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

Article	Citations
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Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?	42
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	39
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	35
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	35
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age	34
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment	30
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year	27
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya	26
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The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome	26
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)	26
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	25
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status	25
No Evidence for Curiosity‐Driven Information Selection Advantage in Infants’ Novel Word Learning	24
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	23
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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	22
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey	22
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	21
The Development of Audio‐Tactile Spatial Integration: Unraveling Vision's Contribution	21
Pre‐Decisional Information Search in 2‐ to 4‐Year‐Olds: Young Children Select the Relevant Cues When Looking for a Hidden Reward	21
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study	20
Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth	19

Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function	19
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu	19
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game	19
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills	19
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?	19
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class	18
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking	18
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs	18
Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization	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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Exploring Associations Between Infant Attachment, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attention to Maternal Emotion Expressions	17
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children	17
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants	17
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia	17
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners	17
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development	16
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children	16
Infant Directed Speech Facilitates Vowel Category Discrimination in Pre‐Verbal Infants	16
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood	16
Vulnerability of facial attractiveness perception to early and multi‐year visual deprivation	16
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities	16
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age	15
Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation	15
20‐month‐olds selectively generalize newly learned word meanings based on cues to linguistic community membership	15
A dyadic investigation of shy children's behavioral and affective responses to delivering a speech	15
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees	14
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand	14
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children	14
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words	14
Developmental changes in impulse control: Trial‐by‐trial EMG dissociates the evolution of impulse strength from its subsequent suppression	14
Language and Beyond: A Registered Report Examining Single and Multiple Risk Models of Later Reading Comprehension Weaknesses	14
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination	14
Visual context processing and its development in gamers and non‐gamers	14
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation	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
“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	13
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults	13
Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song	13
Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect	13
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms	13
Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning	13
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Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences	13
How infant‐directed actions enhance infants’ attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling	13
Musical groove shapes children's free dancing	12
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study	12
Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures	12
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Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know	12
Youth Prosocial Risk‐Taking: Intergroup Conflict, Prosocial Target, and Peer Norms in Three Countries	12
Genetic and Environmental Effects on Parent‐Rated Adaptive Behaviour in Infancy	12
Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia	12
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children	11
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements	11
What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament	11
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language	11
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report	11
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence	11
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool	11
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging	11
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
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Impact of Congenital Visual Impairment on Early‐Life Exploration: Behavioral Analysis of Temporal and Motor Parameters During a Reach‐to‐Grasp Playful Task	11
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children	11
Selective attention to lesson‐relevant contextual information promotes 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children's learning	11
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood	11
Developmental Changes in Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Fractions Processing: A Cross‐Sectional fMRI Study	10
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia	10
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics	10
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words	10
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age	10
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates	10
A million is more than a thousand: Children's acquisition of very large number words	10
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner	10
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth	10
The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy	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
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood	10
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years	10
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study	10
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development	10
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset	10
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)	10
Children Cheat to Return a Favor	10
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts	10
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space	9
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?	9
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?	9
Cognitive Resilience and Vulnerability to Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Predictors Across Individual, Family, School, and Neighborhood Contexts	9
A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science	9
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations	9
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures	9
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The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence	9
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment	9
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets	9
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration	9
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development	9
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Children's Neural Processing of the Misfortunes and Fortunes of Prosocial and Antisocial Individuals	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	9
Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers	8
The role of systematicity in early referent selection	8
Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants	8
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world	8
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age	8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing	8
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Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained	8
Learning to pause: Fidelity of and biases in the developmental acquisition of gaps in the communicative signals of a songbird	8
When is a word in good company for learning?	8
The Home Literacy Environment and Reading Development of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities	8
Preschool language and visuospatial skills respectively predict multiplication and addition/subtraction skills in middle school children	8
From terrible twos to sassy sixes: The development of vocabulary and executive functioning across early childhood	8