Developmental Science

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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?41
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing40
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills38
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)33
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science30
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya29
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment29
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth29
The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children29
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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 syndrome26
Preschoolers’ relevance inferences in linguistic and non‐linguistic contexts25
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status25
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age23
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers23
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year21
Children's attention to numerical quantities relates to verbal number knowledge: An introduction to the Build‐A‐Train task21
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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 talking19
Corrections for Kalashnikova et al. (2021), ‘The effects of bilingualism on attentional processes in the first year of life’19
Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long‐form recordings in Vanuatu19
Unweighting infants reveals hidden motor skills18
Perceived contact with friends from lower socioeconomic status reduces exclusion based on social class18
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey17
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?17
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function17
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective17
Is vegetation cover in key behaviour settings important for early childhood socioemotional function? A preregistered, cross‐sectional study17
Infants show pupil dilatory responses to happy and angry facial expressions16
Walking and falling: Using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking16
Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study16
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs16
Intuitive cooperators: Time pressure increases children's cooperative decisions in a modified public goods game16
Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children15
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Rooting for Their Own Gender: Preschoolers’ Selective Preference for Winners15
Spanish‐English bilingual toddlers’ vocabulary skills: The role of caregiver language input and warmth15
Understanding a Third‐Party Communicative Situation in Korean‐Learning Infants15
Vulnerability of facial attractiveness perception to early and multi‐year visual deprivation14
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers14
Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children14
Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood14
Observing inefficient action can induce infant preference and learning14
Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization14
Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children14
Hebbian learning can explain rhythmic neural entrainment to statistical regularities14
Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia14
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age14
Learning how to learn from social feedback: The origins of early vocal development13
20‐month‐olds selectively generalize newly learned word meanings based on cues to linguistic community membership13
Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4‐month‐old brain depends on visual demand13
Children's gender essentialism and prejudice: Testing causal links via an experimental manipulation13
A dyadic investigation of shy children's behavioral and affective responses to delivering a speech13
Developmental changes in impulse control: Trial‐by‐trial EMG dissociates the evolution of impulse strength from its subsequent suppression13
Looking is not enough: Multimodal attention supports the real‐time learning of new words12
Similarity or stereotypes? An investigation of how exemplar gender guides children's math learning12
The origins of cognitive flexibility in chimpanzees12
Visual context processing and its development in gamers and non‐gamers12
Individual differences in internalizing symptoms in late childhood: A variance decomposition into cortical thickness, genetic and environmental differences12
Shyness subtypes and associations with social anxiety: A comparison study of Canadian and Chinese children12
Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation12
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How infant‐directed actions enhance infants’ attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling11
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Developmental changes in the categorization of speech and song11
Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia11
Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements11
Does the speaker's eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study11
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging11
Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms11
Musical groove shapes children's free dancing11
A cognitive script perspective on how early caregiving experiences inform adolescent peer relationships and loneliness: A 14‐year longitudinal study of Chinese families11
The competition–compensation account of developmental language disorder11
“Catastrophic” set size limits on infants’ capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis11
Impact of Deafness on the Lateralized Brain Responses to Letters and Digits: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Exploratory Study in Deaf and Hearing Children11
The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report11
Miscategorized subset‐knowers: Five‐ and six‐knowers can compare only the numbers they know11
Digital rhythm training improves reading fluency in children11
Effects of socio‐economic status on infant native and non‐native phoneme discrimination11
Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults11
Eye of the beholder: Neural synchrony of dynamically changing relations between parent praise and child affect11
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What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament11
Genetic and Environmental Effects on Parent‐Rated Adaptive Behaviour in Infancy11
Selective attention to lesson‐relevant contextual information promotes 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children's learning11
Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence11
Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language11
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers11
Being the Best, or With the Best: A Developmental Examination of Children's Choices in a Social Comparison Dilemma10
Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates10
Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics10
Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults10
Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development10
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words10
Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood10
Underestimation and Overestimation of Hand and Arm Length Coexist in Children10
Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool10
Infant sensitivity to social contingency moderates the predictive link between early maternal reciprocity and infants' emerging social behavior10
Longitudinal associations between lie evaluations and frequency: The moderating role of age10
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)9
Gradually increasing context‐sensitivity shapes the development of children's verb marking: A corpus study9
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?9
Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development9
Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures9
Beliefs about social norms and racial inequalities predict variation in the early development of racial bias9
Do early musical impairments predict later reading difficulties? A longitudinal study of pre‐readers with and without familial risk for dyslexia9
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Forming Connections: Functional Brain Connectivity is Associated With Executive Functioning Abilities in Early Childhood9
Perceptual Novelty Drives Early Exploration in a Bottom‐Up Manner9
Metabolic trade‐offs in childhood: Exploring the relationship between language development and body growth9
The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio‐economic status on infant vocabulary development9
Response to the commentary ‘Becoming uniquely human? Comparing chimpanzee to human infancy’9
An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years9
The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy9
Pedagogy Does Not Necessarily Constrain Exploration: Investigating Preschoolers’ Information Search During Instructed Exploration9
Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts9
How do children view and categorise human and dog facial expressions?9
A million is more than a thousand: Children's acquisition of very large number words9
Corrigendum for Ferguson (2021), ‘Links between screen use and depressive symptoms in adolescents over 16 years: Is there evidence for increased harm?’9
How Culture Shapes the Early Development of Essentialist Beliefs8
Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets8
Searching in the sand: Protracted video deficit in U.S. preschoolers' spatial recall using a continuous search space8
Children's Neural Processing of the Misfortunes and Fortunes of Prosocial and Antisocial Individuals8
A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science8
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Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4‐Month‐Old Bilingual Infants8
Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation, and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence8
The Home Literacy Environment and Reading Development of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities8
The special role of middle childhood in self‐control development: Longitudinal and genetic evidence8
Reciprocal self‐disclosure makes children feel more loved by their parents in the moment: A proof‐of‐concept experiment8
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Infant‐directed speech facilitates word learning through attentional mechanisms: An fNIRS study of toddlers8
To snack or not to snack: Using fNIRS to link inhibitory control to functional connectivity in the toddler brain8
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Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing8
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 study8
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations8
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Pre‐schoolers use head gestures rather than prosodic cues to highlight important information in speech8
Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world8
Touch to learn: Multisensory input supports word learning and processing8
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