Consciousness in Infants

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 37-57

  Trevarthen, Colwyn ^a   Reddy, Vasudevi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Emotional; Human company; Infants; Innate rhythms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891312708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751466.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

References (49)

1. Bowlby, J. (1988) A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development. New York: Basic Books.
2. Bullowa, M. (ed.) (1979) Before Speech: The Beginning of Human Communication. London: Cambridge University Press.
3. Clark, A. (1999) An embodied cognitive science? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3: 9, 345-51.
4. Darwin, C. (1872/1998) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 3rd edn. New York: Oxford University Press.
5. Dissanayake, E. (2000) Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
6. Donaldson, M. (1992) Human Minds: An Exploration. London: Allen Lane/Penguin Books.
7. Gallese, V., Keysers, C., and Rizzolatti, G. (2004) A unifying view of the basis of social cognition. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences 8: 9, 396-403.
8. Halliday, M. A. K. (1975) Learning How to Mean: Explorations in the Development of Language. London: Edward Arnold.
9. Heimann, M. (2002) Notes on individual differences and the assumed elusiveness of neonatal imitation. In A. N. Meltzoff and W. Prinz (eds.), The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases, 74-84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. Hobson, P. (2002) The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking. London: Macmillan.
11. Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., Felstein, S., Crown, C., and Jasnow, M. D. (2001) Rhythms of dialogue in infancy: coordinated timing and social development. Society of Child Development Monographs, 66, 2, Serial No. 264. Oxford: Blackwell.
12. Kagan, J. (1994) Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature. London: Free Association Books.
13. Lacerda, F., von Hofsten, C., and Heimann, M. (2001) Emerging Cognitive Abilities in Early Infancy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
14. Lecanuet, J.-P., Fifer, W. P., Krasnegor, N. A., and Smotherman, W. P. (eds.) (1995) Fetal Development: A Psychobiological Perspective. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
15. Lee, D. N. (2004) Tau in action in development. In J. J. Rieser, J. J. Lockman and C. A. Nelson (eds.), Action, Perception and Cognition in Learning and Development. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
16. Locke, J. L. (1993) The Child's Path to Spoken Language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
17. Malloch, S. (1999) Mother and infants and communicative musicality. In I. Deliège (ed.), Rhythms, Musical Narrative, and the Origins of Human Communication. Musicae Scientiae, Special Issue, 1999-2000, 29-57. Liège: European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.
18. Markova, G. and Legerstee, M. (2006) Contingency, imitation and affect sharing: foundations of infants' social awareness. Developmental Psychology 42: 1, 132-41.
19. Meltzoff, A. N. and Moore, M. H. (1999) Persons and representation: why infant imitation is important for theories of human development. In J. Nadel and G. Butterworth (eds.), Imitation in Infancy, 9-35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. Merker, B. (2005) The liabilities of mobility: a selection pressure for the transition to consciousness in animal evolution. Consciousness and Cognition 14: 1, 89-114.
21. Murray, L. and Cooper, P. J. (eds.) (1997) Postpartum Depression and Child Development. New York: Guilford Press.
22. Murray, L. and Trevarthen, C. (1985) Emotional regulation of interactions between two-month-olds and their mothers. In T. M. Field and N. A. Fox (eds.), Social Perception in Infants, 177-97. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
23. Nagy, E. and Molnár, P. (2004) Homo imitans or Homo provocans? Human imprinting model of neonatal imitation. Infant Behaviour and Development 27: 1, 54-63.
24. Newson, J. (1977) An intersubjective approach to the systematic description of mother-infant interaction. In H. R. Schaffer (ed.), Studies in Mother-Infant Interaction: The Loch Lomond Symposium, 47-61. London: Academic Press.
25. Oster, H. (2005) The repertoire of infant facial expressions: an ontogenetic perspective. In J. Nadel and D. Muir (eds.), Emotional Development, 261-92. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Panksepp, J. (2000) Affective consciousness and the instinctual motor system: the neural sources of sadness and joy. In R. Ellis and N. Newton (eds.), The Caldron of Consciousness, Motivation, Affect and Self-Organization, vol. 16, 27-54. Advances in Consciousness Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
27. Papousek, H. (1967) Experimental studies of appetitional behaviour in human newborns and infants. In H. W. Stevenson, E. H. Hess, and H. L. Rheingold (eds.), Early Behaviour: Comparative and Developmental Approaches, 249-77. New York: John Wiley.
28. Papousek, M., Bornstein, M. H., Nuzzo, C., Papousek, H., and Symmes, D. (1990) Infant responses to prototypical melodic contours in parental speech. Infant Behavior and Development 13, 539-45.
29. Piaget, J. (1954) The Construction of Reality in the Child. New York: Basic Books.
30. Piontelli, A. (2002) Twins: From Fetus to Child. London: Routledge.
31. Reddy, V. (2003) On being the object of attention: implications for self-other consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7, 397-402.
32. Reddy, V. (2005) Feeling shy and showing-off: self-conscious emotions must regulate self-awareness. In J. Nadel and D. Muir (eds.), Emotional Development, 183-204. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
33. Rogoff, B. (2003) The Cultural Nature of Human Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
34. Smith, A. (1759) Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edinburgh (modern edn.: D. D. Raphael and A. L. Mac-fie (eds.), (Glasgow edn.). Oxford: Clarendon, 1976; also Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1984.
35. Smuts, B. (2001) Encounters with animal minds. In E. Thompson (ed.), Between Ourselves: Second-Person Issues in the Study of Consciousness, 293-309. Charlottesville, VA/Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic (also Journal of Consciousness Studies 8: 5-7, 293-309).
36. Stern, D. N. (2000) The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Development Psychology, 2nd edn. New York: Basic Books.
37. Stern, D. N. (2004) The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life. New York: Norton.
38. Thompson, E. (2001) Empathy and consciousness. In E. Thompson (ed.), Between Ourselves: Second-Person Issues in the Study of Consciousness, 1-32. Charlottesville, VA/Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic (also Journal of Consciousness Studies 8: 5-7, 1-32).
39. Trevarthen, C. (1998) The concept and foundations of infant intersubjectivity. In S. Bråten (ed.), Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny, 15-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
40. Trevarthen, C. (1999) Musicality and the intrinsic motive pulse: evidence from human psychobiology and infant communication. In Rhythms, Musical Narrative, and the Origins of Human Communication. Musicae Scientiae, Special Issue, 1999-2000, 157-213. Liège: European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.
41. Trevarthen, C. (2004a) Infancy, mind in. In R. L. Gregory (ed.), Oxford Companion to the Mind, 2nd edn., 455-64. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
42. Trevarthen, C. (2004b) Brain development. In R. L. Gregory (ed.), Oxford Companion to the Mind, 2nd edn., 116-27. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
43. Trevarthen, C. (2004c) Language development: mechanisms in the brain. In G. Adelman and B. H. Smith (eds.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2nd edn., with CD-ROM. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
44. Trevarthen, C. (2005a) Action and emotion in development of the human self, its sociability and cultural intelligence: why infants have feelings like ours. In J. Nadel and D. Muir (eds.), Emotional Development, 61-91. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
45. Trevarthen, C. (2005b) Stepping away from the mirror: pride and shame in adventures of companionship. Reflections on the nature and emotional needs of infant intersubjectivity. In C. S. Carter, L. Ahnert et al. (eds.), Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis. Dahlem Workshop Report 92. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
46. Trevarthen, C. and Aitken, K. J. (2003) Regulation of brain development and age-related changes in infants' motives: the developmental function of regressive periods. In M. Heimann (ed.), Regression Periods in Human Infancy, 107-84. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
47. Trevarthen, C., Aitken, K. J., Vandekerckhove, M., Delafield-Butt, J., and Nagy, E. (2006) Collaborative regulations of vitality in early childhood: stress in intimate relationships and postnatal psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti and D. J. Cohen (eds.), Developmental Psychopathology, 2nd edn. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
48. Tronick, E. Z. (2005) Why is connection with others so critical? The formation of dyadic states of consciousness: coherence governed selection and the co-creation of meaning out of messy meaning making. In J. Nadel and D. Muir (eds.), Emotional Development, 293-315. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
49. Tzourio-Mazoyer, N., De Schonen, S., Crivello, F., Reutter, B., Aujard, Y., and Mazoyer, B. (2002) Neural correlates of woman face processing by 2-month-old infants. NeuroImage 15, 454-61.