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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond family‐level adversities: Exploring the developmental timing of neighborhood disadvantage effects on the brain	45
States of curiosity and interest enhance memory differently in adolescents and in children	35
Development of directed and random exploration in children	34
Theory of mind, executive function, and lying in children: a meta‐analysis	33
Communication changes when infants begin to walk	30
Systematic exploration and uncertainty dominate young children's choices	29
Systematic mapping of developmental milestones in wild chimpanzees	29
Bridging sensory and language theories of dyslexia: Toward a multifactorial model	29
Short report: Improving motor competence skills in early childhood has corollary benefits for executive function and numeracy skills	28
Everyday music in infancy	27
Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation, and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence	26
Adaptation in the face of adversity: Decrements and enhancements in children's cognitive control behavior following early caregiving instability	26
Infants of mothers with higher physiological stress show alterations in brain function	25
Multifactorial pathways facilitate resilience among kindergarteners at risk for dyslexia: A longitudinal behavioral and neuroimaging study	25
Functional connectivity in the developing language network in 4‐year‐old children predicts future reading ability	24
Caring babies: Concern for others in distress during infancy	24
Cardiovascular fitness and executive functioning in primary school‐aged children	23
The moment‐to‐moment pitch dynamics of child‐directed speech shape toddlers’ attention and learning	23
Infants recognize words spoken through opaque masks but not through clear masks	22
Developmental dynamics between reading and math in elementary school	22
The role of the corpus callosum in language network connectivity in children	21
The effects of bilingualism on attentional processes in the first year of life	21
Neural substrates of the executive function construct, age‐related changes, and task materials in adolescents and adults: ALE meta‐analyses of 408 fMRI studies	19
Are adolescents more optimal decision‐makers in novel environments? Examining the benefits of heightened exploration in a patch foraging paradigm	19
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool	19

Individual differences in musical ability are stable over time in childhood	18
Slow wave sleep in naps supports episodic memories in early childhood	18
What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child‐directed speech	18
Understanding the terrible twos: A longitudinal investigation of the impact of early executive function and parent–child interactions	18
Elementary school teachers' math anxiety and students' math learning: A large‐scale replication	18
Dynamic relationships between phonological memory and reading: A five year longitudinal study from age 4 to 9	17
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias	17
Puberty drives fear learning during adolescence	17
The handwriting brain in middle childhood	17
Vocal development in a large‐scale crosslinguistic corpus	17
Developmental changes in neural letter‐selectivity: A 1‐year follow‐up of beginning readers	17
Relationship between cool and hot executive function in young children: A near‐infrared spectroscopy study	17
Newborn crawling and rooting in response to maternal breast odor	17
Inhibitory control and set shifting describe different pathways from behavioral inhibition to socially anxious behavior	17
Socioeconomic status, home mathematics environment and math achievement in kindergarten: A mediation analysis	16
Breadth versus depth: Cumulative risk model and continuous measure prediction of poor language and reading outcomes at 12	16
Early childhood poverty and adult executive functioning: Distinct, mediating pathways for different domains of executive functioning	16
Development of directed global inhibition, competitive inhibition and behavioural inhibition during the transition between infancy and toddlerhood	16
Encouraging kids to beat: Children's beat gesture production boosts their narrative performance	16
Linking language to sensory experience: Onomatopoeia in early language development	16
Late‐ but not early‐onset blindness impairs the development of audio‐haptic multisensory integration	15
Screen‐time influences children's mental imagery performance	15
When event knowledge overrides word order in sentence comprehension: Learning a first language after childhood	15
Sampling to learn words: Adults and children sample words that reduce referential ambiguity	15
EEG microstates suggest atypical resting‐state network activity in high‐functioning children and adolescents with autism spectrum development	15
Language input to infants of different socioeconomic statuses: A quantitative meta‐analysis	14
Individual differences in executive function partially explain the socioeconomic gradient in middle‐school academic achievement	14
The brain basis of handwriting deficits in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia	14
Using environmental nudges to reduce academic cheating in young children	14
Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races	14
Attentional abilities constrain language development: A cross‐syndrome infant/toddler study	13
I know better! Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice	13
Self‐regulation in preschool: Are executive function and effortful control overlapping constructs?	13
Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing, and psychopathology in children and adolescents	12
Developmental trajectories of executive functions from preschool to kindergarten	12
An exploration of amygdala‐prefrontal mechanisms in the intergenerational transmission of learned fear	12
Infant Spontaneous Motor Tempo	12
Children favor punishment over restoration	12
Off to a good start: Early Spanish‐language processing efficiency supports Spanish‐ and English‐language outcomes at 4½ years in sequential bilinguals	12
The impact of errors in infant development: Falling like a baby	12
Partial knowledge in the development of number word understanding	12
Dimensions of the language environment in infancy and symptoms of psychopathology in toddlerhood	12
Relations between parent–child interaction and children’s engagement and learning at a museum exhibit about electric circuits	12
Infants’ object interactions are long and complex during everyday joint engagement	12
Bouncing the network: A dynamical systems model of auditory–vestibular interactions underlying infants’ perception of musical rhythm	11
Deficient neural encoding of speech sounds in term neonates born after fetal growth restriction	11
Boys’ advantage on the fractions number line is mediated by visuospatial attention: Evidence for a parietal‐spatial contribution to number line learning	11
Enhancing spatial skills of preschoolers from under‐resourced backgrounds: A comparison of digital app vs. concrete materials	11
More than the sum of its parts: Exploring the development of ratio magnitude versus simple magnitude perception	11
Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping	10

(Un)common knowledge: Children use social relationships to determine who knows what	10
Visual experiences during letter production contribute to the development of the neural systems supporting letter perception	10
Language and socioemotional development in early childhood: The role of conversational turns	10
Culturally learned first impressions occur rapidly and automatically and emerge early in development	10
Testing the limits of structural thinking about gender	10
Rapid development of perceptual gaze control in hearing native signing Infants and children	10
What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament	10
EEG phase synchronization during semantic unification relates to individual differences in children’s vocabulary skill	10
Early parenting intervention accelerates inhibitory control development among CPS‐involved children in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial	10
Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross‐linguistic investigation of early language and cognition	10
Newborns modulate their crawling in response to their native language but not another language	10
Doll play prompts social thinking and social talking: Representations of internal state language in the brain	9
Does rhythmic priming improve grammatical processing in Hungarian‐speaking children with and without developmental language disorder?	9
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children	9
Attenuated brain responses to speech sounds in moderate preterm infants at term age	9
Linking patterns of infant eye movements to a neural network model of the ventral stream using representational similarity analysis	9
Experimental evidence for a child‐to‐adolescent switch in human amygdala‐prefrontal cortex communication: A cross‐sectional pilot study	9
A systematic review suggests marked differences in the prevalence of infant‐directed vocalization across groups of populations	9
Disentangling age and schooling effects on inhibitory control development: An fNIRS investigation	9
The processing of rhythmic structures in music and prosody by children with developmental dyslexia and developmental language disorder	9
Action prediction during real‐time parent‐infant interactions	9
Bilingualism alters infants’ cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms	9
Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations	9
Relational thinking: An overlooked component of executive functioning	9
An observational approach for exploring variability in young children's regulation‐related skills within classroom contexts	9
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers	9
The teleological stance: Past, present, and future	9
The development of race effects in face processing from childhood through adulthood: Neural and behavioral evidence	9
Toddlers’ social evaluations of agents who act on false beliefs	9
Ahead of maturation: Enhanced speech envelope training boosts rise time discrimination in pre‐readers at cognitive risk for dyslexia	9
Procedural learning and retention of audio‐verbal temporal sequence is altered in children with developmental coordination disorder but cortical thickness matters	8
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa	8
Subcortical auditory neural synchronization is deficient in pre‐reading children who develop dyslexia	8
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees	8
Associative memory persistence in 3‐ to 5‐year‐olds	8
Altered gray matter development in pre‐reading children with a family history of reading disorder	8
Children's long‐term retention is directly constrained by their working memory capacity limitations	8
Computational modelling of attentional bias towards threat in paediatric anxiety	8
Gender differences in mothers’ spatial language use and children’s mental rotation abilities in Preschool and Kindergarten	8
Evidence for discrete profiles of children’s physiological activity across three neurobiological system and their transitions over time	8
Longitudinal investigation of executive function development employing task‐based, teacher reports, and fNIRS multimethodology in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children	8
Predicting their past: Machine language learning can discriminate the brains of chimpanzees with different early‐life social rearing experiences	8
Maternal cradling bias in baboons: The first environmental factor affecting early infant handedness development?	8
Day‐to‐day variation in students’ academic success: The role of self‐regulation, working memory, and achievement goals	7
Rethinking the phonetics of baby‐talk: Differences across Canada and Vanuatu in the articulation of mothers' speech to infants	7
Mothers’ and fathers’ executive function both predict emergent executive function in toddlerhood	7
All contexts are not created equal: Social stimuli win the competition for organizing reinforcement learning in 9‐month‐old infants	7
Home assessment of visual working memory in pre‐schoolers reveals associations between behaviour, brain activation and parent reports of life stress	7
Sequential Bayes Factor designs in developmental research: Studies on early word learning	7
Precursors of self‐regulation in infants at elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	7
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status	7
Leadership, gender, and colorism: Children in India use social category information to guide leadership cognition	7
Computational and behavioral markers of model‐based decision making in childhood	7
Using a multidimensional model of attention to predict low‐income preschoolers’ early academic skills across time	7
Vigilant or avoidant? Children's temperamental shyness, patterns of gaze, and physiology during social threat	7
Links between screen use and depressive symptoms in adolescents over 16 years: Is there evidence for increased harm?	7
Infants show enhanced neural responses to musical meter frequencies beyond low‐level features	7
The development of brain rhythms at rest and its impact on vocabulary acquisition	7
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age	7
Promoting mother‐infant relationships and underlying neural correlates: Results from a randomized controlled trial of a home‐visiting program for adolescent mothers in Brazil	7
The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants	7
“Look! It is not a bamoule!”: 18‐ and 24‐month‐olds can use negative sentences to constrain their interpretation of novel word meanings	7
Objectively measured teacher and preschooler vocalizations: Phonemic diversity is associated with language abilities	7
When slowing down processing helps learning: Lexico‐semantic structure supports retention, but interferes with disambiguation of novel object‐label mappings	7
The sticky mittens paradigm: A critical appraisal of current results and explanations	7
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood	7
Associations between brain and behavioral processing of facial expressions of emotion and sensory reactivity in young children	7
Neural representational similarity between symbolic and non‐symbolic quantities predicts arithmetic skills in childhood but not adolescence	7