Developmental Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Developmental Science is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)40
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year37
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth33
No Evidence for Curiosity‐Driven Information Selection Advantage in Infants’ Novel Word Learning33
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing33
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science33
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers32
MEG Evidence of Concurrent Bilateral and Hemisphere‐Specific Developmental Patterns in Auditory Cortex31
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Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment27
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya26
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Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey25
Pre‐Decisional Information Search in 2‐ to 4‐Year‐Olds: Young Children Select the Relevant Cues When Looking for a Hidden Reward25
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 talking24
The Development of Audio‐Tactile Spatial Integration: Unraveling Vision's Contribution24
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class24
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?22
Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy22
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs22
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study22
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective21
Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth21
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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 Autism20
Developmental Unity and Cultural Variation in Forms of Metarepresentational False Belief Understanding20
COVID‐19 Impacts on Children and Resources for Resilience: What is the Direction of Causation?20
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game20
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Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking19
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu19
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children18
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants18
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children18
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities18
Exploring Associations Between Infant Attachment, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attention to Maternal Emotion Expressions18
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age17
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners17
Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization17
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia17
School Entry Deferral: Effects of Age and Schooling on Children's Longitudinal Executive Function Development and Parent‐Reported Socio‐Emotional and Regulatory Outcomes17
Infant Directed Speech Facilitates Vowel Category Discrimination in Pre‐Verbal Infants17
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation16
A dyadic investigation of shy children's behavioral and affective responses to delivering a speech16
Language and Beyond: A Registered Report Examining Single and Multiple Risk Models of Later Reading Comprehension Weaknesses16
Moment‐to‐Moment Coordination of Parent‐Infant Visual Attention: An Actor–Partner Interdependence Framework Within Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling16
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand16
The Kia Tīmata Pai Randomized Controlled Trial: ENRICH Early Childhood Teacher Training Improves Toddlers’ Oral Language and Self‐Regulation15
Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning15
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children15
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms15
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Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation15
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song15
Childhood Material Hardship Linked to Adolescent Neurocognition: A Computational Modeling Approach14
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Child Behaviour Checklist in the ABCD Study14
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination14
Children Do Not Endorse a “Male = Brilliance” Stereotype When Reasoning About Novel Occupations14
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults14
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder14
Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect14
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families14
From Gossip to Evidence: Children's Re‐Evaluation of Gossip Targets in Light of Direct Observation13
Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures13
Youth Prosocial Risk‐Taking: Intergroup Conflict, Prosocial Target, and Peer Norms in Three Countries13
“Catastrophic” set size limits on infants’ capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis13
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences13
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Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging12
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language12
Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know12
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Genetic and Environmental Effects on Parent‐Rated Adaptive Behaviour in Infancy12
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study11
Stability of Music Engagement Across Childhood, Adolescence, and Established Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin and Adoption Study11
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence11
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children11
Functional Connectivity Fingerprints of Emerging Reading Skill in the First Months of Schooling11
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report11
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children11
Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects11
The Permission Paradox: Condoning Deception Can Promote Honesty in Young Children11
Impact of Deafness on the Lateralized Brain Responses to Letters and Digits: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Exploratory Study in Deaf and Hearing Children11
Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia11
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements11
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Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior10
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures10
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development10
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words10
Children Cheat to Return a Favor10
Correction to “Navigating Knowledge: Effects of State Curiosity on Children's Word Learning and Information Seeking”10
Distinct Temporal Stages of Infant Brain Processing Associate With Early Versus Later Autism Diagnosis10
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration10
The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy10
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma10
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age10
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?10
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Developmental Changes in Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Fractions Processing: A Cross‐Sectional fMRI Study10
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?10
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood10
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics10
Impact of Congenital Visual Impairment on Early‐Life Exploration: Behavioral Analysis of Temporal and Motor Parameters During a Reach‐to‐Grasp Playful Task10
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)10
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years10
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood10
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia10
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study10
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset10
Decoding Preschool Social Dynamics: Automated Tracking of Spatial and Temporal Patterns to Investigate Social Interactions and Relationships in Peer Groups9
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space9
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The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development9
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth9
Cognitive Resilience and Vulnerability to Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Predictors Across Individual, Family, School, and Neighborhood Contexts9
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts9
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner9
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets9
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment8
Guiding Curiosity: How Learning Progress Shapes Young Children's Exploration of New Toys8
Children's Neural Processing of the Misfortunes and Fortunes of Prosocial and Antisocial Individuals8
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs8
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations8
A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science8
Performance and Biases of the LENA and ACLEW Algorithms in Analyzing Language Environments in Down, Fragile X, Angelman Syndromes, and Populations at Elevated Likelihood for Autism8
From Visual Attention to Literacy: Symbol Search Deficit Predicts Future Reading Difficulties From Age 38
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Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion?: Children's and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous black/white biracial faces8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing8
Educating Early Adolescents for a Sustainable Future With Digital Civic Learning: Moral Self‐Concept as a Developmental Catalyst Linking Civic Competencies and Civic Purpose8
Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers8
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When is a word in good company for learning?8
Children Sustain Their Attention on Spatial Scenes When Planning to Describe Spatial Relations Multimodally in Speech and Gesture7
Two Weeks of Mirror Exposure Enhances Sensorimotor Cortex Activation but not Facial Mimicry in 4‐Month‐old Infants7
Cascading Periods of Language‐Related Brain Plasticity Across Early Childhood7
The role of systematicity in early referent selection7
Unveiling Roots of Chinese Adolescent Cyberbullying Through Explainable Machine Learning Approach7
Speech and Gesture in Sync: Investigating Temporal Integration Across Childhood7
Three‐Dimensional Object Perception Can Emerge From Predictive Learning7
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world7
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Evidence of Top‐Down Sensory Prediction in Neonates Within 2 Days of Birth7
Children's Embodiment of Non‐Human Virtual Hand Forms7
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age7
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning7
Non‐Linear Changes in Face Availability During Naturalistic Playtime Across the First Years: Insights From Head‐Mounted Cameras and Automated Face Detection7
Preschool language and visuospatial skills respectively predict multiplication and addition/subtraction skills in middle school children6
Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants6
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures6
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How pervasive is joint attention? Mother‐child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”6
Family Language, Preschool, and Reading Achievement: The Interplay Between Inequality in Opportunities and Outcomes6
Mother–Infant Face‐to‐Face Interactions Serve a Similar Function in Humans and Other Apes6
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Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing6
Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model6
The Home Literacy Environment and Reading Development of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities6
The development of visual cognition: The emergence of spatial congruency bias6
RETRACTION: An Intricate Relationship Between Executive Function and Second‐Language Ability in a Cohort of Uyghur‐Chinese Bilingual Children6
Preschoolers prior formal mathematics education engage numerical magnitude representation rather than counting principles in symbolic ±1 arithmetic: Evidence from the operational momentum effect6
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How Preschoolers Defend: Early Preschoolers Act More, Intend Less, and Strategically Defend Friends6
Individual Differences in Infants’ Curiosity Are Linked to Cognitive Capacity in Early Childhood6
Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained6
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
How Uncertainty Affects Children's Exploration and Exploitation in Statistical Learning6
Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys6
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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 Years6
Learning to pause: Fidelity of and biases in the developmental acquisition of gaps in the communicative signals of a songbird6
From terrible twos to sassy sixes: The development of vocabulary and executive functioning across early childhood6
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