References for “Cognitive Development”
2015-2016
Topic: Percception
Caron, A. J., Caron, R. F., & Carlson, V. (1979). Infant perception of the invariant shape of
objects varying in slant. Child Development, 716-721.
Granrud, C. E., Haake, R. J., & Yonas, A. (1985). Infants’ sensitivity to familiar size: The
effect of memory on spatial perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 37(5), 459-466.
Kellman, P. J., Gleitman, H., & Spelke, E. S. (1987). Object and observer motion in the
perception of objects by infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance, 13(4), 586-593.
Kelly, D. J., Quinn, P. C., Slater, A. M., Lee, K., Ge, L., & Pascalis, O. (2007). The other-race
effect develops during infancy: Evidence of perceptual narrowing. Psychological
Science, 18(12), 1084-1089. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.02029.x
Kuhlmeier, V. A., Troje, N. F., & Lee, V. (2010). Young infants detect the direction of
biological motion in point‐ light displays. Infancy, 15(1), 83-93.
Rochat, P., & Hespos, S. J. (1996). Tracking and anticipation of invisible spatial
transformation by 4- to 8-month-old infants. Cognitive Development, 11(1), 3-17.
Schwarzer, G., & Zauner, N. (2003). Face processing in 8-month-old infants: Evidence for
configural and analytical processing. Vision Research, 43(26), 2783-2793.
Spelke, E. S. (1990). Principles of object perception. Cognitive Science, 14(1), 29-56.
Yonas, A., Elieff, C. A., & Arterberry, M. E. (2002). Emergence of sensitivity to pictorial
depth cues: Charting development in individual infants. Infant Behavior and
Development, 25(4), 495-514.
Topic: Motor Development
Bai, D. L., & Bertenthal, B. I. (1992). Locomotor status and the development of spatial search
skills. Child Development, 63(1), 215-226.
Barrett, T. M., Davis, E. F., & Needham, A. (2007). Learning about tools in infancy.
Developmental Psychology, 43(2), 352.
Ehrlich, S. B., Levine, S. C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). The importance of gesture in
children's spatial reasoning. Developmental Psychology, 42(6), 1259.
Funk, M., Brugger, P., & Wilkening, F. (2005). Motor processes in children's imagery: The
case of mental rotation of hands. Developmental Science, 8(5), 402-408.
Libertus, K., & Needham, A. (2010). Teach to reach: The effects of active vs. passive
reaching experiences on action and perception. Vision Research, 50, 2750–2757.
McCarty, M. E., Clifton, R. K., & Collard, R. R. (2001). The beginnings of tool use by infants
and toddlers. Infancy, 2(2), 233-256.
Ping, R. M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008). Hands in the air: Using ungrounded iconic
gestures to teach children conservation of quantity. Developmental Psychology, 44(5),
1277.
Rieser, J. J., Garing, A. E., & Young, M. F. (1994). Imagery, action, and young children's
spatial orientation: It's not being there that counts, it's what one has in mind. Child
Development, 65(5), 1262-1278.
Schwarzer, G., Freitag, C., Buckel, R., & Lofruthe, A. (2013). Crawling is associated with
mental rotation ability by 9-month-old infants. Infancy, 18, 432–441.
Spelke, E. S., von Hofsten, C., & Kestenbaum, R. (1989). Object perception in infancy:
Interaction of spatial and kinetic information for object boundaries. Developmental
Psychology, 25(2), 185-196.
Von Hofsten, C. (2004). An action perspective on motor development. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 8(6), 266-272.
Topic: Sensory Integration
Bahrick, L. E., & Lickliter, R. (2000). Intersensory redundancy guides attentional selectivity
and perceptual learning in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 36(2), 190.
Bahrick, L. E., Walker, A. S., & Neisser, U. (1981). Selective looking by infants. Cognitive
Psychology, 13(3), 377-390.
Bremner, A. J., Holmes, N. P., & Spence, C. (2008). Infants lost in (peripersonal) space?
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(8), 298-305.
Gibson, E. J., & Walker, A. S. (1984). Development of knowledge of visual-tactual
affordances of substance. Child Development, 453-460.
Jordan, K. E., & Brannon, E. M. (2006). The multisensory representation of number in
infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America, 103(9), 3486-3489.
Kobayashi, T., Hiraki, K., & Hasegawa, T. (2005). Auditory-visual intermodal matching of
small numerosities in 6‐ month-old infants. Developmental Science, 8(5), 409-419.
Misceo, G. F., Hershberger, W. A., & Mancini, R. L. (1999). Haptic estimates of discordant
visual-haptic size vary developmentally. Perception & Psychophysics, 61(4), 608-614.
Sann, C., & Streri, A. (2007). Perception of object shape and texture in human newborns:
Evidence from cross‐ modal transfer tasks. Developmental Science, 10(3), 399-410.
Streri, A., & Spelke, E. S. (1989). Effects of motion and figural goodness on haptic object
perception in infancy. Child Development, 1111-1125.
Topic: Executive function
Anderson, P. (2002). Assessment and development of executive function during childhood.
Child Neuropsychology, 8, 71-82.
Barkley, R. A. (2012). Problems with the Concept of Executive Functioning, In R. A.
Barkley, Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved
(pp. 1-36). New York: The Guildford Press.
Bull, R., & Scerif, G. (2001). Executive functioning as a predictor of children's mathematics
ability: inhibition, switching, and working memory. Developmental Neuropsychology,
19(3), 273-293.
Diamond, A. (2012). Activities and programs that improve children’s executive functions.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 335-341.
Diamond, A. (2013). Executive Functions. Annual Review of Psychology, 64, 135-168.
Diamond, A. (2014). Want to optimize executive functions and academic outcomes? In P. D.
Zelazo & M. D. Sera (Eds.), Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Developing
Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications, and Interventions Volume 37
(pp. 205-230), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Munakata, Y., Snyder, H.R., & Chatham, C.H. (2012). Developing cognitive control. Current
Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 71-77.
Perner, J., & Lang, B. (1999). Development of theory of mind and executive control. Trends
in Cognitive Sciences, 3(9), 337-344.
Roebers , C. M. Röthlisberger , M. Cimeli , P. Michel , E. Neuenschwander , R. (2011).
School enrolment and executive functioning. A longitudinal perspective on
developmental changes, the influence of learning context, and the prediction of preacademic skills. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8 (5), 526-540.
Zelazo, P. D. (2004). The development of conscious control in childhood. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 8, 12-17.
Zelazo, P. D., & Frye, D. (1998). II. Cognitive complexity and control: The development of
executive function. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7, 121-126.
Topic: Memory
Bauer, P. J. (2002). Long-term recall memory: Behavioral and neuro-developmental changes
in the first 2 years of life. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 137-141.
Bauer, P. J. (2006). Constructing a past in infancy: A neuro-developmental account. Trends in
Cognitive Sciences, 10, 175-181.
Bjorklund, D. F., Dukes, C., & Douglas Brown, R. (2009). The development of memory
strategies. In M. L. Courage & N. Cowan (Eds.), The development of memory in infancy
and childhood (pp. 145-175). Hove: Psychology Press.
Cowan, N. (2014). Working memory underpins cognitive development, learning, and
education. Educational Psychology Review, 26, 197-223.
Cowan, N., Saults, J. S., Elliott, E. M. (2002). The search for what is fundamental in the
development of working memory. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 29, 149.
Fivush, R. (2011). The development of autobiographical memory. Annual Review of
Psychology, 62, 559-582
Henry, J. D.,MacLeod, M. S., Phillips, L. H., & Crawford, J. R. (2004). A meta-analytic
review of prospective memory and aging. Psychology and Aging, 19(1), 27–39.
Kvavilashvili, L., Kyle, F., & Messer, D. J. (2008). The development of prospective memory
in children: Methodological issues, empirical findings and future directions. In M.
Kliegel, M. A. McDaniel, & G. O. Einstein (Eds.), Prospective memory: Cognitive,
neuroscience, developmental, and applied perspectives (pp. 115–140). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Towse, J. N., & Hitch, G. J. (2007). Variation in working memory due to normal
development. In A. R. A Conway, C. Jarrold, M. J. Kane, A. Miyake, & J. N. Towse
(Eds.), Variation in Working Memory (pp. 109-133). NY: Oxford University Press.
Topic: Mathematical Cognition
Dehaene, S. (1992). Varieties of numerical abilities. Cognition, 44, 1–42.
Dehaene, S. (2009). Origins of mathematical intuitions: the case of arithmetic. Annual Review
of New York Academy of Science, 1156, 232-259.
Hauser, M. D., MacNeilage P., & Ware, M. (1996). Numerical representations in primates,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 93, 1514-1517.
Geary, D. C. (1996). International Differences in Mathematical Achievement: Their Nature,
Causes, and Consequences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5(5), 133-137.
Geary, D. (1993). Mathematical disabilities: Cognitive, neuropsychological, and genetic
components. Psychological Bulletin, 114(2), 345-362.
Siegler, R.S., Duncan, G.J., Davis-Kean, P.E., Duckworth, K., Claessens, A., Engel, M.,
Susperreguy, M.I., & Chen, M. (2012). Early predictors of high school mathematics
achievement. Psychological Science, 23, 691-697.
Spelke, E.S., & Tsivkin, S. (2001). Language and number : A bilingual training study,
Cognition, 78, 45-88.
Swanson, H. L., & Jerman, O. (2006). Math disabilities: A selective meta-analysis of the
literature. Review of Educational Research, 76(2), 249-274.
Wang, J. & Lin, E. (2005). Comparative studies on U.S. and Chinese mathematics leaning
and the implications for standards-based mathematics teaching reform. Educational
Researcher 34, 3-13.