Developmental Science

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Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	45
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	37
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No Evidence for Curiosity‐Driven Information Selection Advantage in Infants’ Novel Word Learning	33
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	32
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	31
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)	30
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya	29
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment	29
MEG Evidence of Concurrent Bilateral and Hemisphere‐Specific Developmental Patterns in Auditory Cortex	28
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year	28
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Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	26
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking	25
Pre‐Decisional Information Search in 2‐ to 4‐Year‐Olds: Young Children Select the Relevant Cues When Looking for a Hidden Reward	24
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu	23
Event‐related potentials of familiar monosyllabic words with unexpected lexical tones: A picture‐word study of Mandarin‐speaking preschoolers with and without a history of late talking	23
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey	23
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function	23
The Development of Audio‐Tactile Spatial Integration: Unraveling Vision's Contribution	23
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	22
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills	22
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class	21
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study	20

How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?	20
Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth	20
Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy	20
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Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants	18
COVID‐19 Impacts on Children and Resources for Resilience: What is the Direction of Causation?	18
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Theta Power at 10 Months of Age Predicts Developmental Change in Language in Infants With and Without an Elevated Likelihood for Autism	18
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game	18
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs	18
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities	17
Infant Directed Speech Facilitates Vowel Category Discrimination in Pre‐Verbal Infants	17
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children	17
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development	17
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners	17
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age	17
Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization	17
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand	16
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children	16
A dyadic investigation of shy children's behavioral and affective responses to delivering a speech	16
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia	16
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees	16
Exploring Associations Between Infant Attachment, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attention to Maternal Emotion Expressions	16
Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation	15
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words	15
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation	15
Language and Beyond: A Registered Report Examining Single and Multiple Risk Models of Later Reading Comprehension Weaknesses	15
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children	15
Developmental changes in impulse control: Trial‐by‐trial EMG dissociates the evolution of impulse strength from its subsequent suppression	15
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences	15
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms	14
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Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning	14
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder	14
Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect	14
“Catastrophic” set size limits on infants’ capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis	13
Youth Prosocial Risk‐Taking: Intergroup Conflict, Prosocial Target, and Peer Norms in Three Countries	13
From Gossip to Evidence: Children's Re‐Evaluation of Gossip Targets in Light of Direct Observation	13
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults	13
Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures	13
Children Do Not Endorse a “Male = Brilliance” Stereotype When Reasoning About Novel Occupations	13
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song	12
Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know	12
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study	12
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report	12
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination	12
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Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging	12
Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia	12
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families	12

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Impact of Deafness on the Lateralized Brain Responses to Letters and Digits: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Exploratory Study in Deaf and Hearing Children	12
Genetic and Environmental Effects on Parent‐Rated Adaptive Behaviour in Infancy	12
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence	11
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements	11
The Permission Paradox: Condoning Deception Can Promote Honesty in Young Children	11
Functional Connectivity Fingerprints of Emerging Reading Skill in the First Months of Schooling	11
Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects	11
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children	11
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Stability of Music Engagement Across Childhood, Adolescence, and Established Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin and Adoption Study	11
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language	11
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Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age	10
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior	10
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words	10
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)	10
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics	10
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset	10
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development	10
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma	10
Children Cheat to Return a Favor	10
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?	10
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children	10
The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy	10
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates	10
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood	10
Impact of Congenital Visual Impairment on Early‐Life Exploration: Behavioral Analysis of Temporal and Motor Parameters During a Reach‐to‐Grasp Playful Task	10
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood	10
Developmental Changes in Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Fractions Processing: A Cross‐Sectional fMRI Study	9
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth	9
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia	9
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Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers	9
Children's Neural Processing of the Misfortunes and Fortunes of Prosocial and Antisocial Individuals	9
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration	9
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts	9
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years	9
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner	9
Cognitive Resilience and Vulnerability to Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Predictors Across Individual, Family, School, and Neighborhood Contexts	9
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space	9
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study	9
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?	9
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development	9
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets	9
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures	9
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations	8
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Individual Differences in Infants’ Curiosity Are Linked to Cognitive Capacity in Early Childhood	8
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age	8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing	8
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment	8
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence	8
Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion?: Children's and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous black/white biracial faces	8
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A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science	8
The role of systematicity in early referent selection	8
From terrible twos to sassy sixes: The development of vocabulary and executive functioning across early childhood	8
Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model	8
Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing	7
Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained	7
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs	7
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world	7
The development of visual cognition: The emergence of spatial congruency bias	7
The Home Literacy Environment and Reading Development of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities	7
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Learning to pause: Fidelity of and biases in the developmental acquisition of gaps in the communicative signals of a songbird	7
Speech and Gesture in Sync: Investigating Temporal Integration Across Childhood	7
When is a word in good company for learning?	7
Children's Embodiment of Non‐Human Virtual Hand Forms	7
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On executive functioning and childcare: The moderating role of parent–child interactions	7
Non‐Linear Changes in Face Availability During Naturalistic Playtime Across the First Years: Insights From Head‐Mounted Cameras and Automated Face Detection	7
Preschool language and visuospatial skills respectively predict multiplication and addition/subtraction skills in middle school children	7
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning	7
Children Sustain Their Attention on Spatial Scenes When Planning to Describe Spatial Relations Multimodally in Speech and Gesture	7
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures	7
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Evidence of Top‐Down Sensory Prediction in Neonates Within 2 Days of Birth	7
Long‐term abacus training gains in children are predicted by medial temporal lobe anatomy and circuitry	7

Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants	7
How pervasive is joint attention? Mother‐child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”	6
How Preschoolers Defend: Early Preschoolers Act More, Intend Less, and Strategically Defend Friends	6
RETRACTION: An Intricate Relationship Between Executive Function and Second‐Language Ability in a Cohort of Uyghur‐Chinese Bilingual Children	6
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Screen Time, Nature, and Development: Baseline of the Randomized Controlled Study “Screen‐free till 3”	6
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Mother–Infant Face‐to‐Face Interactions Serve a Similar Function in Humans and Other Apes	6
Attentional control in middle childhood is highly dynamic—Strong initial distraction is followed by advanced attention control	6
Amazed or Amused: Infants’ Appraisal of Violations of Expectation in a Naturalistic Context	6
Preschoolers prior formal mathematics education engage numerical magnitude representation rather than counting principles in symbolic ±1 arithmetic: Evidence from the operational momentum effect	6
Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys	6
Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report	6
Is vision necessary for the timely acquisition of language‐specific patterns in co‐speech gesture and their lack in silent gesture?	6
Patterns of Language and Visuospatial Lateralisation and Cognitive Ability in Young Children Aged 4–7 Years	6
Corrigendum for ‘Longitudinal development of manual motor ability in autism spectrum disorder from childhood to mid‐adulthood relates to adaptive daily living skills’ by Travers et al. (2017)	6
Remote Text‐Supplemented Audiobook Intervention Supports Children's Explicit and Incidental Vocabulary Learning	6
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Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations	6
English‐learning infants developing sensitivity to vowel phonotactic cues to word segmentation	5
Abnormal Developmental Trajectories in the Brain in Individuals With Reading Disability	5
Infant sustained attention differs by context and social content in the first 2 years of life	5
A Glass Half Full: Limitations in ChiLDES Point to Ways Forward for a More Representative Developmental Science. Commentary on Scaff et al. (2025)	5
How Much Do You Remember When It's up to You? Measuring Memory Use Without Response Bias in Young Children	5
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Prosodic modulations in child‐directed language and their impact on word learning	5
Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search	5
Children dynamically update and extend the interface between number words and perceptual magnitudes	5
Encouraging pointing with the right hand, but not the left hand, gives right‐handed 3‐year‐olds a linguistic advantage	5
Children and Young Adults Factor Merit Into Their Judgments of Gender‐Based Science Resource Inequalities	5
No Difference in Face Scanning Patterns Between Monolingual and Bilingual Infants at 5 Months of Age	5
Relational thinking: An overlooked component of executive functioning	5
Gene‐Environment Interplay in Reading Performance	5
Statistical learning and children's emergent literacy in rural Côte d'Ivoire	5
Contingent conversations build more than language: How communicative interactions in toddlerhood relate to preschool executive function skills	5
Who Peeked? Children Infer the Likely Cause of Improbable Success	5
Chinese Singaporean Children's Expectations About Peer Group Norms in the Context of Wealth and Ethnicity	5
Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants’ neural responses to emotion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	5
Global Tales: Exploring Cultural Variances in Parent–Child Interactions Within Narrative Settings	5
Weaker number sense accounts for impaired numerosity perception in dyscalculia: Behavioral and computational evidence	5
A translational application of music for preschool cognitive development: RCT evidence for improved executive function, self‐regulation, and school readiness	5
Evaluating Open‐Source Solutions for Computerized Inference of Infant Facial Affect	5
Triangulating causality between childhood obesity and neurobehavior: Behavioral genetic and longitudinal evidence	5
Great Ape Childhoods: Social and Spatial Pathways to Independence in Bonobo and Chimpanzee Infants	5
Mechanisms of Vocabulary Acquisition Persist Under Variable Language Experience	4
Canonical Babbling Ratio Development in Infancy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Methodological and Ambient Language Influences	4
Predicting Positive Affect in Infancy	4
Colour perception changes with basic colour word comprehension	4
Intergenerational Transmission of Valence Bias Is Moderated by Attachment	4
Diversity as the Fuel of Theory: Demographic Biases in CHILDES and Its Commentaries	4
Large‐scale data decipher children's scale errors: A meta‐analytic approach using the zero‐inflated Poisson models	4
The Role of Movement on the Development of the Audiotactile Temporal Binding Window	4
Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia	4
The Genetic Origin of Uneven Cognitive Profiles in Heritable Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Individual Differences: Computational Investigations	4
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Bursty, Irregular Speech Input to Children Predicts Vocabulary Size	4
Can Programming Improve Executive Functions in Preschoolers? A Pilot Study on Low‐ and Middle‐Socioeconomic Status Schools	4
Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others	4
Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources	4
Dynamics of the dyad: How mothers and infants co‐construct interaction spaces during object play	4
Children's Selective Teaching and Informing: A Meta‐Analysis	4
Can Infants Perceive and Learn New Information from Extended Reality?	4
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To Merge or not: The Early Onto‐ and Phylogenetic Origin of Co‐Representation	4
Stereotypes in the classroom's air: Classroom racial stereotype endorsement, classroom engagement, and STEM achievement among Black and White American adolescents	4
Musical coordination affects children's perspective‐taking, but musical synchrony does not	4
Perception and Cognitive Control in Rationally Inattentive Child Behaviour	4
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Family play, reading, and other stimulation and early childhood development in five low‐and‐middle‐income countries	4
Do Young Human Infants Show Empathy for Others in Distress?	4
Putting the Social in Emotions: The Effect of Audience Presence on Pride and Embarrassment Across Ontogeny	4
Oscillatory But Not Aperiodic Frontal Brain Activity Predicts the Development of Executive Control From Infancy to Toddlerhood	4
Self‐Regulation in Preschool: Are Executive Function and Effortful Control Overlapping Constructs?	4
Pragmatics aid referent disambiguation and word learning in young children and adults	4
Eye movements reveal that young school children shift attention when solving additions and subtractions	4
Assessing the impact of LEGO® construction training on spatial and mathematical skills	4
Sleep and circadian rhythms during pregnancy, social disadvantage, and alterations in brain development in neonates	4
Within‐Day Variations in Infant Body Position Predict Caregiver Speech Input	4
More Than Just Treats? Effects of Grandparental Support for Children Growing up in Adversity	4
A comparison between common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and human infants sheds light on traits proposed to be at the root of human octave equivalence	4
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A Dotted Triangle or Dots of Three : The Role of Representational Content on Working Memory Capacity in Ea	3
Comparison of speech and music input in North American infants’ home environment over the first 2 years of life	3
Direct and indirect effects of mother's spatial ability on child's spatial ability: What role does the home environment play?	3
Infant‐directed communication: Examining the many dimensions of everyday caregiver‐infant interactions	3
Pathways From Early Vocabulary to School‐Age Social Skills: Findings From a Large Prospective Cohort Study	3
Daily dynamics of feeling loved by parents and their prospective implications for adolescent flourishing	3
Effects of Early Adversity and War Trauma on Learning Under Uncertainty	3
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Sustaining Language Acquisition Research in Africa: A Commentary on Scaff et al. (2025)	3
Ask me why, don't tell me why: Asking children for explanations facilitates relational thinking	3
Developmental emergence of holistic processing in word recognition	3
Brain Structural Connectivity and Morphological Awareness Mediate the Association Between Home Literacy Environment and Reading Outcomes in Children With Family History of Reading Difficulties	3