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Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary volume features many of the world''s leading experts of infant development, who synthesize their research on infant learning and behaviour, while integrating perspectives across neuroscience, socio-cultural context, and policy. It offers an unparalleled overview of infant development across foundational areas such as prenatal development, brain development, epigenetics, physical growth, nutrition, cognition, language, attachment, and risk. The chapters present theoretical and empirical depth and rigor across specific domains of development, while highlighting reciprocal connections among brain, behavior, and social-cultural context. The handbook simultaneously educates, enriches, and encourages. It educates through detailed reviews of innovative methods and empirical foundations and enriches by considering the contexts of brain, culture, and policy. This cutting-edge volume establishes an agenda for future research and policy, and highlights research findings and
Trade Review'This Handbook provides a remarkably comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of infant development. In my view, it fully succeeds in educating and enriching readers and encouraging them to move beyond simplistic nature versus nurture questions and to see infant development as being both embodied and also embedded within a culture.' Mark Johnson, Professor of Experimental Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
'This book brings together essays that reach across many rich and varied disciplines to capture infancy research today. Perhaps most impressive, this well-curated volume is more than a summary - it presents a foundation for strengthening cross-disciplinary research to support positive developmental outcomes for all infants.' Sandra R. Waxman, Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
'The editors offer researchers, policymakers, and practitioners theoretically rigorous and empirically innovative chapters on infancy and human development from the best minds in the field, spanning disciplines and perspectives from across the world. The result is a cutting-edge guide to the research and theory on the subject.' Natasha Cabrera, Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland
'Written and edited by the foremost experts in the world on early human development, this is a comprehensive compilation focused on all aspects of infant development. It is sure to be a valuable resource for years to come for scientists, policymakers, and practitioners.' Kimberly Noble, Professor of Neuroscience and Education, Columbia University
'This is an outstanding volume on development across infancy and the wide-ranging mechanisms associated with patterns of developmental change. Each section contains the scaffolding for numerous specialized courses on early development. The quality of the Handbook means that it will influence programs of research across the globe.' Martha Ann Bell, Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. Foundations: 1. Embodied Brain Model for Understanding Functional Neural Development of Foetuses and Infants – NOT YET FINAL Yasunori Yamada, Hoshinori Kanazawa, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi; 2. Infant Physical Growth Michelle Lampl; 3. Dynamic Epigenetic Impact of the Environment on the Developing Brain Frances A. Champagne; 4. Brain Development in Infants: Structure and Experience John E. Richards and Stefania Conte; 5. Development during Infancy in Children Later Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Terje Falck-Ytter and Emily Jones; Part II. Perceptual Development: 6. Visual Development Daphne Maurer; 7. Infant Visual Attention Dima Amso and Kristen Tummeltshammer; 8. Infants' Perception of Auditory Patterns Laura K. Cirelli and Sandra E. Trehub; 9. The Development of Touch Perception and Body Representation Andrew J. Bremner; 10. Development of Infant Feeding Julie A. Mennella, Catherine A. Forestell, Alison K. Ventura, and Jennifer Orlet Fisher; 11. The Development of Multisensory Attention Skills: Individual Differences, Developmental Outcomes, and Applications Lorraine E. Bahrick, Robert Lickliter, and James T. Todd; Part III. Cognitive Development: 12. Infant Memory Harlene Hayne and Jane S. Herbert; 13. Infant Physical Knowledge Susan J. Hespos and Erin M. Anderson; 14. Infant Categorization Lisa M. Oakes; 15. Early Knowledge about Space and Quantity Nora S. Newcombe; 16. Infant Learning in the Digital Age Sylvia N. Rusnak and Rachel Barr; Part IV. Action: 17. Action in Development: Plasticity, Variability, and Flexibility Jaya Rachwani, Justine Hoch, and Karen E. Adolp; 18. The Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition Nathan A. Fox, Virginia C. Salo, Ranjan Debnath, Santiago Morales, and Elizabeth G. Smith; 19. Infant Object Manipulation and Play Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda and Jeffrey J. Lockman; 20. The Infant's Visual World: The Everyday Statistics for Visual Learning Swapnaa Jayaraman and Linda B. Smith; Part V. Language: 21. Infant Speech Perception Rebecca K. Reh and Janet F. Werker; 22. Infant Vocal Learning and Speech Production Anne S. Warlaumont; 23. Infant Word Learning and Emerging Syntax Dani Levine, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff; 24. Dual Language Exposure and Early Learning Natalie H. Brito; Part VI. Emotional and Social Development: 25. Infant Attachment (to Mother and Father) and its Place in Human Development: Five Decades of Promising Research (and an Unsettled Issue) Or Dagan and Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; 26. Infant Emotion Development and Temperament Evin Aktar and Koraly Pérez-Edgar; 27. Infant Emotional Development Samantha Mitsven, Daniel S. Messinger, Jacquelyn Moffitt, and Yeojin Amy Ahn; 28. Understanding and Evaluating the Moral World in Infancy J. Kiley Hamlin and Miranda Sitch; 29. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parent-Infant Interactions Marc H. Bornstein and Gianluca Esposito; Index.
