniversity of Sussex, Falmer, UK

Fr3-48 Infants’ Communicative Acts in Structured InteractionsShannon MacLachlan, Barbara Bernhardt, Carolyn Johnson, Julianne ScottUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Fr3-49 The Meaning of Triadic Interactions Among PeersGabriela Markova, Maria LegersteeYork University, Toronto, Canada

Fr3-50 Viewing Infant-directed Videos Attenuates Play and Parent-Child InteractionAshley Murphy, Alissa Setliff, Avery Earle, Mary CourageMemorial University, St. John’s, Canada



Fr3-73 The Perception of the Mother’s Face in ¾ Profile and Profile Poses: A Replication and an ExtensionFatma Zohra SaiAl ain, UAE

Fr3-74 Preference for Impossible Figures in 4-Month-Old InfantsSarah ShuwairiNYU Department of Psychology, New York, USA

Fr3-75 Partial Occlusion and Oscillatory Brain Activity in InfantsChristina Thorpe1 Gergely Csibra2 Mark Johnson2 Jordy Kaufman3 1. Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada; 2. Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, Uni-versity of London, London, UK; 3. Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

Fr3-76 Infants’ Categorization of Dynamic Emotional Expressions: Changes from 6 to 10 MonthsEmily Touchstone, Melanie Spence, Kristin AtchisonThe University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, USA

Fr3-77 Stimulus Characteristics that Promote Infants’ Sound SeparationLynne Werner1 Lori Leibold2 Deborah Miller3 1. University of Washington, Seattle, USA; 2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA; 3. Washington University, St. Louis, USA

08:00 –09:50 saTurday PosTer session 1


Sa1-01 What are They Looking at? Techniques in Preferential LookingKatie Alcock1 Sarah Watts2 1. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; 2. City University, London, UK

Sa1-02 Statistical Language Learning in Infants and Toddlers with Williams SyndromeCara Cashon1 Casey Allen1 Katharine Estes2 Jenny Saffran3 Carolyn Mervis1 1. University of Louisville, Louisville, USA; 2. University of California, Davis, USA; 3. Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

Sa1-03 Language Acts as an Invitation to Form Categories in 4-Month-Old Infants Alissa Ferry1 Susan Hespos2 Sandra Waxman2 1. Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; 2. Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Fr3-62 What is in the Face That Captures Infants’ Attention from Birth?Elisa Di Giorgio, Irene Leo, Francesca SimionDPSS-Università di Padova, Padova, Italy

Fr3-63 Face Inversion Effects in Infants are Driven More by High than Low, Spatial FrequenciesKaren Dobkins, Vanitha SampathUniversity of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

Fr3-64 Tracking Cortical Specialization for Music in Preverbal InfantsEswen Fava, Heather Bortfeld, David BoasTexas A&M University, Department of Psychology, College Station, USA

Fr3-65 Faces Attract Infants’ Attention in Complex DisplaysTeodora Gliga, Athina Andravizou, Mayada Ellsabbagh, Mark JohnsonBirkbeck College, London, UK

Fr3-66 The Perception of Biological Motion by Human NewbornsElenitsa Kitromilides-Salerio, Christel Bidet-Ildei, Edouard GentazUniversité Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France

Fr3-67 Comparing Cats and Dogs: Infants’ and Adults’ Eye-Movements during Online ComparisonKristine Kovack-Lesh, Bob McMurray, Lisa OakesUniversity of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Fr3-68 Asymmetrical Use of Consonantal and Vocalic Information at the Lexical Level in 3-To-5-Year-Old Deaf Children with Cochlear ImplantMélanie Havy, Thierry Nazzi, Josiane BertonciniLPP, CNRS-Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Fr3-69 Babies’ Responses to Natural and Man-Made LandscapesMegan Pickard, Judy DeLoacheUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Fr3-70 An ERP Study of Intersensory Processing in 5-Month-Olds Blake Jones1 Daniel Hyde2 Chris Porter1 Mark Allen1 Ross Flom1 Cortney Evans1 1. Brigham Young University, Provo, USA; 2. Harvard University, Boston, USA

Fr3-71 Why do Infants Rely on Head Information to Categorize Cats versus Dogs? Evidence from Eye-TrackingMatthew Doran, Jason Reiss, James Hoffman, Paul QuinnUniversity of Delaware, Newark, USA

Fr3-72 Differences in Infant Scanning of Novel and Familiar Fender FacesJennifer Rennels, Andrew CummingsUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

saturday March 29 08:00 Posters


saturday, March 2908:00 Posters

Sa1-16 Assessment of the Home Literacy Environment as a Predictor for Early Receptive LanguageAdrianne Simpson, Margaret Friend, Ana DuenasSan Diego State University, San Diego, USA

Sa1-17 Children’s Expectations of Conventionality across DomainsCasey Sullivan1 Lori Markson1 Gil Diesendruck2 1. Department of Psychology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, USA; 2. Department of Psychology and Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Sa1-18 Visual Speech Enhances Phoneme Discrimination and Learning in 6-Month-Old InfantsTuomas Teinonen1 Richard Aslin2 Paavo Alku3 Gergely Csibra4 1. Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; 2. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sci-ences, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA; 3. Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Pro-cessing, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland; 4. Centre for Brain and Cognitive Devel-opment, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK

Sa1-19 Dynamic Infant-Directed Speech: Mothers Use Flexible Speech Strategies to Regulate Infants’ Motor BehaviorTywanquila Walker1 Michael Goldstein1 Lana Karasik2 Catherine Tamis-Lemonda2 Karen Adolph2 1. Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; 2. New York University, New York, USA

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Sa1-20 Does Music Elicit or Reduce Body Movements of 3- to 4-Month-Old Infants?Mayumi Adachi, Akio Akasaka, Shunsuke Kon-noDept. of Psychology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Sa1-21 Walkers on the Go, Crawlers in the Shadow: 12-Month-Old Infants’ Locomotor ExperienceDaryaneh Badaly, Karen AdolphNew York University, New York, USA

Sa1-22 Infant Exploration of Composite Substrates with Handled ObjectsLee Carnes, Jeffrey LockmanTulane University, Department of Psychology, New Orleans, USA

Sa1-23 Continuity in Toddlers’ Skill in a Fine Motor TaskYuping Chen1 Rachel Keen2 1. Department of Physical Therapy, California State University, Fresno, USA; 2. Department of Psychol-ogy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Sa1-04 Conditional Probabilities Cue Morphosyntactic Type: An Italian & Hungarian Corpus StudyJudit GervainUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sa1-05 The Effect of Sentence Focus on 24-Month-Olds’ Visual AttentionSusanne Grassmann, Michael TomaselloMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropol-ogy, Leipzig, Germany

Sa1-06 Infants’ Understanding of the Co-operative Nature of ImperativesGerlind Hauser1 Tanya Behne2 Malinda Carpenter1 Michael Tomasello1 1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary An-thropology, Leipzig, Germany; 2. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Sa1-08 Linking Parent Input and Child Receptivity to Symbolic GesturesJennifer Knight-Schwarz1 Rebecca Vallas2 Laura Namy1 1. Emory University, Atlanta, USA; 2. University of Virgina School of Law, Charlottesville, USA

Sa1-09 The Relationship between Imageability of Words and Early Word Acquisition in KoreanKwee-ock Lee, Hyoung-jai KimKyungsung University, Busan, Korea

Sa1-10 The Association between Maternal Speech Input and Child Language DevelopmentHuei-mei Liu1 Feng-ming Tsao2 1. Department of Special Education, National Tai-wan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2. Depart-ment of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sa1-11 Infant Behaviors as Antecedents and Consequents of Mothers’ Responsive and Directive SpeechElise Masur1 Valerie Flynn2 Carrie Lloyd1 1. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA; 2. Aurora University, Aurora, USA

Sa1-12 Are 16-Month-Old Infants Aware of Allophony?Nina Kazanina1 Rochelle Newman2 1. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; 2. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Sa1-13 Do 2-Year-Old Children Use Functional Cues to Name Objects?Thien-kim Nguyen1 Yuriko Oshima-Takane2 1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 2. McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Sa1-14 The Role of Social Information for Category Learning at a Preverbal AgeSabina PauenUniversity of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Sa1-15 Foreign-Accented Word Segmentation in InfancyRachel Schmale, Amanda SeidlPurdue University, West Lafayette, USA



Sa1-32 Developmental Coordination Changes in Arm Movements with and without a Toy Present over the Pre-Reaching PeriodHui Min Lee1 Anjana Bhat2 James Galloway1 1. University of Delaware, Newark, USA; 2. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

Sa1-33 Postural & Object-Oriented Experiences Advance Infants’ Reaching, Exploration, & Means-End PerformanceMichele Lobo, James GallowayThe University of Delaware, Newark, USA

Sa1-34 Hand Dominance is not Stable in the Pre-Reaching PeriodAmy Lynch, Hui-min Lee, Anjana Bhat, James GallowayUniversity of Delaware, Newark, USA

Sa1-35 Using Mu Rhythm Pertubations to Measure Mirror Neuron Activity in InfantsPär Nyström, Therese Ljunghammar, Kerstin Rosander, Claes von HofstenDept. of Psychology, Uppsala, Sweden

Sa1-36 Effects of Prenatal SSRI Exposure on Infant Psychomotor FunctioningAimee Santucci1 Barbara Hanusa2 Katherine Wisner2 1. University of Pittsburgh, Division of General Internal Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, Pittsburgh, USA; 2. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, USA

Sa1-37 LOVIS- Longitudinal Studies of Very Premature Infants: Development of Smooth PursuitDorota Stasiewicz1 Olga Kochukhova1 Kerstin Rosander1 Masaharu Kato2 1. Uppsala University, Department of Psychol-ogy, Uppsala, Sweden; 2. Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Dept. of Infants’ Brain & Cognitive Development, Tokyo, Japan

Sa1-38 Reliability of Body Sway Measurements during Infant Sitting Posture DevelopmentAnastasia Kyvelidou1 Regina Harbourne2 Joan Deffeyes1 Wayne Stuberg2 Junfeng Sun3 Nicholas Stergiou1,4 1. HPER Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA; 2. Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA; 3. Preventive and Societal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA; 4. Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA

Sa1-24 The Influence of a Barrier on A-Not-B SearchLisa-marie Collimore1 Mark Schmuckler2 1. OISE/UT, Toronto, Canada; 2. University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, Canada

Sa1-25 Early Sensorimotor Development following Neonatal Brain Cooling in Infants who Sustained Perinatal AsphyxiaSusan Duff1 Cynthia Morris2 Christian Stanley3,4 Marcy Gringlas3,4 Susan Adeniyi-Jones3,4 Vidula Damle3,4 Shobhani Desai3,4 1. Department of Physical Therapy, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA; 2. Occupational Therapy Department, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA; 3. Pediatrics Department, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA; 4. Nemours AI duPont Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, USA

Sa1-26 Skipping Crawling: Does it Predict Walking Attainment?Warren Eaton, Samantha Lewycky, Amy De JaegerUniversity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Sa1-27 Movement and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Analysis of Gait during the Second Year of LifeGianluca Esposito, Simona deFalco, Paola VenutiUniversity of Trento, Rovereto (TN), Italy

Sa1-28 Intralimb Coordination as a Predictor of Motor Dysfunction in Premature InfantsLinda Fetters1 Inbal Sapir2 Yuping Chen3 1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA; 2. Boston University, Boston, USA; 3. Califor-nia State University - Fresno, Fresno, USA

Sa1-29 Efficacy of a Perceptual-Motor Intervention for Sitting Postural Control in Children with Moderate to Severe Cerebral Palsy Using Measures of ComplexityRegina Harbourne1 Joan Deffeyes2 Stacey DeJong1 Anastasia Kyvelidou2 Wayne Stuberg1 Sandra Willett1 Nicholas Stergiou2 1. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA; 2. University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA

Sa1-30 Kinematics of Infant Manual Movements with Objects in Late InfancyBjörn Kahrs, Shubho Sarkar, Jeffrey LockmanTulane University, New Orleans, USA

Sa1-31 Infants in Transition: The Development of Walking Changes Infants’ Engagements with ObjectsLana Karasik, Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, Karen AdolphNew York University, New York, USA


saturday, March 2908:00, 10:10 Posters



Sa2-01 Infants’ Eye Movements during Familiarization with Natural Object CategoriesNadja Althaus, Denis MareschalCentre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK

Sa2-02 The Specificity of Object Knowledge in Infancy: What Erps Tell Us about the Association of Sight and Sound InformationLysett Babocsai1 Manuela Friedrich2 Sabina Pauen1 1. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 2. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Sa2-03 Mechanisms Underlying Developmental Transitions: Insights from Models of Implicit False Belief TasksVincent Berthiaume, Kristine Onishi, Thomas ShultzDept. of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Sa2-04 The Role of Efficiency of Action in Infants’ Goal AttributionSzilvia Biro, Stephan VerschoorLeiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Sa2-05 A Newfound Relation between Sitting Ability and Face Processing in 6-Month-Old InfantsCara Cashon, Casey Allen, Pamela Healy, Amelia BarnaUniversity of Louisville, Louisville, USA

Sa2-06 Developmental Limitations on Numerical Ordinal AbilitiesSara Cordes1 Sumarga Suanda2 Elizabeth Brannon1 1. Duke University, Durham, USA; 2. Emory University, Atlanta, USA

Sa2-07 Development of Melodic Categorization during the First Year of LifeEugenia Costa-Giomi1 Leslie Cohen2 Ashley Brock2 Danielle Solan1 1. University of Texas, Center for Music Learning, Austin, USA; 2. University of Texas, Children’s Research Laboratory, Austin, USA

Sa2-08 The Impact of Labeling on 10-Month-Olds’ Expectations about Internal Object PropertiesKathryn Dewar, Fei XuUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sa2-09 Infants’ Ability to Parse Continuous ActionsStacy Grossman1 Susan Hespos1 Megan Saylor2 1. Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; 2. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

Sa1-39 Resolving Degrees of Freedom in a Complex System Across Levels of Action: End-Point Behaviors, Kinematics, and KineticsCaroline Teulier, Beverly UlrichMotor Development Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Sa1-40 Vocalizations and Affect of Crawling and Pre-Crawling InfantsPamela Whitney, James GreenUniversity of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

Theory, MeThods and hisTory

Sa1-41 Anatomical and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Children from Birth through 6-Years of AgeC. Robert AlmliWashington University Medical School, St. Louis, USA

Sa1-42 Deriving Timing-Based Contingencies with Event-Based Sequential Data Using the Limit of PhiMaximilian Bibok, Raymond KoopmanSimon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

Sa1-43 Enacting the Dynamic Field Theory of Infant PerseverationEvelina Dineva1 Chritian Faubel2 Yulia Sandamirskaya2 John Spencer1 Gregor Schöner2 1. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA; 2. Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Sa1-44 An Intensity-Specific Dyadic Approach to Analyzing Affect Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Methodological Comparison to Traditional MethodsLisa Greenwald, Pamela RollinsSchool of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, USA

Sa1-45 Construct Validity of the Comprehensive Developmental Inventory for Infants and Toddlers (CDIIT) for Four Age GroupsAi-wen Hwang1 Li-jen Weng2 Hua-fang Liao1 1. School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2. Department and Graduate Institute of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sa1-46 Emergence and Stability of Pupil Responses in a Violation-of-Expectations TaskSylvain Sirois1 Iain Jackson2 1. The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 2. School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Sa1-47 A Method of Improving Avian Models of Human AttachmentTyler Wereha, L. James ShapiroDept. of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada




Sa2-20 Maternal and Paternal Sensitivity and Infant Responses during the Still-Face: Early Glances into Attachment FormationJulia Braungart-Rieker, Shannon Zentall, Diane Lickenbrock, Naomi EkasUniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

Sa2-21 The Relationship between Toddler Temperament and Emotion Regulation in Preschool: The Moderating Role of Mother and Father BehaviorElizabeth Cipriano, Jessica Dollar, Cynthia StifterPennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Sa2-22 Facial Emotion Processing in 10-Month-Old Infants: Happy versus DisgustJoseph McCleery1 Karen Dobkins2 Sara Geal-Touhy2 Leslie Carver2 1. Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; 2. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

Sa2-23 Toddlers’ Salivary Alpha-Amylase and Emotions: Effects of Context, Gender and CortisolAmy Dribin, Kristin Buss, Christine Fortunato, Douglas GrangerThe Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Sa2-24 What to Do About Sleep? A Survey of Parents’ Experiences with Infant Sleep and Popular AdviceMacall Gordon1 Sheri Hill2 1. Antioch University, Seattle, USA; 2. Early Child-hood Policy Specialist, Seattle, USA

Sa2-25 Toddlers’ Emotion Regulation: Relations to Child Temperament and Maternal PersonalityWhitney Hendricks, Marianne Idol, Katherine McCalla, Anne HungerfordUniversity of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA

Sa2-26 Maternal Child-Rearing Attitudes and Toddlers’ Emotion RegulationMarianne Idol, Whitney Hendricks, Katherine McCalla, Anne HungerfordUniversity of North Carolina,Wilmington, USA

Sa2-27 Breastfed Infants Demonstrate Enhanced Socio-Emotional Interactive ResponsesNancy JonesFlorida Atlantic University, Jupiter, USA

Sa2-28 Roots of Smile: A Preterm Neonates’ StudyKiyobumi Kawakami1 Kiyoko Takai-Kawakami2 Fumito Kawakami3 Masaki Tomonaga4 Makoto Suzuki5 Yukiko Shimizu5 1. University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, Japan; 2. Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan; 3. Tokyo Institute of Techonology, Tokyo, Japan; 4. Primate Research Institute,Kyoto University, Aichi, Japan; 5. Kameda Medical Center, Chiba, Japan

Sa2-10 False Belief Understanding about Contents in 2.5-Year-Olds in a Violation-of-Expectation TaskZijing He, Matthias Bolz, Renee BaillargeonDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA

Sa2-11 Perception of Social Causality in Infants and AdultsShoji Itakura1 Tomoyo Morita2 Yusuke Morito2 Kayako Nakagawa3 Norihiro Sadato4 1. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2. Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kyoto, Japan; 3. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; 4. National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

Sa2-12 Deference to Testimony about a Physical EventVikram JaswalUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Sa2-13 Infants’ Representations of Causal and Intentional AgencyPaul Muentener, Susan CareyHarvard University, Cambridge, USA

Sa2-14 What is He Going to Do? Infants Predict Action Goals by Observing the Way of Grasping a ToolMarkus Paulus, Sabine Hunnius, Harold BekkeringRadboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Sa2-15 Come Again: The Effects of Repetition on Toddlers’ Imitation from Picture BooksGabrielle Simcock1 Judy DeLoache2 Crystal Crawford1 1. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; 2. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Sa2-16 Probability Triggers the Eye: Reasoning About Uncertain Events in 12-Month-Old InfantsErno Teglas1 Luca Bonatti2 1. SISSA, Trieste, Italy; 2. Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

Sa2-17 Probability or Representativeness? Evidence from 8- and 12-Month-Old InfantsFei Xu, Vanessa WaechtlerUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sa2-18 Young Children Understand Normativity in PretenceEmily Wyman, Hannes Rakoczy, Michael TomaselloMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropol-ogy, Leipzig, Germany

Sa2-19 Assisted Imitation: How Infants Grasp that the Perceiving and Acting of the Self is “Like Others”Patricia Zukow-GoldringUCLA, Los Angeles, USA



Sa2-38 Emotional Expressiveness in the Family and Toddlers Social Adaptation Outside the HomeMeagan Taylor1 Regina Kuersten-Hogan2 James McHale1 1. University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA; 2. Assumption College, Worcester, USA

Sa2-39 Physiological Responses to a Social Challenge in Full-Term and Preterm Infants Karla Vega1 David Haley1 Jean Lowe2 Peggy Maclean2 Crystal Aragon2 Ayesha Ali1 Immaculate Antony1 1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 2. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

Sa2-40 Predicting Infant-Mother and Infant-Father Attachment: Associations with Expectations of Infant Temperament and Pre-Birth Marital RelationsMaria Wong1 Sarah Mangelsdorf1 Geoffrey Brown1 Cynthia Neff1 Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan2 1. Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA; 2. Human Development and Family Science, Ohio State Uni-versity, Columbus, USA

Sa2-41 Longitudinal Assessment of Sleep-Wake Regulation and Attachment Security with ParentsShannon Zentall, Naomi Ekas, Diane Lickenbrock, Julia Braungart-RiekerUniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA


Sa2-42 Disruption of Six-Month-Olds’ Infant-Directed Speech Categorization in the Presence of FacesKristin Atchison, Melanie Spence, Emily TouchstoneUniversity of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

Sa2-43 Infants’ Perception of Harmony and MeterTonya Bergeson, James MalenkosIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA

Sa2-44 Infant Perception of Object-Context RelationsMarc Bornstein1 Martha Arterberry2 Clay Mash1 1. NICHD, Bethesda, USA; 2. Colby College, Waterville, USA

Sa2-45 Young Infants’ Perception of the Continuity of Horizontal, Vertical, and Oblique Object TrajectoriesGavin Bremner1 Alan Slater2 Scott Johnson3 Uschi Mason1 Jo Spring1 1. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; 2. Universi-ty of Exeter, Exeter, UK; 3. UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Sa2-29 Mother-Infant Co-Regulation and Socioemotional Development at 4 YearsHui-chin Hsu, Emmy Maddix, Marina Klimenko, Jihyun SungUniversity of Georgia, Athens, USA

Sa2-30 Mother-Toddler Emotional Discourse & Emotion UnderstandingMarina Klimenko, Hui-chin HsuUniversity of Georgia, Athens, USA

Sa2-31 The Quality of Mother-Child Interactions and the Continuation of BreastfeedingMarie Lacombe1 Bell Bell2 Marie Hatem3 1. Université du Québec à Rimouski, Campus de Lévis, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada; 2. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada; 3. Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Sa2-32 The Effects of Parenting and Marital Functioning on Infant Affect during the Still-FaceDiane Lickenbrock, Naomi Ekas, Shannon Zentall, Julia Braungart-RiekerDepartment of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

Sa2-33 A Hidden Markov Model for the Study of Mother-Infant InteractionsSiwei Liu, Katerina Sinclair, Michael Rovine, Peter Molenaar, Cynthia StifterThe Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Sa2-34 What Do Infants Look the Most to, to Regulate Their Behavior?Reiko Matsunaka1 Kazuo Hiraki2 1. University of Tokyo, Sagamihara, Japan; 2. University of Tokyo, Komaba, Japan

Sa2-35 Suppression of Emotion Regulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia: Maternal Physiological Reactivity during the Still-Face ParadigmJulia Oppenheimer, Jennifer Ablow, Jeffrey MeaselleUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Sa2-36 Does Infants’ Bradycardia at the Onset of Maternal Arm-Restraint Predict Emotional Reactivity during Restraint? Chris Porter, Blake Jones, Ashley ChurchBrigham Young University, Provo, USA

Sa2-37 The Effect of Maternal Depressed Mood on Type of Smile by Infant and Mother During Play InteractionsNadja ReisslandUniversity of Durham, Durham, UK



Sa2-56 An Intermodal Representation of Race and Language in Six-Month-Old InfantsLesley Uttley1 Kang Lee2 Paul Quinn3 Alan Slater4 Olivier Pascalis1 1. The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; 2. The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 3. Univer-sity of Delaware, Delaware, USA; 4. The University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Sa2-57 Five-Month-Olds’ Responsiveness to Pictorial Depth Cues in Preferential-Reaching Studies: A Meta-AnalysisAlbert Yonas1 Michael Kavsek2 Carl Granrud3 1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; 2. University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; 3. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, USA

Sa2-58 Discrimination of Word-Medial and Word-Final Contrasts Tania Zamuner1 Laurel Fais2 Suzanne Curtin3 Janet Werker2 1. Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 3. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada



Sa3-01 Racial Categorization of Human Faces by 6-Month-OldsGizelle Anzures1 Shaoying Liu2 Liezhong Ge2 Paul Quinn3 Olivier Pascalis4 Alan Slater5 Kang Lee1 1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 2. Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Zhejiang, China; 3. University of Delaware, Delaware, USA; 4. Uni-versity of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; 5. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Sa3-02 Words Go Together but not Pictures: Early Semantic Priming EffectsNatalia Arias-Trejo, Kim PlunkettUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Sa3-03 Conceptual Information about Animacy Influences Object Learning in 18-Month-Old InfantsAshley Brock, Leslie CohenUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

Sa3-04 Infant’s Understanding of Emotional Expressions: Using Information for Oneself and to Predict Actions of OthersSarah Gerson1 Jacqueline Leventon1 Amrisha Vaish2 Amanda Woodward1 1. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, USA; 2. Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany

Sa2-46 Discovering the Limits of Superior Spatial Ability in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Complex Visual Search TaskKelly Dickerson1 Kimberly Kraebel2 Peter Gerhardstein1 1. Dept. of Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, USA; 2. Dept. of Psychology, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, USA

Sa2-47 Infants Show a Preference for Typical versus Attractive Male BodiesMichelle Heron, Olivier PascalisUniversity of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Sa2-48 Maturation of Fetal Response to Maternal VoiceBarbara Kisilevsky, Sylvia HainsQueen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Sa2-49 Developmental Narrowing of Intersensory Perception in Human Infants: Exploring the Separate Roles of Intersensory and Unisensory Processing MechanismsDavid Lewkowicz, Ryan Sowinski, Silvia PlaceFlorida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

Sa2-50 The Face Inversion Effect in Infancy: Is it Really Face Specific?Dana Kuefner, Elena Vescovo, Viola Macchi CassiaUniversità degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Sa2-51 Children’s Detection and Use of Cues to Infer Object DisplacementDiane Marie Mangalindan1 Mark Schmuckler2 1. University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada; 2. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Sa2-52 An ERP Study of Early Word Segmentation by French-Learning 12-Month-OldsLouise Goyet, Thierry NazziLPP, CNRS-Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Sa2-53 Perceptual Grouping Transfers Across Organizational Principles in 6-to 7-Month-Old InfantsPaul Quinn1 Ramesh Bhatt2 1. University of Delaware, Newark, USA; 2. University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Sa2-54 Between-Hand Transfer of Shape and Texture Object in Newborn InfantsCoralie Sann, Arlette StreriLaboratory Psychology for Perception, University Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Sa2-55 Do Young Infants Hear Virtual Pitch?Chao He, Lisa Hotson, Laurel TrainorDepartment of Psychology, Behaviour, & Neurosci-ence, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada



Sa3-16 Toddlers’ Discrimination of Correct versus Incorrect CountingVirginia Slaughter1 Michael Siegal2 1. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; 2. University of Trieste & University of Sheffield, Trieste, Italy

Sa3-17 Infants’ Social Information Gathering from Video: A Second LookGabrielle Strouse1 Brian Verdine1 Allison Milam2 Georgene Troseth1 1. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA; 2. Duke University, Durham, USA

Sa3-18 The Influence of Neighbourhood Cohesion, Maternal Depression, and Parenting on Children’s Outcomes at 36 MonthsJennifer Timer, Carla Merkel, Janet Kidd, Susan Dahinten, Laurie FordUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sa3-19 Functional Cuing of Event Components in an Imitation TaskLaura Wagner, Anna YocomOSU, Columbus, USA

Sa3-20 Parallel Enumeration of Multiple Spatially-Overlapping Sets in InfancyJennifer Zosh, Lisa Feigenson, Justin HalberdaJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA


Sa3-21 Infants’ Perception of Language Specific PhonotacticsStephanie Archer, Suzanne CurtinUniversity of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Sa3-22 How Babies Look at Faces: Changes in Gaze Patterns for Talking Faces from 6 to 14 MonthsMegan Blossom1 James Morgan2 1. University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA; 2. Brown University, Providence, USA

Sa3-23 The Influence of Maternal Sensitivity and Maternal Mind-Mindedness on Children’s Language DevelopmentStéphanie Bordeleau, Jessica Laranjo, Annie BernierUniversity of Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Sa3-24 Responses to Prelinguistic Object-Directed Vocalizations Facilitate Word Learning in 11-Month-OldsJacquelyn Briesch, Jennifer Schwade, Michael GoldsteinCornell University, Ithaca, USA

Sa3-05 Young Infants Prefer Prosocial over Antisocial ActorsJ. Kiley Hamlin, Karen WynnYale University, New Haven, USA

Sa3-06 False Belief Understanding about Number in 19-Month-Old InfantsZijing He, Renee BaillargeonDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA

Sa3-07 Why Do Names Guide Infants’ Inductive Inferences about Nonobvious Object Properties?Jeany Keates, Susan GrahamUniversity of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Sa3-08 Parental Symbolic Behaviors in Picture Book ReadingNobuko Komori1 Yohko Shimada1 Michiteru Kitazaki2 Shoji Itakura1 1. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2. Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

Sa3-09 A Nonverbal Change-of-Contents False Belief Test for Children and ChimpanzeesCarla Krachun1,2 Malinda Carpenter1 Josep Call1 Michael Tomasello1 1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthro-pology, Leipzig, Germany; 2. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Sa3-10 Infants Extend Category Knowledge to Adapt Actions on Novel ObjectsClay MashNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, USA

Sa3-11 The Emergence of Stable Goal Representations in Means-End Problem SolvingDaniel McCall, Lauren DeBrouse, Hannah KaneGettysburg College, Gettysburg, USA

Sa3-12 Infants Process Action for GistEric Olofson, Dare BaldwinUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Sa3-13 Complex Object Recognition in Preschool Aged ChildrenGeorgianna Reilly, Kelly Dickerson, Peter GerhardsteinBinghamton University, Binghamton, USA

Sa3-14 Domain-General Categorization in 12-Month-Old InfantsKristin Rostad, Diane Poulin-Dubois, Amanda Guay, Julie CoutyaConcordia University, Montréal, Canada

Sa3-15 Development of Spatial ClassificationAdam Sheya, Linda SmithIndiana University, Bloomington, USA



Sa3-35 Does Repetition Affect 12-month Olds’ Ability to Learn Novel Grammatical Structures?Dan Hufnagle1 Suzanne Curtin2 1. University of Calgary Department of Psychology, Calgary, Canada; 2. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Sa3-36 The Use of Cardiac Orienting Responses to Assess Phonemic Perception in 6-Month-Olds Julie Kable1 Claire Coles1,2 Mary Ellen Lynch2 Katrina Johnson1,2 1. Marcus Institute, Atlanta, USA; 2. Emory Univer-sity School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

Sa3-37 Development of Different Modals of Request Behavior in 11 and 15-Month-OldsAya Kutsuki1 Misa Kuroki1 Sonoko Egami2 Tamiko Ogura3 Shoji Itakura4 1. Japan Science and Technology, Kyoto, Japan; 2. Hokkaido University of Education, Hokkaido, Japan; 3. Kobe University, Kobe, Japan; 4. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Sa3-38 Origins of Word Learning: People and ObjectsDilys Leung, D. Geoffrey HallUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sa3-39 Infants Produce Communicative Acts Based on the Common Ground They have Shared with Their InterlocutorsKristin Liebal, Malinda Carpenter, Michael TomaselloMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Sa3-40 Do Verbal Cues Facilitate the Learning of Nouns?Marie Lippeveld, Yuriko Oshima-TakanePsychology Department, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Sa3-41 Statistical Computation and Rule-Learning in 18-Month-Olds: Evidence for Two Distinct Mechanisms Erika Marchetto, Luca L. BonattiCognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy

Sa3-42 Six-Week Postpartum Maternal Self-Criticism and Dependency and 4-Month Mother-Infant Self- and Interactive ContingenciesBeatrice Beebe1 Joseph Jaffe1,2 Karen Buck1,2 Henian Chen1,2 Patricia Cohen1,2 Sidney Blatt3 Tammy Kaminer4 Stanley Feldstein5 Howard Andrews1,2 Sara Markese1,2 1. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA; 2. Columbia University, New York, USA; 3. Yale University, New Haven, USA; 4. The Bank Street Col-lege of Education, Private Practice, New York, USA; 5. University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

Sa3-25 People or Objects? Monolingual and Bilingual Children’s Performance in a Mutual Exclusivity TaskChandra Brojde, Eliana ColungaUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA

Sa3-26 The Effects of Accent Related Variation on Speech Perception in 5 and 7 Month OldsJoseph Butler, Jennifer Metz, Caroline FlocciaUniversity of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

Sa3-27 Language Discrimination and Preference in Newborns with Prenatal Bilingual ExposureKrista Byers-Heinlein1 Tracey Burns2 Janet Werker1 1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 2. Organisation for Economic Co-opera-tion and Development, Paris, France

Sa3-28 Joint Engagement with Language Tutors Predicts Brain and Behavioral Responses to Second-Language Phonetic Stimuli Barbara Conboy, Rechele Brooks, Miranda Taylor, Andrew Meltzoff, Patricia KuhlUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USA

Sa3-29 Learning about Cross-Category Word Use: The Role of Prosodic CuesErin Conwell, James MorganBrown University, Providence, USA

Sa3-30 Mother-Infant Person- and Object-Directed Behaviors: A Comparison of Latin Americans, Latino Immigrants, and European Americans in the United States Linda Cote, Marc Bornstein, O. HaynesChild & Family Research, NICHD, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, USA

Sa3-31 Do Six-Month-Old Infants Follow Pointing Gestures? A Naturalistic StudyGedeon Deák, Jordan Danly, Jacqueline AcuñaUniversity of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

Sa3-32 Acquisition of Local and Non-Adjacent Syntactic Dependencies in 7- and 16-Month-Old InfantsBarbara Höhle1 Tom Fritzsche1 W. Fitch2 1. University of Potsdam, Berlin, Germany; 2. University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

Sa3-33 Non-Native Speech Facilitates Categorization in Infants, TooMicah Goldwater, Catharine EcholsUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

Sa3-34 21-Month-Olds Understand the Co-operative Logic of RequestsGerlind Hauser, Henrike Moll, Michael TomaselloMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany



Sa3-53 Brain Correlates of Non-Verbal Communicative Comprehension in 20-24-Month-OldsJanne Torkildsen1 Rune Thormodsen2 Gro Syversen2 Lars Smith3 Magnus Lindgren4 1. Department of Linguistics and Nordic Stud-ies, Oslo, Norway; 2. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 3. The National Network for the Study of Infant Mental Health, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 4. Department of Psychology, Lund University; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Sa3-54 Infants Hear Faces and See VoicesSandra Trehub1 Jelena Brcic2 1. University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada; 2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sa3-55 Cues Infants use to Visually Discriminate LanguagesWhitney Weikum, Janet WerkerUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sa3-56 Development of Abstract Grammatical RepresentationKatherine Yoshida1 John Iversen2 Aniruddh Patel2 Janet Werker1 1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 2. Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, USA

Sa3-57 Language Differences in Lexical Structure: Evidence from Hungarian Child-Directed SpeechTania Zamuner1,2 Judit Gervain2 1. Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

PsychoPaThoLogy and deveLoPMenTaL deLay

Sa3-58 Early Attention Shifting and Joint Attention Deficits in Infants at Risk for AutismDaniel Messinger, Tricia Cassel, Lisa Ibañez, J. D. Haltigan, Susan Acosta, Kara KelleyUniversity of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

Sa3-59 Gesture, Vocalization, and Toy Play in 13-Month-Old Infant Siblings of Children with AutismJana Iverson1 Stefanie Poulos-Hopkins2 Robert Wozniak2 1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA; 2. Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA

Sa3-60 Using Parental Diary Data to Detect Early Signs of Communicative Delays in Infants at Risk for ASDHelen Tager-Flusberg, Alice Carter, Leah Casner, Nina Leezenbaum, Annmarie ZuluagaBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

Sa3-43 Infant Speech Categories do not Encompass the Phonetic SpaceBob McMurray1 Richard Aslin2 1. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA; 2. University of Rochester, Rochester, USA

Sa3-44 Causal and Intentional Action: Are They One in the Same? Evidence from Language AcquisitionPaul Muentener, Laura Lakusta, Susan CareyHarvard University, Cambridge, USA

Sa3-45 Gender Influence on Speech Sound Processing and Word-Learning of Pitch AccentRyoko MugitaniJapan Society for the Promotion of Science / NTT Communication Science Labs., Souraku-gun, Japan

Sa3-46 What Characteristics of Social Interaction Facilitate Early Learning? Effects of Animacy and Contingency on Vocal Learning in Prelinguistic InfantsAngela Narayan, Michael Goldstein, Jennifer SchwadeCornell University, Ithaca, USA

Sa3-47 The Past was Just a Moment Ago: Past Morphology in the Speech of Young Children and their MothersAnat NinioThe Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Sa3-48 Once Upon a Time: Parents Talk Differently to Boys and Girls during Storybook ReadingJulia Parish-Morris1 Kathy Hirsh-Pasek1 Roberta Golinkoff2 1. Temple University, Ambler, USA; 2. University of Delaware, Newark, USA

Sa3-49 The Impact of Labelling on Categorization at 7- to 11 Months of AgeSabina Pauen1 Deise Desch2 1. Psychology Department, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 2. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Sa3-50 Where You’re Going Trumps What You’re Doing: Infants Prefer Paths over Manners in Dynamic DisplaysSarah Roseberry1 Tilbe Goksun1 Kathy Hirsh-Pasek1 Wendy Shallcross1 Roberta Golinkoff2 1. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; 2. University of Delaware, Newark, USA

Sa3-51 How Children Learn about Mental StatesTed Ruffman, Mele TaumoepeauUniversity of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Sa3-52 Look Who’s Talking: Infant Attention and Activity Response to Adult and Child SpeechPriya Shimpi1 Michael Goldstein2 Meredith West3 1. University of California, Santa Cruz, San Jose, USA; 2. Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; 3. Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, USA



Sa3-70 Development of Infant Negative Emotions and Early Risk for Emerging ADHD SymptomsDavid Bridgett1 Talia McKay2 Maria Gartstein3 David Perkins2 Danielle Dorn2 Erin Iddins2 Anna Rittmueller2 Kristin Ramsay4 Lindsay Yake2 Stephanie Kelley2 1. Yale University, Child Study Center, Branford, USA; 2. Washington State University, Pullman, USA; 3. Washington State University, Moscow, USA; 4. Washington State University, Spokane, USA

Sa3-71 Toddler Inhibitory Control, Emotion, and Response to Novelty in the Risk for Externalizing ProblemsEmily Robinson1 Elizabeth Kiel1 Kristin Buss2 1. University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA; 2. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Sa3-72 Maternal-Fetal Attachment in Pregnant Women with SSRI-Treated and Non-Treated Major Depressive Disorder Amy Salisbury1 Julie McFarland2 Barry Lester1 1. Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, USA; 2. Brown University, Providence, USA

Sa3-73 Predicting Behavior Problems in Toddlerhood from Fearlessness in InfancyJennifer Self, Katrinka Boyles, Lisa IsbergWashington State University, Pullman, USA



Sa4-01 Neophobia in Infancy Requires a Conceptual Food CategorySteven Brown, Gillian HarrisUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Sa4-02 Cues to Object Persistence in Infancy: Tracking Objects Through Occlusion vs. ImplosionErik Cheries1 Lisa Feigenson2 Brian Scholl3 Susan Carey1 1. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 2. Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Baltimore, USA; 3. Yale Uni-versity, New Haven, USA

Sa4-03 Development of Prosocial Responding: Helping, Sharing and Comforting in 18- and 24- Month OldsKristen Dunfield, Elizabeth Kelley, Valerie Kuhlmeier, Laura O’ConnellQueen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Sa3-61 Play and Emotional Availability in Infants with Down SyndromeSimona de Falco1 Gianluca Esposito1 Paola Venuti1 Marc Bornstein2 1. University of Trento, Rovereto (TN), Italy; 2. Child and Family Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA, Washington, USA

Sa3-62 Infant Risk Factors for Toddler Oppositional Behaviors: The Role of Infant Temperament and Maternal FactorsDanielle Dorn1 David Perkins2 Talia McKay2 David Bridgett3 Maria Gartstein2 Erin Iddins2 Anna Rittmueller2 Jessica VanVleet2 Lindsey Yake2 Danielle Wald2 1. Washington State University, Enumclaw, USA; 2. Washington State University, Pullman, USA; 3. Yale University, Child Study Center, New Haven, USA

Sa3-63 Joint Attention Target Location as a Predictor of Subsequent Language Outcomes in High Risk ChildrenDolores Farhat, Shira Kolnik, Marygrace KaiserUniversity of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

Sa3-64 Postpartum Depression: Effects on Infant Social WithdrawalBárbara Figueiredo, Raquel CostaUniversidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Sa3-65 Effect of Parenting Stress on Cognitive Development: A Twin StudyKeiko Fujisawa1 Koken Ozaki2 Yusuke Takahashi3 Juko Ando1 Shinji Yamagata1 1. Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; 2. JST Research Fellow, Tokyo, Japan; 3. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Sa3-66 Tonic Cardiac Rhythms and Regulation in Newborns of Depressed and Non-Depressed MothersNancy Jones, Chantal GagnonFlorida Atlantic University, Jupiter, USA

Sa3-67 Early Joint Attention and Relations to Preschool Socioemotional Competence in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism Erin Koterba, Meaghan Parlade, Jana IversonUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Sa3-68 Self-Perceptions on Parenting & Parental Stress:Relations with Maternal DepressionYeonsoo Kim, Keumjoo Kwak, Soyeon Yoon, Jeeyeon Kim, Sunyoung ChoiSeoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Sa3-69 Evidence of Early Markers of Language Impairments in Infancy Nicole MagaldiWilliam Paterson University, Brooklyn, USA



Sa4-13 Infants’ Sound Production as an Ontogenetic Origin of SingingYohko Shimada, Shoji ItakuraDepartment of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Sa4-14 Learning Words from Social Partners and People on VideoGabrielle Strouse, Megan Saylor, Georgene Troseth, Kate O’DohertyVanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

Sa4-15 The Developmental Relation between Cognitive Ability and ShynessChristy Wolfe1 Martha Bell2 1. University of Louisville, Louisville, USA; 2. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

Sa4-16 Can a Self-Propelled Object Change the Position of its Parts?Di Wu, Renee BaillargeonDept. of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

Sa4-17 2.5-Month-Olds Hold Different Expectations about the Support of Inert and Self-Propelled ObjectsSylvia Yuan, Renee BaillargeonUniversity of Illinois, Champaign, USA

Sa4-18 Array Heterogeneity Affects Infants’ Working Memory CapacityJennifer Zosh, Lisa FeigensonJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA


Sa4-19 Longitudinal Change of Speaking Rate in Infant-Directed SpeechShigeaki Amano, Tadahisa KondoNTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Soraku-gun, Japan

Sa4-20 Frustration and Forms of CryingRonald Barr, Nicole CatherineCentre for Community Child Health Research, Child and Family Research Center, Vancouver, Canada

Sa4-21 Phonetic Specificity of Early Words? Australian Toddlers’ Perception of Australian versus Jamaican English PronunciationsCatherine Best1,2 Michael Tyler1 Christine Kitamura1 Anna Notley1,3 Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen1 1. MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Penrith South, Australia; 2. Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, USA; 3. Mac-quarie University, Penrith South, Australia

Sa4-22 A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Maternal Gestures to Japanese and Italian-Canadian InfantsJoanna Blake, Chantalle Fredette, Eric KaraoylasYork University, Toronto, Canada

Sa4-04 Infants’ Reasoning about a Collision Event Involving a Tool: An Example of an Early Understanding of FunctionMarissa Greif1 Amy Needham2 1. Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA; 2. Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, USA

Sa4-05 Infant’s Developing Concept of Weight: Does Training Matter?Petra Hauf1 Morgan Blackmore1 Markus Paulus2 1. St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada; 2. Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Sa4-06 The Development of Infants’ Ability to Perceive the Goal-Directedness of Others’ Pointing Actions: Evidence from Korean 6- and 9-Month-Old InfantsMin-young Kim, Hyun-joo SongDepartment of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Sa4-07 Infants Predict Robot and Human’s ActionNobuko Komori1 Yohko Shimada1 Tomoyo Morita1 Michiteru Kitazaki2 Shoji Itakura1 1. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2. Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

Sa4-08 Detection of Motion Direction in Point Light Walkers by 6-Month-OldsValerie Kuhlmeier, Niko Troje, Vivian LeeQueen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Sa4-09 Relations between Infants’ Responses to Maternal Imitation and Their Later Lexical DevelopmentJanet Olson, Elise MasurNorthern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA

Sa4-10 Cognitions in Mothers of Infants in South Korea and the United StatesDiane Putnick1 Marc Bornstein1 Keumjoo Kwak2 1. NICHD, Bethesda, USA; 2. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Sa4-11 Constraints on Infants’ Object Representations: 8-Month-Olds Individuate Objects But Not Portions of Non-Cohesive SubstanceRebecca Rosenberg, Susan CareyHarvard University, Cambridge, USA

Sa4-12 Putting the Motion in Motionese: Infants Preferrentially Attend to Infant-Directed Action even with Actors’ Faces Obscurred Wendy Shallcross1 Rebecca Brand2 1. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; 2. Villanova University, Villanvoa, USA



Sa4-33 Korean Mothers’ Referential Speech in Joint Attention Context: Association with Language and Play Development in 1-Year-OldsJiihyun Sung, Hui-chin HsuDept. of Child and Family Development, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

Sa4-34 Child Effects on Caregiver Responsiveness: Infants’ Use of Gestures to Respond TO Caregivers Elicits Responsiveness FROM CaregiversClaire VallottonHarvard Graduate School of Education, Cam-bridge, USA

Sa4-35 The Ontogeny of Joint Attention: The Role of Child Effects in Infant-Mother InteractionsAnn Mastergeorge1 Leslie Olswang2 Katherine Masyn1 1. University of California, Davis, USA; 2. Univer-sity of Washington, Seattle, USA

Sa4-36 The Influence of the Frequency of Maternal Speech Acts vs. Children’s Responsiveness to those Speech Acts in Typically Developing Children and Children with AutismLauren Swensen1 Letitia Naigles2 Deborah Fein2 1. NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmen-tal Disabilities, Staten Island, USA; 2. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA


Sa4-37 Healthy Preterm and Term Infant Perceptual, Cognitive, and Verbal Development in the First Year of Postnatal LifeCharlene Hendricks1 Marc Bornstein1 Chun-shin Hahn1 Nancy Auestad2 Deborah O’Connor3 1. NIH/NICHD, Bethesda, USA; 2. Kellogg, Battle Creek, USA; 3. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Sa4-38 A Cycled Light Intervention with Premature Infants: Effects on Maternal AdjustmentDebra Brandon, Sharron L DochertyDuke University School of Nursing, Durham, USA

Sa4-39 Effects of Smoking in the Household on the Developmental, Growth, and Health Outcomes of Premature Infants of African American MothersJada Brooks1 Diane Holditch-Davis1 Mark Weaver2 1. Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, USA; 2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, USA

Sa4-23 Mothers’ Conversations with Their Deaf and Hearing ChildrenMary Fagan, Kourtney Wonders, Tonya BergesonIndiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapo-lis, USA

Sa4-24 Modification of Preferential Looking to Derive Individual DifferencesGeorge Hollich, Kelly GeorgePurdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Sa4-25 Japanese Two-Year-Olds Use Morphosyntax to Learn Verb MeaningsAyumi Matsuo1 Sotaro Kita2 Letitia Naigles3 1. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; 2. Univer-sity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; 3. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

Sa4-26 Simultaneous Learning of Two Linguistic Rules in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants: Evidence from Eye TrackingAgnes Kovacs, Jacques MehlerSISSA, Trieste, Italy

Sa4-27 Taiwanese Mothers’ Speech to 2-Month-Old Infants:Effects of Prematurity and Social ContextPei-fen Li1 Hui-chin Hsu1 Suh-fang Jeng2 1. Department of Child and Family Development, University of Georgia, Athens, USA; 2. School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy,National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sa4-28 Language Use and Comprehension in Toddlers of Depressed and Well MothersLillian May, Nanmathi Manian, Marc BornsteinNational Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

Sa4-29 Function Words Facilitate Word Recognition in One-Year-OldsJessica Peterson1 Jessica Maye1 Jeff Lidz2 1. Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; 2. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Sa4-30 Naturalistic Acoustic Packaging: Mothers Coordinate Speech and Action in Input to InfantsMeredith Meyer1 Bridgette Hard1 Rebecca Brand2 Dare Baldwin1 1. University of Oregon, Eugene, USA; 2. Reed Col-lege, Portland, USA

Sa4-31 Finding Word Boundaries: Does French Liaison Pose a Challenge to Children’s Acquisition?Elena Nicoladis, Johanne ParadisUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Sa4-32 The Language Use Inventory: A Standardized Parent Report Measure to Assess Pragmatic Language Development in 18- to 47-Month-OldsDaniela O’NeillUniversity of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada



Sa4-46 The Number of Daily Breastfeedings Predicts Maternal SensitivityJarno Jansen, Carolina de Weerth, Marianne Riksen-WalravenDevelopmental Psychology Group, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Sa4-47 Parental Attitudes, Sleeping Arrangements and Infant SleepIrena Keller, Carl Frankel, Joseph CamposDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

Sa4-48 A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Post Discharge Neurobehavioural Intervention Program in VLBW Infants: Six Month’s OutcomeDominique Meijssen1 Karen Koldewijn2 Marie-jeanne Wolf2 Bregje Houtzager2 Aleid van Wassenaer2 Joke Kok2 Anneloes van Baar1 1. Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands; 2. AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sa4-49 Rural African American Mothers Parenting Preterm Infants: Parenting Stress and Daily HasslesMargaret Miles1 Diane Holditch-Davis2 Suzanne Thoyre1 Linda Beeber1 1. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; 2. Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, USA

Sa4-50 Risk Factors of Perinatal CNS PathologyTatsiana MordovinaNational Scientist Research Center “Mother and Child”, Minsk, Belarus

Sa4-51 Adaptation following Enucleation in InfancySarah Norgate1 Karen Littleton2 Christine Weston2 Hester Duffy3 1. University of Salford, Salford, UK; 2. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK; 3. University of East London, London, UK

Sa4-52 Emerging Self-Regulation in Toddlers Born Preterm: Parenting, Temperament, or Differential Susceptibility?Julie Poehlmann1 Aj Schwichtenberg1 Rebecca Shlafer2 Emily Hahn1 Jon-paul Bianchi1 Rachael Warner1 Brianne Friberg1 1. University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; 2. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Sa4-53 An Investigation into the Effect of Maternal Psychological State on the Feeding Behavior of Preterm Infants: Comparing Feeding By Mother and Neontal Nurse PractitionerNadja Reissland1 Victoria Maskell1 Mithilesh Lal2 Sunil Sinha2 1. University of Durham, Durham, UK; 2. James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, UK

Sa4-40 Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy and Early Language DevelopmentClaire Coles1 Juile Kable2 Mary Lynch1 Julie Carroll1 1. Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA; 2. Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

Sa4-41 Development at Risk in Vulnerable Brazilian Samples Assisted in the Family Health ProgramMaria Crepaldi1 Margaret Santa Maria-Mengel2 Maria Beatriz Linhares2 1. Universidade Federal of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil; 2. University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Sa4-42 Findings of Ethnic Differences in Cognition at 18-22 Months in a Cohort of Infants Born <1000 grams (ELBW)Susanne Duvall1 Peggy MacLean1 Jean Lowe2 Michele Shaffer3 Kristi Watterberg2 1. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA; 2. University of New Mexico Hospital, Department of Neonatalogy, Albuquerque, USA; 3. Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Hershey, USA

Sa4-43 Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among Mothers of VLBW InfantsNancy Feeley1,2 Phyllis Zelkowitz1,2 Lyne Charbonneau2 Carole Cormier3 Annie Lacroix4 1. McGill University, Montréal, Canada; 2. SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Canada; 3. Royal Victoria Hospital, Montréal, Canada; 4. St Justine Hospital, Montréal, Canada

Sa4-44 Differential Impact of Forms and Properties of Infant Crying at Five Weeks of Age on Maternal FrustrationTakeo Fujiwara1 Ronald Barr1 Rollin Brant1 Frederick Rivara2,3 Marilyn Barr4 1. Centre for Community Child Health Research, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada; 2. Departments of Pediatrics and Epide-miology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; 3. Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle, USA; 4. British Columbia Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Program, Vancouver, Canada

Sa4-45 Brainstem Dysfunctions Effects on Sleep Patterns of Premature InfantsRonny Geva, Ruth FeldmanThe Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan Univer-sity, Ramat Gan, Israel



Sa4-60 Parental Responsiveness Relating to Toddlers’ Eagerness to Learn and Attention Seeking BehavioursLiane Kandler1 Marie-pierre Gosselin1 David Forman2 1. Concordia University, Montréal, Canada; 2. University of Connecticut, USA

Sa4-61 Recovery from Jealousy Evocation: Contributions of Maternal Sensitivity and Infant CharacteristicsSybil Hart, Louanne JenkinsTexas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

Sa4-62 Mother-Infant Interaction at 3 and 6 Months: A Comparison of Measures of ResponsivenessAnne Henning, Gisa AscherslebenSaarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Sa4-63 Who’s Calling? : Shifting Attention to Invisible Persons’ Voices in 3- to 7-Month-OldsEmiko Kezuka1 Sachiko Amano2 Atsuko Yamamoto3 1. Gunma Prefectural Women’s University, Gunma, Japan; 2. Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama, Japan; 3. Kagawa Nutrition University, Tokyo, Japan

Sa4-64 Infants’ Social Responses to Strangers in the First Year of LifeHung-chu LinUniversity of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

Sa4-65 Social and Cognitive Factors in the Emergence of PointingUlf Liszkowski, Malinda Carpenter, Michael TomaselloMax-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropol-ogy, Leipzig, Germany

Sa4-66 Infant-Mother Attachment and Maternal Mental State Talk at 24 MonthsNancy McElwain1 Cathryn Booth-LaForce2 1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA; 2. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Sa4-67 Effects of Altered Early Social Experience on Brain Activity to Infant-Directed Speech and Vocabulary Development in Infants of Depressed MothersEmily Chinitz1 Rebecca Bitsko2 Elizabeth Sheehan1 Debra Mills1 1. Emory University, Atlanta, USA; 2. Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA

Sa4-68 Two-Year-Olds’ Understanding of Delayed Video Images of ThemselvesMichiko Miyazaki1 Kazuo Hiraki2 1. Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yokohama, Japan; 2. Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Japan

Sa4-54 Disentangling Effects of Moderate and Extreme Preterm Birth for Cognitive DevelopmentAnneloes van Baar1 Edwin Knots2 Jos Bruinenberg3 Boudewijn van den Boezem4 Johannes Bauer5 Corrie Jacobs6 Joost Bonenkamp7 Eric Brouwer8 Martin de Kleine9 Titia Katgert9 Anouk de Bruijn1 1. Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands; 2. Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 3. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands; 4. St Anna Hospital, Geldrop, The Netherlands; 5. Oosterschelde Hospital, Goes, The Netherlands; 6. Bosch Medical Center, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; 7. Twee Steden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands; 8. Elkerliek Hospital, Helmond, The Netherlands; 9. Maxima Medical Center, Veld-hoven, The Netherlands

Sa4-55 Does Maternal Feeding Style Contribute to Infant Weight Gain?John Worobey, Monica MedinaRutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

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Sa4-56 Relations between Maternal Behaviors and Temperament in Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early ChildhoodYoko Anji1 Yoichi Sakakihara2 Kiyotaka Tomiwa3 Yukuo Konishi4 1. Research Institute of Science and Technol-ogy for Society, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan; 2. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan; 3. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 4. Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Sa4-57 Functions of Infant Touch and Gaze Behaviors during Mother-Infant Face-to-Face InteractionsSabrina Chiarella, Robin Moszkowski, Dale StackConcordia University, Centre for Research in Hu-man Development, Montréal, Canada

Sa4-58 The Ecology of Mother-Infant AttachmentJacinthe Emery1,2 Louise Cossette1 1. Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Can-ada; 2. Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Sa4-59 Temperament Trajectories from 4 to 24 Months: Mitigating Factors across Multiple Levels of AnalysisKathryn Degnan1 Amie Hane2 Heather Henderson3 Jennifer Martin McDermott1 Nathan Fox1 1. University of MD, College Park, USA; 2. Wil-liams College, Williamstown, USA; 3. University of Miami, Miami, USA


Sa4-69 The Co-Occurrence between Infant Touch and Affective and Gaze Behaviours during Mother-Infant InteractionsRobin Moszkowski, Amelie Jean, Dale StackCentre for Research in Human Development, Con-cordia University, Montréal, Canada

Sa4-70 Postnatal Depression and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia as Predictors of Maternal SensitivityErica Musser, Jeffery Measelle, Jennifer AblowUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Sa4-71 Effects of Maternal Interaction Styles on the Developmental Process of the Intersubjectivity and the Attachment SystemsShigeru Nakano, Kiyomi Ikemura, Megumi SekineHokkaido Health Sciences University, Sapporo, Japan

Sa4-72 Developmental Change in Emotional Face Processing From 5 to 7 Months of Age: Behavioral and ERP EvidenceMikko Peltola, Jukka Leppänen, Silja Mäki, Jari HietanenDepartment of Psychology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Sa4-73 Gaze Following Depends on the Presence of Communicative CuesAtsushi Senju1 Sotaro Shimada2 Gergely Csibra3 1. Centre for Brain and Cogntive Development, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of

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Sa4-74 Can Emotional Availability at Home and Child Care Experiences at Age Three Predict Relationships With Teachers and Peers in Pre-Kindergarten Mexican Heritage Children?Sandra Soliday Hong, Carollee HowesUniversity of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Sa4-75 Relations between Maternal Behaviors and Temperament in Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early ChildhoodJessica Stoltzfus, Katherine KarrakerWest Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

Sa4-76 Helping Behavior in the Second Year: Actions versus EmotionsMargarita Svetlova, Sara Nichols, Ranita Anderson, Maryam Khatami, Celia BrownellUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

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