Developmental Science

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The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	42
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Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment	33
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status	31
Preschoolers’ relevance inferences in linguistic and non‐linguistic contexts	31
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year	30
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	30
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	29
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome	24
Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?	24
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	22
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya	21
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	21
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)	20
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age	20
The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children	20
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function	19
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Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth	19
Infants show pupil dilatory responses to happy and angry facial expressions	19
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	19
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Is vegetation cover in key behaviour settings important for early childhood socioemotional function? A preregistered, cross‐sectional study	18
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class	18

Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey	18
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game	17
Children's attention to numerical quantities relates to verbal number knowledge: An introduction to the Build‐A‐Train task	17
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?	17
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	17
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study	17
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking	16
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu	16
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities	15
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs	15
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children	15
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills	15
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Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization	14
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants	14
Exploring Associations Between Infant Attachment, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attention to Maternal Emotion Expressions	14
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers	14
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children	14
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age	14
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia	14
Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners	14
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development	14
Vulnerability of facial attractiveness perception to early and multi‐year visual deprivation	14
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	13
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children	13
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees	13
20‐month‐olds selectively generalize newly learned word meanings based on cues to linguistic community membership	13
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood	13
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words	13
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand	13
Developmental changes in impulse control: Trial‐by‐trial EMG dissociates the evolution of impulse strength from its subsequent suppression	12
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation	12
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers	12
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences	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
Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning	12
Language and Beyond: A Registered Report Examining Single and Multiple Risk Models of Later Reading Comprehension Weaknesses	12
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Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song	12
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children	11
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination	11
Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know	11
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report	11
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language	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
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families	11

Selective attention to lesson‐relevant contextual information promotes 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children's learning	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
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements	11
Genetic and Environmental Effects on Parent‐Rated Adaptive Behaviour in Infancy	11
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults	11
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Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia	11
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study	11
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence	11
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging	11
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder	11
Musical groove shapes children's free dancing	11
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms	11
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children	10
Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults	10
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics	10
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)	10
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior	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
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates	10
What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament	10
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development	10
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age	10
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma	10
The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy	9
Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development	9
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures	9
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years	9
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts	9
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?	9
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool	9
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration	9
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?	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
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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	9
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner	9
Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood	9
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia	9
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space	8
The role of systematicity in early referent selection	8
A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science	8
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A million is more than a thousand: Children's acquisition of very large number words	8
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets	8
Children's Neural Processing of the Misfortunes and Fortunes of Prosocial and Antisocial Individuals	8
Long‐term abacus training gains in children are predicted by medial temporal lobe anatomy and circuitry	8
Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers	8
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations	8
Children Cheat to Return a Favor	8
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development	8
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence	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
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing	8
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment	8
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Developmental Changes in Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Fractions Processing: A Cross‐Sectional fMRI Study	8
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias	8
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
Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model	8
Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants	7
Learning to pause: Fidelity of and biases in the developmental acquisition of gaps in the communicative signals of a songbird	7
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs	7
Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion?: Children's and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous black/white biracial faces	7
Mother–Infant Face‐to‐Face Interactions Serve a Similar Function in Humans and Other Apes	7
The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning	7
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world	7
The Home Literacy Environment and Reading Development of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities	7
Parenting measurement, normativeness, and associations with child outcomes: Comparing evidence from four non‐Western cultures	7
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Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained	7
Colour vision is aligned with natural scene statistics at 4 months of age	7
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Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing	7
To snack or not to snack: Using fNIRS to link inhibitory control to functional connectivity in the toddler brain	7

How pervasive is joint attention? Mother‐child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”	7
When is a word in good company for learning?	7
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Subtle alterations of the physical environment can nudge young children to cheat less	6
Is vision necessary for the timely acquisition of language‐specific patterns in co‐speech gesture and their lack in silent gesture?	6
Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report	6
High quality social environment buffers infants’ cognitive development from poor maternal mental health: Evidence from a study in Bhutan	6
Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys	6
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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
On executive functioning and childcare: The moderating role of parent–child interactions	6
Attentional control in middle childhood is highly dynamic—Strong initial distraction is followed by advanced attention control	6
The development of visual cognition: The emergence of spatial congruency bias	6
RETRACTION: An Intricate Relationship Between Executive Function and Second‐Language Ability in a Cohort of Uyghur‐Chinese Bilingual Children	6
A Glass Half Full: Limitations in ChiLDES Point to Ways Forward for a More Representative Developmental Science. Commentary on Scaff et al. (2025)	6
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Relational thinking: An overlooked component of executive functioning	6
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Preschoolers prior formal mathematics education engage numerical magnitude representation rather than counting principles in symbolic ±1 arithmetic: Evidence from the operational momentum effect	6
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Weaker number sense accounts for impaired numerosity perception in dyscalculia: Behavioral and computational evidence	6
Screen Time, Nature, and Development: Baseline of the Randomized Controlled Study “Screen‐free till 3”	6
Leadership, gender, and colorism: Children in India use social category information to guide leadership cognition	6
Being nice by choice: The effect of counterfactual reasoning on children's social evaluations	6
Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia	5
Socioeconomic status predicts children's moral judgments of novel resource distributions	5
Believing that prejudice can change increases children's interest in interracial interactions	5
Prosodic modulations in child‐directed language and their impact on word learning	5
Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants’ neural responses to emotion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	5
Encouraging pointing with the right hand, but not the left hand, gives right‐handed 3‐year‐olds a linguistic advantage	5
Eye movements reveal that young school children shift attention when solving additions and subtractions	5
Intergenerational Transmission of Valence Bias Is Moderated by Attachment	5
Contingent conversations build more than language: How communicative interactions in toddlerhood relate to preschool executive function skills	5
Impact of a mindfulness‐based school curriculum on emotion processing in Vietnamese pre‐adolescents: An event‐related potentials study	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
Infant sustained attention differs by context and social content in the first 2 years of life	5
Autonomic profiles and self‐regulation outcomes in early childhood	5
Who Peeked? Children Infer the Likely Cause of Improbable Success	5
Children dynamically update and extend the interface between number words and perceptual magnitudes	5
Children's Selective Teaching and Informing: A Meta‐Analysis	5
Large‐scale data decipher children's scale errors: A meta‐analytic approach using the zero‐inflated Poisson models	5
Stereotypes in the classroom's air: Classroom racial stereotype endorsement, classroom engagement, and STEM achievement among Black and White American adolescents	5
Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search	5
Neural processing of moral content reflects moral identity in 10‐year‐old children	5
English‐learning infants developing sensitivity to vowel phonotactic cues to word segmentation	5
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A translational application of music for preschool cognitive development: RCT evidence for improved executive function, self‐regulation, and school readiness	5
Statistical learning and children's emergent literacy in rural Côte d'Ivoire	5
Assessing the impact of LEGO® construction training on spatial and mathematical skills	5
Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources	5
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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
Objectively measured teacher and preschooler vocalizations: Phonemic diversity is associated with language abilities	4
Bursty, Irregular Speech Input to Children Predicts Vocabulary Size	4
Post‐error slowing: Large scale study in an online learning environment for practising mathematics and language	4
Self‐Regulation in Preschool: Are Executive Function and Effortful Control Overlapping Constructs?	4
Oscillatory But Not Aperiodic Frontal Brain Activity Predicts the Development of Executive Control From Infancy to Toddlerhood	4
More Than Just Treats? Effects of Grandparental Support for Children Growing up in Adversity	4
Characterizing Within‐Person Trajectories of Negative Affect Across Adolescence: A Longitudinal Clustering Approach	4
Diversity as a Core Feature of Language Acquisition: A Commentary on Scaff et al. (2025)	4
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Development of directed global inhibition, competitive inhibition and behavioural inhibition during the transition between infancy and toddlerhood	4
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Colour perception changes with basic colour word comprehension	4
Pragmatics aid referent disambiguation and word learning in young children and adults	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
Dynamics of the dyad: How mothers and infants co‐construct interaction spaces during object play	4
Rethinking the phonetics of baby‐talk: Differences across Canada and Vanuatu in the articulation of mothers' speech to infants	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
Computational and behavioral markers of model‐based decision making in childhood	4
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Development of upper visual field bias for faces in infants	4
Perception and Cognitive Control in Rationally Inattentive Child Behaviour	4
Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others	4
Putting the Social in Emotions: The Effect of Audience Presence on Pride and Embarrassment Across Ontogeny	4
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Developmental Changes in Neural Lateralization for Visual‐Spatial Function? Evidence From a Line‐Bisection Task	4
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RETRACTED: Developmental changes in neural lateralization for visual‐spatial function: Evidence from a line‐bisection task	4
“Who Has to Work Harder, Girls or Boys?” Children's Gender Stereotypes About Required Effort in Math and Reading	4
Family play, reading, and other stimulation and early childhood development in five low‐and‐middle‐income countries	4
Effects of Early Adversity and War Trauma on Learning Under Uncertainty	3
Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies	3
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Children's Persistence in the Context of Diminishing Rewards	3
Associations between infant amygdala functional connectivity and social engagement following a stressor: A preliminary investigation	3
Your feelings are reasonable: Emotional validation promotes persistence among preschoolers	3
Direct and indirect effects of mother's spatial ability on child's spatial ability: What role does the home environment play?	3
Maternal education and siblings: Agents of cognitive development in kindergarten	3
Developmental emergence of holistic processing in word recognition	3