Developmental Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Science is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Creative thinking and brain network development in schoolchildren41
Vocabulary and automatic attention: The relation between novel words and gaze dynamics in noun generalization40
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words38
High consistency of cheating and honesty in early childhood34
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Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants’ neural responses to emotion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex31
A translational application of music for preschool cognitive development: RCT evidence for improved executive function, self‐regulation, and school readiness29
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Altered gray matter development in pre‐reading children with a family history of reading disorder28
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya27
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Children's Persistence in the Context of Diminishing Rewards26
Vocabulary Composition Shapes Language Development in Children With Cochlear Implants25
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Relating referential clarity and phonetic clarity in infant‐directed speech23
Mutualistic coupling of vocabulary and non‐verbal reasoning in children with and without language disorder23
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Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults23
Making the process of strategy choice visible: Inhibition and motor demands impact preschoolers’ real‐time problem solving21
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Towards a global developmental science19
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Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age18
Infant sustained attention differs by context and social content in the first 2 years of life17
Special issue on development of self‐regulation, cognitive control, and executive function, Part I: Editorial note17
Action experience in infancy predicts visual‐motor functional connectivity during action anticipation17
Prior task experience increases 5‐year‐old children's use of proactive control: Behavioral and pupillometric evidence17
Preschoolers’ relevance inferences in linguistic and non‐linguistic contexts16
Cognitive control deployment is flexibly modulated by social value in early adolescence16
Individual differences in processing speed and curiosity explain infant habituation and dishabituation performance16
Direct and indirect effects of mother's spatial ability on child's spatial ability: What role does the home environment play?16
Statistical learning and children's emergent literacy in rural Côte d'Ivoire16
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers15
Neural processing of moral content reflects moral identity in 10‐year‐old children15
Prosodic modulations in child‐directed language and their impact on word learning15
Speechreading in hearing children can be improved by training14
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Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing13
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics13
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment13
Sensitive caregiving and reward responsivity: A novel mechanism linking parenting and executive functions development in early childhood13
Adolescent boys’ aggressive responses to perceived threats to their gender typicality13
The effects of parental presence on amygdala and mPFC activation during fear conditioning: An exploratory study13
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior13
Parental communicative input as a protective factor in Bangladeshi families living in poverty: A multi‐dimensional perspective13
Ahead of maturation: Enhanced speech envelope training boosts rise time discrimination in pre‐readers at cognitive risk for dyslexia12
Neural representational similarity between symbolic and non‐symbolic quantities predicts arithmetic skills in childhood but not adolescence12
Developmental emergence of holistic processing in word recognition12
Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies12
The role of intrinsic reward in adolescent word learning12
When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness11
Your feelings are reasonable: Emotional validation promotes persistence among preschoolers11
The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children11
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood11
Newborns’ early attuning to hand‐to‐mouth coordinated actions11
Maternal education and siblings: Agents of cognitive development in kindergarten11
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth11
A cross‐linguistic approach to children's reasoning: Turkish‐ and English‐speaking children's use of metatalk11
Implicit manual and oculomotor sequence learning in developmental language disorder11
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status11
Emotion regulation as a complex system: A multi‐contextual and multi‐ level approach to understanding emotion expression and cortisol reactivity among Chinese and US preschoolers10
Selective responding to human ostensive communication is an early developing capacity of domestic dogs10
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)10
Correction to “Development of self‐regulation, cognitive control, and executive function”10
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science10
Implicit learning in 3‐year‐olds with high and low likelihood of autism shows no evidence of precision weighting differences10
Autonomic profiles and self‐regulation outcomes in early childhood10
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age10
Believing that prejudice can change increases children's interest in interracial interactions10
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome10
Promoting mother‐infant relationships and underlying neural correlates: Results from a randomized controlled trial of a home‐visiting program for adolescent mothers in Brazil10
Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?10
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)10
The effectiveness of a school mindfulness‐based intervention on the neural correlates of inhibitory control in children at risk: A randomized control trial10
Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development10
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu9
Child Vocabulary and Developmental Growth in Executive Functions During Toddlerhood9
The Unforgettable “Mel”: Pragmatic Inferences Affect How Children Acquire and Remember Word Meanings9
Assessing the impact of LEGO® construction training on spatial and mathematical skills9
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates9
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development9
Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia9
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Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration9
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa9
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool9
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills9
Socioeconomic status predicts children's moral judgments of novel resource distributions9
What is in an action? Preschool children predict that agents take previous paths and not previous goals9
Neural oscillations suggest periodicity encoding during auditory beat processing in the premature brain9
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year9
Learning by Example: Does Positive Nonverbal Behavior Reduce Children's Racial Bias?9
Lack of early sensitivity and gradual emergence of native phoneme categories: A pattern from underrepresented language learners9
Understanding patterns of heterogeneity in executive functioning during adolescence: Evidence from population‐level data8
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Triangulating causality between childhood obesity and neurobehavior: Behavioral genetic and longitudinal evidence8
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth8
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures8
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function8
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Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?8
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner8
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs8
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Associations between infant amygdala functional connectivity and social engagement following a stressor: A preliminary investigation8
Exposure to behavioral regularities in everyday life predicts infants’ acquisition of mental state vocabulary8
The effect of group status on children's hierarchy‐reinforcing beliefs8
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years8
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking8
Children dynamically update and extend the interface between number words and perceptual magnitudes8
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A million is more than a thousand: Children's acquisition of very large number words7
Don't throw the associative baby out with the Bayesian bathwater: Children are more associative when reasoning retrospectively under information processing demands7
Is vegetation cover in key behaviour settings important for early childhood socioemotional function? A preregistered, cross‐sectional study7
Precursors of self‐regulation in infants at elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder7
Act generously when others do so: Majority influence on young children's sharing behavior7
Longitudinal associations between impulsivity and lie‐telling in childhood and adolescence7
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?7
Bilingualism alters infants’ cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms7
Uncomfortable staring? Gaze to other people in social situations is inhibited in both infants and adults7
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Encouraging pointing with the right hand, but not the left hand, gives right‐handed 3‐year‐olds a linguistic advantage7
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias7
Impact of a mindfulness‐based school curriculum on emotion processing in Vietnamese pre‐adolescents: An event‐related potentials study7
Contingent conversations build more than language: How communicative interactions in toddlerhood relate to preschool executive function skills7
Infants expect friends, but not rivals, to be happy for each other when they succeed7
Examining relations between performance on non‐verbal executive function and verbal self‐regulation tasks in demographically‐diverse populations7
Developmental changes in auditory‐evoked neural activity underlie infants’ links between language and cognition7
Sleep and circadian rhythms during pregnancy, social disadvantage, and alterations in brain development in neonates6
No intrinsic number bias: Evaluating the role of perceptual discriminability in magnitude categorization6
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?6
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia6
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey6
What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child‐directed speech6
Children over‐imitate adults and peers more than puppets6
English‐learning infants developing sensitivity to vowel phonotactic cues to word segmentation6
Which Aspects of Parenting Predict the Development of Empathic Concern During Infancy?6
Corrections for Kalashnikova et al. (2021), ‘The effects of bilingualism on attentional processes in the first year of life’6
Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth6
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective6
Short‐term number sense training recapitulates long‐term neurodevelopmental changes from childhood to adolescence6
Children's attention to numerical quantities relates to verbal number knowledge: An introduction to the Build‐A‐Train task6
An ecological view of executive function in young children: Variation in and predictors of executive function skills over one school year6
Infants recognize words spoken through opaque masks but not through clear masks6
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study6
Musical coordination affects children's perspective‐taking, but musical synchrony does not6
Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Children Appreciate Reasoners Who Approach Moral Dilemmas With Humility6
Who Peeked? Children Infer the Likely Cause of Improbable Success6
Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search6
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills6
Parental expressions of love in Chinese American immigrant families: Implications for children's attachment security6
Beliefs about social mobility in young American children6
Infants show pupil dilatory responses to happy and angry facial expressions6
Food insecurity and adolescent impulsivity: The mediating role of functional connectivity in the context of family flexibility6
EEG microstates suggest atypical resting‐state network activity in high‐functioning children and adolescents with autism spectrum development6
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 talking6
Transgender and cisgender children's essentialist beliefs about sex and gender identity6
How Infants Link Nonce Phrases to Scenes With Objects and Predicates6
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts5
Cognitive outcome and its neural correlates after cardiorespiratory arrest in childhood5
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood5
Controlling the input: How one‐year‐old infants sustain visual attention5
Hearing about a story character's negative emotional reaction to having been dishonest causes young children to cheat less5
Emerging complexity in children's conceptualization of the wealthy and the poor5
Testing the mid‐range model: Attachment in a high risk sample5
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class5
Prenatal auditory experience and its sequelae5
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study5
Toddlers’ social evaluations of agents who act on false beliefs5
Neural correlates of inhibitory control and associations with cognitive outcomes in Bangladeshi children exposed to early adversities5
Neurobiological predispositions for musicality: White matter in infancy predicts school‐age music aptitude5
Stereotypes in the classroom's air: Classroom racial stereotype endorsement, classroom engagement, and STEM achievement among Black and White American adolescents5
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children5
Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross‐linguistic investigation of early language and cognition5
Twice Upon a Time: Children Use Syntax to Learn the Meanings of Yesterday and Tomorrow5
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development5
Number sense at 12 months predicts 4‐year‐olds’ maths skills5
Associations between brain and behavioral processing of facial expressions of emotion and sensory reactivity in young children5
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game5
Infants’ object interactions are long and complex during everyday joint engagement5
Timescales of Rational Inattention5
Context‐dependent approach and avoidance behavioral profiles as predictors of psychopathology4
The relationship between executive function, processing speed, and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder in middle childhood4
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Vulnerability of facial attractiveness perception to early and multi‐year visual deprivation4
Quantifying the syntactic bootstrapping effect in verb learning: A meta‐analytic synthesis4
‘Fix’ the Child or Change the Learning Environment?4
RETRACTION: Self‐Regulation in Preschool: Are Executive Function and Effortful Control Overlapping Constructs?4
Self‐Regulation in Preschool: Are Executive Function and Effortful Control Overlapping Constructs?4
Eye movements reveal that young school children shift attention when solving additions and subtractions4
Children's associations between space and pitch are differentially shaped by language4
Prenatal daily musical exposure is associated with enhanced neural representation of speech fundamental frequency: Evidence from neonatal frequency‐following responses4
Lexical and sublexical cortical tuning for print revealed by Steady‐State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) in early readers4
Maternal cradling bias in baboons: The first environmental factor affecting early infant handedness development?4
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Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing4
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Response to the commentary ‘Becoming uniquely human? Comparing chimpanzee to human infancy’4
Strategic social decision making undergoes significant changes in typically developing and autistic early adolescents4
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants4
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners4
Brain responses during auditory word recognition vary with reading ability in Chinese school‐age children4
Social versus non‐social behavioral inhibition: Differential prediction from early childhood of long‐term psychosocial outcomes4
Feeling loved in mixed‐gender adolescent romantic relationships in the face of daily stress and support: A dyadic diary study4
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia4
Pre‐schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech4
Korean infants' perceptual responses to Korean and Western music based on musical experience4
Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources4
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Acquisition of the counting principles during the subset‐knower stages: Insights from children's errors4
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence4
Observing inefficient action can induce infant preference and learning4
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Combining Real‐Time Neuroimaging With Machine Learning to Study Attention to Familiar Faces During Infancy: A Proof of Principle Study4
Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study4
On the Broader Significance of Maternal Sensitivity: Mothers’ Early and Later Sensitive Parenting Matter to Children's Language, Executive Function, Academics, and Self‐Reliance4
Disentangling age and schooling effects on inhibitory control development: An fNIRS investigation4
Neural evidence of core foundations and conceptual change in preschool numeracy4
Predicting children's emerging understanding of numbers4
Linking patterns of infant eye movements to a neural network model of the ventral stream using representational similarity analysis4
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A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science3
To risk or not: The impact of socioeconomic status on preschoolers’ risky decision‐making for gains and losses3
The development of brain rhythms at rest and its impact on vocabulary acquisition3
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations3
The role of status in the early emergence of pro‐White bias in rural Uganda3
Children's Selective Teaching and Informing: A Meta‐Analysis3
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities3
Does rhythmic priming improve grammatical processing in Hungarian‐speaking children with and without developmental language disorder?3
The relationship between phonological processing and arithmetic in children with learning disabilities3
Opportunities for learning and social interaction in infant sitting: Effects of sitting support, sitting skill, and gross motor delay3
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children3
Toddlers Viewing Fantastical Cartoons: Evidence of an Immediate Reduction in Endogenous Control Without an Increase in Stimulus‐Driven Exogenous Control3
Staying and Returning dynamics of young children's attention3
Corrigendum for Ferguson (2021), ‘Links between screen use and depressive symptoms in adolescents over 16 years: Is there evidence for increased harm?’3
Letters away from the looking glass: Developmental trajectory of mirrored and rotated letter processing within words3
Large‐scale data decipher children's scale errors: A meta‐analytic approach using the zero‐inflated Poisson models3
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment3
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development3
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood3
The role of vision in the acquisition of words: Vocabulary development in blind toddlers3
Bi‐directional relations between behavioral problems and executive function: Assessing the longitudinal development of self‐regulation3
The song, not the singer: Infants prefer to listen to familiar songs, regardless of singer identity3
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age3
Development of executive function‐relevant skills is related to both neural structure and function in infants3
How barriers become invisible: Children are less sensitive to constraints that are stable over time3
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