OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Science is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?	39
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment	32
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age	30
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status	30
Preschoolers’ relevance inferences in linguistic and non‐linguistic contexts	30
The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children	29
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya	29
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)	29
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	26
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	23
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	23
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	21
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year	21
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome	21
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	20
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking	19
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game	19
Is vegetation cover in key behaviour settings important for early childhood socioemotional function? A preregistered, cross‐sectional study	19
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey	19
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	19
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills	18
Children's attention to numerical quantities relates to verbal number knowledge: An introduction to the Build‐A‐Train task	18
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study	18

“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs	17
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu	17
Issue Information	17
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?	17
Infants show pupil dilatory responses to happy and angry facial expressions	17
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Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization	15
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers	15
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	15
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia	15
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Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth	15
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class	15
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age	15
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function	15
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood	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
Vulnerability of facial attractiveness perception to early and multi‐year visual deprivation	14
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development	14
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children	14
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities	14
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants	13
Language and Beyond: A Registered Report Examining Single and Multiple Risk Models of Later Reading Comprehension Weaknesses	13
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand	13
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children	13
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation	13
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words	13
Exploring Associations Between Infant Attachment, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attention to Maternal Emotion Expressions	13
Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation	13
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children	13
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
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences	12
Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning	12
Developmental changes in impulse control: Trial‐by‐trial EMG dissociates the evolution of impulse strength from its subsequent suppression	12
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees	12
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Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song	12
Visual context processing and its development in gamers and non‐gamers	12
Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect	12
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers	12
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families	12
Impact of Deafness on the Lateralized Brain Responses to Letters and Digits: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Exploratory Study in Deaf and Hearing Children	11
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study	11
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children	11
Issue Information	11
“Catastrophic” set size limits on infants’ capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis	11
How infant‐directed actions enhance infants’ attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling	11
What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament	11

Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence	11
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements	11
Genetic and Environmental Effects on Parent‐Rated Adaptive Behaviour in Infancy	11
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language	11
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination	11
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults	11
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms	11
Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know	11
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The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report	11
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging	11
Selective attention to lesson‐relevant contextual information promotes 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children's learning	11
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder	11
Musical groove shapes children's free dancing	11
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Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia	11
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)	10
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age	10
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool	10
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior	10
Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults	10
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood	10
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development	10
Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development	10
The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy	10
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words	9
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study	9
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth	9
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?	9
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years	9
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates	9
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma	9
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures	9
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development	9
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood	9
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics	9
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children	9
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner	9
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration	9
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia	9
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?	9
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	8
Developmental Changes in Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Fractions Processing: A Cross‐Sectional fMRI Study	8
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations	8
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets	8
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs	8
Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model	8
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space	8
A million is more than a thousand: Children's acquisition of very large number words	8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing	8
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias	8
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Children's Neural Processing of the Misfortunes and Fortunes of Prosocial and Antisocial Individuals	8
When is a word in good company for learning?	8
Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained	8
Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion?: Children's and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous black/white biracial faces	8
Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers	8
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Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts	8
A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science	8
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment	8
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning	8
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence	8