Developmental Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Science is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Development of directed and random exploration in children43
Theory of mind, executive function, and lying in children: a meta‐analysis41
Bridging sensory and language theories of dyslexia: Toward a multifactorial model37
Communication changes when infants begin to walk31
Short report: Improving motor competence skills in early childhood has corollary benefits for executive function and numeracy skills31
Everyday music in infancy31
Adaptation in the face of adversity: Decrements and enhancements in children's cognitive control behavior following early caregiving instability31
Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation, and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence31
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool30
The role of the corpus callosum in language network connectivity in children28
Functional connectivity in the developing language network in 4‐year‐old children predicts future reading ability26
Are adolescents more optimal decision‐makers in novel environments? Examining the benefits of heightened exploration in a patch foraging paradigm26
Infants recognize words spoken through opaque masks but not through clear masks25
What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child‐directed speech24
Neural substrates of the executive function construct, age‐related changes, and task materials in adolescents and adults: ALE meta‐analyses of 408 fMRI studies23
Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing, and psychopathology in children and adolescents22
Infants’ object interactions are long and complex during everyday joint engagement22
Language input to infants of different socioeconomic statuses: A quantitative meta‐analysis22
Relations between parent–child interaction and children’s engagement and learning at a museum exhibit about electric circuits22
Vocal development in a large‐scale crosslinguistic corpus21
Development of directed global inhibition, competitive inhibition and behavioural inhibition during the transition between infancy and toddlerhood20
The handwriting brain in middle childhood19
Individual differences in musical ability are stable over time in childhood19
Relationship between cool and hot executive function in young children: A near‐infrared spectroscopy study19
Linking language to sensory experience: Onomatopoeia in early language development19
Early childhood poverty and adult executive functioning: Distinct, mediating pathways for different domains of executive functioning19
Sampling to learn words: Adults and children sample words that reduce referential ambiguity19
Elementary school teachers' math anxiety and students' math learning: A large‐scale replication19
Slow wave sleep in naps supports episodic memories in early childhood18
Newborn crawling and rooting in response to maternal breast odor18
Developmental trajectories of executive functions from preschool to kindergarten18
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias18
Socioeconomic status, home mathematics environment and math achievement in kindergarten: A mediation analysis18
When event knowledge overrides word order in sentence comprehension: Learning a first language after childhood18
The brain basis of handwriting deficits in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia17
EEG microstates suggest atypical resting‐state network activity in high‐functioning children and adolescents with autism spectrum development17
Self‐regulation in preschool: Are executive function and effortful control overlapping constructs?17
A systematic review suggests marked differences in the prevalence of infant‐directed vocalization across groups of populations17
Inhibitory control and set shifting describe different pathways from behavioral inhibition to socially anxious behavior17
I know better! Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice17
Enhancing spatial skills of preschoolers from under‐resourced backgrounds: A comparison of digital app vs. concrete materials17
Using environmental nudges to reduce academic cheating in young children16
Language and socioemotional development in early childhood: The role of conversational turns16
Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races15
Bouncing the network: A dynamical systems model of auditory–vestibular interactions underlying infants’ perception of musical rhythm15
How infant‐directed actions enhance infants’ attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling15
Infant Spontaneous Motor Tempo15
Children favor punishment over restoration15
The impact of errors in infant development: Falling like a baby15
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees14
Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross‐linguistic investigation of early language and cognition13
Action prediction during real‐time parent‐infant interactions13
An exploration of amygdala‐prefrontal mechanisms in the intergenerational transmission of learned fear13
Newborns modulate their crawling in response to their native language but not another language13
Boys’ advantage on the fractions number line is mediated by visuospatial attention: Evidence for a parietal‐spatial contribution to number line learning13
An observational approach for exploring variability in young children's regulation‐related skills within classroom contexts13
Deficient neural encoding of speech sounds in term neonates born after fetal growth restriction13
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers13
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence12
More than the sum of its parts: Exploring the development of ratio magnitude versus simple magnitude perception12
What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament12
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song12
Dimensions of the language environment in infancy and symptoms of psychopathology in toddlerhood12
Infants show enhanced neural responses to musical meter frequencies beyond low‐level features12
Testing the limits of structural thinking about gender11
Lack of neural evidence for implicit language learning in 9‐month‐old infants at high risk for autism11
Does rhythmic priming improve grammatical processing in Hungarian‐speaking children with and without developmental language disorder?11
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa11
Experimental evidence for a child‐to‐adolescent switch in human amygdala‐prefrontal cortex communication: A cross‐sectional pilot study11
Mothers’ and fathers’ executive function both predict emergent executive function in toddlerhood11
The development of race effects in face processing from childhood through adulthood: Neural and behavioral evidence11
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood11
Doll play prompts social thinking and social talking: Representations of internal state language in the brain11
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words11
Early parenting intervention accelerates inhibitory control development among CPS‐involved children in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial11
Toddlers’ social evaluations of agents who act on false beliefs11
The development of brain rhythms at rest and its impact on vocabulary acquisition10
Rapid development of perceptual gaze control in hearing native signing Infants and children10
Ahead of maturation: Enhanced speech envelope training boosts rise time discrimination in pre‐readers at cognitive risk for dyslexia10
Relational thinking: An overlooked component of executive functioning10
Look! It is not a bamoule!”: 18‐ and 24‐month‐olds can use negative sentences to constrain their interpretation of novel word meanings10
Computational modelling of attentional bias towards threat in paediatric anxiety10
Gender differences in mothers’ spatial language use and children’s mental rotation abilities in Preschool and Kindergarten10
When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness10
Day‐to‐day variation in students’ academic success: The role of self‐regulation, working memory, and achievement goals10
The sticky mittens paradigm: A critical appraisal of current results and explanations10
Dynamics of the dyad: How mothers and infants co‐construct interaction spaces during object play10
Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations10
Promoting mother‐infant relationships and underlying neural correlates: Results from a randomized controlled trial of a home‐visiting program for adolescent mothers in Brazil10
Children's long‐term retention is directly constrained by their working memory capacity limitations10
Objectively measured teacher and preschooler vocalizations: Phonemic diversity is associated with language abilities10
The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants9
Home assessment of visual working memory in pre‐schoolers reveals associations between behaviour, brain activation and parent reports of life stress9
Sequential Bayes Factor designs in developmental research: Studies on early word learning9
Bilingualism alters infants’ cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms9
Neural representational similarity between symbolic and non‐symbolic quantities predicts arithmetic skills in childhood but not adolescence9
Leadership, gender, and colorism: Children in India use social category information to guide leadership cognition9
Rethinking the phonetics of baby‐talk: Differences across Canada and Vanuatu in the articulation of mothers' speech to infants9
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children9
Disentangling age and schooling effects on inhibitory control development: An fNIRS investigation9
Understanding patterns of heterogeneity in executive functioning during adolescence: Evidence from population‐level data9
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates9
Subtle alterations of the physical environment can nudge young children to cheat less9
Developmental differences in the prospective organisation of goal‐directed movement between children with autism and typically developing children: A smart tablet serious game study9
The relationship between executive function, processing speed, and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder in middle childhood9
Linking patterns of infant eye movements to a neural network model of the ventral stream using representational similarity analysis9
Associative memory persistence in 3‐ to 5‐year‐olds9
Mutualistic coupling of vocabulary and non‐verbal reasoning in children with and without language disorder9
Statistical learning and children's emergent literacy in rural Côte d'Ivoire8
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age8
Altered gray matter development in pre‐reading children with a family history of reading disorder8
Intra‐individual variability in task performance after cognitive training is associated with long‐term outcomes in children8
Sensitivity, but to which environment? Individual differences in sensitivity to parents and peers show domain‐specific patterns and a negative genetic correlation8
All contexts are not created equal: Social stimuli win the competition for organizing reinforcement learning in 9‐month‐old infants8
Transgender and cisgender children's essentialist beliefs about sex and gender identity8
Autonomic profiles and self‐regulation outcomes in early childhood8
A translational application of music for preschool cognitive development: RCT evidence for improved executive function, self‐regulation, and school readiness8
Genetic and environmental influences on executive functions and intelligence in middle childhood8
Using a multidimensional model of attention to predict low‐income preschoolers’ early academic skills across time8
Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese‐English, Spanish‐English bilingual, and English monolingual children8
Neural correlates of inhibitory control and associations with cognitive outcomes in Bangladeshi children exposed to early adversities8
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status8
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)8
Longitudinal investigation of executive function development employing task‐based, teacher reports, and fNIRS multimethodology in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children8
Computational and behavioral markers of model‐based decision making in childhood8
Predicting their past: Machine language learning can discriminate the brains of chimpanzees with different early‐life social rearing experiences8
Prenatal daily musical exposure is associated with enhanced neural representation of speech fundamental frequency: Evidence from neonatal frequency‐following responses8
Neural time course of pain observation in infancy7
Does my daughter like math? Relations between parent and child math attitudes and beliefs7
Sharpening, focusing, and developing: A study of change in nonsymbolic number comparison skills and math achievement in 1st grade7
No links between genetic variation and developing theory of mind: A preregistered replication attempt of candidate gene studies7
Overheard conversations can influence children’s generosity7
Hearing about a story character's negative emotional reaction to having been dishonest causes young children to cheat less7
Maternal education and siblings: Agents of cognitive development in kindergarten7
Developmental connections between socioeconomic status, self‐regulation, and adult externalizing problems7
Culture influences the development of children's gender‐related peer preferences: Evidence from China and Thailand7
Vigilant or avoidant? Children's temperamental shyness, patterns of gaze, and physiology during social threat7
Dual language statistical word segmentation in infancy: Simulating a language‐mixing bilingual environment7
Personality predicts innovation and social learning in children: Implications for cultural evolution7
Associations between brain and behavioral processing of facial expressions of emotion and sensory reactivity in young children7
Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development7
Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations7
Children automatically abstract categorical regularities during statistical learning7
The cognitive basis of dyslexia in school‐aged children: A multiple case study in a transparent orthography7
Childhood separation from parents with cognitive and psychopathological outcomes in adolescence7
Maternal cradling bias in baboons: The first environmental factor affecting early infant handedness development?7
Precursors of self‐regulation in infants at elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder7
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills7
Revisiting brain rewiring and plasticity in children born without corpus callosum6
The origins of trust: Humans’ reliance on communicative cues supersedes firsthand experience during the second year of life6
Multiword units lead to errors of commission in children's spontaneous production: “What corpus data can tell us?*”6
Post‐error slowing: Large scale study in an online learning environment for practising mathematics and language6
In infancy, it’s the extremes of arousal that are ‘sticky’: Naturalistic data challenge purely homeostatic approaches to studying self‐regulation6
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age6
Infant‐directed song potentiates infants’ selective attention to adults’ mouths over the first year of life6
Caregivers use gesture contingently to support word learning6
Children's interpretation of ambiguous pronouns based on prior discourse6
Starting small: exploring the origins of successor function knowledge6
Electroencephalography decoding of Chinese characters in primary school children and its prediction for word reading performance and development6
Self‐regulation and frontal EEG alpha activity during infancy and early childhood: A multilevel meta‐analysis6
“Go, go, go!” Mothers’ verbs align with infants’ locomotion6
Preliminary evidence for selective cortical responses to music in one‐month‐old infants6
Partner in crime: Beneficial cooperation overcomes children’s aversion to antisocial others6
Opportunities for learning and social interaction in infant sitting: Effects of sitting support, sitting skill, and gross motor delay6
Prenatal auditory experience and its sequelae6
Believing that prejudice can change increases children's interest in interracial interactions6
Parietal and hippocampal hyper‐connectivity is associated with low math achievement in adolescence – A preliminary study6
The relation between aggression and theory of mind in children: A meta‐analysis6
Measuring children's behavioral regulation in the preschool classroom: An objective, sensor‐based approach6
Potentiated perceptual neural responses to learned threat during Pavlovian fear acquisition and extinction in adolescents6
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age6
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development6
The song, not the singer: Infants prefer to listen to familiar songs, regardless of singer identity6
Climbing up or falling down: Narcissism predicts physiological sensitivity to social status in children and their parents6
Cognitive control deployment is flexibly modulated by social value in early adolescence6
Bi‐directional relations between behavioral problems and executive function: Assessing the longitudinal development of self‐regulation5
Neural processing of moral content reflects moral identity in 10‐year‐old children5
Children’s automatic evaluation of self‐generated actions is different from adults5
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective5
Infants show pupil dilatory responses to happy and angry facial expressions5
Developmental changes in auditory‐evoked neural activity underlie infants’ links between language and cognition5
Creative thinking and brain network development in schoolchildren5
Executive functioning skills and their environmental predictors among pre‐school aged children in South Africa and The Gambia5
Prior task experience increases 5‐year‐old children's use of proactive control: Behavioral and pupillometric evidence5
The effect of specific locomotor experiences on infants’ avoidance behaviour on real and water cliffs5
Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults5
Young children form generalized attitudes based on a single encounter with an outgroup member5
Don't you see the possibilities? Young preschoolers may lack possibility concepts5
Development of auditory cognition in 5‐ to 10‐year‐old children: Focus on musical and verbal short‐term memory5
Development of bilateral parietal activation for complex visual‐spatial function: Evidence from a visual‐spatial construction task5
The role of status in the early emergence of pro‐White bias in rural Uganda5
Neurobiological predispositions for musicality: White matter in infancy predicts school‐age music aptitude5
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs5
Emerging complexity in children's conceptualization of the wealthy and the poor5
Children over‐imitate adults and peers more than puppets5
The effectiveness of a school mindfulness‐based intervention on the neural correlates of inhibitory control in children at risk: A randomized control trial5
The influence of sibship composition on language development at 2 years of age in the ELFE birth cohort study5
Children’s altruism following acute stress: The role of autonomic nervous system activity and social support5
Age‐differences in network models of self‐regulation and executive control functions5
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers5
Musical groove shapes children's free dancing5
Development of upper visual field bias for faces in infants5
The reward positivity shows increased amplitude and decreased latency with increasing age in early childhood5
Physical fitness and brain source localization during a working memory task in children with overweight/obesity: The ActiveBrains project5
Pre‐schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech5
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class5
18‐month‐olds fail to use recent experience to infer the syntactic category of novel words5
Testing the mid‐range model: Attachment in a high risk sample5
Socioeconomic status predicts children's moral judgments of novel resource distributions5
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome5
The influence of attentional biases on multiple working memory precision parameters for children and adults5
Early word‐learning skills: A missing link in understanding the vocabulary gap?5
A meta‐analytic approach to the association between inhibitory control and parent‐reported behavioral adjustment in typically‐developing children: Differentiating externalizing and internalizing behav5
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children5
White matter microstructure in trauma‐exposed children: Associations with pubertal stage5
The use of attention to maintain information in working memory: A developmental investigation of spontaneous refreshing in school‐aged children5
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets4
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills4
Contingent conversations build more than language: How communicative interactions in toddlerhood relate to preschool executive function skills4
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing4
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth4
Setting boundaries: Development of neural and behavioral event cognition in early childhood4
Robustness of the rule‐learning effect in 7‐month‐old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999)4
Anticipating future actions: Motor planning improves with age in wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)4
Late bloomer or language disorder? Differences in toddler vocabulary composition associated with long‐term language outcomes4
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children4
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence4
Sleep and circadian rhythms during pregnancy, social disadvantage, and alterations in brain development in neonates4
Is vegetation cover in key behaviour settings important for early childhood socioemotional function? A preregistered, cross‐sectional study4
Implicit learning in 3‐year‐olds with high and low likelihood of autism shows no evidence of precision weighting differences4
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science4
Sensitive caregiving and reward responsivity: A novel mechanism linking parenting and executive functions development in early childhood4
Newborns discriminate utterance‐level prosodic contours4
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination4
To snack or not to snack: Using fNIRS to link inhibitory control to functional connectivity in the toddler brain4
The sentence superiority effect in young readers4
Evidence for goal‐ and mixed evidence for false belief‐based action prediction in 2‐ to 4‐year‐old children: A large‐scale longitudinal anticipatory looking replication study4
Development of executive function‐relevant skills is related to both neural structure and function in infants4
Impact of a mindfulness‐based school curriculum on emotion processing in Vietnamese pre‐adolescents: An event‐related potentials study4
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu4
Individual differences in processing speed and curiosity explain infant habituation and dishabituation performance4
Newborns’ early attuning to hand‐to‐mouth coordinated actions4
Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report4
Making the process of strategy choice visible: Inhibition and motor demands impact preschoolers’ real‐time problem solving4
Studying children's growth in self‐regulation using changing measures to account for heterotypic continuity: A Bayesian approach to developmental scaling4
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers4
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures4
Quantifying the syntactic bootstrapping effect in verb learning: A meta‐analytic synthesis4
Children's associations between space and pitch are differentially shaped by language4
Parental hostility predicts reduced cortical thickness in males3
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