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Call for Submissions XVIIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies We cordially invite you to attend the International Conference on Infant Studies. The goal of the conference is to promote the dissemination of the best of the science of infancy research and the exchange of ideas among infancy researchers. We invite submissions for the 17th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies.
Members and student members are urged to submit proposals for symposia and posters. Nonmembers are encouraged to join ISIS when submitting their proposals. Submissions from any discipline related to infant development will be considered. Submission Website: http://icis2010.isisweb.org/ The conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, March 10-14, 2010 (with pre-conferences on March 10). The Hilton Hotel is located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore (designed by the late Benjamin C. Thompson and developer James W. Rouse, creators of NYC's South Street Seaport and Boston's Faneuil Hall). The Inner Harbor is a delightful area with many restaurants, shops, and a boardwalk along Baltimore's harbor and includes The National Aquarium in Baltimore and the Maryland Science Center. The Inner Harbor is also walking distance from Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles. Baltimore has a rich cultural heritage with many diverse neighborhoods and a large variety of cultural opportunities appealing to a wide range of visitors. The city has a distinguished collection of fine museums, a wide array of live theatrical performances and numerous sites of historical interest. Program Highlights: The conference will be an exciting mix of submitted symposia and posters, plus invited addresses and symposia. Invited speakers include: Karen Adolph, Elizabeth Brannon, Bill Fifer, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Ron Haskins, Jerome Kagan, Andrew Meltzoff, Seth Pollak, John Richards, Sally Rogers, and Marinus van IJzendoorn. Details of the program will be posted on the conference website at http://icis2010.isisweb.org in January, 2010.
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Author Information Verification Process. IMPORTANT: Approximately 4 weeks following the final submission deadline for the Biennial Meeting, every person on all submissions receives an email message requesting that they update and verify their contact and demographic information. The message contains a unique link that accesses the data entered for that person on his/her associated submission(s).
Review Criteria for All Submission Formats. Sufficient empirical data, coded and analyzed even if not yet complete, must be included in your summary to provide a basis for evaluation of your submission. Each submission is evaluated by at least two members of either your first- or second-choice review panel. If two ratings of a submission differ considerably, the panel chair also will rate the submission. Submissions are reviewed according to the following criteria:
Submissions may be denied review if:
ICIS provides an LCD projector, an appropriate screen, and a microphone in each meeting room at no cost to you.
Submission Formats
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BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
A Breakfast Roundtable Discussion is an entirely informal exchange of ideas, methods, and experiences focused on a particular topic. Many of these sessions will be by invitation; however, submissions are also being solicited for this type of discussion. Submissions for Breakfast Roundtable Discussions should include an abstract not exceeding 300 words, giving a background and rationale for the discussion, as well as identifying the proposed discussion's leaders. Please send submissions to Nathan Fox (fox@umd.edu) or Amanda Woodward (awoodward@psyc.umd.edu) by September 8, 2009.
PRE-CONFERENCES (March 10) AND LUNCH MEETINGS
If you are interested in organizing a pre-conference event, or a breakfast or lunch meeting, please contact Nathan Fox (fox@umd.edu) or Amanda Woodward (awoodward@psyc.umd.edu). Space is limited; please submit your proposals early. The deadline to submit proposals is September 8, 2009.
2010 ICIS Panels and Panel Chairs
Panel #1: Attention, Memory & Learning: Chair: Lisa Oakes
Panel #2: Biological Processes: Chair: Vivette Glover
Panel #3: Cognitive Development: Chair: Amy Needham
Panel #4: Communication & Language: Chair: Jenny Saffran
Panel #5: Early Environments & Social Policy: Chair: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Panel #6: Emotional Development: Chair: Kristin Buss
Panel #7: High Risk & Pediatric Issues: Chair: Ruth Feldman
Panel #8: Motor & Sensorimotor Development Chair: Karen Adolph
Panel #9: Perceptual Development: Chair: Michelle deHaan
Panel #10: Psychopathology & Developmental Delay: Chair: Charles Zeanah
Panel #11: Social Development: Chair: Malinda Carpenter
Panel #12: Methods and Innovations: Chair: Rick Gilmore
Submission Website: http://icis2010.isisweb.org/
SAMPLE SUMMARY FOR EMPIRICAL FINDINGS
Infants' Ingestion of Carrots Leads to Preference for Red Hair: A Mock Study
Background and Aims: Previous work has suggested that the colour of food ingested may influence processing of basic visual information (Omer, 1995). The effects of this low-levelprocessing on higher-level cognition, however, have been largely unexplored. Anecdotal evidence comes from a "wild child" raised by beavers, who subsisted solely on lemons, and when later assimilated into society distrusted all but blonde-haired people (Gregory, 1907). This study tested ninety-six 12-month-old infants from a remote area in China, who had only ever been exposed to black-haired individuals.
Methods: Infants were randomly assigned to one of three experimental groups: high-carrot diet experimental group (HCD, n=32), nutrient-matched zucchini group (NMZ, n=32), and breast-fed control group (BFC, n=32). Parents were instructed to feed their infants the colour-specific food three times each day. At all other times, infants were fed a colourless liquid fortified with supplements including iron and fluoride, in accordance with infant nutrition recommendations (Organization of World Health, 2006). All infants were tested twice, once before the manipulation, and once after 28 days of the experimental diet. Ten test trials measured preference in which infants were repeatedly placed in the middle of three women smiling and beckoning. Both women wore identical flesh-coloured jumpers and a long-haired wig. One wig was a bright orangey-red colour, another was black (familiarity control) and lastly, bright green (novelty control). Side and woman-wig pairings were counterbalanced. The woman (wig) that the infant had crawled closest to by the end of the 60-second trials was scored, and the total number of trials crawling to the red-wigged woman was the dependent variable.
Results: Two independent-samples t-tests revealed that infants in the HCD group crawled to the red-haired woman significantly more than those in both the NMZ group [t(62) =2.82, p < .01, Mean [HCD] = 11.84; Mean [NMZ] = 8.97] and the BFC group [t(62) = 5.06, p = .0001, Mean [BFC] = 6.50]. Moreover, none of the infants ever crawled to the green-haired woman (M=0.00), suggesting that the redhead preference is not simply a novelty preference.
Conclusion: These results support our hypothesis that the colour of food consumed by babies may influence higher-level processing. The babies' unanimous rejection of the green-haired woman, even by those in the zucchini-eating group, will be discussed in terms of evolutionary theory. A possible framework uniting string theory with the Piagetian stages of development and the development of the id will be proposed.
