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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)	37
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	37
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment	35
MEG Evidence of Concurrent Bilateral and Hemisphere‐Specific Developmental Patterns in Auditory Cortex	31
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	31
Issue Information	30
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	29
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year	29
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya	29
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	28
No Evidence for Curiosity‐Driven Information Selection Advantage in Infants’ Novel Word Learning	28
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	26
Pre‐Decisional Information Search in 2‐ to 4‐Year‐Olds: Young Children Select the Relevant Cues When Looking for a Hidden Reward	26
Issue Information	26
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function	25
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey	25
The Development of Audio‐Tactile Spatial Integration: Unraveling Vision's Contribution	24
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	23
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills	22
COVID‐19 Impacts on Children and Resources for Resilience: What is the Direction of Causation?	21
Theta Power at 10 Months of Age Predicts Developmental Change in Language in Infants With and Without an Elevated Likelihood for Autism	21
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Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class	20
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?	20

Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth	20
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs	20
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game	20
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	19
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu	19
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking	18
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study	18
Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy	18
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Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants	17
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children	17
Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization	17
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children	17
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age	17
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities	17
Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation	16
Infant Directed Speech Facilitates Vowel Category Discrimination in Pre‐Verbal Infants	16
Exploring Associations Between Infant Attachment, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attention to Maternal Emotion Expressions	16
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation	16
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand	16
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development	16
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia	16
Language and Beyond: A Registered Report Examining Single and Multiple Risk Models of Later Reading Comprehension Weaknesses	16
A dyadic investigation of shy children's behavioral and affective responses to delivering a speech	16
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners	16
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children	15
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words	15
Moment‐to‐Moment Coordination of Parent‐Infant Visual Attention: An Actor–Partner Interdependence Framework Within Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling	15
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences	15
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults	14
Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning	14
Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect	14
Issue Information	14
Youth Prosocial Risk‐Taking: Intergroup Conflict, Prosocial Target, and Peer Norms in Three Countries	14
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms	14
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families	13
From Gossip to Evidence: Children's Re‐Evaluation of Gossip Targets in Light of Direct Observation	13
Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures	13
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination	13
“Catastrophic” set size limits on infants’ capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis	13
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder	12
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song	12
Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know	12
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report	12
Children Do Not Endorse a “Male = Brilliance” Stereotype When Reasoning About Novel Occupations	12
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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 Children	12
Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia	12
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Child Behaviour Checklist in the ABCD Study	12
Childhood Material Hardship Linked to Adolescent Neurocognition: A Computational Modeling Approach	12

Issue Information	12
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study	12
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging	12
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children	11
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence	11
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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
Functional Connectivity Fingerprints of Emerging Reading Skill in the First Months of Schooling	11
Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects	11
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements	11
The Permission Paradox: Condoning Deception Can Promote Honesty in Young Children	11
Stability of Music Engagement Across Childhood, Adolescence, and Established Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin and Adoption Study	11
The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy	10
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age	10
Children Cheat to Return a Favor	10
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children	10
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics	10
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood	10
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words	10
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?	10
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration	10
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma	10
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior	10
Impact of Congenital Visual Impairment on Early‐Life Exploration: Behavioral Analysis of Temporal and Motor Parameters During a Reach‐to‐Grasp Playful Task	10
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates	10
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Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)	10
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset	10
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development	10
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development	9
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia	9
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner	9
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Cognitive Resilience and Vulnerability to Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Predictors Across Individual, Family, School, and Neighborhood Contexts	9
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures	9
Developmental Changes in Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Fractions Processing: A Cross‐Sectional fMRI Study	9
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth	9
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space	9
Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers	9
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study	9
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts	9
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood	9
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?	9
Children's Neural Processing of the Misfortunes and Fortunes of Prosocial and Antisocial Individuals	9
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years	9
Issue Information	8
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning	8
From terrible twos to sassy sixes: The development of vocabulary and executive functioning across early childhood	8
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets	8
Educating Early Adolescents for a Sustainable Future With Digital Civic Learning: Moral Self‐Concept as a Developmental Catalyst Linking Civic Competencies and Civic Purpose	8
The role of systematicity in early referent selection	8
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Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age	8
Individual Differences in Infants’ Curiosity Are Linked to Cognitive Capacity in Early Childhood	8
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment	8
A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science	8
Cover Image, Volume 29, Issue 4	8
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs	8
Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion?: Children's and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous black/white biracial faces	8
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations	8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing	8
Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model	7
Learning to pause: Fidelity of and biases in the developmental acquisition of gaps in the communicative signals of a songbird	7
When is a word in good company for learning?	7
Evidence of Top‐Down Sensory Prediction in Neonates Within 2 Days of Birth	7
Non‐Linear Changes in Face Availability During Naturalistic Playtime Across the First Years: Insights From Head‐Mounted Cameras and Automated Face Detection	7
Long‐term abacus training gains in children are predicted by medial temporal lobe anatomy and circuitry	7
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures	7
Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants	7
Speech and Gesture in Sync: Investigating Temporal Integration Across Childhood	7
Children Sustain Their Attention on Spatial Scenes When Planning to Describe Spatial Relations Multimodally in Speech and Gesture	7
Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained	7
Preschool language and visuospatial skills respectively predict multiplication and addition/subtraction skills in middle school children	7
The Home Literacy Environment and Reading Development of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities	7
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world	7
Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing	7
Children's Embodiment of Non‐Human Virtual Hand Forms	7
Two Weeks of Mirror Exposure Enhances Sensorimotor Cortex Activation but not Facial Mimicry in 4‐Month‐old Infants	7