Basic research -- Historical Reflections on Infancy / Alan Fogel -- Perceptual and cognitive development. -- Visual perception / Alan Slater ... [et al.] -- Auditory development / Denis Burnham and Karen Mattock -- Intermodal perception and selective attention to intersensory redundancy : implications for typical social development and autism / Lorraine E. Bahrick -- Action in infancy : perspectives, concepts, and challenges / Ad W. Smitsman and Daniela Corbetta -- Cognitive development : knowledge of the physical world / J. Gavin Bremner -- Perceptual categorization and concepts / David H. Rakison -- Infant learning and memory / Carolyn Rovee-Collier and Rachel Barr -- Functional brain development during infancy / Mark H. Johnson -- Social cognition, communication, and language -- Emerging self-concept / Philippe Rochat -- The importance of imitation for theories of social-cognitive development / Andrew N. Meltzoff and Rebecca A. Williamson^^^^

Engaging minds in the first year : the developing awareness of attention and intention / Vasudevi Reddy -- Preverbal communication / Andrew Lock and Patricia Zukow-Goldring -- Early language / George Hollich -- Social-emotional development -- Parent-infant interaction / Marc H. Bornstein and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda -- Attachment in infancy / Germán Posada and Garene Kaloustian -- Early social cognitive skills at play in toddlers' peer interactions / Hildy Ross, Marcia Vickar, and Michal Perlman -- Touch and physical contact during infancy : discovering the richness of the forgotten sense / Dale M. Stack -- Emotion and its development in infancy / David C. Witherington... [et al.] -- Temperament / Theodore D. Wachs and John E. Bates -- Culture and infancy / Charles M. Super and Sara Harkness -- Applied and policy issues -- Bioecological risks -- Fetal development / Raye-Ann deRegnier and Shivani Desai -- Infant nutrition / Maureen M. Black and Kristen M. Hurley^^^^

Health / R.J. Karp -- Development of communication in children with sensory functional disabilities / Gunilla Preisler -- Psychosocial risks -- Growing up in poverty in developed countries / Jondou J. Chen, Nina Philipsen Hetzner, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Infant development in the developing world / Patrice Engle -- Child abuse and neglect / Kelli Connell-Carrick -- Effects of postnatal depression on mother-infant interactions and child development / Lynne Murray, Sarah Halligan, and Peter Cooper -- Developmental disorders -- Infant assessment / Susan P. Berger ... [et al.] -- The early development of autism spectrum disorders / Gregory S. Young and Sally Ozonoff -- Infant psychosocial disorders / Melissa R. Johnson and Karen Appleyard -- Genetic disorders associated with intellectual disability : an early development perspective / Deborah J. Fidler ... [et al.] -- Intervention and policy issues -- Early intervention / Douglas R. Powell^^^^

Childcare research at the dawn of a new millennium : an update / Sarah L. Friedman, Edward Melhuish, and Candace Hill -- Infancy research, policy, and practice / Marguerite Barratt and Erica Fener.