Reports a semilongitudinal study which measured the respiratory activity during crying of 10 normal infants aged two days to eight months. (BD/BR)

Infants aged 9, 14, 20 and 24 months were observed looking at picture books with their mothers. The integration of pointing with verbal and visual behaviors together with activities pertaining to the task, such as page turning, are described. (Author/JMB)

Time sampled observations of non-elicited behaviors, obtained for several hundred newborn babies were used to determine (1) whether specific motor patterns are state linked in the manner of spontaneous behaviors; (2) whether certain behaviors appear with greater frequency preprandially; and (3) whether associations between behaviors and states are…

The ability of 5-month-old infants to process relational information was assessed by means of a habituation-dishabituation paradigm with cardiac deceleration as the response measure. (SB)

Exercises for children four to nine months old are presented with illustrations. (MS)

The limitations of noisemakers and speech in detecting marked high-frequency hearing impairment in young children are illustrated by special analysis. (Author)

This study demonstrated that 1-year-olds were capable of engaging other people in communicative interaction, that they adopted their messages according to the demands of the listener and situation, and that they responded to the receiver's feedback. (SB)

Examines some predictions of social learning theory for the development of peer-oriented social behaviors of infants. (Author/SB)

Two teaching strategies for helping mothers of high risk neonates acquire a method of encouraging infant head control were compared. Both guided learning groups (who received either demonstration only or demonstration and simulation) performed better than did the control group. (Author/DB)

A blind infant used the Canterbury Child's Aid (a binaural spatial sensor) for such purposes as reaching, feeding, and walking. As a preschooler, she used it to explore novel environments and avoid objects in her path. Training increased her responsiveness to and action upon the environment. (CL)

Tested the model which posits that heart-rate deceleration and respiratory sinus arrhythmia are indices of infant attention. Infants studied cross-sectionally at 14, 20, and 26 weeks of age were presented with complex patterns on a TV screen which were accompanied by an "interrupting stumulus". (Author/BN)