Developmental Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Science is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Preschoolers’ relevance inferences in linguistic and non‐linguistic contexts42
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status41
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Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?38
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing37
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome36
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers29
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya28
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth28
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills28
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science28
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age27
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment25
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)25
The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children24
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Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year23
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function22
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey20
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?20
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective19
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Children's attention to numerical quantities relates to verbal number knowledge: An introduction to the Build‐A‐Train task18
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study18
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class17
Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth17
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 talking17
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills17
Infants show pupil dilatory responses to happy and angry facial expressions16
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game16
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking16
Corrections for Kalashnikova et al. (2021), ‘The effects of bilingualism on attentional processes in the first year of life’16
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs16
Is vegetation cover in key behaviour settings important for early childhood socioemotional function? A preregistered, cross‐sectional study15
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu15
Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization14
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities14
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age14
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Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development14
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children14
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners14
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants14
Observing inefficient action can induce infant preference and learning14
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers13
Vulnerability of facial attractiveness perception to early and multi‐year visual deprivation13
Visual context processing and its development in gamers and non‐gamers13
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children13
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood13
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia13
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand12
A dyadic investigation of shy children's behavioral and affective responses to delivering a speech12
20‐month‐olds selectively generalize newly learned word meanings based on cues to linguistic community membership12
White matter microstructure in trauma‐exposed children: Associations with pubertal stage12
Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation12
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder11
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation11
Musical groove shapes children's free dancing11
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination11
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees11
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Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning11
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms11
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song11
Developmental changes in impulse control: Trial‐by‐trial EMG dissociates the evolution of impulse strength from its subsequent suppression11
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words11
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults11
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences11
Adaptation in the face of adversity: Decrements and enhancements in children's cognitive control behavior following early caregiving instability11
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children11
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families10
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers10
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language10
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children10
Selective attention to lesson‐relevant contextual information promotes 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children's learning10
How infant‐directed actions enhance infants’ attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling10
“Catastrophic” set size limits on infants’ capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis10
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report10
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Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect10
Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know10
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study10
Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia10
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age9
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior9
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development9
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence9
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood9
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics9
Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development9
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements9
What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament9
Neural representational similarity between symbolic and non‐symbolic quantities predicts arithmetic skills in childhood but not adolescence9
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool9
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words9
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging9
Impact of Deafness on the Lateralized Brain Responses to Letters and Digits: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Exploratory Study in Deaf and Hearing Children9
Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults9
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias8
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth8
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma8
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing8
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space8
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets8
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration8
A million is more than a thousand: Children's acquisition of very large number words8
Infants recognize words spoken through opaque masks but not through clear masks8
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia8
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study8
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development8
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence8
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner8
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years8
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?8
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood8
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)8
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures8
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts8
Response to the commentary ‘Becoming uniquely human? Comparing chimpanzee to human infancy’8
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?8
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations7
Pre‐schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech7
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A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science7
Preschool language and visuospatial skills respectively predict multiplication and addition/subtraction skills in middle school children7
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs7
When is a word in good company for learning?7
Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing7
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment7
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 study7
Corrigendum for Ferguson (2021), ‘Links between screen use and depressive symptoms in adolescents over 16 years: Is there evidence for increased harm?’7
Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion?: Children's and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous black/white biracial faces7
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Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants7
Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation, and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence7
Learning to pause: Fidelity of and biases in the developmental acquisition of gaps in the communicative signals of a songbird7
Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model7
Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers7
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The role of systematicity in early referent selection7
Neurodiverse transactional development may confound primary attachment inferences ‐ Commentary on Martin et al 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.129537
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world7
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning7
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age7
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
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Mother–Infant Face‐to‐Face Interactions Serve a Similar Function in Humans and Other Apes6
Is vision necessary for the timely acquisition of language‐specific patterns in co‐speech gesture and their lack in silent gesture?6
The development of visual cognition: The emergence of spatial congruency bias6
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures6
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Genetic and environmental influences on executive functions and intelligence in middle childhood6
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Weaker number sense accounts for impaired numerosity perception in dyscalculia: Behavioral and computational evidence6
High quality social environment buffers infants’ cognitive development from poor maternal mental health: Evidence from a study in Bhutan6
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Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained6
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From terrible twos to sassy sixes: The development of vocabulary and executive functioning across early childhood6
RETRACTION: An Intricate Relationship Between Executive Function and Second‐Language Ability in a Cohort of Uyghur‐Chinese Bilingual Children6
Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report6
Relational thinking: An overlooked component of executive functioning6
How pervasive is joint attention? Mother‐child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”6
Predicting their past: Machine language learning can discriminate the brains of chimpanzees with different early‐life social rearing experiences6
Attentional control in middle childhood is highly dynamic—Strong initial distraction is followed by advanced attention control6
To snack or not to snack: Using fNIRS to link inhibitory control to functional connectivity in the toddler brain6
Long‐term abacus training gains in children are predicted by medial temporal lobe anatomy and circuitry6
On executive functioning and childcare: The moderating role of parent–child interactions6
Controversy or consensus? A response to Green and Wan6
Preschoolers prior formal mathematics education engage numerical magnitude representation rather than counting principles in symbolic ±1 arithmetic: Evidence from the operational momentum effect6
Contingent conversations build more than language: How communicative interactions in toddlerhood relate to preschool executive function skills5
Encouraging pointing with the right hand, but not the left hand, gives right‐handed 3‐year‐olds a linguistic advantage5
Children dynamically update and extend the interface between number words and perceptual magnitudes5
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Autonomic profiles and self‐regulation outcomes in early childhood5
Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys5
Subtle alterations of the physical environment can nudge young children to cheat less5
Leadership, gender, and colorism: Children in India use social category information to guide leadership cognition5
Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants’ neural responses to emotion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex5
Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search5
Precursors of self‐regulation in infants at elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder5
Socioeconomic status predicts children's moral judgments of novel resource distributions5
Neural processing of moral content reflects moral identity in 10‐year‐old children5
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Screen Time, Nature, and Development: Baseline of the Randomized Controlled Study “Screen‐free till 3”5
Statistical learning and children's emergent literacy in rural Côte d'Ivoire5
Infant sustained attention differs by context and social content in the first 2 years of life5
Newborns’ early attuning to hand‐to‐mouth coordinated actions5
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English‐learning infants developing sensitivity to vowel phonotactic cues to word segmentation5
A translational application of music for preschool cognitive development: RCT evidence for improved executive function, self‐regulation, and school readiness5
Believing that prejudice can change increases children's interest in interracial interactions5
Cognitive control deployment is flexibly modulated by social value in early adolescence5
Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations5
Revisiting brain rewiring and plasticity in children born without corpus callosum5
Prosodic modulations in child‐directed language and their impact on word learning5
Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia5
Oscillatory But Not Aperiodic Frontal Brain Activity Predicts the Development of Executive Control From Infancy to Toddlerhood4
Perception and Cognitive Control in Rationally Inattentive Child Behaviour4
Post‐error slowing: Large scale study in an online learning environment for practising mathematics and language4
Eye movements reveal that young school children shift attention when solving additions and subtractions4
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Linking patterns of infant eye movements to a neural network model of the ventral stream using representational similarity analysis4
Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross‐linguistic investigation of early language and cognition4
Assessing the impact of LEGO® construction training on spatial and mathematical skills4
Associations between brain and behavioral processing of facial expressions of emotion and sensory reactivity in young children4
Impact of a mindfulness‐based school curriculum on emotion processing in Vietnamese pre‐adolescents: An event‐related potentials study4
Development of upper visual field bias for faces in infants4
Family play, reading, and other stimulation and early childhood development in five low‐and‐middle‐income countries4
Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others4
Pragmatics aid referent disambiguation and word learning in young children and adults4
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Large‐scale data decipher children's scale errors: A meta‐analytic approach using the zero‐inflated Poisson models4
A comparison between common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and human infants sheds light on traits proposed to be at the root of human octave equivalence4
Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources4
What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child‐directed speech4
Who Peeked? Children Infer the Likely Cause of Improbable Success4
Stereotypes in the classroom's air: Classroom racial stereotype endorsement, classroom engagement, and STEM achievement among Black and White American adolescents4
The development of brain rhythms at rest and its impact on vocabulary acquisition4
Children's Selective Teaching and Informing: A Meta‐Analysis4
Dynamics of the dyad: How mothers and infants co‐construct interaction spaces during object play4
More Than Just Treats? Effects of Grandparental Support for Children Growing up in Adversity4
Colour perception changes with basic colour word comprehension4
Sleep and circadian rhythms during pregnancy, social disadvantage, and alterations in brain development in neonates4
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Enhancing spatial skills of preschoolers from under‐resourced backgrounds: A comparison of digital app vs. concrete materials4
Bursty, Irregular Speech Input to Children Predicts Vocabulary Size4
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Triangulating causality between childhood obesity and neurobehavior: Behavioral genetic and longitudinal evidence4
Musical coordination affects children's perspective‐taking, but musical synchrony does not4
Self‐Regulation in Preschool: Are Executive Function and Effortful Control Overlapping Constructs?4
Objectively measured teacher and preschooler vocalizations: Phonemic diversity is associated with language abilities4
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Children's Persistence in the Context of Diminishing Rewards3
Maternal education and siblings: Agents of cognitive development in kindergarten3
Building representations of the social world: Children extract patterns from social choices to reason about multi‐group hierarchies3
Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies3
Direct and indirect effects of mother's spatial ability on child's spatial ability: What role does the home environment play?3
Age‐differences in network models of self‐regulation and executive control functions3
Creative thinking and brain network development in schoolchildren3
Your feelings are reasonable: Emotional validation promotes persistence among preschoolers3
Developmental emergence of holistic processing in word recognition3
A meta‐analysis of mental rotation in the first years of life3
When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness3
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