CONTENIDO: Perception and Cognition. -- Visual Perception / Alan Slater. -- Hearing, Listening, and Understanding: Auditory Development in Infancy / Anne Fernald. -- Action in Infancy - Perspectives, Concepts, and Challenges: The Development of Reaching and Grasping / Ad W. Smitsman. -- Cognitive Development: Knowledge of the Physical World / J. Gavin Bremner. -- Infant Learning and Memory / Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Rachel Barr. -- Functional Brain Development During Infancy / Mark H. Johnson. -- Origins of Self-concept / Philippe Rochat. -- Joint Visual Attention in Infancy / George Butterworth. -- Mind Knowledge in the First Year: Understanding Attention and Intention / Vasudevi Reddy. -- Social, Emotional, and Communicative Development. -- Mother-Infant Interaction / Marc H. Bornstein, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda. -- First Attachments: Theory and Research / Dymphna van den Boom. -- Peers and Infant Social/Communicative Development / Carol O. Eckerman, Karen Peterman. -- The Salience of Touch and Physical Contact During Infancy: Unraveling Some of the Mysteries of the Somesthetic Sense / Dale M. Stack. -- Preverbal Communication / Andrew Lock. -- Early Language / Luigia Camaioni. -- Principles of Emotion and its Development in Infancy / David C. Witherington, Joseph J. Campos, Matthew J. Hertenstein. -- Temperament / Theodore D. Wachs, John E. Bates. -- Risk Factors in Development. -- Prenatal Development and Risk / William P. Fifer, Catherine E. Monk, Jill Grose-Fifer. -- Early Intervention and Risk / Douglas R. Powell. -- Early Social Development in Young Children with Autism: Theoretical and Clinical Implications / Sally Ozonoff, Mikle South. -- Infant Mental Health in a Changing Society / Donna M. Gelfand. -- Sensory Deficits / Gunilla Preisler. -- Contexts and Policy Issues. -- Infancy Research, Policy, and Practice / Marguerite Barratt. -- Childcare Research at the Dawn of a New Millennium: Taking Stock of What We Know / Sarah L. Friedman, Suzanne Randolph. Incluye referencia bibliográfica e índice