The present study examines coviewing of Baby Mozart by 6to 18-monthold infants and their caregivers under naturalistic conditions. We had two questions. First, extending the method of Barr, Zack, Garcia, and Muentener (Infancy, 13 [2008], 30–56) to a younger population, we asked if age, prior exposure, and caregiver verbal input would predict infant looking to a Baby Mozart video from 6 to 18 m...

To my family, present and future v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My foremost thank goes to my advisor Dr. Anthony Calise. I am greatly indebted to him for his patience and encouragement that carried me on through difficult times, and for his insights and suggestions that helped to shape my research skills. His wisdom and guidance that extend far beyond the contents of this dissertation made it possible for ...

To my parents and my sister i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank my advisor, Dr. Nikil Jayant for teaching me how to be successful in the technological world, and for having complete faith in me right from the start to the finish of my PhD, and beyond. I would like to take the opportunity to thank my committee members, Dr. Constantine Dovrolis for being an integral part of my doctoral degree. I wish to t...

Whilst there is nascent literature surrounding researcher vulnerability, little known about how memories and anticipations can elicit vulnerabilities, vulnerable academic writing still be met with some scepticism. In this paper, I therefore provide an autoethnographic narrative of my encounters vulnerability during research into tattoos, time, death. My tale revolves around three themes: Rememb...

1998 2 To Marceline 4 Acknowledgements Many dear people have either deeply aaected my way through these last years of studies, or actively helped in my research work (some of them did both); I would like to thank them. First of all, I would like to thank my parents who have always supported and encouraged me, even in my decision to spend time abroad-a decision that certainly weighted on them. I...

Acknowledgements It is hard for me to keep these words short. First of all, my biggest thanks go to Ulli, for making me come to KOGS and stay there, introducing countless ideas and approaches to me that I cannot live without anymore, creating the VIGRA library, and finally, customiz-ing my thesis's topic to meet my interests (in fact, it seemed this was just a selection of favorites out of an e...