Developmental Science

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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
Pre‐Decisional Information Search in 2‐ to 4‐Year‐Olds: Young Children Select the Relevant Cues When Looking for a Hidden Reward	21
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	21
The Development of Audio‐Tactile Spatial Integration: Unraveling Vision's Contribution	21
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study	20
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?	19

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
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
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
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
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
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
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood	11
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children	11
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements	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
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
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
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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
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging	11
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
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 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
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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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
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
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures	7
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Front Cover: Cover Image, Volume 25, Issue 3	7
Long‐term abacus training gains in children are predicted by medial temporal lobe anatomy and circuitry	7
Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing	7
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On executive functioning and childcare: The moderating role of parent–child interactions	7
Evidence of Top‐Down Sensory Prediction in Neonates Within 2 Days of Birth	7
Individual Differences in Infants’ Curiosity Are Linked to Cognitive Capacity in Early Childhood	7
To snack or not to snack: Using fNIRS to link inhibitory control to functional connectivity in the toddler brain	7

Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model	7
Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion?: Children's and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous black/white biracial faces	7
The development of visual cognition: The emergence of spatial congruency bias	7
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning	7
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs	7
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RETRACTION: An Intricate Relationship Between Executive Function and Second‐Language Ability in a Cohort of Uyghur‐Chinese Bilingual Children	6
How pervasive is joint attention? Mother‐child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”	6
Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations	6
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Leadership, gender, and colorism: Children in India use social category information to guide leadership cognition	6
Relational thinking: An overlooked component of executive functioning	6
Preschoolers prior formal mathematics education engage numerical magnitude representation rather than counting principles in symbolic ±1 arithmetic: Evidence from the operational momentum effect	6
Mother–Infant Face‐to‐Face Interactions Serve a Similar Function in Humans and Other Apes	6
Statistical learning and children's emergent literacy in rural Côte d'Ivoire	6
Is vision necessary for the timely acquisition of language‐specific patterns in co‐speech gesture and their lack in silent gesture?	6
No Difference in Face Scanning Patterns Between Monolingual and Bilingual Infants at 5 Months of Age	6
Weaker number sense accounts for impaired numerosity perception in dyscalculia: Behavioral and computational evidence	6
Corrigendum for ‘Longitudinal development of manual motor ability in autism spectrum disorder from childhood to mid‐adulthood relates to adaptive daily living skills’ by Travers et al. (2017)	6
Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report	6
Screen Time, Nature, and Development: Baseline of the Randomized Controlled Study “Screen‐free till 3”	6
Attentional control in middle childhood is highly dynamic—Strong initial distraction is followed by advanced attention control	6
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A Glass Half Full: Limitations in ChiLDES Point to Ways Forward for a More Representative Developmental Science. Commentary on Scaff et al. (2025)	6
Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys	6
Impact of a mindfulness‐based school curriculum on emotion processing in Vietnamese pre‐adolescents: An event‐related potentials study	5
Stereotypes in the classroom's air: Classroom racial stereotype endorsement, classroom engagement, and STEM achievement among Black and White American adolescents	5
Abnormal Developmental Trajectories in the Brain in Individuals With Reading Disability	5
Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia	5
Encouraging pointing with the right hand, but not the left hand, gives right‐handed 3‐year‐olds a linguistic advantage	5
Gene‐Environment Interplay in Reading Performance	5
Believing that prejudice can change increases children's interest in interracial interactions	5
Who Peeked? Children Infer the Likely Cause of Improbable Success	5
Triangulating causality between childhood obesity and neurobehavior: Behavioral genetic and longitudinal evidence	5
Musical coordination affects children's perspective‐taking, but musical synchrony does not	5
Contingent conversations build more than language: How communicative interactions in toddlerhood relate to preschool executive function skills	5
Children dynamically update and extend the interface between number words and perceptual magnitudes	5
Great Ape Childhoods: Social and Spatial Pathways to Independence in Bonobo and Chimpanzee Infants	5
Prosodic modulations in child‐directed language and their impact on word learning	5
Children and Young Adults Factor Merit Into Their Judgments of Gender‐Based Science Resource Inequalities	5
Infant sustained attention differs by context and social content in the first 2 years of life	5
A translational application of music for preschool cognitive development: RCT evidence for improved executive function, self‐regulation, and school readiness	5
Socioeconomic status predicts children's moral judgments of novel resource distributions	5
Assessing the impact of LEGO® construction training on spatial and mathematical skills	5
Sleep and circadian rhythms during pregnancy, social disadvantage, and alterations in brain development in neonates	5
Precursors of self‐regulation in infants at elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	5
English‐learning infants developing sensitivity to vowel phonotactic cues to word segmentation	5
Autonomic profiles and self‐regulation outcomes in early childhood	5
Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants’ neural responses to emotion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	5
Neural processing of moral content reflects moral identity in 10‐year‐old children	5
Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search	5
Dynamics of the dyad: How mothers and infants co‐construct interaction spaces during object play	4
Diversity as a Core Feature of Language Acquisition: A Commentary on Scaff et al. (2025)	4
Computational and behavioral markers of model‐based decision making in childhood	4
Characterizing Within‐Person Trajectories of Negative Affect Across Adolescence: A Longitudinal Clustering Approach	4
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Development of upper visual field bias for faces in infants	4
Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others	4
More Than Just Treats? Effects of Grandparental Support for Children Growing up in Adversity	4
Self‐Regulation in Preschool: Are Executive Function and Effortful Control Overlapping Constructs?	4
Large‐scale data decipher children's scale errors: A meta‐analytic approach using the zero‐inflated Poisson models	4
Oscillatory But Not Aperiodic Frontal Brain Activity Predicts the Development of Executive Control From Infancy to Toddlerhood	4
Pragmatics aid referent disambiguation and word learning in young children and adults	4
Diversity as the Fuel of Theory: Demographic Biases in CHILDES and Its Commentaries	4
Preschoolers benefit from sentential context in familiar‐ and unfamiliar‐accented speech	4
Four‐ and six‐year‐old children track a single meaning with both familiar and unfamiliar referents when the referent is clear: More evidence for propose‐but‐verify	4
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Developmental Changes in Neural Lateralization for Visual‐Spatial Function? Evidence From a Line‐Bisection Task	4
Perception and Cognitive Control in Rationally Inattentive Child Behaviour	4
Bursty, Irregular Speech Input to Children Predicts Vocabulary Size	4
Eye movements reveal that young school children shift attention when solving additions and subtractions	4
Putting the Social in Emotions: The Effect of Audience Presence on Pride and Embarrassment Across Ontogeny	4
Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources	4
Colour perception changes with basic colour word comprehension	4
“Who Has to Work Harder, Girls or Boys?” Children's Gender Stereotypes About Required Effort in Math and Reading	4
Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking	4
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Family play, reading, and other stimulation and early childhood development in five low‐and‐middle‐income countries	4
Do Young Human Infants Show Empathy for Others in Distress?	4
A comparison between common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and human infants sheds light on traits proposed to be at the root of human octave equivalence	4
Children's Selective Teaching and Informing: A Meta‐Analysis	4
Intergenerational Transmission of Valence Bias Is Moderated by Attachment	4
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Your feelings are reasonable: Emotional validation promotes persistence among preschoolers	3
Maternal education and siblings: Agents of cognitive development in kindergarten	3
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How Infants Link Nonce Phrases to Scenes With Objects and Predicates	3
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Children's Persistence in the Context of Diminishing Rewards	3
Parental expressions of love in Chinese American immigrant families: Implications for children's attachment security	3
Understanding patterns of heterogeneity in executive functioning during adolescence: Evidence from population‐level data	3
Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies	3
Short‐term number sense training recapitulates long‐term neurodevelopmental changes from childhood to adolescence	3