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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Preschoolers’ relevance inferences in linguistic and non‐linguistic contexts	42
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status	41
Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?	38
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Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	37
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome	36
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	29
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	28
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	28
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya	28
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	28
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age	27
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)	25
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment	25
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The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children	24
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year	23
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function	22
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey	20
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?	20
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	19
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study	18
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Children's attention to numerical quantities relates to verbal number knowledge: An introduction to the Build‐A‐Train task	18

Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills	17
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class	17
Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth	17
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	17
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 beliefs	16
Infants show pupil dilatory responses to happy and angry facial expressions	16
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game	16
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking	16
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu	15
Is vegetation cover in key behaviour settings important for early childhood socioemotional function? A preregistered, cross‐sectional study	15
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Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development	14
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children	14
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners	14
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants	14
Observing inefficient action can induce infant preference and learning	14
Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization	14
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities	14
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age	14
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood	13
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia	13
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers	13
Vulnerability of facial attractiveness perception to early and multi‐year visual deprivation	13
Visual context processing and its development in gamers and non‐gamers	13
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children	13
White matter microstructure in trauma‐exposed children: Associations with pubertal stage	12
Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation	12
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand	12
A dyadic investigation of shy children's behavioral and affective responses to delivering a speech	12
20‐month‐olds selectively generalize newly learned word meanings based on cues to linguistic community membership	12
Developmental changes in impulse control: Trial‐by‐trial EMG dissociates the evolution of impulse strength from its subsequent suppression	11
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words	11
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults	11
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences	11
Adaptation in the face of adversity: Decrements and enhancements in children's cognitive control behavior following early caregiving instability	11
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children	11
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder	11
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation	11
Musical groove shapes children's free dancing	11
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination	11
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees	11
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Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning	11
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms	11
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song	11
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report	10
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Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect	10

Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know	10
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study	10
Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia	10
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families	10
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers	10
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language	10
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children	10
Selective attention to lesson‐relevant contextual information promotes 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children's learning	10
How infant‐directed actions enhance infants’ attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling	10
“Catastrophic” set size limits on infants’ capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis	10
What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament	9
Neural representational similarity between symbolic and non‐symbolic quantities predicts arithmetic skills in childhood but not adolescence	9
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool	9
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words	9
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging	9
Impact of Deafness on the Lateralized Brain Responses to Letters and Digits: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Exploratory Study in Deaf and Hearing Children	9
Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults	9
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age	9
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior	9
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development	9
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence	9
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood	9
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics	9
Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development	9
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements	9
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 Childhood	8
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 gestures	8
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts	8
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
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias	8
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth	8
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma	8
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates	8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing	8
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space	8
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets	8
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration	8
A million is more than a thousand: Children's acquisition of very large number words	8
Infants recognize words spoken through opaque masks but not through clear masks	8
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia	8
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study	8
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development	8
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence	8
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner	8
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years	8
Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation, and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence	7
Learning to pause: Fidelity of and biases in the developmental acquisition of gaps in the communicative signals of a songbird	7
Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model	7
Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers	7
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The role of systematicity in early referent selection	7
Neurodiverse transactional development may confound primary attachment inferences ‐ Commentary on Martin et al 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12953	7
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world	7
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning	7
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age	7
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations	7
Pre‐schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech	7
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A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science	7
Preschool language and visuospatial skills respectively predict multiplication and addition/subtraction skills in middle school children	7
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs	7
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 processing	7
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment	7
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	7
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 faces	7
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Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants	7