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The Amazing Infant

ISBN: 978-1-405-15392-8

January 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

352 pages

Description

Tiffany Field, world renowned infant development scholar, writes an engaging and comprehensive book that collects and reviews the latest findings in the field, exploring cutting edge research and contemporary theories about infant development.

  • An engaging and accessible book that integrates research, theory, and real life experiences and practices to provide a closer look at how infancy research is conducted.
  • Features illustrative photos and data graphs covering research from recent years.
  • Draws on recent advances in neuroscience to examine the progress made in the areas of prenatal and cognitive development.
About the Author
Tiffany Field is director of the Touch Research Institute and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Psychology, and Psychiatry at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Her publications include Infancy (1990) and Touch (2001).
Features

  • An engaging and accessible book that integrates research, theory, and real life experiences and practices to provide a closer look at how infancy research is conducted.

  • Collects and reviews the latest findings in the field, exploring cutting edge research and contemporary theories about infant development.

  • Features illustrative photos and data graphs covering research from recent years.

  • Draws on recent advances in neuroscience to examine the progress made in the areas of prenatal and cognitive development.

  • Written by a world renowned infant development scholar.