Important Note: Papers that are inside a box are to be presented together and count as a single presentation!

Class Readings

Book for the Course:

Blumberg, Mark S., Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior,  2005.

General Theoretical Issues:

• Lehrman, D. (1970). Semantic and Conceptual Issues in the Nature-Nurture Problem. In In L. R. Aronson, D. S. Lehrman, E. Tobach & J. S. Rosenblatt (Eds.), Development and evolution of behavior (pp. 17-52). San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.

• Gottlieb, G. (1991). Experiential canalization of behavioral development: Theory. Developmental Psychology, 27, 35-39

• Johnston, T. D. & Edwards, L. (2002). Genes, Interactions, and the Development of Behavior. Psychological Review, 2002, Vol. 109, No. 1, 26–34.

• Newman, T., Syagailo, Y., Barr, C., Wendland, J., Champoux, M., Graessle, M., Suomi, S., Higley, J. & Lesch, K-P. (2005). Monoamine Oxidase A Gene Promoter Variation and Rearing Experience Influences Aggressive Behavior in Rhesus Monkeys, BIOL PSYCHIATRY 2005;57:167–172.

• Michel, G. F. & Tyler A. N. (2005). Critical Period: A History of the Transition from Questions of When, to What, to How, Developmental Psychobiology, 46: 156–162.

• Werker, J. F. & Tees, R. C. (2005). Speech Perception as a Window for Understanding Plasticity and Commitment in Language Systems of the Brain. Developmental Psychobiology, 46, 233–251, 2005.

Methodology:

• Houston, D. M.  Speech Perception and Language Skills of Deaf Infants After Cochlear Implantation: A Review of Assessment Procedures and a Research Plan

Motor Development:

• Smith, L. B. & Thelen, E. (2003). Development as a dynamic system. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol.7 No. 8, 343-348.

Cognitive Development:

• Haith, M. (1998). Who Put the Cog in Infant Cognition? Is Rich Interpretation Too Costly?  Infant Behavior and Development, 21(2), pp. 167-l 79.

Student Readings

Prenatal Development & Experience:

• DeCasper, A. J., & Fifer, W. P. (1980). Of human bonding: Newborns prefer their mothers' voices. Science, 208(4448), 1174-1176.

• Melchner, L. v., Pallas, S. L., & Sur, M. (2000). Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway. Nature, 404(6780), 871-876.

• Sharma, J., Angelucci, A., & Sur, M. (2000). Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex. Nature, 404, 841-847.

• Lickliter, R., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (1995). Intersensory experience and early perceptual development: Attenuated prenatal sensory stimulation affects postnatal auditory and visual responsiveness in bobwhite quail chicks (Colinus virginianus). Developmental Psychology, 31(4), 609-618.

• Lickliter, R., Lewkowicz, D. J., & Columbus, R. F. (1996). Intersensory experience and early perceptual development: The role of spatial contiguity in bobwhite quail chicks' responsiveness to multimodal maternal cues. Developmental Psychobiology, 29, 403-416.

Perception:

Fantz, R. L. (1963). Pattern Vision in Newborn Infants, Science, Vol. 140, No. 3564, pp. 296-297. Fantz, R. L. (1964). Visual Experience in Infants: Decreased Attention to Familiar Patterns Relative to Novel Ones. Science, Vol. 146, No. 3644, pp. 668-670.

• Pascalis,O., de Haan, M., & Nelson, C. A. (2002). Is Face Processing Species-Specific During the First Year of Life? Science, Vol 296, 1321-1323.

• Colombo, J., & Richman, W. A. (2002). Infant timekeeping: Attention and temporal estimation in 4-month-olds. Psychological Science, 13(5), 475-479.

Action-Perception:

• Adolph, K. E. (2000). Specificity of learning: Why infants fall over a veritable cliff. Psychological Science, 11(4), 290-295.

• Corbetta, D., & Bojczyk, K.E. (2002). Infants return to two-handed reaching when they are learning to walk. Journal of Motor Behavior, 34, 83-95.

Intersensory Perception:

• Lewkowicz, D. J. & Turkewitz, G. (1980). Cross-modal equivalence in early infancy: Auditory-visual intensity matching. Developmental Psychology, 16, 597-607.

• Lewkowicz, D. J. (1985). Bisensory response to temporal frequency in 4-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 21, 306-317.

• Lewkowicz, D. J. (1992). Infants' response to temporally based intersensory equivalence: The effect of synchronous sounds on visual preferences for moving stimuli. Infant Behavior & Development, 15(3), 297-324.

• For your reference only, not for presentation: Spelke, E. S. (1994). Preferential looking and intermodal perception in infancy: Comment on Lewkowicz (1992). Infant Behavior & Development, 17(3), 285-287.

• For your reference only, not for presentation: Lewkowicz, D. J. (1994). Reflections on infants' response to temporally based intersensory equivalence: Response to Spelke (1994). Infant Behavior & Development, 17(3), 289-292.

Patterson, M. L., & Werker, J. F. (2003). Two-month-old infants match phonetic information in lips and voice. Developmental Science, 6(2) , p. 191-196. Ghanzanfar, A. (2003). Facial expressions linked to monkey calls. Nature, Vol 423,| 26 JUNE, 937-938.

• Scheier, C., Lewkowicz, D. J., & Shimojo, S. S. (2003). Sound Induces Perceptual Reorganization of an Ambiguous Motion Display in Human Infants. Developmental Science, 2003, Vol. 6, 233-244.

Cognition (Object Permanence, Expectation, Sequence Learning, Categorization & Memory):

• Baillargeon, R. (1987). Object Permanence in 3 1/2- and 4 1/2-Month-0ld Infants, Developmental Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 5,655-664

• Canfield, R. L., & Haith, M. M. (1991). Young infants' visual expectations for symmetric and asymmetric stimulus sequences. Developmental Psychology, 27(2), 198-208.

• Lewkowicz, D. J. (2004). Perception of Serial Order in Infants. Developmental Science, Vol. 7, p. 175.

• Quinn, P. C., Eimas, P. D., & Tarr, M. J. (2001). Perceptual categorization of cat and dog silhouettes by 3- to 4-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 79(1), 78-94.

• Bauer, P. J., Wiebe, S. A., Carver, L. J., Waters, J. M., & Nelson, C. A. (2003). Developments in long-term explicit memory late in the first year of life: Behavioral and electrophysiological indices. Psychological Science, 14(6) , p. 629-635.

Communication (Speech & Music):

• Eimas, P. D., Siqueland, E. R., Jusczyk, P., & Vigorito, J. (1971). Speech perception in infants. Science, 171(3968), 303-306.

• Bortfeld, H., Morgan, J. L., Golinkoff, R. & Rathbun, K. (2005). Mommy and Me Familiar Names Help Launch Babies Into Speech-Stream Segmentation. Psychological Science, 16, 298-304.

• Hannon, E. E. & Trehub, S. E. (2005). Metrical Categories in Infancy and Adulthood. Psychological Science, 16, 48-55.