OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Science is 7. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

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
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
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
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
Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing, and psychopathology in children and adolescents	24
What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child‐directed speech	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
Relations between parent–child interaction and children’s engagement and learning at a museum exhibit about electric circuits	22
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
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
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
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
When event knowledge overrides word order in sentence comprehension: Learning a first language after childhood	18
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
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
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
Language and socioemotional development in early childhood: The role of conversational turns	16
Children favor punishment over restoration	15
The impact of errors in infant development: Falling like a baby	15
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
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees	14
Action prediction during real‐time parent‐infant interactions	14
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Neural time course of pain observation in infancy	7