Perceptual Development

List of Contributors. Preface. Part I - How the Visual System Develops: Normal and Abnormal Development Introduction 1. The Development of Basic and Visual Abilities Louise Hainline 2. Abnormal Visual Development Merrick J.Moseley, Meir Neufield and Alistair R. Fielder Part II - Visual Development: From Sensation to Perception Introduction 3. Nativism and Empiricism: The History of Two Ideas Ian Gordon and Alan Slater 4. The Competent Infant: Innate Organisation and Early Learning in Infant Visual Perception Alan Slater 5. Object and Spatial Categorisation in Young Infants: "What" and "Where" in Early Visual Perception Paul C. Quinn 6. The Development of Infant Causal Perception Leslie B. Cohen, Geoffrey Amsel, Melissa A. Redford and Marianella Casasola 7. Object Perception and Object Knowledge in Young Infants: A View from Studies of Visual Development Scott P. Johnson Part III - Perception of Social Stimuli Introduction 8. Infant Social Perception Darwin W. Muir and Jacqueline Nadel 9. Discrimination and Categorisation of Facial Expressions of Emotion During Infancy Michelle de Haan and Charles A. Nelson Part IV - Perception of Speech Introduction 10. Foetal Responses to Auditory and Speech Stimuli Jean-Pierre Lecanuet 11. Speech Perception During the First Year Peter W. Jusczyk, Derek Houston and Mara Goodman 12. Three Methods for Testing Infant Speech Perception Janet F. Werker, Rushen Shi, Renee Desjardins, Judith E. Pegg, Linda Polka and Michelle Patterson. Author Index. Subject Index.