Table of Contents

1: Michael Lewis and Alan Slater: A brief history of infancy research
2: Margaret Bendersky and Margaret W. Sullivan: Basic methods in infant research
3: Peter G. Hepper: Prenatal development
4: Karen Adolph and Amy Joh: Motor development: How infants get into the act
5: Alan Slater, Tiffany Field and Maria Hernandez-Reif: The development of the senses
6: Scott P. Johnson and Alan Slater: The development of intelligence in infancy
7: Paul C. Quinn: Categorization
8: Gavin Bremner: Perception and knowledge of the world
9: Jane S. Herbert and Olivier Pascalis: Memory development
10: George J. Hollich and Derek M. Houston: Language development: From speech perception to first words
11: Jennifer L Ramsey-Rennels and Judith H Langlois: How infants perceive and process faces
12: Michael Lewis: Early emotional development
13: Michael Lewis: Social development
14: Marc H. Bornstein and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda: Infants at play: development, functions, and partners
15: Viram K. Jaswal and Anne Fernald: Learning to communicate
16: Robin Gaines Lanzi, Craig T. Ramey, and Sharon Landesman Ramey: Early intervention research, services and policies
17: Jayanthi Mistry, Ila Deshmukh and M. Ann Easterbrooks: Culture and infancy
18: John Worobey: Health, nutrition and atypical development

About the Author

Edited by Alan Slater, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter and Michael Lewis, Institute for the Study of Child Development, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA