Examined whether an infant's reaction to a stranger would be indirectly influenced by the infant observing a stranger-third party interaction. Subjects were 45 15-month-old infants. Results suggest indirect effects influence social interactions and show that significant others can play an important role in mediating these effects. (Author/RH)

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Examined seven-month-old infants' perceptions of happy and fearful facial expressions. Infants could generalize discrimination of expressions across male and female faces if first familiarized with happy faces. Infants tended to look longer at fear faces than at happy faces. Preferential responding was not specific to any individual face.…

This brochure, one of a series of publications on recommended feeding and dietary practices to improve nutritional status at various points in the life cycle, focuses on childbirth, the initiation of breastfeeding, and breastfeeding concerns during the first week after birth. Addressed to health care providers working with mothers and newborns,…

This study explored the relation between mother-infant coordinated interpersonal timing, an automated microanalytic measure of dyadic vocal coordination, and maternal sensitivity. Thirty-four mothers and their developmentally normal 4-month-old infants were audio recorded during a 20-minute laboratory vocal interaction session, which was later…

The brains of 16 premature infants who died within their first month of life were studied microscopically. Journal Availability: See EC 152 470. (Author/CL)

Infants 9 to 10 months of age were presented with a series of visible displacement hiding trials at two locations. Infants had to choose among three, five, or six alternative locations on each trial. Search attempts tended to cluster around the currently correct location during both trials on all apparati, providing evidence for a memory…

The development of intention to communicate among infants is discussed. In addition, the construct of intention is examined and a model describing the development of intention is proposed. The model is used to describe both the development of intentional behavior and communication as an intentional behavior. (Author/RH)

Three experiments investigated seven-month-old infants' ability to discriminate the facial expressions of happiness and fear. (CM)

Four-month-old infants' stimulus preferences were assessed using an operant paradigm with mobile reinforcers of different colors (blue, green). (Author/MP)

Investigates whether five-week-old infants' attention to a schematic face would increase as the velocity of its oscillating eye dots increases. Twenty-four infants served as subjects. (MP)