Developmental Science

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth45
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers37
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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 rearing32
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science31
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)30
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment29
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya29
MEG Evidence of Concurrent Bilateral and Hemisphere‐Specific Developmental Patterns in Auditory Cortex28
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year28
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Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills26
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Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking25
Pre‐Decisional Information Search in 2‐ to 4‐Year‐Olds: Young Children Select the Relevant Cues When Looking for a Hidden Reward24
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey23
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function23
The Development of Audio‐Tactile Spatial Integration: Unraveling Vision's Contribution23
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu23
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 talking23
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills22
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective22
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class21
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?20
Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth20
Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy20
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study20
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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 Autism18
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game18
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs18
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants18
COVID‐19 Impacts on Children and Resources for Resilience: What is the Direction of Causation?18
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children17
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development17
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners17
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age17
Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization17
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities17
Infant Directed Speech Facilitates Vowel Category Discrimination in Pre‐Verbal Infants17
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia16
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees16
Exploring Associations Between Infant Attachment, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attention to Maternal Emotion Expressions16
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand16
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children16
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 Weaknesses15
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children15
Developmental changes in impulse control: Trial‐by‐trial EMG dissociates the evolution of impulse strength from its subsequent suppression15
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences15
Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation15
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words15
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation15
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Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning14
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder14
Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect14
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms14
From Gossip to Evidence: Children's Re‐Evaluation of Gossip Targets in Light of Direct Observation13
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults13
Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures13
Children Do Not Endorse a “Male = Brilliance” Stereotype When Reasoning About Novel Occupations13
“Catastrophic” set size limits on infants’ capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis13
Youth Prosocial Risk‐Taking: Intergroup Conflict, Prosocial Target, and Peer Norms in Three Countries13
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Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging12
Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia12
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families12
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Impact of Deafness on the Lateralized Brain Responses to Letters and Digits: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Exploratory Study in Deaf and Hearing Children12
Genetic and Environmental Effects on Parent‐Rated Adaptive Behaviour in Infancy12
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song12
Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know12
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study12
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report12
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination12
Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects11
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children11
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Stability of Music Engagement Across Childhood, Adolescence, and Established Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin and Adoption Study11
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language11
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence11
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements11
The Permission Paradox: Condoning Deception Can Promote Honesty in Young Children11
Functional Connectivity Fingerprints of Emerging Reading Skill in the First Months of Schooling11
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age10
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior10
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words10
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)10
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics10
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset10
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development10
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma10
Children Cheat to Return a Favor10
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?10
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates10
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children10
The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy10
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood10
Impact of Congenital Visual Impairment on Early‐Life Exploration: Behavioral Analysis of Temporal and Motor Parameters During a Reach‐to‐Grasp Playful Task10
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood10
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Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers9
Children's Neural Processing of the Misfortunes and Fortunes of Prosocial and Antisocial Individuals9
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration9
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts9
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years9
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner9
Cognitive Resilience and Vulnerability to Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Predictors Across Individual, Family, School, and Neighborhood Contexts9
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space9
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study9
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?9
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development9
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets9
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures9
Developmental Changes in Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Fractions Processing: A Cross‐Sectional fMRI Study9
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth9
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia9
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Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations8
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Individual Differences in Infants’ Curiosity Are Linked to Cognitive Capacity in Early Childhood8
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing8
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment8
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence8
Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion?: Children's and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous black/white biracial faces8
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A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science8
The role of systematicity in early referent selection8
From terrible twos to sassy sixes: The development of vocabulary and executive functioning across early childhood8
Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model8
The development of visual cognition: The emergence of spatial congruency bias7
The Home Literacy Environment and Reading Development of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities7
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Learning to pause: Fidelity of and biases in the developmental acquisition of gaps in the communicative signals of a songbird7
Speech and Gesture in Sync: Investigating Temporal Integration Across Childhood7
When is a word in good company for learning?7
Children's Embodiment of Non‐Human Virtual Hand Forms7
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On executive functioning and childcare: The moderating role of parent–child interactions7
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 children7
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning7
Children Sustain Their Attention on Spatial Scenes When Planning to Describe Spatial Relations Multimodally in Speech and Gesture7
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures7
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Evidence of Top‐Down Sensory Prediction in Neonates Within 2 Days of Birth7
Long‐term abacus training gains in children are predicted by medial temporal lobe anatomy and circuitry7
Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants7
Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing7
Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained7
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs7
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world7
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