Current Issues in Developmental Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. New Approaches to the Study of Mother-Infant Interactions

   • Maria Luisa Genta

   Pages 1-26

3. Early Integration of Experience

   • Hanuš Papoušek, Mechthild Papoušek, Lynne S. Koester

   Pages 27-51

4. Changes of Sleep States and Physiological Activities Across the First Year of Life

   • P. Salzarulo, I. Fagioli

   Pages 53-73

5. Motor Development

   • Albert Gramsbergen

   Pages 75-106

6. The Development of Movement Control and Coordination

   • Geert Savelsbergh, Raymond Wimmers, John Van Der Kamp, Keith Davids

   Pages 107-136

7. Perception of Sound, Rhythm and Speech from Pre-Natal to Post-Natal Life

   • Giuliana Giovanelli, Alessandra Sansavini, Alessandra Farneti

   Pages 137-159

8. Early Development and the Risk for Neurobehavioural Disorder

   • Alex F. Kalverboer

   Pages 161-176

9. Back Matter

   Pages 177-190

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This volume contains a number of contributions, which concern basic issues in the field of brain-behavioural development in the human, especially with regard to the young child. They have been written by distinguished scientists, active in this field, who have all been participating in an Erasmus teachers exchange program, entitled 'Biopsychology of Development' (ICP-NL-3026/14). This volume is the product of this cooperation. The book is intended for scientists in this and related fields as well as for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, as a means of updating their knowledge about human brain-behaviour development. It offers a contemporary review, methodologically and theoretically, of some basic issues in early human brain-behaviour development. Attention is paid to normal development and also to deviance as exemplified by discussions on child abuse and on early development of preterms and children of deaf mothers. For the title of the book we have choosen for the term 'Developmental Psychology' with as a subtitle 'biopsychological perspectives' in order to express our interest in the basic requirements in the organism for an optimal adaptation during ontogeny as well as in the mechanisms underlying maladaptive behaviour. The term may indicate that we are not just focusing on 'higher brain functions' which would be suggested by the term 'Developmental Neuropsychology' . Further, it is meant to express our interest in the integrated study of normal and deviant development, without a particular focus on abnormality, which would be suggested by the term 'Developmental Psychopathology'.

• attention
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• biology
• development
• developmental psychology
• neuropsychology
• perception
• psychology
• visual attention

• Experimental Clinical Psychology, State University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  A. F. Kalverboer

• Developmental Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy

  M. L. Genta

• Developmental Psychology, University of Lancaster, UK

  J. B. Hopkins

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