The Behavior of Human Infants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Infant Signals

   • Davide Csermely, Danilo Mainardi

   Pages 1-19

3. A Comparative Approach to Behavioral Development

   • Alberto Oliverio, Claudio Castellano

   Pages 21-38

4. A Developmental Analysis of Suckling in the Rat

   • Jay S. Rosenblatt

   Pages 39-55

5. The Interpretation of Sensitive Periods

   • Patrick Bateson

   Pages 57-70

6. Social Development in Rhesus Monkeys: Consideration of Individual Differences

   • Stephen J. Suomi

   Pages 71-92

7. And What of Fetal Audition?

   • Marie-Claire Busnel, Carolyn Granier-Deferre

   Pages 93-126

8. Some Peculiarities of Electrical Brain Activity Correlated with Behavioral States in Infancy: A Review

   • Carmine Faienza

   Pages 127-144

9. Interpersonal Abilities of Infants as Generators for Transmission of Language and Culture

   • Colwyn Trevarthen

   Pages 145-176

10. Patterns of Parent-Child Interaction in a Cross-Cultural Perspective

    • Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt

    Pages 177-217

11. The Psychobiology of the First Didactic Programs and Toys in Human Infants

    • Hanuš Papoušek, Mechthild Papoušek

    Pages 219-239

12. Development of Social Avoidance in Autistic Children

    • John Richer

    Pages 241-266

13. Parental Affiliation as a Key Reference in the Treatment of Infantile Autism

    • Michele Zappella

    Pages 267-281

14. Urbanization as a Factor Influencing Child Behavior

    • Claudio Stroppa

    Pages 283-294

15. Back Matter

    Pages 295-304

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The present workshop started with various requests on behalf of several participants: some of us suggested the desirability of having only a free discussion, leaving papers aside: others would have preferred to stick to papers, though enlarging the discussion of each of them to more general topics. Further, intermediate positions were also present. From these different proposals came the hypothesis that a common frame or red line to all of our discussions on behavioural development would be to see what could be done by an interexchange of differing but converging disciplines in favour of children, and in particular of children with psychic handicaps, in terms of preven­ tion and cure. At the end of three days of prolonged meetings, where each paper was given and extensively discussed, one feels that a number of referral points have emerged. On the one side the plas­ ticity of behaviour, on the other is reciprocity (between mother and child, father and child and perhaps we should add between mother and father). The third point, which perhaps has been only partially covered, concerns the relationship between these two variables, i. e. in terms of treatment of a child, the potential plasticity of his behaviour can be used to his great advantage if it is related to the historical common needs of the reciprocal relationship, for example, between the child and his parents.

• Potential
• brain
• development
• interaction
• plasticity

• University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  Alberto Oliverio

• Regional Hospital-Siena, Siena, Italy

  Michele Zappella

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