PRENATAL PERCEPTION

• DeCasper, A.J. & Spence, M.J. (1991). Auditorily mediated behavior during the perinatal period: A cognitive view. In M.J.S. Weiss & P.R. Zelazo, (Eds.), Newborn attention: Biological constraints and the influence of experience (pp. 142-176). Norwood NJ: Ablex.
  
• DeCasper, A.J., & Fifer, W.P. (1980). Of human bonding: Newborns prefer their mothers' voices. Science, 208, 1174-1176.
  
• Moon, C., Cooper, R.P., & Fifer, W.P. (1993). Two-day-olds prefer their native language. Infant Behavior and Development, 16, 495-500.
  

TERATOGENS AND HORMONES

• Hines, M., Golombok, S., Rust, J., Johnston, K. J., Golding, J., et. al. (2002). Testosterone during pregnancy and gender role behavior of preschool children: A longitudinal, population study. Child Development, 73, 1678-1687.
  
• Streissguth, A. P., Barr, H. M., Bookstein, F. L., Sampson, P. D., & Olson, H. C. (1999). The long-term neurocognitive consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure: A 14-year study. Psychological Science, 10, 186-190.
• Schuetze, P. & Zeskind, P. S. (2001). Relation between maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and behavioral and physiological measures of autonomic regulation in neonates. Infancy, 2, 371 - 383.

BEHAVIOR GENETICS AND EPIGENESIS

• Bouchard, T. J., Lykken, D. T., McGue, M., Segal, N. L., & Tellegen, A. (1990). Sources of human psychological differences: The Minnesota study of twins reared apart. Science, 250, 223-227.
  
• Gottlieb, G. (1995). Some conceptual deficiencies in "developmental" behavior genetics. Human Development, 38, 131-141.
  
• Bjorklund, D. F. & Pellegrini, A. D. (2000). Child development and evolutionary psychology. Child Development, 71, 1687-1708.
  

PERCEPTION OF FACES AND OTHER THINGS

• Turati, C., Simion, F., Milani, I., & Umilta, C. (2002). Newborns' preference for faces: What is crucial? Developmental Psychology, 38, 875-882.
  
• Johnson, S. P. & Mason, U. (2002). Perception of kinetic illusory contours by two-month-old infants. Child Development, 73, 22-34.
  

"BONDING" AND ATTACHMENT

• Waters, E., Merrick, S., Treboux, D., Crowell, J., & Albersheim, L. (2000). Attachment security in infancy and early adulthood: A twenty-year longitudinal study. Child Development, 71, 684-689.
  
• Feldman, R., Weller, A., Sirota, L, & Eidelman, A.I. (2002). Skin-to-skin contact (Kangaroo Care) promotes self-regulation in premature infants: Sleep-wake cyclicity, arousal modulation, and sustained exporation. Developmental Psychology, 38, 194-207.
  

EARLY INTERACTIONS, THEORY OF MIND, AND SELF

• Lavelli, M., & Fogel, A. (2002). Developmental changes in mother-infant face-to-face communication: Birth to 3 months. Developmental Psychology, 38, 288-305.
  
• Rochat, P., & Striano, T. (2002). Who's in the mirror? Self-other discrimination in specular images by four- and nine-month-old infants. Child Development, 73, 35-46.
  
• Brooks, R., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2002). The importance of eyes: How infants interpret adult looking behavior. Developmental Psychology, 38, 958-966.
  

INTERSENSORY INTEGRATION

• Lickliter, R. & Bahrick, L. E. (2001). The salience of multimodal sensory stimulation in early development: Implications for the issue of ecological validity. Infancy, 2, 451-467.
  
• Bahrick, L. E., Netto, D., & Hernandez-Reif, M. (1998). Intermodal perception of adult and child faces and voices by infants. Child Development, 69, 1263-1275.
• Anisfeld, M., Turkewitz, G., Rose, S. A., Rosenberg, F. R., Sheiber, F. J., Couturier-Fagan, D. A., Ger, J. S., & Sommer, I. (2001). No compelling evidence that newborns imitate oral gestures. Infancy, 2, 111-122.

LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF EARLY EXPERIENCES

• Murray, L., Sinclair, D., Cooper, P., Ducournau, P., & Turner, P. (1999). The socioemotional development of 5-year-old children of postnatally depressed mothers. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 40, 1259-1271.
  
• Brooks-Gunn, J., Han, W., & Waldfogel, J. (2002). Maternal employment and child cognitive outcomes in the first three years of life: The NICHD study of early child care. Child Development, 73, 1052-1072.
  

TEMPERAMENT, STRESS, & EMOTION REGULATION

• Bazhenova, O. V., Plonskaia, O., & Porges, S. W. (2001). Vagal reactivity and affective adjustment in infants during interaction challenges. Child Development, 72, 1314-1326.
  
• Gunnar, M. R., Porter, F. L., Wolf, C. M., Rigatuso, J., & Larson, M. C. (1995). Neonatal stress reactivity: Predictions to later emotional temperament. Child Development, 66, 1-13.
  
• Boyce, W. T., Essex, M. J., Alkon, A., Smider, N. A., Pickrell, T., & Kagan, J. (2002). Temperament, tympanum, and temperature: Four provisional studies of the biobehavioral corrrelates of tympanic membrane temperature asymmetries. Child Development, 73, 718-733.
  

MATH, PHYSICS, AND OBJECT PERMANENCE

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• Wynn, K. (2000). Findings of addition and subtraction in infants are robust and consistent: Reply to Wakeley, Rivera, and Langer. Child Development, 71, 1535-1536.
• Wakely, A., Rivera, S., & Langer, J. (2000). Not proved: Reply to Wynn. Child Development, 71, 1537-1539.
• Hespos, S. & Baillargeon, R. (2001). Reasoning about containment events in very young infants. Cognition, 78, 207-245.
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• Shinskey, J. L. & Munakata, Y. (2001). Detecting transparent barriers: Clear evidence against the means-end deficit account of search failures. Infancy, 2, 395-404.

MEMORY IN INFANCY

• Rovee-Collier, C. (1999). The development of infant memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 80-85.
• Collie, R. & Hayne, H. (1999). Deferred imitation by 6- and 9-month-old infants: More evidence for declarative memory. Developmental Psychobiology, 35, 83-90.
• Eacott, M. J. (1999). Memory for the events of early childhood. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 46-49.

INFANT CATEGORIZATION

• Quinn, P. C. (2002). Category representation in young infants. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 66-70.
• Quinn, P. C., Adams, A., Kennedy, E., Shettler, L., & Wasnik, A. (2003). Development of an abstract category representation for the spatial relation between in 6- to 10-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 39, 151-163.
  
• Pauen, S. (2002). Evidence for knowledge-based category discrimination in infancy. Child Development, 73, 1016-1033.
  

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND INFANT-DIRECTED SPEECH

• Christophe, A., Mehler, J., & Sebastian-Galles, N. (2001). Perception of prosodic boundary correlates by newborn infants. Infancy, 2, 385-394.
• Spence, M. J. & Moore, D. S. (2003). Categorization of infant-directed speech: Development from 4 to 6 months. Developmental Psychobiology, 42, 97-109.
• Werker, J. F., Pegg, J. E., & McLeod, P. J. (1994). A cross-language investigation of infant preference for infant-directed communication. Infant Behavior and Development, 17, 323-333.
  
• Welder, A. N. & Graham, S. A. (2001). The influence of shape similarity and shared labels on infants' inductive inferences about nonobvious object properties. Child Development, 72, 1653-1673.
  
• Gershkoff-Stowe, L., Thal, D. J., Smith, L. B., & Namy, L. L. (1997). Categorization and its developmental relation to early language. Child Development, 68, 843-859.