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Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness

An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness
  • By Thomas C. Dalton, and Victor W. Bergenn.

Published May 2007

This new book examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their capacity to benefit from their early motor and cognitive experiences. In so doing, it helps us better understand how experience affects brain growth and a…
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Infant EEG and Event-Related Potentials

Infant EEG and Event-Related Potentials
  • Edited by Michelle de Haan.

Published April 2007

Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are one of the few methods that can easily and safely be used to study this process, and have led to exciting discoveries about human brain functioning and the neural basis of cognition. Over…
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Social Cognition During Infancy

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Social Cognition During Infancy
  • Edited by Vincent Reid, Tricia Striano and Willem Koops.

Published March 2007

From the fundamental processing of human movement, through to the ability to interpret actions, infancy research is only now taking up the challenge of social cognition over a variety of cognitive areas. This special issue covers broad areas of social-cognitive development and builds a cohesive…
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The Development of Social Cognition and Communication

The Development of Social Cognition and Communication
  • Edited by Bruce D. Homer, and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda.

Published May 2005

For young children, two of the most important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the social world around them. The premise of this book is that these two tasks are inherently linked. The communicative routines and language that children…
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Seeing Babies in a New Light

The Life of Hanus Papousek

Seeing Babies in a New Light
  • By Otto Koester, and Otto Koester.

Published May 2005

Seeing Babies in a New Light: The Life of Hanus Papousek presents the first in-depth examination of the scientific contributions and life of Hanus Papousek (1922-2000), a leading figure in modern infancy research. The aim is to illuminate the research and ideas of this pediatrician and scholar who…
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Infant Research and Adult Treatment

Co-constructing Interactions

Infant Research and Adult Treatment
  • By Beatrice Beebe, and Frank M. Lachmann.

Published May 2005

Infant Research and Adult Treatment is the first synoptic rendering of Beatrice Beebe’s and Frank Lachmann’s impressive body of work. Therapists unfamiliar with current research findings will find here a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of infant competencies. These competencies…
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Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds

A Methodological Primer, Second Edition

Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds
  • By Anthony Pellegrini, and Anthony D. Pellegrini.

Published March 2004

This second edition updates the methods based on new technologies, updates and increases the number of examples, and reorganizes so the theoretical material is up front. The author's decisions were guided by having used the first edition in classes at two universities. Consequently, he received…
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Music with the Under-Fours

Music with the Under-Fours
  • By Susan Young.

Published June 2003

The importance and value of music in the care and education of very young children is increasingly recognised. This book looks closely at early musical development and how this translates into ways of supporting the musical activity of babies, toddlers and young children, keeping in mind the…
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Regression Periods in Human infancy

Regression Periods in Human infancy
  • Edited by Mikael Heimann, and Frans X. Plooij.

Published April 2003

Regression periods play a central role in the psychological development of the human baby. Studies of infants have identified 10 periods of regression, or a return to a high frequency of mother-infant contact, within the first 20 months of life. These periods of emotional insecurity in the child…
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Progress in infancy Research

Volume 3

Progress in infancy Research
  • Edited by Harlene Hayne, and Jeffrey Fagen.

Published October 2002

The Progress in Infancy Research Series is dedicated to the presentation of innovative and exciting research on infants, both human and animal. Each volume in the series is designed to stand alone and contains autonomous chapters which are based on high quality programs of research with infants.…
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