Psychology of Infancy

Alan Slater is Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of Exeter. He is the co-editor of The Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology (Blackwell, 1999), Theories of Infant Development (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) and An Introduction to Developmental Psychology (Wiley, 2017) as well as the the 5-volume reference work Infancy (SAGE, 2013).

VOLUME ONE: THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE: FOETAL DEVELOPMENT, ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT AND BASIC SENSORY ABILITIES Prenatal Development, Risk Factors and Atypical Development Part One: Embryonic Period to Foetal Period (Normal Developing) Developmental Change in Fetal Response to Repeated Low-Intensity Sound - Seiichi Morokuma et al. Evidence of Transnatal Auditory Learning - Christine Moon and William Fifer Newborn Infants Prefer the Maternal Low-Pass Filtered Voice, but Not the Maternal Whispered Voice - Melanie Spence and Mark Freeman Part Two: Effects of Risk Factors on the Foetus (Teratogens) Fetal Alchohol Syndrome and the Developing Socio-Emotional Brain - Alison Nichols The Factors Contributing to the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - E. Athanasakis S. Karavasiliadou and I. Styliadis Prenatal Antecedents of Newborn Neurological Maturation - Janet DiPietro et al. Cognitive Outcomes of Preschool Children with Prenatal Cocaine Exposure - Lynn Singer et al. Part Three: Atypical Development - Down Syndrome, Sensorially Impaired, Multiple Impairments, Origins of Autism in Infancy Period The Development of Joint Attention in Blind Infants - Ann Bigelow Autism during Infancy: A Retrospective Video Analysis of Sensori-Motor and Social Behaviors at 9-12 Months of Age - Grace Baranek Atypical Perceptual Narrowing in Prematurely Born Infants Is Associated with Compromised Language Acquisition at 2 Years of Age - Eira Jansson-Verkasalo et al. Atypical Object Exploration at 12 Months of Age Is Associated with Autism in a Prospective Sample - Sally Ozonoff et al. Contingency Learning in 9-Month-Old Infants with Down Syndrome - P.S. Ohr and J.W. Fagen Perceptual and Motor Development Part Four: Basic Visual and Auditory Abilities Development of Human Visual Function - Oliver Braddick and Janette Atkinson Development of Visual Perception - Scott Johnson Where Infants Look Determines How They See: Eye Movements and Object Perception Performance in 3-Month-Olds - Scott Johnson, Jonathan Slemmer and Dima Asmo The Development of a Human Auditory Localization Response: A U-Shaped Function - Darwin Muir, Rachel Clifton and Marsha Clarkson One-Year-Old Infants Follow Others' Voice Direction - Federico Rossano, Malinda Carpenter and Michael Tomasello VOLUME TWO: MEMORY DEVELOPMENT AND OBJECT PERCEPTION Part One: Object Perception, Including Perceptual Constancies and Memory Development Size Constancy at Birth: Newborn Infants' Responses to Retinal and Real Size - Alan Slater, Anne Mattock and Elizabeth Brown What Do Infants Remember When They Forget? Location and Identity in 6-Month-Olds' Memory for Objects - Melissa Kibbe and Alan Leslie Dissociations in Infancy Memory: Rethinking the Development of Implicit and Explicit Memory - Carolyn Rovee-Collier The Ontogeny of Long-Term Retention during the Second Year of Life - Jane Herbert and Harlene Hayne Part Two: Perceptual Categories, Causality, Perception of Animate Action Basic Level and Superordinate-Like Categorical Representations in Early Infancy - Gundeep Behl-Chadha The Nature and Structure of Infant Form Categories - Paul Bomba and Einar Siqueland The Acquisition of Expertise as a Model for the Growth of Cognitive Structure - Paul Quinn Global-before-Basic Object Categorization in Connectionist Networks and 2-Month-Old Infants - Paul Quinn and Mark Johnson Precursors of Infants' Perception of the Causality of a Simple Event - Leslie Cohen and Geoffrey Amsel Do Six-Month-Old Infants Perceive Causality? - Alan Leslie and Stephanie Keeble One-Year-Old Infants Use Teleological Representations of Actions Productively - Gergely Csibra Infants' Ability to Distinguish between Purposeful and Non-Purposeful Behaviors - Amanda Woodward Part Three: Perception across Occlusion: Perceptual Precursors of Permanence Newborn Infants' Perception of Partly Occluded Objects - Alan Slater et al. Infants' Perception of Ob