The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development
Brain, Behavior, and Cultural Context

This handbook presents an integrative understanding of infant development, across neuroscience, context, and policy from leading experts.

Jeffrey J. Lockman (Edited by), Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda (Edited by)

9781108444392, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 August 2020

866 pages
24.3 x 16.9 x 4.5 cm, 1.45 kg

'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

This 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 application for advanced students, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers with interests in understanding and promoting infant development.

Preface
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.

Subject Areas: Child & developmental psychology [JMC]