Newborn Attention

Concentrating especially on the neonatal period 16 contributed chapters each present an aspect of the organismic givens interacting with environmental constraints and permissions. Topics include the most important processes and mechanisms of neonatal development: attention information processing prenatal experience arousal tactile responsibility audition orienting behavior habituation stimulus localizing effects of prenatal experience on subsequent development memory and other roots of cognition visual sensitivity intersensory integration action control and rudimentary imitation and brain-hemispheric specialization. Price to individuals is $42.50. Annotation copyright Book News Inc. Portland Or.