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Karatekin, Canan – Developmental Review, 2007
This paper reviews the use of eye tracking measures (saccades, smooth-pursuit eye movements, fixations during scene and face perception, and pupillary dilation) to study typical and clinical populations of children and adolescents and evaluates the use of these measures. The studies are evaluated with a focus on points that may be of general…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Inferences, Eye Movements, Children
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Joseph, R. – Developmental Review, 2000
Presents information on prenatal brain development, detailing the functions controlled by the medulla, pons, and midbrain, and the implications for cognitive development. Concludes that fetal cognitive motor activity, including auditory discrimination, orienting, the wake-sleep cycle, fetal heart rate accelerations, and defensive reactions,…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Learning
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Ferrari, Michel – Developmental Review, 1996
Notes that observational learning of a motor skill involves both observation of the model and self-observation. Examines observation of the modeled performance, including three moderators of observational learning: the properties of the model, the nature of the task, and observer determinants. Observer determinants are examined at length,…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Modeling (Psychology), Motor Development, Objectives
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Kisilevsky, B. S.; Low, J. A. – Developmental Review, 1998
Reviews literature on human fetal behavior. Includes descriptions of coupling of body movements and fetal heart rate and behavior maturation from conception to term. Discusses use of stimulus-induced behavior to examine sensory and cognitive development, and spontaneous and stimulus-induced behavior to assess fetal well-being. Notes research focus…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Heart Rate, Individual Development
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Dalton, Thomas C.; Bergenn, Victor W. – Developmental Review, 1998
Introduces this special journal issue re-examining the contributions of Myrtle McGraw to developmental psychology in order to clarify misinterpretations of her work and to highlight dimensions that constitute promising lines of inquiry for contemporary researchers. Maintains that McGraw failed to receive credit for her alternative to…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
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Gottlieb, Gilbert – Developmental Review, 1998
Discusses how McGraw's work broached the notion of a reciprocal relationship between structural maturation and function, thus anticipating the current understanding of the role of experience in the cortical and motor maturation of infants in the first year of postnatal life. Also presents her clear formulation of a flexible critical period concept…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
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Zelazo, Philip R. – Developmental Review, 1998
Reexamines McGraw's research and theoretical principles on early neuromotor development, focusing on unaided walking. Notes that contemporary research supports and clarifies her observations providing greater detail about factors involved in the formation of higher-order control, and amplifying the role of experience. Discusses possible mechanisms…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
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Dalton, Thomas C. – Developmental Review, 1998
Maintains that McGraw conducted a more complex analysis of neurobehavior than acknowledged by those characterizing her position as maturationist; that she advanced a unique analysis of brain development and consciousness, singling out the reciprocal relationship between neural growth processes and early experience; and that her studies of the role…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
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Touwen, Bert C. L. – Developmental Review, 1998
Examines the weak relationship between structural and functional brain development. Maintains that variability is the basic characteristic of normal development, and that involves the ability to construct pluriform strategies and to select the proper strategy in any particular situation. Argues that McGraw recognized intra- and inter-individual…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Children, Developmental Psychology