Emerging Cognitive Abilities in Early infancy

This vol brings together resrchers on different aspects of infant development, each of whom demonstrates the connectns between cognitive, linguistic, and motor development. For resrchers and graduate-level students in devlopmntal and cognitve psychology

Mikael Heimann, Francisco Lacerda, Claes von Hofsten

Contents: Preface. K.F. Condry, W.C. Smith, E.S. Spelke, Development of Perceptual Organization. Y. Munakata, Task Dependency in Infant Behavior: Toward an Understanding of the Processes Underlying Cognitive Development. M.H. Johnson, Infants' Initial "Knowledge" of the World: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. C. von Hofsten, On the Early Development of Action, Perception, and Cognition. F. Lacerda, U. Sundberg, Auditory and Articulatory Biases Influence the Initial Stages of the Language Acquisition Process. P.K. Kuhl, Speech, Language, and Developmental Change. B.L. Davis, B. Lindblom, Phonetic Variability in Baby Talk and Development of Vowel Categories. P.W. Jusczky, In the Beginning, Was the Word... M. Legerstee, Domain Specificity and the Epistemic Triangle: The Development of the Concept of Animacy in Infancy. A.N. Meltzoff, M.K. Moore, "Discovery Procedures" for People and Things--The Role of Representation and Identity. M. Heimann, Neonatal Imitation--A "Fuzzy" Phenomenon?