Developmental Science

Article	Citations
Development of directed and random exploration in children	44
Theory of mind, executive function, and lying in children: a meta‐analysis	41
Bridging sensory and language theories of dyslexia: Toward a multifactorial model	37
Adaptation in the face of adversity: Decrements and enhancements in children's cognitive control behavior following early caregiving instability	31
Short report: Improving motor competence skills in early childhood has corollary benefits for executive function and numeracy skills	31
Everyday music in infancy	31
Communication changes when infants begin to walk	31
Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation, and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence	31
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool	30
Are adolescents more optimal decision‐makers in novel environments? Examining the benefits of heightened exploration in a patch foraging paradigm	27
Functional connectivity in the developing language network in 4‐year‐old children predicts future reading ability	26
Infants recognize words spoken through opaque masks but not through clear masks	25
What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child‐directed speech	24
Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing, and psychopathology in children and adolescents	24
Neural substrates of the executive function construct, age‐related changes, and task materials in adolescents and adults: ALE meta‐analyses of 408 fMRI studies	23
Infants’ object interactions are long and complex during everyday joint engagement	22
Language input to infants of different socioeconomic statuses: A quantitative meta‐analysis	22
Relations between parent–child interaction and children’s engagement and learning at a museum exhibit about electric circuits	22
Vocal development in a large‐scale crosslinguistic corpus	21
Development of directed global inhibition, competitive inhibition and behavioural inhibition during the transition between infancy and toddlerhood	20
The handwriting brain in middle childhood	19
Sampling to learn words: Adults and children sample words that reduce referential ambiguity	19
Elementary school teachers' math anxiety and students' math learning: A large‐scale replication	19
Early childhood poverty and adult executive functioning: Distinct, mediating pathways for different domains of executive functioning	19
Individual differences in musical ability are stable over time in childhood	19

Socioeconomic status, home mathematics environment and math achievement in kindergarten: A mediation analysis	19
Relationship between cool and hot executive function in young children: A near‐infrared spectroscopy study	19
Linking language to sensory experience: Onomatopoeia in early language development	19
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias	18
Developmental trajectories of executive functions from preschool to kindergarten	18
Newborn crawling and rooting in response to maternal breast odor	18
When event knowledge overrides word order in sentence comprehension: Learning a first language after childhood	18
Using environmental nudges to reduce academic cheating in young children	17
A systematic review suggests marked differences in the prevalence of infant‐directed vocalization across groups of populations	17
Inhibitory control and set shifting describe different pathways from behavioral inhibition to socially anxious behavior	17
Self‐regulation in preschool: Are executive function and effortful control overlapping constructs?	17
Enhancing spatial skills of preschoolers from under‐resourced backgrounds: A comparison of digital app vs. concrete materials	17
I know better! Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice	17
The brain basis of handwriting deficits in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia	17
EEG microstates suggest atypical resting‐state network activity in high‐functioning children and adolescents with autism spectrum development	17
Language and socioemotional development in early childhood: The role of conversational turns	16
Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races	15
Bouncing the network: A dynamical systems model of auditory–vestibular interactions underlying infants’ perception of musical rhythm	15
How infant‐directed actions enhance infants’ attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling	15
Children favor punishment over restoration	15
The impact of errors in infant development: Falling like a baby	15
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees	14
Action prediction during real‐time parent‐infant interactions	14
An exploration of amygdala‐prefrontal mechanisms in the intergenerational transmission of learned fear	13
Boys’ advantage on the fractions number line is mediated by visuospatial attention: Evidence for a parietal‐spatial contribution to number line learning	13
An observational approach for exploring variability in young children's regulation‐related skills within classroom contexts	13
Newborns modulate their crawling in response to their native language but not another language	13
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers	13
Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross‐linguistic investigation of early language and cognition	13
Deficient neural encoding of speech sounds in term neonates born after fetal growth restriction	13
What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament	12
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words	12
More than the sum of its parts: Exploring the development of ratio magnitude versus simple magnitude perception	12
Dimensions of the language environment in infancy and symptoms of psychopathology in toddlerhood	12
Infants show enhanced neural responses to musical meter frequencies beyond low‐level features	12
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence	12
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song	12
Early parenting intervention accelerates inhibitory control development among CPS‐involved children in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial	12
Experimental evidence for a child‐to‐adolescent switch in human amygdala‐prefrontal cortex communication: A cross‐sectional pilot study	11
Mothers’ and fathers’ executive function both predict emergent executive function in toddlerhood	11
The development of race effects in face processing from childhood through adulthood: Neural and behavioral evidence	11
Toddlers’ social evaluations of agents who act on false beliefs	11
Doll play prompts social thinking and social talking: Representations of internal state language in the brain	11
Testing the limits of structural thinking about gender	11
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood	11
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa	11
“Look! It is not a bamoule!”: 18‐ and 24‐month‐olds can use negative sentences to constrain their interpretation of novel word meanings	11
Lack of neural evidence for implicit language learning in 9‐month‐old infants at high risk for autism	11
Does rhythmic priming improve grammatical processing in Hungarian‐speaking children with and without developmental language disorder?	11
Objectively measured teacher and preschooler vocalizations: Phonemic diversity is associated with language abilities	10

Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations	10
Promoting mother‐infant relationships and underlying neural correlates: Results from a randomized controlled trial of a home‐visiting program for adolescent mothers in Brazil	10
Relational thinking: An overlooked component of executive functioning	10
Computational modelling of attentional bias towards threat in paediatric anxiety	10
Dynamics of the dyad: How mothers and infants co‐construct interaction spaces during object play	10
Gender differences in mothers’ spatial language use and children’s mental rotation abilities in Preschool and Kindergarten	10
When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness	10
Day‐to‐day variation in students’ academic success: The role of self‐regulation, working memory, and achievement goals	10
The sticky mittens paradigm: A critical appraisal of current results and explanations	10
The development of brain rhythms at rest and its impact on vocabulary acquisition	10
Rapid development of perceptual gaze control in hearing native signing Infants and children	10
Ahead of maturation: Enhanced speech envelope training boosts rise time discrimination in pre‐readers at cognitive risk for dyslexia	10
Children's long‐term retention is directly constrained by their working memory capacity limitations	10
Subtle alterations of the physical environment can nudge young children to cheat less	9
Developmental differences in the prospective organisation of goal‐directed movement between children with autism and typically developing children: A smart tablet serious game study	9
The relationship between executive function, processing speed, and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder in middle childhood	9
Linking patterns of infant eye movements to a neural network model of the ventral stream using representational similarity analysis	9
Associative memory persistence in 3‐ to 5‐year‐olds	9
Mutualistic coupling of vocabulary and non‐verbal reasoning in children with and without language disorder	9
The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants	9
Home assessment of visual working memory in pre‐schoolers reveals associations between behaviour, brain activation and parent reports of life stress	9
Sequential Bayes Factor designs in developmental research: Studies on early word learning	9
Understanding patterns of heterogeneity in executive functioning during adolescence: Evidence from population‐level data	9
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates	9
Leadership, gender, and colorism: Children in India use social category information to guide leadership cognition	9
Rethinking the phonetics of baby‐talk: Differences across Canada and Vanuatu in the articulation of mothers' speech to infants	9
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children	9
Disentangling age and schooling effects on inhibitory control development: An fNIRS investigation	9
Bilingualism alters infants’ cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms	9
Neural representational similarity between symbolic and non‐symbolic quantities predicts arithmetic skills in childhood but not adolescence	9
All contexts are not created equal: Social stimuli win the competition for organizing reinforcement learning in 9‐month‐old infants	8
Prenatal daily musical exposure is associated with enhanced neural representation of speech fundamental frequency: Evidence from neonatal frequency‐following responses	8
Autonomic profiles and self‐regulation outcomes in early childhood	8
A translational application of music for preschool cognitive development: RCT evidence for improved executive function, self‐regulation, and school readiness	8
Altered gray matter development in pre‐reading children with a family history of reading disorder	8
Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations	8
Computational and behavioral markers of model‐based decision making in childhood	8
Sensitivity, but to which environment? Individual differences in sensitivity to parents and peers show domain‐specific patterns and a negative genetic correlation	8
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age	8
Neural correlates of inhibitory control and associations with cognitive outcomes in Bangladeshi children exposed to early adversities	8
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status	8
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)	8
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	8
Intra‐individual variability in task performance after cognitive training is associated with long‐term outcomes in children	8
Predicting their past: Machine language learning can discriminate the brains of chimpanzees with different early‐life social rearing experiences	8
Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese‐English, Spanish‐English bilingual, and English monolingual children	8
Personality predicts innovation and social learning in children: Implications for cultural evolution	8
Transgender and cisgender children's essentialist beliefs about sex and gender identity	8
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age	8
Statistical learning and children's emergent literacy in rural Côte d'Ivoire	8
Longitudinal investigation of executive function development employing task‐based, teacher reports, and fNIRS multimethodology in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children	8
Genetic and environmental influences on executive functions and intelligence in middle childhood	8
Neural time course of pain observation in infancy	7
Preliminary evidence for selective cortical responses to music in one‐month‐old infants	7
Partner in crime: Beneficial cooperation overcomes children’s aversion to antisocial others	7
No links between genetic variation and developing theory of mind: A preregistered replication attempt of candidate gene studies	7
Childhood separation from parents with cognitive and psychopathological outcomes in adolescence	7
Precursors of self‐regulation in infants at elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	7
Believing that prejudice can change increases children's interest in interracial interactions	7
Self‐regulation and frontal EEG alpha activity during infancy and early childhood: A multilevel meta‐analysis	7
Children automatically abstract categorical regularities during statistical learning	7
Culture influences the development of children's gender‐related peer preferences: Evidence from China and Thailand	7
Sharpening, focusing, and developing: A study of change in nonsymbolic number comparison skills and math achievement in 1st grade	7
Dual language statistical word segmentation in infancy: Simulating a language‐mixing bilingual environment	7
Overheard conversations can influence children’s generosity	7
Hearing about a story character's negative emotional reaction to having been dishonest causes young children to cheat less	7
Maternal education and siblings: Agents of cognitive development in kindergarten	7
Developmental connections between socioeconomic status, self‐regulation, and adult externalizing problems	7
Does my daughter like math? Relations between parent and child math attitudes and beliefs	7
The cognitive basis of dyslexia in school‐aged children: A multiple case study in a transparent orthography	7
Vigilant or avoidant? Children's temperamental shyness, patterns of gaze, and physiology during social threat	7
Maternal cradling bias in baboons: The first environmental factor affecting early infant handedness development?	7
Children over‐imitate adults and peers more than puppets	7
Associations between brain and behavioral processing of facial expressions of emotion and sensory reactivity in young children	7
Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development	7
Children's interpretation of ambiguous pronouns based on prior discourse	6
The origins of trust: Humans’ reliance on communicative cues supersedes firsthand experience during the second year of life	6
Age‐differences in network models of self‐regulation and executive control functions	6
Measuring children's behavioral regulation in the preschool classroom: An objective, sensor‐based approach	6
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age	6

Pre‐schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech	6
The song, not the singer: Infants prefer to listen to familiar songs, regardless of singer identity	6
Climbing up or falling down: Narcissism predicts physiological sensitivity to social status in children and their parents	6
Caregivers use gesture contingently to support word learning	6
Parietal and hippocampal hyper‐connectivity is associated with low math achievement in adolescence – A preliminary study	6
The relation between aggression and theory of mind in children: A meta‐analysis	6
Starting small: exploring the origins of successor function knowledge	6
“Go, go, go!” Mothers’ verbs align with infants’ locomotion	6
In infancy, it’s the extremes of arousal that are ‘sticky’: Naturalistic data challenge purely homeostatic approaches to studying self‐regulation	6
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development	6
Infant‐directed song potentiates infants’ selective attention to adults’ mouths over the first year of life	6
Developmental changes in auditory‐evoked neural activity underlie infants’ links between language and cognition	6
Cognitive control deployment is flexibly modulated by social value in early adolescence	6
Revisiting brain rewiring and plasticity in children born without corpus callosum	6
Electroencephalography decoding of Chinese characters in primary school children and its prediction for word reading performance and development	6
Multiword units lead to errors of commission in children's spontaneous production: “What corpus data can tell us?*”	6
Potentiated perceptual neural responses to learned threat during Pavlovian fear acquisition and extinction in adolescents	6
Post‐error slowing: Large scale study in an online learning environment for practising mathematics and language	6
Opportunities for learning and social interaction in infant sitting: Effects of sitting support, sitting skill, and gross motor delay	6
Prenatal auditory experience and its sequelae	6
Neural processing of moral content reflects moral identity in 10‐year‐old children	6
Executive functioning skills and their environmental predictors among pre‐school aged children in South Africa and The Gambia	5
The reward positivity shows increased amplitude and decreased latency with increasing age in early childhood	5
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children	5
The use of attention to maintain information in working memory: A developmental investigation of spontaneous refreshing in school‐aged children	5
The role of status in the early emergence of pro‐White bias in rural Uganda	5
Infants show pupil dilatory responses to happy and angry facial expressions	5
Emerging complexity in children's conceptualization of the wealthy and the poor	5
Testing the mid‐range model: Attachment in a high risk sample	5
Prior task experience increases 5‐year‐old children's use of proactive control: Behavioral and pupillometric evidence	5
The effectiveness of a school mindfulness‐based intervention on the neural correlates of inhibitory control in children at risk: A randomized control trial	5
The influence of attentional biases on multiple working memory precision parameters for children and adults	5
Creative thinking and brain network development in schoolchildren	5
Young children form generalized attitudes based on a single encounter with an outgroup member	5
Development of upper visual field bias for faces in infants	5
Development of auditory cognition in 5‐ to 10‐year‐old children: Focus on musical and verbal short‐term memory	5
Development of bilateral parietal activation for complex visual‐spatial function: Evidence from a visual‐spatial construction task	5
Bi‐directional relations between behavioral problems and executive function: Assessing the longitudinal development of self‐regulation	5
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	5
Neurobiological predispositions for musicality: White matter in infancy predicts school‐age music aptitude	5
Socioeconomic status predicts children's moral judgments of novel resource distributions	5
Children’s altruism following acute stress: The role of autonomic nervous system activity and social support	5
The influence of sibship composition on language development at 2 years of age in the ELFE birth cohort study	5
Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults	5
The effect of specific locomotor experiences on infants’ avoidance behaviour on real and water cliffs	5
Musical groove shapes children's free dancing	5
White matter microstructure in trauma‐exposed children: Associations with pubertal stage	5
Don't you see the possibilities? Young preschoolers may lack possibility concepts	5
Physical fitness and brain source localization during a working memory task in children with overweight/obesity: The ActiveBrains project	5
Children’s automatic evaluation of self‐generated actions is different from adults	5
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class	5
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs	5
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome	5
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 behav	5
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	5
To snack or not to snack: Using fNIRS to link inhibitory control to functional connectivity in the toddler brain	4
Acquisition of the counting principles during the subset‐knower stages: Insights from children's errors	4
Quantifying the syntactic bootstrapping effect in verb learning: A meta‐analytic synthesis	4
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence	4
Musical coordination affects children's perspective‐taking, but musical synchrony does not	4
Sleep and circadian rhythms during pregnancy, social disadvantage, and alterations in brain development in neonates	4
Contingent conversations build more than language: How communicative interactions in toddlerhood relate to preschool executive function skills	4
Individual differences in processing speed and curiosity explain infant habituation and dishabituation performance	4
A meta‐analysis of mental rotation in the first years of life	4
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	4
Studying children's growth in self‐regulation using changing measures to account for heterotypic continuity: A Bayesian approach to developmental scaling	4
Making the process of strategy choice visible: Inhibition and motor demands impact preschoolers’ real‐time problem solving	4
Anticipating future actions: Motor planning improves with age in wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)	4
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures	4
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia	4
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children	4
Development of executive function‐relevant skills is related to both neural structure and function in infants	4
Number sense at 12 months predicts 4‐year‐olds’ maths skills	4
Is vegetation cover in key behaviour settings important for early childhood socioemotional function? A preregistered, cross‐sectional study	4
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu	4
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report	4
Newborns’ early attuning to hand‐to‐mouth coordinated actions	4
Setting boundaries: Development of neural and behavioral event cognition in early childhood	4
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	4
Robustness of the rule‐learning effect in 7‐month‐old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999)	4
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination	4
Late bloomer or language disorder? Differences in toddler vocabulary composition associated with long‐term language outcomes	4
Children's associations between space and pitch are differentially shaped by language	4
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 study	4
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets	4
Impact of a mindfulness‐based school curriculum on emotion processing in Vietnamese pre‐adolescents: An event‐related potentials study	4
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills	4
Implicit learning in 3‐year‐olds with high and low likelihood of autism shows no evidence of precision weighting differences	4
Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report	4
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	4
Newborns discriminate utterance‐level prosodic contours	4
Sensitive caregiving and reward responsivity: A novel mechanism linking parenting and executive functions development in early childhood	4
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers	4
Parental hostility predicts reduced cortical thickness in males	3