CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
May 26 - 28, 2016
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Program Chairs: Lisa Oakes, Marianella Casasola, Vanessa LoBue
Submission Website: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/icis/icis16/
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2015 at 11:59 pm EST
Decision Notification: On or before February 12, 2016
2016 Invited Program
Presidential Address – Karen Adolph
Presidential Symposium on Diversity – Cristine
Legare and Sandra Waxman
Invited Symposia – Susan Rivera, Shannon RossSheehy, and Sam Wass; Tobias Grossmann,
Daniel Messinger, and Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Dedicated Sessions Honoring Carolyn RoveeCollier and Gerald Turkewitz
Plenary Speaker – Deb Roy
Invited Speakers – Richard Aslin, Maureen Black,
Paul Bloom, Ami Klim, Helen Neville, and Nim
Tottenham
Views by Two – Felix Warneken and Laurie
Santos; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and Linda Smith;
Brian Scassellati and Jim Rehg; and Catherine
Tamis-LeMonda and Jesse Snedeker
We invite your participation in the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. The conference
provides a venue for the dissemination of premiere developmental science, focusing on human and nonhuman infancy research, and the exchange of ideas among researchers from around the world.
The conference will be held at the Hilton Riverside Hotel in New Orleans, LA. Located in the heart of downtown
New Orleans, the Riverside Hilton sits on the Mississippi River near the historic French Quarter.
Sessions will begin at 8:00 AM on Thursday and end at 6:00 PM on Saturday. Preconference sessions
will be held on Wednesday, May 25. For more information about ICIS and the 2016 Biennial Conference,
please visit our website: www.isisweb.org.
Program Highlights
The conference will be an exciting mix of plenary and invited speakers, invited symposia, “views by two”
presentations, dedicated symposia, submitted symposia, paper sessions (individual papers grouped by
research interest), and posters. This year’s invited program will focus on four cross-cutting themes: culture,
technology, emotion, and learning in infancy. Invited talks and symposia focus on one or more of those
themes, including the measurement of emotions in infancy, neurocognitive development using eye-tracking,
and the Presidential symposium on cultural diversity. Finally, we will present two dedicated sessions to honor
the works of Carolyn Rovee-Collier and Gerald Turkewitz, former presidents of ICIS and pioneers in the field of
infancy research.
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Travel Awards
Travel awards will be available for graduate and undergraduate students as well as participants at all levels
from emerging economies. Applications will be available after decision notifications are distributed.
2016 Submission Rules
All submitters may submit up to 3 presenting roles.
Presenting Roles, Defined
1. Chair of a Paper Symposium
2. Presenter of a Paper in a Symposium or Paper Session
3. Presenter of a Poster
Additional Considerations
1. Only presenting roles will be protected from schedule conflicts.
2. Multiple presenting roles for an individual in the same submission (e.g. Chair and Presenter of a Paper
in the same symposium) count as separate presenting roles.
3. You may edit your submission at any time prior to the submission deadline.
4. View and/or print your submission proof and review it carefully.
5. Submissions must be relevant to subjects 36 months old or younger to align with the study of infancy.
6. After the submission deadline of October 1, 2015, NO changes may be made, including
elevation of an author to a presenting role.
Submission Formats
All regular and student members of ICIS are encouraged to submit, and non-members are encouraged to join
ICIS when submitting their proposals. Please carefully consider the submission formats below. For detailed
information click on the format name.
(1) Poster: the appropriate format when material can be explained briefly, is suited for graphic or visual
presentation, and/or the presenter would benefit from high levels of interaction and discussion.
(2) Individual Paper for a Paper Session: Paper sessions are constructed by the Program Chairs and will
include 3-5 papers/speakers who independently submitted abstracts to the panel, and share mutual interests
or reflect common themes, approaches, or topics. The paper session broadens opportunities for oral
presentations and creates new synergies among researchers within specific areas of inquiry. Individual paper
submitters will be given the option to have their paper considered for a poster if not included in a paper
session. Authors must indicate that they wish their paper to be considered as a poster at the time of
submission.
(3) Paper Symposium: Paper symposia are organized by a chair, include 3-4 papers/speakers, and are
submitted as a group.
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Review Criteria
Submitted abstracts should be original work and substantively different from papers that have been previously
published or are under review in a journal or another peer-reviewed conference. Although abstracts need not
describe completed projects, they must include sufficient empirical data (even if preliminary) to provide a basis
for evaluation. Abstracts that reflect no new data will not be accepted. Each submission is evaluated by at least
two members of either your first- or second-choice review panel, and conflicts are resolved by the panel
chair(s).
Submissions are reviewed according to the following criteria:

Clarity of formulation/conceptualization (Symposia should reflect cohesion among presentations,
relevance of presentations to the topic, and expression of different views. Symposia that include
multiple presentations from the same set of authors or lab group will receive lower priority for
acceptance than symposia that include presentations from at least 3 distinct research groups)

Adequacy of methods, design, and analytics

Appropriateness of interpretation(s)

Current relevance of topic for developmental science
Review Panels and Panel Chairs
1. Motor and Sensorimotor Processes (John Franchak and Jeff Lockman)
2. Developmental Neuroscience (Dima Amso and Leslie Carver)
3. Perception (Martha Arterberry and Karen Dobkins)
4. Communication and Language (Susan Graham and Athena Vouloumanos)
5. Attention, Memory, and Learning (Patricia Ganea and Amy Needham)
6. Cognitive Development (Lisa Feigenson and David Rakison)
7. Social Development (Pamela Cole and Kristin Shutts)
8. Emotional Development (Kristin Buss and Koraly Pérez-Edgar)
9. Pediatric Issues, Psychopathology and Developmental Delay (Ann Mastergeorge)
Posters
Scheduled for 1 hour and 30 minutes, posters are the format for individual, free-standing research presentations. Posters
are the appropriate format when material can be explained briefly, is suited for graphic or visual presentation, and/or the
presenter would benefit from high levels of interaction and discussion.
Each accepted poster will occupy one poster board, measuring 8 feet wide x 4 feet high for the entire poster session.
No electrical power will be available.
General Procedures for Submitting Posters:
1. Enter a title for your submission with no more than 130 characters—including spaces and punctuation. Use
mixed-case letters and appropriate punctuation in your title. Do not include a period at the end of your title.
2. Select a primary and a secondary review panel.
3. Select three keywords.
4. Enter a full name, affiliation, and current email address for each author of your poster. This information
establishes a unique identity for each person, ensuring that submitters receive decision status notification for the
submission. Please notify ICIS at [email protected] if an author has been entered with more than one
email address so that duplicate accounts can be merged. Identify the presenter of the submission.
5. If you need to include a “group author” (consortium, program, etc.), enter it into the specified field in the “authors”
step on the Submission Website. Do not enter individual authors in your submission in the Group Author
field or they will not be seen in the program.
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6. NOTE: Do not include research funding support anywhere in your submission. The appropriate place to
acknowledge research funding support is in your presentation should the submission be accepted.
7. Abstracts: May be up to 500 words.
a) Copy and paste abstract text into provided field.
b) Single-space your abstract.
c) Do not include the title in the abstract.
d) Use standard reference citations (last name, year), but do not include a reference list. If you believe a full
reference is necessary, include it in the text as (authors, title, journal, year) and include it in your word
count.
e) No names or other identifying information may be included in the text.
8. Graphics are encouraged but are not required. They do not count toward the maximum word count for your
abstract. The two graphics allowed may be:
a) 2 tables, or
b) 2 figures, or
c) 1 table plus 1 figure.
New for 2016 - File Uploads: All of your graphics must be incorporated into one single file. The file must be in
Adobe PDF format. You will upload this document at the end of the submission process.
Please note: It is essential to recognize that the text you enter for your submission title, author names, emails and
affiliations is the text that will appear in the program.
Individual Papers for Paper Sessions
Individually submitted papers will be reviewed for scientific merit and a decision will be made to accept or reject it based
on independent ratings by two blinded reviewers. Highly rated individual papers will be considered for presentation in a
90-minute Paper Session composed of several papers that are thematically related, each presented for 15 minutes.
Individual papers that are highly rated but cannot be accepted for a Paper Session (either because there are not 4 related
papers on the topic or the maximum number of paper sessions has been reached) will become Individual Poster
Presentations. Submitters are allowed to indicate if they do NOT want to present the research as a poster.
General Procedures for Submitting an Individual Paper:
1. Enter a title for your submission with no more than 130 characters—including spaces and punctuation. Use
mixed-case letters and appropriate punctuation in your title. Do not include a period at the end of your title.
2. Select a primary and a secondary review panel.
3. Select three keywords.
4. Enter a full name, affiliation, and current email address for each author of your poster. This information
establishes a unique identity for each person, ensuring that submitters receive decision status notification for the
submission. Please notify ICIS at [email protected] if an author has been entered with more than one
email address so that duplicate accounts can be merged. Identify the presenter of the submission.
5. If you need to include a “group author” (consortium, program, etc.), enter it into the specified field in the “authors”
step on the Submission Website. Do not enter individual authors in your submission in the Group Author
field or they will not be seen in the program.
6. NOTE: Do not include research funding support anywhere in your submission. The appropriate place to
acknowledge research funding support is in your presentation should the submission be accepted.
7. Abstracts: May be up to 500 words.
a) Copy and paste abstract text into provided field.
b) Single-space your abstract.
c) Do not include the title in the abstract.
d) Use standard reference citations (last name, year), but do not include a reference list. If you believe a full
reference is necessary, include it in the text as (authors, title, journal, year) and include it in your word
count.
e) No names or other identifying information may be included in the text.
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8. Graphics are encouraged but are not required. They do not count toward the maximum word count for your
abstract. The two graphics allowed may be:
a) 2 tables, or
b) 2 figures, or
c) 1 table plus 1 figure.
New for 2016 - File Uploads: All of your graphics must be incorporated into one single file. The file must be in
Adobe PDF format. You will upload this document at the end of the submission process.
9. Indicate whether or not you would allow the paper presentation to be considered as a poster if the submission is
rated highly but not grouped into a paper symposium.
Please note: It is essential to recognize that the text you enter for your submission title, author names, emails and
affiliations is the text that will appear in the program.
Paper Symposia
A paper symposium is defined as a cohesive cluster of research presentations and theoretical perspectives. To attain
cohesion, the symposium should focus on a specific topic and emphasize conceptual issues and the integration of
findings.
Paper Symposia are scheduled for 90 minutes. Three paper presentations are the minimum and 4 paper presentations
are the maximum.
1. Organizing a Symposium: Symposia are organized by chairs and are submitted as a group of
presentations. Important Note: When you invite people to participate in your symposium, please clearly
communicate to them that your invitation is not part of the official ICIS Invited Program and that ICIS
will not reimburse their expenses.
2. Roles and Requirements:
a) Chair 1 (required): Organizes and moderates the symposium session by introducing the presenters and
ensuring that time limits are strictly observed. The Chair should be prepared to lead, stimulate, and
coordinate discussion with the audience. The Chair may serve as a Discussant for the presentation if
needed. This is a presenting role and thus is protected against schedule conflicts.
b) Presenting Author (required): One author presents an individual paper presentation within a symposium.
This presenting role is protected against schedule conflicts. Additional authors on each individual paper
presentation are not protected against schedule conflicts, and this designation does not count against the
maximum number of presenting roles allowed per person.
3. Integrative Statements and Abstracts:
a) Prepare a 250-word integrative statement that summarizes the nature and significance of the proposed
topic. Integrative statements for symposium submissions accepted for presentation will be viewable in the
online program schedule. No author names or other identifying information may be included.
b) Prepare a 500-word abstract for each paper that describes the material to be presented (introduction,
hypotheses, study population, methods, results). Abstracts are for review purposes only.
General Procedures for Submitting a Paper Symposium:
1. Enter a title for your submission with no more than 130 characters—including spaces and punctuation. Use
mixed-case letters and appropriate punctuation in your title. Do not include a period at the end of your title.
2. Select a primary and a secondary review panel.
3. Select three keywords.
4. Enter information for the chair. Be prepared to enter complete information including accurate full name,
affiliation, and current email address. This information establishes a unique identity for that person, ensuring that
they receive decision status notification for the submission. Please notify ICIS at [email protected] if
an author has been entered with more than one email address so that duplicate accounts can be merged. Identify
them as the chair of the submission.
5. Integrative Statement: May be up to 250 words.
a) Copy and paste abstract text into provided field.
b) Single-space your abstract.
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c) Do not include the title in the abstract.
d) Use standard reference citations (last name, year), but do not include a reference list. If you believe a full
reference is necessary, include it in the text as (authors, title, journal, year) and include it in your word
count.
e) No names or other identifying information may be included in the text.
For each paper within the symposium:
6. Enter a title for your submission with no more than 130 characters—including spaces and punctuation. Use
mixed-case letters and appropriate punctuation in your title. Do not include a period at the end of your title.
7. Enter a full name, affiliation, and current email address for each author of the paper. This information
establishes a unique identity for each person, ensuring that submitters receive decision status notification for the
submission. Please notify ICIS at [email protected] if an author has been entered with more than one
email address so that duplicate accounts can be merged. Identify the presenter of the submission.
8. If you need to include a “group author” (consortium, program, etc.), enter it into the specified field in the “authors”
step on the Submission Website. Do not enter individual authors in your submission in the Group Author
field or they will not be seen in the program.
NOTE: Do not include research funding support anywhere in your submission. The appropriate place to
acknowledge research funding support is in your presentation should the submission be accepted.
9. Abstracts: May be up to 500 words.
a) Copy and paste abstract text into provided field.
b) Single-space your abstract.
c) Do not include the title in the abstract.
d) Use standard reference citations (last name, year), but do not include a reference list. If you believe a full
reference is necessary, include it in the text as (authors, title, journal, year) and include it in your word
count.
e) No names or other identifying information may be included in the text.
10. Graphics are encouraged but are not required. They do not count toward the maximum word count for your
abstract. The two graphics allowed may be:
a) 2 tables, or
b) 2 figures, or
c) 1 table plus 1 figure.
NEW FOR 2016: A SINGLE document containing figures and/or tables for ALL of the presentations in your
symposium will be uploaded. Create a document that clearly labels which presentation each figure/table is
associated with, but does not include author information. The file must be in Adobe PDF format. You will upload
this document at the end of the submission process for a symposium.
Please note: It is essential to recognize that the text you enter for your submission title, author names, emails and
affiliations is the text that will appear in the program.
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