Discusses problems involved with the use of infant formulas in developing countries and then examines the other side of the story, the legitimate need for infant formula. The International Code for the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes is also presented and discussed. (RM)

Dedends the use of infant formulas in developing countries and discusses how the Nestle Company is doing all that is reasmnably possible to ensure the safe and effective use of the formula they market. (RM)

Results indicated that infants only 0.7 to 71 hours old can imitate adults' facial gestures (mouth opening and tongue protrusions). Three possible mechanisms underlying this early imitative behavior are suggested. (Author/MP)

Questions Husaim and Cohen's basic assumption that stimulus dimensions or attributes defined by the experimenter have psychological reality for infant subjects. Suggests that infants may perceive different attributes in the stimulus, or they may not articulate the stimulus into attributes at all. (Author/RH)

Based on comments by Kagan (1982), Rothbart (1982), and Plomin (1982) in response to an article on difficult temperament by Thomas, Chess, and Korn (1982), the author concludes that the study of temperamentally difficult children has a favorable prognosis. (Author/MP)

Two experiments investigated infants' perception of silence in the speech contrast between the words "slit" and "split." Experiment I was designed to determine whether infants could discriminate a speech contrast cued primarily by silence duration. Experiment II studied whether infants can discriminate brief durations of…

The study investigated the use of ultrasonic sonar device--the Sonicguide--by 10 blind infants. Noted among findings is that the use in the younger infants is more rapid and spontaneous. (Author/SB)

The ability of 1- to 3-year-olds to conceptually interrelate objects was studied among eight children each at 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months who were given seven free classification tasks containing a scrambled array of eight objects from two classes. Spontaneous manipulations of the subjects were analyzed. (Author/RH)

Four experiments assessed infants' ability to keep track of their relationship to a place in space. Infants, trained to expect an event on their right or left, were moved so their view was reversed. The direction they turned in anticipation of the event indicated whether they were coding the locations egocentrically or objectively. (JMB)

Findings showed no preference for the color white over the color black, contrary to previous studies. (Author/DLS)

A young father reports on the arrangements of a dual career family for child nurturance and out-of-home care for their son. (RH)

Examines infant matching of adult tongue protrusion behavior. Investigates whether (1) this matching behavior represents selective imitation or a released response that can be elicited by a broad but delimited class of incentive stimuli and (2) whether stimulation of tongue protrusion enhances the response and delays its decline. (JMB)

To establish the spatial generality of perseverative errors in infant manual search, a group of infants aged 8-11 months performed Piaget's Stage IV task with an object hidden at successive locations in the vertical plane. (Author/JMB)

Describes the author's personal experience with the birth of his third and fourth children using the Lamaze method of childbirth. (BF/JH)

Experiments investigated whether more elements in the upper part of a visual configuration influenced newborns' preference for face-like patterns. Findings indicated that newborns preferred nonface-like stimuli with more upper part elements over nonface-like stimuli with more lower elements, but did not prefer face-like over nonface-like stimuli…