Michael Goldstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Goldstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6672-3752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The influence of infantile cues on motivated perception of threats among caregivers
Human infants are born helpless and entirely dependent on their adult caregivers for survival. It is this very helplessness, however, that serves as a powerful signal to nearby adults and reorganizes attention towards potential dangers. As members of an altricial and alloparental species, adults are perceptually sensitive to infantile cues. Infants change how adults attend to the world around them as well as how adults perceive affordances that c…
Contingency enables the formation of social expectations about an artificial agent
What environmental regularities support infant communicative learning from social interactions? We propose that infants allocate their attention toward and learn from external events that are contingent on their own behaviors. We tested the robustness of the influence of contingency on communicative learning by using a non‐biological stimulus, a remote‐controlled car, as the social partner. The car approached infants and produced a speech sound e…
The Dynamics of Perception in Caregiving: How Infants Change the Way We See the World
How do caregivers perceive the world around their infants? A virtual task was created to assess how the perception of potential threats is influenced by parental experience and an infant's capacity to explore. Sixty-five parents (Mage = 35.52, %female = 61.54, %White = 84.62) and 31 non-parents (Mage = 19.52, %female = 74.19, %White = 32.26) were recruited from Ithaca, NY, a mid-sized city in the northeastern region of the United States. All data…
Caregiver reactions to babbling organize turn‐taking interactions: Facilitative effects of vocal versus non‐vocal responses
Turn‐taking interactions are foundational to the development of social, communicative, and cognitive skills. In infants, vocal turn‐taking experience is predictive of infants' socioemotional and language development. However, different forms of turn‐taking interactions may have different effects on infant vocalizing. It is presently unknown how caregiver vocal, non‐vocal and multimodal responses to infant vocalizations compare in extending caregi…
The ecology of prelinguistic vocal learning: Parents simplify the structure of their speech in response to babbling
What is the function of babbling in language learning? We examined the structure of parental speech as a function of contingency on infants’ non-cry prelinguistic vocalizations. We analyzed several acoustic and linguistic measures of caregivers’ speech. Contingent speech was less lexically diverse and shorter in utterance length than non-contingent speech. We also found that the lexical diversity of contingent parental speech only predicted infan…
The Role of Dyadic Coordination in Organizing Visual Attention in 5‐Month‐Old Infants
In human infants, the ability to share attention with others is facilitated by increases in attentional selectivity and focus. Differences in early attention have been associated with socio‐cognitive outcomes including language, yet the social mechanisms of attention organization in early infancy have only recently been considered. Here, we examined how social coordination between 5‐month‐old infants and caregivers relate to differences in infant…
Learning While Babbling: Prelinguistic Object‐Directed Vocalizations Indicate a Readiness to Learn
Two studies illustrate the functional significance of a new category of prelinguistic vocalizing—object‐directed vocalizations (ODVs)—and show that these sounds are connected to learning about words and objects. Experiment 1 tested 12‐month‐old infants’ perceptual learning of objects that elicited ODVs. Fourteen infants’ vocalizations were recorded as they explored novel objects. Infants learned visual features of objects that elicited the most O…
Patient and health care provider views of depressive symptoms and diabetes in American Samoa
High Type 2 diabetes prevalence, associated with recent cultural changes in diet and physical activity, characterizes the U.S. territory of American Samoa. Comorbid diabetes and depression rates are high worldwide and contribute to negative diabetes outcomes; these rates have not been assessed in American Samoa. In this study, 6 focus groups were conducted with 39 American Samoan adults with diabetes; questions on perceptions of diabetes and depr…
Why Are There Old People
Biological theories of adaptation are used to generate a model of human cognitive development in which physiological and cognitive changes in aged persons can be understood as an adaptive stage of development in its own right. These changes, within an appropriate societal context, make elderly individuals better able to perform certain tasks, or at least uniquely able to provide them, in ways which increase group survival. Emphasis is given to ta…
Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning
Infants' prelinguistic vocalizations are rarely considered relevant for communicative development. As a result, there are few studies of mechanisms underlying developmental changes in prelinguistic vocal production. Here we report the first evidence that caregivers'speech to babbling infants provides crucial, real-time guidance to the development of prelinguistic vocalizations. Mothers of 9.5-month-old infants were instructed to provide models of…
HIV infection and patterns of risk among women drug injectors and crack users in low and high sero-prevalence sites
As AIDS cases among US women continue to increase, a better understanding of women's behavioural risk patterns is needed to inform intervention efforts. Data were from 2,945 women drug injectors and crack users. Statistical analyses compared sociodemographic variables, lifetime behavioural risk patterns, HIV sero-prevalence and history of sexually transmitted diseases, and determined predictors of HIV infection separately in 16 low and four high …
Stages of Adopting Regular Screening Mammography: Do Women Differ in Decisional Balance Within Stages
This study examined whether distinct subgroups of women could be identified within stages of adoption for screening mammography. These subgroups may represent differential readiness to move to the next stage of the adoption continuum. Data were from a baseline survey of 1323 women between the ages of 50 and 74 years who were recruited through a staff- model HMO for an intervention study to increase rates of mammography. Multiple regression models…
Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi and tick salivary gland proteins in New Jersey outdoor workers
In 1990, a second cross-sectional study of outdoor workers (n = 758) at high risk for Lyme disease was conducted. A questionnaire was administered, and antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi and tick salivary gland proteins (antitick saliva antibody, a biologic marker of tick exposure) were assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The statewide Lyme disease seroprevalence increased from 8.1% in 1988 to 18.7% in 1990. Antitick saliva antibody ser…
Lyme disease in New Jersey outdoor workers: A statewide survey of seroprevalence and tick exposure
To evaluate the spread of Lyme disease in New Jersey, we conducted a statewide cross-sectional study of Lyme disease seroprevalence in a high-risk occupational group of outdoor employees. Of the 689 employees who participated in the study, 39 (5.7 percent) were positive for antibody to B. burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Seroprevalence varied markedly by county; unexpectedly high seroprevalence rates were found in several norther…
Black Power and the Rise of Bureaucratic Autonomy in New York City Politics: The Case of Harlem Hospital, 1917-1931
Preface to the Rise of Booker T. Washington: A View from New York City of the Demise of Independent Black Politics, 1889-1902
Experience with pornography: Rapists, pedophiles, homosexuals, transsexuals, and controls
Experience with pornography: Rapists, pedophiles, homosexuals, transsexuals, and controls
Patient and health care provider views of depressive symptoms and diabetes in American Samoa
High Type 2 diabetes prevalence, associated with recent cultural changes in diet and physical activity, characterizes the U.S. territory of American Samoa. Comorbid diabetes and depression rates are high worldwide and contribute to negative diabetes outcomes; these rates have not been assessed in American Samoa. In this study, 6 focus groups were conducted with 39 American Samoan adults with diabetes; questions on perceptions of diabetes and depr…
Stages of Adopting Regular Screening Mammography: Do Women Differ in Decisional Balance Within Stages
This study examined whether distinct subgroups of women could be identified within stages of adoption for screening mammography. These subgroups may represent differential readiness to move to the next stage of the adoption continuum. Data were from a baseline survey of 1323 women between the ages of 50 and 74 years who were recruited through a staff- model HMO for an intervention study to increase rates of mammography. Multiple regression models…
Lyme disease in New Jersey outdoor workers: A statewide survey of seroprevalence and tick exposure
To evaluate the spread of Lyme disease in New Jersey, we conducted a statewide cross-sectional study of Lyme disease seroprevalence in a high-risk occupational group of outdoor employees. Of the 689 employees who participated in the study, 39 (5.7 percent) were positive for antibody to B. burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Seroprevalence varied markedly by county; unexpectedly high seroprevalence rates were found in several norther…
Experience with pornography: Rapists, pedophiles, homosexuals, transsexuals, and controls
Preface to the Rise of Booker T. Washington: A View from New York City of the Demise of Independent Black Politics, 1889-1902
Black Power and the Rise of Bureaucratic Autonomy in New York City Politics: The Case of Harlem Hospital, 1917-1931
Lyme disease in New Jersey outdoor workers: A statewide survey of seroprevalence and tick exposure
To evaluate the spread of Lyme disease in New Jersey, we conducted a statewide cross-sectional study of Lyme disease seroprevalence in a high-risk occupational group of outdoor employees. Of the 689 employees who participated in the study, 39 (5.7 percent) were positive for antibody to B. burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Seroprevalence varied markedly by county; unexpectedly high seroprevalence rates were found in several norther…
Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi and tick salivary gland proteins in New Jersey outdoor workers
In 1990, a second cross-sectional study of outdoor workers (n = 758) at high risk for Lyme disease was conducted. A questionnaire was administered, and antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi and tick salivary gland proteins (antitick saliva antibody, a biologic marker of tick exposure) were assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The statewide Lyme disease seroprevalence increased from 8.1% in 1988 to 18.7% in 1990. Antitick saliva antibody ser…
Stages of Adopting Regular Screening Mammography: Do Women Differ in Decisional Balance Within Stages
This study examined whether distinct subgroups of women could be identified within stages of adoption for screening mammography. These subgroups may represent differential readiness to move to the next stage of the adoption continuum. Data were from a baseline survey of 1323 women between the ages of 50 and 74 years who were recruited through a staff- model HMO for an intervention study to increase rates of mammography. Multiple regression models…
HIV infection and patterns of risk among women drug injectors and crack users in low and high sero-prevalence sites
As AIDS cases among US women continue to increase, a better understanding of women's behavioural risk patterns is needed to inform intervention efforts. Data were from 2,945 women drug injectors and crack users. Statistical analyses compared sociodemographic variables, lifetime behavioural risk patterns, HIV sero-prevalence and history of sexually transmitted diseases, and determined predictors of HIV infection separately in 16 low and four high …
Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning
Infants' prelinguistic vocalizations are rarely considered relevant for communicative development. As a result, there are few studies of mechanisms underlying developmental changes in prelinguistic vocal production. Here we report the first evidence that caregivers'speech to babbling infants provides crucial, real-time guidance to the development of prelinguistic vocalizations. Mothers of 9.5-month-old infants were instructed to provide models of…
Why Are There Old People
Biological theories of adaptation are used to generate a model of human cognitive development in which physiological and cognitive changes in aged persons can be understood as an adaptive stage of development in its own right. These changes, within an appropriate societal context, make elderly individuals better able to perform certain tasks, or at least uniquely able to provide them, in ways which increase group survival. Emphasis is given to ta…
Learning While Babbling: Prelinguistic Object‐Directed Vocalizations Indicate a Readiness to Learn
Two studies illustrate the functional significance of a new category of prelinguistic vocalizing—object‐directed vocalizations (ODVs)—and show that these sounds are connected to learning about words and objects. Experiment 1 tested 12‐month‐old infants’ perceptual learning of objects that elicited ODVs. Fourteen infants’ vocalizations were recorded as they explored novel objects. Infants learned visual features of objects that elicited the most O…
Patient and health care provider views of depressive symptoms and diabetes in American Samoa
High Type 2 diabetes prevalence, associated with recent cultural changes in diet and physical activity, characterizes the U.S. territory of American Samoa. Comorbid diabetes and depression rates are high worldwide and contribute to negative diabetes outcomes; these rates have not been assessed in American Samoa. In this study, 6 focus groups were conducted with 39 American Samoan adults with diabetes; questions on perceptions of diabetes and depr…
The ecology of prelinguistic vocal learning: Parents simplify the structure of their speech in response to babbling
What is the function of babbling in language learning? We examined the structure of parental speech as a function of contingency on infants’ non-cry prelinguistic vocalizations. We analyzed several acoustic and linguistic measures of caregivers’ speech. Contingent speech was less lexically diverse and shorter in utterance length than non-contingent speech. We also found that the lexical diversity of contingent parental speech only predicted infan…
The Role of Dyadic Coordination in Organizing Visual Attention in 5‐Month‐Old Infants
In human infants, the ability to share attention with others is facilitated by increases in attentional selectivity and focus. Differences in early attention have been associated with socio‐cognitive outcomes including language, yet the social mechanisms of attention organization in early infancy have only recently been considered. Here, we examined how social coordination between 5‐month‐old infants and caregivers relate to differences in infant…
Caregiver reactions to babbling organize turn‐taking interactions: Facilitative effects of vocal versus non‐vocal responses
Turn‐taking interactions are foundational to the development of social, communicative, and cognitive skills. In infants, vocal turn‐taking experience is predictive of infants' socioemotional and language development. However, different forms of turn‐taking interactions may have different effects on infant vocalizing. It is presently unknown how caregiver vocal, non‐vocal and multimodal responses to infant vocalizations compare in extending caregi…
The influence of infantile cues on motivated perception of threats among caregivers
Human infants are born helpless and entirely dependent on their adult caregivers for survival. It is this very helplessness, however, that serves as a powerful signal to nearby adults and reorganizes attention towards potential dangers. As members of an altricial and alloparental species, adults are perceptually sensitive to infantile cues. Infants change how adults attend to the world around them as well as how adults perceive affordances that c…
Contingency enables the formation of social expectations about an artificial agent
What environmental regularities support infant communicative learning from social interactions? We propose that infants allocate their attention toward and learn from external events that are contingent on their own behaviors. We tested the robustness of the influence of contingency on communicative learning by using a non‐biological stimulus, a remote‐controlled car, as the social partner. The car approached infants and produced a speech sound e…
The Dynamics of Perception in Caregiving: How Infants Change the Way We See the World
How do caregivers perceive the world around their infants? A virtual task was created to assess how the perception of potential threats is influenced by parental experience and an infant's capacity to explore. Sixty-five parents (Mage = 35.52, %female = 61.54, %White = 84.62) and 31 non-parents (Mage = 19.52, %female = 74.19, %White = 32.26) were recruited from Ithaca, NY, a mid-sized city in the northeastern region of the United States. All data…
Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Communication (5 works) · Language Development and Disorders (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Babbling (4 works) · Infant Health and Development (4 works)