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Publicaties 2024

Çetinçelik, M., Jordan‐Barros, A., Rowland, C. F., & Snijders, T. M. (2024). The effect of visual speech cues on neural tracking of speech in 10‐month‐old infants. European Journal of Neuroscience. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/ejn.16492.

Rowland, C. F., et al. (2024). Simulating the relationship between nonword repetition performance and vocabulary growth in 2-Year-olds: Evidence from the language 0–5 project. Language Learning. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/lang.12671.

Cristia, A., et al. (2024). Establishing the reliability of metrics extracted from long-form recordings using LENA and the ACLEW pipeline. Behavior Research Methods. Advance online publication. doi:10.3758/s13428-024-02493-2.

Poli, F., Meyer, M., Mars, R. B., & Hunnius, S. (2024). Exploration in 4‐year‐old children is guided by learning progress and novelty. Child Development.

Kervezee, L., et al. (2024). Development of 24-hour rhythms in cortisol secretion across infancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, dgae590. Advance online publication.

Kervezee, L. et al. (2024). Development of 24-hour rhythms in cortisol secretion across infancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, dgae590. Advance online publication. 

Pereira Soares, S. M., Prystauka, Y., DeLuca, V., Poch Pérez Botija, C., & Rothman, J. (2024). Brain correlates of attentional load processing reflect degree of bilingual engagement: Evidence from EEG. NeuroImage, 298: 120786. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120786.

Çetinçelik, M. (2024). A look into language: The role of visual cues in early language acquisition in the infant brain. PhD Thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen.

Sander, J., Çetinçelik, M., Zhang, Y., Rowland, C. F., & Harmon, Z. (2024). Why does joint attention predict vocabulary acquisition? The answer depends on what coding scheme you use. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024) (pp. 1607-1613).

Yang, J., Zhang, Y., & Yu, C. (2024). Learning semantic knowledge based on infant real-time. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024) (pp. 741-747).

Ronderos, C. R., Zhang, Y., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2024). Weighted parameters in demonstrative use: The case of Spanish teens and adults. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024)(pp. 3279-3286).

Schreiner, M. S., et al. (2024). Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large pre-registered infant experiment. Developmental Science. Advance online publication.

Monaghan, P., Jago, L. S., Speyer, L., Turnbull, H., Alcock, K. J., Rowland, C. F., & Cain, K. (2024). Statistical learning ability at 17 months relates to early reading skills via oral language. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 246: 106002.

Lai, J., Chan, A., & Kidd, E. (2024). Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Brain and Language, 254: 105425.

Sehic, E. et al. (2024). Cultural values and parental psychology: A multilevel analysis from the Joint Effort Toddler Temperament Consortium. Journal of family psychology: JFP :journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 10.1037/fam0001221. Advance online publication. 

Eckermann, H. A., Lugones, M., Abdala, D., Roge, H., & de Weerth, C. (2024). Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers. Developmental psychobiology, 66(5), e22502.

Lustermans, H., Beijers, R., Vis, V., Aarts, E. & de Weerth, C. (2024). Stress-related eating in pregnancy? An RCT examining links between prenatal stress and food choices. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 166, 107073.

Rheinheimer, N., Vacaru, S.V., van Immerseel, J.C., Kühn, S., de Weerth, C. (2024). Infant Care: Predictors of Outdoor Walking, Infant Carrying and Infant Outdoor Sleeping. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(6):694.

Kumarage, S., Donnelly, S., & Kidd, E. (2024). A meta-analysis of syntactic priming experiments in children. Journal of Memory and Language, 138: 104532. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2024.104532.

Okorn, A., van Hooff, M. L., Cillessen, A. H., & Beijers, R. (2024). Maternal Postpartum Work Resumption Stress: Questionnaire Development and Validation. Assessment, 10731911241246607.

Rutkowska, J. M., Ghilardi, T., Vacaru, S. V., van Schaik, J. E., Meyer, M., Hunnius, S., & Oostenveld, R. (2023). Optimal Processing of Surface Facial EMG to Identify Emotional Expressions: A Data-Driven Approach.

Donnelly, S., Rowland, C. F., Chang, F., & Kidd, E. (2024). A comprehensive examination of prediction‐based error as a mechanism for syntactic development: Evidence from syntactic priming. Cognitive Science, 48: e13431.

Meyer, M., Brezack, N., & Woodward, A.L. (2024). Neural correlates involved in perspective-taking in early childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 66, 101366.

Lutzenberger, H., Casillas, M., Fikkert, P., Crasborn, O., & De Vos, C. (2024). More than looks: Exploring methods to test phonological discrimination in the sign language Kata Kolok. Language Learning and Development. Advance online publication.

Di Pisa, G., Pereira Soares, S. M., Rothman, J., & Marinis, T. (2024). Being a heritage speaker matters: the role of markedness in subject-verb person agreement in Italian. Frontiers in Psychology, 15: 1321614.

Bayram, F., Kubota, M., & Soares, S. M. P. (2024). Editorial: The next phase in heritage language studies: methodological considerations and advancements. Frontiers in Psychology, 15: 1392474.

Pizarro-Guevara, J.S., & Garcia, R. (2024). Philippine Psycholinguistics. Annual Review of Linguistics, 10, 145-167.

Stärk, K. (2024). The company language keeps: How distributional cues influence statistical learning for language. PhD Thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen.

Bruinhof, N., Sehic, E., Hancock, G. R., Gartstein, M. A., & de Weerth, C. (2024). Prenatal anticipatory stress: Baby preparation and worry scale-revised in the Dutch context. Comprehensive psychiatry, 128, 152437. 

Brett, B.E., Vacaru, S., Beijers, R., & de Weerth, C. (2024). Infant colic and HPA axis development across childhood. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 164, 106965. Advance online publication. 

Willemsen, Y., Ou, Y., Belzer, C., Arias Vásquez, A., Smidt, H., Beijers, R., & de Weerth, C. (2024). A longitudinal study of the gut microbiota during the first three years of life: links with problem behavior and executive functions at preschool age – CORRIGENDUM. Development and Psychopathology, 1. Advance online publication. 

Ou, Y., Belzer, C., Smidt, H., & de Weerth, C. (2024). Development of the gut microbiota in the first 14 years of life and its relations to internalizing and externalizing difficulties and social anxiety during puberty. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33(3), 847–860. 

Epstein, C. M., Lustermans, H., McCoy, T. P., Beijers, R., Leerkes, E. M., & de Weerth, C. (2024). Implications of childhood adversity for women’s perinatal sleep quality and depressive symptoms over time: A serial mediation model. Journal of Sleep Research, e14201. Advance online publication. 

Lammertink, I., Segers, E., Scheper, A., Wauters, L., & Vissers, C. (2024). Implicit learning of prepositions in Dutch kindergartners with and without developmental language disorder. Language Learning and Development, 1–21.

Ward, E.K., Buitelaar, J.K., Hunnius, S. (2024). Autistic and non-autistic adolescents do not differ in adaptation to gaze direction. Autism Research.

Poli, F., O’Reilly, J. X., Mars, R. B., & Hunnius, S. (2024). Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Lutzenberger, H., Casillas, M., Fikkert, P., Crasborn, O., & de Vos, C. (2024). More than looks: Exploring methods to test phonological discrimination in the sign language Kata Kolok. Language Learning and Development.

Silverstein, P., Bergmann, C., & Syed, M. (2024). Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue. Infant and Child Development, 33(1): e2495.

Jordanoska, I., Kocher, A., & Bendezú-Araujo, R. (2023). Introduction special issue: Marking the truth: A cross-linguistic approach to verum. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 42(3), 429-442.

Eckermann, H. A., Meijer, J., Cooijmans, K., Lahti, L., & de Weerth, C. (2024). Daily skin-to-skin contact alters microbiota development in healthy full-term infants. Gut Microbes, 16(1), 2295403.

Menks, W. M., Ekerdt, C., Lemhöfer, K., Kidd, E., Fernández, G., McQueen, J. M., & Janzen, G. (2024). Developmental changes in brain activation during novel grammar learning in 8-25-year-olds. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Advance online publication.

Kholodova, A., Peter, M., Rowland, C. F., Jacob, G., & Allen, S. E. M. (2023). Abstract priming and the lexical boost effect across development in a structurally biased language. Languages, 8: 264.

Slim, M. S., Lauwers, P., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2023). How abstract are logical representations? The role of verb semantics in representing quantifier scope. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2(1): 9.

Publicaties 2023

Vacaru, S. V., Parenteau, A. M., Yi, S., Silvers, J. A., Hostinar, C. E., & de Weerth, C. (2023). Adolescents’ hair cortisol concentrations during COVID-19: Evidence from two longitudinal studies in the Netherlands and the United States. Developmental Psychobiology, 65(8), e22438

Poli, F., Ghilardi, T., Beijers, R., de Weerth, C., Hinne, M., Mars, R. B., & Hunnius, S. (2023). Individual differences in processing speed and curiosity explain infant habituation and dishabituation performance. Developmental Science, e13460. Advance online publication.

Bergelson, E., Soderstrom, M., Schwarz, I.-C., Rowland, C. F., Ramírez-Esparza, N., Rague Hamrick, L., Marklund, E., Kalashnikova, M., Guez, A., Casillas, M., Benetti, L., Van Alphen, P. M., & Cristia, A. (2023). Everyday language input and production in 1,001 children from six continents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(52): 2300671120.

Bruinhof, N., Sehic, E., Hancock, G. R., Gartstein, M. A., & de Weerth, C. (2023). Prenatal anticipatory stress: Baby preparation and worry scale-revised in the Dutch context. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 152437.

Vacaru, S. V., Brett, B. E., Eckermann, H., & de Weerth, C. (2023). Determinants of maternal breast milk cortisol increase: Examining dispositional and situational factors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 158, 106385.

Ou, Y., Rots, E., Belzer, C., Smidt, H., & de Weerth, C. (2023). Gut microbiota and child behavior in early puberty: does child sex play a role?. Gut microbes, 15(2), 2278222.

Kubota, M., Alonso, J. G., Anderssen, M., Jensen, I. N., Luque, A., Pereira Soares, S. M., Prystauka, Y., Vangsnes, Ø. A., Sandstedt, J. J., & Rothman, J. (2023). Bilectal exposure modulates neural signatures to conflicting grammatical properties: Norway as a natural laboratory. Language Learning. Advance online publication.

Lai, J., Chan, A., & Kidd, E. (2023). Relative clause comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder. PLoS One, 18: e0288021.

Egger, J. (2023). Need for speed? The role of speed of processing in early lexical development. PhD Thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen.

Çetinçelik, M., Rowland, C. F., & Snijders, T. M. (2023). Ten-month-old infants’ neural tracking of naturalistic speech is not facilitated by the speaker’s eye gaze. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 64: 101297.

Monaghan, P., Donnelly, S., Alcock, K., Bidgood, A., Cain, K., Durrant, S., Frost, R. L. A., Jago, L. S., Peter, M. S., Pine, J. M., Turnbull, H., & Rowland, C. F. (2023). Learning to generalise but not segment an artificial language at 17 months predicts children’s language skills 3 years later. Cognitive Psychology, 147: 101607.

Papoutsi, C., Zimianiti, E., Bosker, H. R., & Frost, R. L. A. (2023). Statistical learning at a virtual cocktail party. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Advance online publication.

Willemsen, Y., Vacaru, S.V., Beijers, R., de Weerth, C. (2023). Are adolescent diet quality and emotional eating predicted by history of maternal caregiving quality and concurrent inhibitory control? Appetite, 190, 107020.

Barrios, A., & Garcia, R. (2023). Filipino children’s acquisition of nominal and verbal markers in L1 and L2 Tagalog. Languages, 8(3),188. 

Caplan, S., Peng, M. Z., Zhang, Y., & Yu, C. (2023). Using an Egocentric Human Simulation Paradigm to quantify referential and semantic ambiguity in early word learning. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023), 1043-1049.

Çetinçelik, M., Rowland, C. F., & Snijders, T. M. (2023). Does the speaker’s eye gaze facilitate infants’ word segmentation from continuous speech? An ERP study. Developmental Science. Advance online publication.

Chang, F., Tatsumi, T., Hiranuma, Y., & Bannard, C. (2023). Visual heuristics for verb production: Testing a deep‐learning model with experiments in Japanese. Cognitive Science: a Multidisciplinary Journal, 47(8): e13324.

Pereira Soares, S. M., Chaouch-Orozco, A., & González Alonso, J. (2023). Innovations and challenges in acquisition and processing methodologies for L3/Ln. In J. Cabrelli, A. Chaouch-Orozco, J. González Alonso, S. M. Pereira Soares, E. Puig-Mayenco, & J. Rothman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition (pp. 661-682). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cabrelli, J., Chaouch-Orozco, A., Alonso, J. G., Pereira Soares, S. M., Puig-Mayenco, E., & Rothman, J. (2023). Introduction – Multilingualism: Language, brain, and cognition. In J. Cabrelli, A. Chaouch-Orozco, J. González Alonso, S. M. Pereira Soares, E. Puig-Mayenco, & J. Rothman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition (pp. 1-20). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Levshina, N., Namboodiripad, S., Allassonnière-Tang, M., Kramer, M., Talamo, L., Verkerk, A., Wilmoth, S., Garrido Rodriguez, G., Gupton, T. M., Kidd, E., Liu, Z., Naccarato, C., Nordlinger, R., Panova, A., & Stoynova, N. (2023). Why we need a gradient approach to word order. Linguistics, 61(4), 825-883. 

Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R., Kotera, H., Nicolas, R. K., Laranjo, R., Arokoyo, B. E., Benavides-Varela, S., Benders, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Cychosz, M., Ben, R. D., Diop, Y., Durán-Urzúa, C., Havron, N., Manalili, M., Narasimhan, B., Omane, P. O., Rowland, C. F., Kolberg, L. S., Ssemata, A. S., Styles, S. J., Troncoso-Acosta, B., & Woon, F. T. (2023). Towards diversifying early language development research: The first truly global international summer/winter school on language acquisition (/L+/) 2021. Journal of Cognition and Development. Advance online publication.

Campagna, A. X., Desmarais, E. D., French, B., Underwood, J. J., Majdandžić, M., Beijers, R., de Weerth, C., Lee, E. G., Huitron, B., Ahmetoglu, E., Benga, O., Raikkonen, K., Heinonen, K., Gonzalez-Salinas, C., Slobodskaya, H., Kozlova, E., Linhares, M. B. M., Lecannelier, F., Casalin, S., … Gartstein, M. A. (2023). Temperament and behaviour problems in children: A multilevel analysis of cross-cultural differences. Infant and Child Development.

Vacaru, S. V., Scatolin, S. W., van den Heuvel, M. I., Beijers, R., & de Weerth, C. (2023). Breastfeeding and room-sharing during COVID-19 in the Netherlands: The impact of perinatal healthcare support. Early Human Development, 183, 105812. Advance online publication

Windhorst, D. A., Klein Velderman, M., van der Pal, S., & de Weerth, C. (2023). The effects and process of the intervention “Individual Shantala Infant Massage” in preventive child healthcare to improve parent-child interaction: study protocol for a quasi-experimental study. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 23(1), 231.

Blom, E., Fikkert, P., Scheper, A., van Witteloostuijn, M., & van Alphen, P. (2023). The language environment at home of children with (a suspicion of) a Developmental Language Disorder and relations with standardized language measures. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Jago, L. S., Alcock, K., Meints, K., Pine, J. M., & Rowland, C. F. (2023). Language outcomes from the UK-CDI Project: Can risk factors, vocabulary skills and gesture scores in infancy predict later language disorders or concern for language development? Frontiers in Psychology, 14: 1167810.

Alhama, R. G., Rowland, C. F., & Kidd, E. (2023). How does linguistic context influence word learning? Journal of Child Language. Advance online publication.

Piai, V., & Eikelboom, D. (2023). Brain areas critical for picture naming: A systematic review and meta-analysis of lesion-symptom mapping studies. Neurobiology of Language, 4(2), 280-296. 

Kidd, E., Arciuli, J., Christiansen, M. H., & Smithson, M. (2023). The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development. Cognitive Development, 66: 101335.

Defina, R., Allen, S. E. M., Davidson, L., Hellwig, B., Kelly, B. F., & Kidd, E. (2023). Sketch Acquisition Manual (SAM), Part II: The acquisition sketch. Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication, 28, 39-86.

Defina, R., Allen, S. E. M., Davidson, L., Hellwig, B., Kelly, B. F., & Kidd, E. (2023). Sketch Acquisition Manual (SAM), Part I: The sketch corpus. Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication, 28, 5-38.

Hellwig, B., Allen, S. E. M., Davidson, L., Defina, R., Kelly, B. F., & Kidd, E. (2023). Introduction: The acquisition sketch project. Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication, 28, 1-3.

Lee, C., Jessop, A., Bidgood, A., Peter, M. S., Pine, J. M., Rowland, C. F., & Durrant, S. (2023). How executive functioning, sentence processing, and vocabulary are related at 3 years of age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 233, 105693.

Ou, Y., Belzer, C., Smidt, H., & de Weerth, C. (2023). Development of the gut microbiota in the first 14 years of life and its relations to internalizing and externalizing difficulties and social anxiety during puberty. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Creasey, N., Beijers, R., O’Donnell, K. J., de Weerth, C., & Tollenaar, M. S. (2023). Maternal sensitivity and child internalizing and externalizing behavior: a mediating role for glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) methylation? Development and Psychopathology, 1–12.

Willemsen, Y., Beijers, R., Gu, F., Vasquez, A. A., Schols, H. A., & de Weerth, C. (2023). Fucosylated human milk oligosaccharides during the first 12 postnatal weeks are associated with better executive functions in toddlers. Nutrients, 15(6), 1463.

Lutzenberger, H., Fikkert, P., Connie, D. E., & Crasborn, O. (2023). Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok. Journal of Child Language, 1-34.

Rutar, D., Colizoli, O., Selen, L., Spieß, L., Kwisthout, J., & Hunnius, S. (2023). Differentiating between Bayesian parameter learning and structure learning based on behavioural and pupil measures. PloS One, 18(2), e0270619.

Spit, S., Geambașu, A., Renswoude, D. V., Blom, E., Fikkert, P., Hunnius, S., … & Levelt, C. C. (2023). Robustness of the cognitive gains in 7‐month‐old bilingual infants: A close multi‐center replication of Kovács and Mehler (2009). Developmental Science, e13377. 

Buzzell, G. A., Morales, S., Valadez, E. A., Hunnius, S., & Fox, N. A. (2023). Maximizing the potential of EEG as a developmental neuroscience tool. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101201.

Meyer, M., Lamers, D., Kayhan, E., Hunnius, S., & Oostenveld, R. (2021). Enhancing reproducibility in developmental EEG research: BIDS, cluster-based permutation tests, and effect sizes. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 52,101036.

de Weerth, C. (2023). Commentary: Natural disaster studies on prenatal stress–moving forward–a commentary/reflection on Nomura et al.(2022). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Garrido Rodriguez, G., Norcliffe, E., Brown, P., Huettig, F., & Levinson, S. C. (2023). Anticipatory processing in a verb-initial Mayan language: Eye-tracking evidence during sentence comprehension in Tseltal. Cognitive Science, 47(1).

Verhaar, E., Medendorp, W. P., Hunnius, S., & Stapel, J. C. (2023). Online reach correction in 6- and 11-month-old infants. Infancy, 1– 17.

Publicaties 2022

Van den Heuvel, H., Oostdijk, N., Rowland, C. F., & Trilsbeek, P. (2022). The CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Atypical Communication Expertise. In D. Fišer, & A. Witt (Eds.), CLARIN: The Infrastructure for Language Resources (pp. 373-388). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Fletcher, J., Kidd, E., Stoakes, H., & Nordlinger, R. (2022). Prosodic phrasing, pitch range, and word order variation in Murrinhpatha. In R. Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 201-205). Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association.

Rossi, E., Pereira Soares, S. M., Prystauka, Y., Nakamura, M., & Rothman, J. (2022). Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Advance online publication.

Rothman, J., Bayram, F., DeLuca, V., Di Pisa, G., Duñabeitia, J. A., Gharibi, K., Hao, J., Kolb, N., Kubota, M., Kupisch, T., Laméris, T., Luque, A., Van Osch, B., Pereira Soares, S. M., Prystauka, Y., Tat, D., Tomić, A., Voits, T., & Wulff, S. (2022). Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives. Applied Psycholinguistics. Advance online publication.

Ghilardi, T., Meyer, M., & Hunnius, S. (2023). Predictive motor activation: modulated by expectancy or predictability? Cognition, 231: 105324.

Brett, B. E., Doumbia, H. O. Y., Koko, B. K., Koffi, F. K., Assa, S. E., Zahé, K. Y. A. S., Kort, R., Sybesma, W., Reid, G., & de Weerth, C. (2022). Normative cognition and the effects of a probiotic food intervention in first grade children in Côte d’Ivoire. Scientific reports, 12(1), 19491.

Beijers, R., Ten Thije, I., Bolhuis, E., O’Donnell, K. J., Tollenaar, M. S., Shalev, I., Hastings, W. J., MacIsaac, J. L., Lin, D. T. S., Meaney, M., Kobor, M. S., Belsky, J., & de Weerth, C. (2022). Cumulative risk exposure and child cellular aging in a Dutch low-risk community sample. Psychophysiology, e14205. Advance online publication.

Bolhuis E., Belsky, J., Frankenhuis, W.E., Shalev, I., Hastings, W.J., Tollenaar, M.S., O’Donnell, K.J., McGill, M.G., Pokhvisneva, I., Lin, D.T.S., MacIsaac, J.L., Kobor, M.S., de Weerth, C., & Beijers, R. (2022). Attachment Insecurity and the Biological Embedding of Reproductive Strategies: Investigating the Role of Cellular Aging. Biological Psychology. 175: 108446.

Cox, C., Bergmann, C., Fowler, E., Keren-Portnoy, T., Roepstorff, A., Bryant, G., & Fusaroli, R. (2022). A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of the acoustic features of infant-directed speech. Nature Human Behaviour. Advance online publication.

Stärk, K., Kidd, E., & Frost, R. L. A. (2022). Close encounters of the word kind: Attested distributional information boosts statistical learning. Language Learning. Advance online publication.

Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Kidd, E. (2022). Online data collection to address language sampling bias: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Linguistics Vanguard. Advance online publication.

Fierloos IN, Windhorst DA, Fang Y, Bannink R, Stam M, Slijkerman CAA, Jansen W, Raat H. A prospective study on the association between social support perceived by parents of children aged 1-7 years and the use of community youth health care services. Front Public Health. 2022 Sep 30;10:950752.

Boelens, M., Smit, M. S., Windhorst, D. A., Jonkman, H. J., Hosman, C. M., Raat, H., & Jansen, W. (2022). Associations between organised leisure-time activities and mental health problems in children. European journal of pediatrics, 181(11), 3867-3877.

Kidd, E., & Garcia, R. (2022). Where to from here? Increasing language coverage while building a more diverse discipline. First Language. Advance online publication.

Stärk, K., Kidd, E., & Frost, R. L. A. (2022). The effect of children’s prior knowledge and language abilities on their statistical learning. Applied Psycholinguistics. Advance online publication.

Kumarage, S., Donnelly, S., & Kidd, E. (2022). Implicit learning of structure across time: A longitudinal investigation of syntactic priming in young English-acquiring children. Journal of Memory and Language, 127: 104374.

Lingwood, J., Lampropoulou, S., De Bezena, C., Billington, J., & Rowland, C. F. (2022). Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach. Journal of Child Language. Advance online publication.

Rheinheimer, N., Beijers, R., Bruinhof, N., Cooijmans, K.H.M. and de Weerth, C. (2022), Effects of daily full-term infant skin-to-skin contact on behavior and cognition at age three – secondary outcomes of a randomized controlled trial. J Child Psychol Psychiatr. 

Fang Y, Luo J, Boele M, Windhorst D, van Grieken A, Raat H. Parent, child, and situational factors associated with parenting stress: a systematic review. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 25. PMID: 35876894.

Rheinheimer, N., Beijers, R., Cooijmans, K. H. M., Brett, B. E., & de Weerth, C. (2022). Effects of skin-to-skin contact on full-term infants’ stress reactivity and quality of mother–infant interactions. Developmental Psychobiology, 64, e22308.

Bruinhof, N., Vacaru, S. V., van den Heuvel, M. I., de Weerth, C., & Beijers, R. (2022). Prenatal Hair Cortisol Concentrations during the COVID-19 Outbreak: Associations with Maternal Psychological Stress and Infant Temperament. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 105863.

Beijers, R., Breugelmans, S., Brett, B.E., Willemsen, Y., Bos, P., & de Weerth C. (2022). Cortisol and testosterone concentrations during the prenatal and postpartum period forecast later caregiving quality in mothers and fathers. Hormones and Behaviour, 142, 105177.

Cooijmans KHM, Beijers R, de Weerth C., Daily skin-to-skin contact and crying and sleeping in healthy full-term infants: A randomized controlled trial. Dev Psychol. 2022 Jun 2.

Cooijmans KHM, Beijers R, Brett BE, de Weerth C., Daily mother-infant skin-to-skin contact and maternal mental health and postpartum healing: a randomized controlled trial. Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 17;12(1):10225.

Schoenmakers, S., Verweij, J., Beijers, R., Bijma, H., Been, J., Steegers-Theunissen, R., Koopmans, M. P. G., Reiss, I., & Steegers, E. (2022). The impact of maternal prenatal stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic during the first 1000 days: A historical perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(8).

Schröer, L., Çetin, D., Vacaru, S. V., Addabbo, M., van Schaik, J. E., & Hunnius, S. (2022). Infants’ sensitivity to emotional expressions in actions: The contributions of parental expressivity and motor experience. Infant Behavior and Development, 68, 101751.

Garcia, R., & Kidd, E. (2022). Acquiring verb-argument structure in Tagalog: A multivariate corpus analysis of caregiver and child speech. Linguistics. Advance online publication.

Menks, W. M., Ekerdt, C., Janzen, G., Kidd, E., Lemhöfer, K., Fernández, G., & McQueen, J. M. (2022). Study protocol: A comprehensive multi-method neuroimaging approach to disentangle developmental effects and individual differences in second language learning. BMC Psychology, 10: 169.

Ruggeri, K. et al.(2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nature Human Behaviour. Advance online publication.

Pereira Soares, S. M., Prystauka, Y., DeLuca, V., & Rothman, J. (2022). Type of bilingualism conditions individual differences in the oscillatory dynamics of inhibitory control. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16: 910910.

Cristia, A., Tsuji, S., & Bergmann, C. (2022). A meta-analytic approach to evaluating the explanatory adequacy of theories. Meta-Psychology, 6: MP.2020.2741.

Nordlinger, R., Garrido Rodriguez, G., & Kidd, E. (2022). Sentence planning and production in Murrinhpatha, an Australian ‘free word order’ language. Language, 98(2), 187-220.

Isbilen, E. S., Frost, R. L. A., Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. H. (2022). Statistically based chunking of nonadjacent dependencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication.

Gasparini, L., Tsuji, S., & Bergmann, C. (2022). Ten easy steps to conducting transparent, reproducible meta‐analyses for infant researchers. Infancy. Advance online publication.

Pereira Soares, S. M., Kupisch, T., & Rothman, J. (2022). Testing potential transfer effects in heritage and adult L2 bilinguals acquiring a mini grammar as an additional language: An ERP approach. Brain Sciences, 12: 669.

Immel, A. S., Altgassen, M., Meyer, M., Endedijk, H. M., & Hunnius, S. (2022). Self-projection in early childhood: No evidence for a common underpinning of episodic memory, episodic future thinking, theory of mind, and spatial navigation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 223, 105481.

Hunnius, S. (2022). Early cognitive development: five lessons from infant learning. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.

Van Zwet J, Schretzmeir J, Hunnius S, Grossmann T and Meyer M (2022) How Does the Brain Help us Understand Others?. Front. Young Minds. 10:760058. doi: 10.3389/frym.2022.760058

Menn, K. H., Ward, E., Braukmann, R., van den Boomen, C., Buitelaar, J., Hunnius, S., & Snijders, T. M. (2022). Neural Tracking in Infancy Predicts Language Development in Children With and Without Family History of Autism. Neurobiology of Language, 1-47.

Poli, F., Meyer, M., Mars, R., & Hunnius, S. (2022). Contributions of expected learning progress and perceptual novelty to curiosity-driven exploration. Cognition.

van den Heuvel, M. I., et al. (2022). Parents of young infants report poor mental health and more insensitive parenting during the first Covid-19 lockdown. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 22(1), 302.

Beijers, R., Bode, L., & Nout, S. (2022). Werk hervatten na zwangerschapsverlof valt zwaar. Vakblad Vroeg. 

McGill, M.G., et al. (2022). Reply to: Crossing the “Birth Border” for Epigenetic Effects, Biological Psychiatry.

Houtman, T. A., Eckermann, H. A., Smidt, H., & de Weerth, C. (2022). Gut microbiota and BMI throughout childhood: the role of firmicutes, bacteroidetes, and short-chain fatty acid producers. Scientific reports, 12(1), 3140.

Ou, Y., Belzer, C., Smidt, H., de Weerth, C. (2022). Development of the gut microbiota in healthy children in the first ten years of life: associations with internalizing and externalizing behavior. Gut Microbes, in press.

Fang, Y., et al. (2022). The Association between Stressful Life Events and Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Children 0–7 Years Old: The CIKEO Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), 1650.

Beijers, R., Scher, A., Ohana, H., Maayan-Metzger, A., & Leshem, M. (2022). Exposure to War Prior to Conception: Maternal Emotional Distress Forecasts Sex-Specific Child Behavior Problems. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(7), 3802.

Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, C. M., Joanisse, M. F., Grahn, J. A., Snijders, T. M., & Schoffelen, J.-M. (2022). Familiarity modulates neural tracking of sung and spoken utterances. NeuroImage, 252: 119049.

Kirk, E., Donnelly, S., Furman, R., Warmington, M., Glanville, J., & Eggleston, A. (2022). The relationship between infant pointing and language development: A meta-analytic review. Developmental Review, 64: 101023.

Muhinyi, A., & Rowland, C. F. (2021). Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development. Journal of Child Language, 1-16.

Meyer, M., van Schaik, J. E., Poli, F., & Hunnius, S. (2021). How infant-directed actions enhance infants’ attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling.

Eckermann, H. A., Ou, Y., Lahti, L., & de Weerth, C. (2022). Can gut microbiota throughout the first 10 years of life predict executive functioning in childhood?. Developmental Psychobiology64(3), e22226.

Vacaru, S. V., Beijers, R., & de Weerth, C. (2022). Internalizing symptoms and family functioning predict adolescent depressive symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study in a community sample. Plos one17(3), e0264962.

SimSimons, S. S., Cooijmans, K. H., Beijers, R., & de Weerth, C. (2022). Focus: The Science of Stress: Can Maternal Prenatal Self-Reported and Physiological Distress Predict Postnatal Caregiving Practices?The Yale journal of biology and medicine95(1), 3.

Creaghe, N., & Kidd, E. (2022). Symbolic play as a zone of proximal development: An analysis of informational exchange. Social Development. Advance online publication.

Hellwig, B., Defina, R., Kidd, E., Allen, S. E. M., Davidson, L., & Kelly, B. F. (2021). Child language documentation: The sketch acquisition project. In G. Haig, S. Schnell, & F. Seifart (Eds.), Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art (pp. 29-58). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.

Perfors, A., & Kidd, E. (2022). The role of stimulus‐specific p erceptual fluency in statistical learning. Cognitive Science, 46(2): e13100.

Visser, I., et al. (2022). Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45: e35.

Kartushina, N., et al. (2022). COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: Associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Language Development Research, 2, 1-36.

Bergmann, C., et al. (2022). Young children’s screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 12 countries. Scientific Reports, 12: 2015.

Geambasu, A., Spit, S., van Renswoude, D., Blom, E., Fikkert, P.J.P.M., Hunnius, S., Junge, C.C.M.M., Verhagen, J., Visser, I., Wijnen, Fl, Levelt, C.C. (2022). Robustness of the rule-learning effect in 7-month-old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999)., Developmental Science.

Letter in response to: A Systematic review literature searches must be comprehensive and reproducible if their conclusions are to drive the research agenda and clinical practice changes. De Man MACP, Wösten-van Asperen RM, de Weerth C, van den Hoogen A.Acta Paediatr. 2022 Jan 18.

Hahn, Laura (2022). Infants’ perception of sounds patterns in oral language play [Doctoral dissertation, Radboud University].

Rue, N.P.W.D. de (2022). Phonological Contrast and Conflict in Dutch Vowels: Neurobiological and Psycholinguistic Evidence from Children and Adults [Doctoral dissertation, Radboud University].

Maassen, B. A.M., E. Krikhaar, A. van der Leij, P. Fikkert (2022). Early Productive Vocabulary Composition as Precursor of Dyslexia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Jessop, A., & Chang, F. (2021). Thematic role tracking difficulties across multiple visual events influences role use in language production. Visual Cognition. Advance online publication.

Kidd, E., & Garcia, R. (2022). How diverse is child language acquisition research? First Language.

Wolf, M. C. (2022). Spoken and written word processing: Effects of presentation modality and individual differences in experience to written language. PhD Thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen.

Publications 2021

McGill, M. G., et al. (2021). Maternal Prenatal Anxiety and the Fetal Origins of Epigenetic Aging. Biological psychiatry, S0006-3223(21)01527-4. Advance online publication.

Vacaru, S.V., Ma, S., van Schie, H.T., Hunnius, S. Eating in Synch: An investigation of parent-infant behaviour coordination during feeding interactions. Infant Behavior and Development, 66, 101669.

Meyer, M., Lamers, D., Kayhan, E., Hunnius, S., & Oostenveld, R. (2021). Enhancing reproducibility in developmental EEG research: BIDS, cluster-based permutation tests, and effect sizes. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101036.

Vacaru, S., Beijers, R., Browne, P. D., Cloin, M., van Bakel, H., van den Heuvel, M. I., & de Weerth, C. (2021). The risk and protective factors of heightened prenatal anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 lockdown. Scientific reports, 11(1), 20261.

Brett, B. E., Koko, B. K., Doumbia, H., Koffi, F. K., Assa, S. E., Zahé, K., Faye-Ketté, H., Kati-Coulibaly, S., Kort, R., Sybesma, W., Reid, G., & de Weerth, C. (2021). Salivary biomarkers of stress and inflammation in first graders in Côte d’Ivoire: Effects of a probiotic food intervention. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 129, 105255.

Verhaar, E., Medendorp, W. P., Hunnius, S., & Stapel, J. C. (2021). Bayesian causal inference in visuotactile integration in children and adults. Developmental Science.

Stoehr, A., Benders, T., Van Hell, J. G., & Fikkert, P. (2022). Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech productionFirst Language42(1), 101-123.

Chen, A., Çetinçelik, M., Roncaglia-Denissen, M. P., & Sadakata, M. (2021). Native language, L2 experience, and pitch processing in music. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Advance online publication.

Donnelly, S., & Kidd, E. (2021). On the structure and source of individual differences in toddlers’ comprehension of transitive sentences. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 661022.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Buckler, H., Cusack, R., Tsuji, S., & Bergmann, C. (2021). A global perspective on testing infants online: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 703234.

Donnelly, S., & Kidd, E. (2021). Onset neighborhood density slows lexical access in high vocabulary 30‐month olds. Cognitive Science, 45(9): e13022.

Vacaru, S. V., van Schaik, J. E., Spiess, L., & Hunnius, S. (2021). No evidence for modulation of facial mimicry by attachment tendencies in adulthood: an EMG investigation. The Journal of Social Psychology.

Eke, D., Aasebø, I. E., Akintoye, S., Knight, W., Karakasidis, A., Mikulan, E., … & Zehl, L. (2021). Pseudonymization of neuroimages and data protection: Increasing access to data while retaining scientific utility. Neuroimage: Reports, 1(4), 100053.

Goodhew, S. C., Reynolds, K., Edwards, M., & Kidd, E. (2021). The content of gender stereotypes embedded in language use. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.Advance online publication.

Garcia, R., Garrido Rodriguez, G., & Kidd, E. (2021). Developmental effects in the online use of morphosyntactic cues in sentence processing: Evidence from Tagalog. Cognition, 216: 104859.

Hahn, L., T. Benders, P. Fikkert, & T.M. Snijders (2021). Infants’ implicit rhyme perception in child songs and its relationship with vocabulary. Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences.

Alphen P. van, S. Brouwer, N. Davids, E. Dijkstra & P. Fikkert (2021). Word recognition and word prediction in preschoolers with a Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence from eye-tracking. JSLHR.

Meyer, M., Chung, H., Debnath, R., Fox, N., & Woodward, A. L. (2022). Social context shapes neural processing of others’ actions in 9-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105260.

Willemsen, Y., Beijers, R., Arias Vasquez, A., & de Weerth, C. (2021). Do Breastfeeding History and Diet Quality Predict Inhibitory Control at Preschool Age?. Nutrients, 13(8), 2752.

Ward, E.K., Buitelaar, J.K., & Hunnius, S. (in press). Implicit learning in three-year-olds with high and low likelihood of autism shows no evidence of precision weighting differences. Developmental Science.

Meyer, M., & Hunnius, S. (2021). Neural processing of self-produced and externally generated events in 3-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 204, 105039.

Ward, E.K., Braukmann, R., Weiland, R.F., Bekkering, H., Buitelaar, J.K., & Hunnius, S. (2021). Action predictability is reflected in beta power attenuation and predictive eye movements in adolescents with and without autism. Neuropsychologia, 157, 107859.

Wolf, M. C., Meyer, A. S., Rowland, C. F., & Hintz, F. (2021). The effects of input modality, word difficulty and reading experience on word recognition accuracy. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1): 24919. doi:10.1525/collabra.24919.

Creaghe, N., Quinn, S., & Kidd, E. (2021). Symbolic play provides a fertile context for language development. Infancy. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/infa.12422.

De Rue, N. P. W. D., Snijders, T. M., & Fikkert, P. (2021). Contrast and conflict in Dutch vowels. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15: 629648. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2021.629648.

Horan Skilton, A., & Peeters, D. (2021). Cross-linguistic differences in demonstrative systems: Comparing spatial and non-spatial influences on demonstrative use in Ticuna and Dutch. Journal of Pragmatics, 180, 248-265. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.001.

DeMayo, B., Kellier, D., Braginsky, M., Bergmann, C., Hendriks, C., Rowland, C. F., Frank, M., & Marchman, V. (2021). Web-CDI: A system for online administration of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories. Language Development Research, 10.34758/kr8e-w591. doi:10.34758/kr8e-w591.

Cooijmans, K. H., Beijers, R., Brett, B. E., & de Weerth, C. (2021). Daily skin‐to‐skin contact in full‐term infants and breastfeeding: Secondary outcomes from a randomized controlled trial. Maternal & Child Nutrition, e13241.

Rutkowska, J. M., Meyer, M., & Hunnius, S. (2021). Adults Do Not Distinguish Action Intentions Based on Movement Kinematics Presented in Naturalistic Settings. Brain Sciences, 11(6), 821.

Missler, M. A., van Straten, A., Denissen, J. J., Donker, T., de Weerth, C., & Beijers, R. (2021). The first 12.5 years of parenthood: A latent trait-state occasion model of the longitudinal association between maternal distress and child internalizing and externalizing problems. Developmental Psychology57(7), 1124.

Gu, F., Wang, S., Beijers, R., de Weerth, C., & Schols, H. A. (2021). Structure-Specific and Individual-Dependent Metabolization of Human Milk Oligosaccharides in Infants: A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 69(22), 6186–6199. 

Beijers, R., Miragall, M., van den Berg, Y., Konttinen, H., & van Strien, T. (2021). Parent-Infant Attachment Insecurity and Emotional Eating in Adolescence: Mediation through Emotion Suppression and Alexithymia. Nutrients, 13(5), 1662. 

Ruggeri, K., et al. (2021). The general fault in our fault lines. Nature Human Behaviour. Advance online publication. doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01092-x.

Desmarais, E., et al. (2021). Links between television exposure and toddler dysregulation: Does culture matter?. Infant behavior & development, 63, 101557. Advance online publication.

Missler, M., Donker, T., Beijers, R., Ciharova, M., Moyse, C., de Vries, R., Denissen, J., & van Straten, A. (2021). Universal prevention of distress aimed at pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 21(1), 276.

Cychosz, M., Cristia, A., Bergelson, E., Casillas, M., Baudet, G., Warlaumont, A. S., et al. (2021). Vocal development in a large‐scale crosslinguistic corpus. Developmental Science. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/desc.13090.

Chen, L. M., et al. (2021). Maternal antenatal depression and child mental health: Moderation by genomic risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Development and psychopathology, 32(5), 1810–1821.

Kidd, L., & Rowland, C. F. (2021). The effect of language-focused professional development on the knowledge and behaviour of preschool practitioners. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 21(1), 27-59.

Frost, R. L. A., & Casillas, M. (2021). Investigating statistical learning of nonadjacent dependencies: Running statistical learning tasks in non-WEIRD populations. In SAGE Research Methods Cases.

Byers-Heinlein, K., et al. (2021). A multilab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4(1), 1-30. doi:10.1177/2515245920974622.

Jones, G., Cabiddu, F., Andrews, M., & Rowland, C. F. (2021). Chunks of phonological knowledge play a significant role in children’s word learning and explain effects of neighborhood size, phonotactic probability, word frequency and word length. Journal of Memory and Language, 119: 104232. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2021.104232.

Browne, P. D., Bolte, A. C., Besseling-van der Vaart, I., Claassen, E., & de Weerth, C. (2021). Probiotics as a treatment for prenatal maternal anxiety and depression: a double-blind randomized pilot trial. Scientific reports, 11(1), 3051.

Tollenaar, M. S., Beijers, R., Garg, E., Nguyen, T., Lin, D., MacIsaac, J. L., Shalev, I., Kobor, M. S., Meaney, M. J., O’Donnell, K. J., & de Weerth, C. (2021). Internalizing symptoms associate with the pace of epigenetic aging in childhood. Biological psychology, 159, 108021.

Silverio, S. A., et al. (2021). A validation of the Postpartum Specific Anxiety Scale 12-item research short-form for use during global crises with five translations. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 21(1), 112.

Pieters, S., Brett, B. E., Beijers, R., Kessels, R., & de Weerth, C. (2021). Working memory from pregnancy to postpartum: Do women really change?. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 126, 105169. Advance online publication.

Stärk, K., Kidd, E., & Frost, R. L. A. (2021). Word segmentation cues in German child-directed speech: A corpus analysis. Language and Speech. Advance online publication.

Donnelly, S., & Kidd, E. (2021). The longitudinal relationship between conversational turn-taking and vocabulary growth in early language development. Child Development. Advance online publication.

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