Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Kognitive Entwicklung im Kindesalter
- Zusammenhänge kognitiver und sensomotorischer Prozesse in der Entwicklung
- Zusammenhang von Handlungsverständnis und sich entwickelnder Kompetenzen der Handlungssteuerung in der Kindheit
- Mechanismen, die der selektiven Imitation zugrunde liegen
- Neurophysiologische Grundlagen der frühkindlichen sozial-kognitiven Entwicklung
- Entwicklung intuitiv-physikalischen Wissens
- Entwicklung dynamischer Repräsentationen
Akademische Laufbahn
| 2001 | Lizentiat (Diplom) an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich, Schweiz |
| 2005 | Promotion an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich, Schweiz |
| 2011 | Habilitation an der Fakultät für Biowissenschaften, Pharmazie und Psychologie der Universität Leipzig |
Berufliche Laufbahn
| 08/12-heute | Professor für Entwicklungspsychologie, Psychologisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Schweiz |
| 10/10-07/12 | Wissenschaftliche Leitung der Forschungsgruppe „Entwicklung von Kognition und Handlung“, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, in Leipzig |
| 10/08-02/09 | Forschungsaufenthalt im Infant EEG Lab der Arbeitseinheit Kognitive Entwicklung (EKUP), Abteilung Psychologie, Universität Oslo, Norwegen |
| 12/04-09/10 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Leitung der Arbeitsgruppe „Entwicklung von Kognition und Handlung“), Abteilung Psychologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, bei Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Prinz |
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2025
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The two functions of imitation in the second year of life: A longitudinal study Developmental Psychology, 61(9):1653-1668.
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Early Expressive and Receptive Language Development in Preterm vs Full-Term Children: A Meta-Analysis Pediatrics, 156(2):e2024070477.
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How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament European Journal of Personality, 39(4):575-590.
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Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study Infancy, 30(1):e12640.
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Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study Developmental Science, 28, 1–28. doi:10.1111/desc.13581
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2024
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Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways PLoS Biology, 22(11):e3002857.
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Measuring Theory of Mind: a preliminary analysis of a novel linguistically simple and tablet-based measure for children Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 2:1445406.
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Speaker Competence Affects Prefrontal Theta and Occipital Alpha Power during Selective Word Learning in Preschoolers Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36(7):1523-1540.
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Children's recognition of slapstick humor is linked to their Theory of Mind Frontiers in cognition, 3:1-10.
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Childhood poisonings: Effects of ambiguous product characteristics on preschool children's categorization of household chemicals Risk Analysis, 44(5):1193-1203.
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What's the point? Infants' and adults' perception of different pointing gestures Infancy, 29(2):251-270.
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From everyday exposure to pragmatic mastery International Review of Pragmatics, 16(1):149-161.
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Automatic imitation in school-aged children Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 238:105797.
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Mini-review: Wild laughs: Ontogenesis and phylogenesis of humour Neuroscience Letters, 822:137615.
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2023
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Cardiac interoception in infants: Behavioral and neurophysiological measures in various emotional and self‐related contexts Psychophysiology, 60(12):e14386.
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What do you focus on? An investigation of goal focus from childhood to old age Psychological Research, 87(7):2120-2137.
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Atypical gaze-following behaviour in infants with congenital heart disease Early Human Development, 181:105765.
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Chasing the “How” and “Why” of goal pursuit: A multimethod approach to the study of goal focus Journal of Research in Personality, 104:104371.
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The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension Open Mind:1-43.
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2022
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Seeing household chemicals through the eyes of children—Investigating influential factors of preschoolers’ perception and behavior Journal of Safety Research, 83:400-409.
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Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives Cognitive Science, 46(12):13210.
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Prior Action Direction of a Novel Agent Cues Spatial Attention in 7-Month-Old Infants Swiss Journal of Psychology, 2(1):1-15.
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Household chemicals and pre-schoolers: Caretakers’ beliefs and perspectives on risks and responsibilities Safety Science, 154:105864.
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The kleineWeltentdecker App - A smartphone-based developmental diary Behavior Research Methods, 54(5):2522-2544.
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Exploring the role of COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in social interactions on preschoolers' emotion labeling Frontiers in Psychology, 13:942535.
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Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021) Infant and Child Development, 31(5):e2322.
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Spelling out some unaddressed conceptual and methodological challenges in empirical lifespan research Acta Psychologica, 226:103585.
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For Whom Is the Path the Goal? A Lifespan Perspective on the Development of Goal Focus Collabra: Psychology, 8(1):31603.
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Children’s group loyalty is related to parental in-group collectivism Cognitive Development, 61:101130.
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2021
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Predicting Reading From Behavioral and Neural Measures – A Longitudinal Event-Related Potential Study Frontiers in Psychology, 12:733494.
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When dogs meow: An electrophysiological study of lexical-semantic processing in toddlers Infancy, 26(6):1076-1096.
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Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210:105182.
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Development of the bodily self: Effects of visuomotor synchrony and visual appearance on virtual embodiment in children and adults Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210:105200.
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Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference Scientific Reports, 11(1):16527.
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Parenting Styles of Gay Fathers Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 17(2):102-117.
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The History of Developmental Psychology PsyArXiv Preprints s2ckp, The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.
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Processes Underlying Social Learning – The Influence of Informant Characteristics on Children’s Attention and Memory Processes in Action and Word Learning 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Compatibility Effects in Young Children's Tool Use: Learning and Transfer Child Development, 92(1):e76-e90.
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2020
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Do you understand what I want to tell you? Early sensitivity in bilinguals' iconic gesture perception and production Developmental Science, 23(5):e12943.
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Understanding verbal indirect communication in monolingual and bilingual children Cognitive Development, 55:100912.
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Theory of mind development from adolescence to adulthood: Testing the two-component model British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 38(2):289-303.
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Dynamic interaction patterns of monolingual and bilingual infants with their parents Journal of Child Language, 47(1):45-63.
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Einheit in Vielfalt – Einsicht ist das gemeinsame Ziel. Psychologische Rundschau, 71(1):46-48.
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2019
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Infants’ perception of goal-directed actions: A multi-lab replication reveals that infants anticipate paths and not goals Infant Behavior and Development, 57:101340.
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Higher levels of motor competence are associated with reduced interference in action perception across the lifespan Psychological Research, 83(3):432-444.
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Infants' object processing is guided specifically by social cues Neuropsychologia, 126:54-61.
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Toddlers show sensorimotor activity during auditory verb processing Neuropsychologia, 126:82-91.
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The dynamics of the interrelation of perception and action across the life span Psychological Research, 83(1):116-131.
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Positionspapier der Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie: Versuch einer Standortbestimmung PsyArXiv Preprints jxyc3, University of Zurich.
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The Ontogenesis of Action Syntax Collabra: Psychology, 5(1):21.
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Effects of the Type of Childcare on Toddlers’ Motor, Social, Cognitive, and Language Skills Swiss Journal of Psychology, 78:81-90.
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Bilingual Children Adapt to the Needs of Their Communication Partners, Monolinguals Do Not Child Development, 90(1):98-107.
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Emotions experienced during the shedding of the first primary tooth International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 29(1):22-28.
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2018
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Syntactical regularities of action sequences in the infant brain: when structure matters Developmental Science, 21(6):e12682.
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The dynamics of the interrelation of perception and action across the life span OSF: https://osf.io/.
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Effects of verb-action congruence on sensorimotor processing of goal-directed actions in two- year-olds: A technical report PsyArXiv Preprints g8fu4, University of Zurich.
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Interference of action perception on action production increases across the adult life span Experimental Brain Research, 236(2):577-586.
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Der Schmerz des andern : eine Lösung des Problems des Fremdseelischen 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Tell me what you do: the neural processing of the language-action interrelation in early language development 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Motor skills, cognitive skills and executive functions in preschool children 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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The social side of curiosity CDS Newsletter, 15(1):11.
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The interrelations of action perception and action production across the life span 2018, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Beyond the threshold: neural factors of speech perception in older adulthood 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Treatment of chronic tinnitus with neurofeedback 2018, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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How preschoolers react to norm violations is associated with culture Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165:135-147.
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BILEX: A new tool measuring bilingual children’s lexicons and translational equivalents First Language, 38(3):263-283.
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The two-systems account of theory of mind: testing the links to social- perceptual and cognitive abilities Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12:25.
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2017
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The relationship between attention and deferred imitation in 12-month-old infants Infant Behavior and Development, 48(Part B):175-183.
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Bilingual toddlers have advanced abilities to repair communication failure Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 155:84-94.
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Cause or consequence? Investigating attention bias and self-regulation skills in children at risk for obesity Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 155:113-127.
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Turning the tide: A plea for cognitively lean interpretations of infant behaviour Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40:e383.
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Neuroplasticity and -modulation in tinnitus: understanding brain imprints and suppression of a phantom sound 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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The role of audiovisual integration in reading acquisition: insights from multimodal functional neuroimaging 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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2016
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Special Issue on the "Interrelations between non-linguistic and linguistic representations of cognition and action in development" Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151:1-4.
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Action perception in infancy: the plasticity of 7-month-olds' attention to grasping actions Experimental Brain Research, 234(9):2465-2478.
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Sensitivity to communicative and non-communicative gestures in adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder: saccadic and pupillary responses Experimental Brain Research, 234(9):2515-2527.
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Effects of movement distance, duration, velocity, and type on action prediction in 12-month-olds Infant Behavior and Development, 43:75-84.
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Measuring action understanding: Relations between goal prediction and imitation British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34(1):53-65.
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Kommentar der Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie zum „Positionspapier zur Lage der Allgemeinen Psychologie“ der Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie Psychologische Rundschau, 67(3):183-185.
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Imitation is beneficial for verb learning in toddlers European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13(5):594-613.
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Not that heart-stopping after all: visuo-cardiac synchrony does not boost self-face attribution PLoS ONE, 11(8):e0160498.
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“Pro-active” in many ways: Developmental evidence for a dynamic pluralistic approach to prediction The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(11):2189-2201.
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2015
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Intra-individual variability and continuity of action and perception measures in infants Frontiers in Psychology, 6:327.
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The developmental trajectory of pointing perception in the first year of life Experimental Brain Research, 233(2):641-647.
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Neural correlates of action perception at the onset of functional grasping Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(6):769-776.
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The microstructure of action perception in infancy: decomposing the temporal structure of social information processing Child Development Perspectives, 9(2):79-83.
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The use of intonation for turn anticipation in observed conversations without visual signals as source of information Frontiers in Psychology:6:108.
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2014
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Productive verbs facilitate action prediction in toddlers Infancy, 19(3):301-325.
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Experimentelle Handlungsforschung: Die ontogenetische Perspektive In: Prinz, M . Experimentelle Handlungsforschung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 158-205.
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Spielerisches Lernen – Mittels Spiel Wissen schaffen Psychologie & Erziehung, (1):8-11.
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Spatial orienting following dynamic cues in infancy: Grasping hands versus inanimate objects Developmental Psychology, 50(8):2020-2029.
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Perception of individual and joint action in infants and adults PLoS ONE, 9(9):e107450.
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2013
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Discontinuities in early development of the understanding of physical causality Cognitive Development, 28(1):31-40.
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Selective imitation of in-group over out-group members in 14-month-old infants Child Development, 84(2):422-428.
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Perception of conversations: The importance of semantics and intonation in children's development Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116(2):264-277.
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The relation between mirror self-image reactions and imitation in 14- and 18-month-old infants Infant Behavior and Development, 36(4):809-816.
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Action observation in the infant brain: The role of body form and motion Social Neuroscience, 8(1):22-30.
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The development of pointing perception in infancy: effects of communicative signals on covert shifts of attention Developmental Psychology, 49(10):1898-1908.
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2012
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Die Gedanken vor-sprachlicher Kinder und nicht-sprachlicher Tiere Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik:53-56.
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The peer model advantage in infants’ imitation of familiar gestures performed by differently aged models Frontiers in Psychology:3:252.
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Rethinking ‘rational imitation’ in 14-month-old infants: a perceptual distraction approach PLoS ONE, 7(3):e32563.
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Production and perception of contralateral reaching: A close link by 12 months of age Infant Behavior and Development, 35(3):570-579.
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Actions seen through Babies’ eyes: a dissociation between looking time and predictive gaze Frontiers in Psychology:3:370.
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Fourteen-month-olds' imitation of differently aged models Infant and Child Development, 21(3):250-266.
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Infants’ preferences for object-directed actions of older children compared to object-directed actions of peers and adults Infant Behavior and Development, 35:533-542.
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2011
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Spatial cueing by referential human gestures, arrows and mechanical devices International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition, 2:113-126.
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The development of grasping comprehension in infancy: covert shifts of attention caused by referential actions Experimental Brain Research, 208(2):297-307.
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Perception and production of object-related grasping in 6-month-olds Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108(4):810-818.
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Detection of visual-tactile contingency in the first year after birth Cognition, 120(1):82-89.
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2010
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The development and neural basis of pointing comprehension Social Neuroscience, 5(5-6):441-450.
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The reliability of a model influences 14-month-olds' imitation Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 106(4):208-220.
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2009
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Dynamic action in virtual environments: Constraints on the accessibility of action knowledge in children and adults The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(2):335-351.
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Means-end behavior in young infants: the interplay of action perception and action production Infancy, 14(6):613-640.
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Naiva förestellningar om bollens rörelsemängd bland professionella fotbollsspelare Glänta, (2-3):26-39.
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Motor Processes in Children's Mental Rotation Journal of Cognition and Development, 10(1-2):18-40.
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Effects of action on children’s and adults’ mental imagery Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104(1):34-51.
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Becoming a social agent: Developmental foundations of an embodied social psychology European Journal of Social Psychology, 39(7):1196-1206.
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Disentangling embodied and symbolic modes of social understanding European Journal of Social Psychology, 39(7):1214-1216.
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The development of rational imitation in 9- and 12-month-old infants Infancy, 14(1):131-141.
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Frühkindliche Handlungswahrnehmung und Theory of Mind: Vom Verständnis zielgerichteter Handlungen zum Verständnis mentalistisch gesteuerter Handlungen Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, 41(4):233-242.
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Inferring the size of a goal object from an actor's grasping movement in 6- and 9-month-old infants Developmental Science, 12(6):854-862.
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2008
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Intuitive physics: naïve concepts about the ball's momentum among professional football players In: Andersson, P; Ayton, P; Schmidt, C . Myths and facts about football: the economics and psychology of the world's greatest sport. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 39-60.
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Das Misskonzept der Meister: intuitive Physik bei Fussballspielern Psychoscope, 29(4):8-11.
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Encoding the goal of an object-directed but uncompleted reaching action in 6- and 9-month-old infants Developmental Science, 11(4):607-619.
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2007
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Controlling reaching movements with predictable and unpredictable target motion in 10-year-old children and adults Experimental Brain Research, 177(4):483-492.
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2005
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Developmental changes in the interference of motor processes with mental rotation Cognitive Science Society. Annual Conference. Proceedings, 27(27):220-225.
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Dynamische mentale Repräsentationen bei Kindern und Erwachsenen : der Einfluss von Perzeption und Kognition auf das representational momentum 2005, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Buchkapitel
Daum, M. M. (forthcoming). Cognitive Development in Infancy. In B. Hopkins, E. Geangu, & S. Linkenauger (Eds.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Daum, M. M., & Aschersleben, G. (2014). Experimentelle Handlungsforschung: Die ontogenetische Perspektive. In W. Prinz, (Hrsg.); G. Aschersleben; M. M. Daum; A. Herwig; E. Kühn; S. Schütz-Bosbach (2014). Experimentelle Handlungsforschung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Daum, M. M. & Prinz, W. (2011). Body and action representations for integrating self and other. In V. Slaughter & C. Brownell (Eds.). Early Development of Body Representations (pp. 267-292). Cambridge University Press; Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development.
Daum, M. M., Zmyj, N., & Aschersleben, G. (2010). Ontogenesi precoce della percezione e del controllo delle azioni. In F. Morganti, A. Carassa, G. Riva (Eds.) (2010) Intersoggettivita‘ e interazione: Un dialogo fra scienze cognitive, scienze sociali e neuroscienze. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri.
Daum, M. M., Rauch, J., & Wilkening, F. (2008). Intuitive physics: Naïve concepts about the ball’s momentum among professional football players. In P. Andersson, P. Ayton & C. Schmidt (Eds.), Myths and facts about football: The economics and psychology of the world's greatest sport (pp. 39-60). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholar Press.
Daum, M. M., Zmyj, N., & Aschersleben, G. (2008). Early ontogeny of action perception and production. In F. Morganti, A. Carassa & G. Riva (Eds.), Enacting intersubjectivity: A cognitive and social perspective to the study of interactions (pp 175-186). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.
Aschersleben, G., & Daum, M. M. (2008). Frühe Ontogenese der Handlungssteuerung. In G. D. Rey & T. Wehr (Eds.), Kognitive Psychologe: Ausgewählte Grundlagen und Anwendungsbeispiele (pp 31-44). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
Bücher
Prinz, W., Aschersleben, G., Daum, M. M., Schütz-Bosbach, S., Kühn, E. Herwig, A. (in press). Experimentelle Handlungsforschung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.