CHILD DEVELOPMENT LAB
Publications
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
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Waugh, M. A.*, DeMasi, A.*, Goncalves Maia, M.*, Evans, T.*, Karasik, L. B., & Berger, S. E. (2024). Real-time teaching and learning: Caregivers teaching infants to descend stairs. Developmental Psychology.
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Gonçalves Maia, M.*, Soker-Elimaliah, S.*, Jancart, K.*, Harbourne, R. T., Berger, S. E. (2024). Focused attention as a new sitter: How do infants balance it all? Infant Behavior & Development, 74, 101926.
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DeMasi, A., Schoneveld, E., & Berger, S. E. (2023). Three decades of infant motor development: Cohort effects in motor skill onsets. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication.
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DeMasi, A.*, Waugh, M.*, Wang, W., & Berger, S. E. (2023). The feasibility of remote measurement of infant sleep and motor development. Infant & Child Development, e2488.
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Berger, S. E., Ordway, M., Schoneveld, E., Lucchini, M., Thakur, S., Anders, T., Natale, L., & Barnett, N. (2023). The impact of extreme summer temperatures in the United Kingdom on infant sleep: Implications for learning and development. Scientific Reports.
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DeMasi, A.*, Horger, M. N., Scher, A., & Berger, S. E. (2023). Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep. Infancy, 28(2), 367-387.
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Horger, M. N., DeMasi, A.*, Allia, A. M.,* Scher, A., & Berger, S. E. (2023). The unique contributions of day and night sleep to infant motor problem solving. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 226, 105536.
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Berger, S. E., & Moore, C. T. (2021). A time series analysis of the relation between motor skill acquisition and sleep in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 65, 101654.
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DeMasi, A.*, Horger, M. N., Allia, A. M.,* Scher, A., Berger, S. E. (2021). Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving. Infant Behavior & Development, 65.
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DeMasi, A.*, & Berger, S. E. (2021). Making the process of strategy choice visible: Inhibition and motor demands impact
preschoolers’ real-time problem solving. Developmental Science.
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Horger, M. N.* & Berger, S. E. (2019). The role of walking experience on whole-body exploration and problem solving. Cognitive Development, 52, 100825..
Harbourne, R. T. & Berger, S. E. (2019). Embodied cognition in practice: Exploring effects of a motor-based problem solving intervention. Physical Therapy, 99(6), 786-796.
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Berger, S. E., Harbourne, R. T., Arman, F.* & Sonsini, J.* (2019). Balancing act(ion): Attentional and postural control strategies predict extent of infants’ perseveration in a sitting and reaching task. Cognitive Development, 50, 13-21.
Berger, S. E., Harbourne, R. T., & Lliguichuzhca, C. G.* (2018). Sit still and pay attention!
Trunk movement and attentional resources in infants with typical and delayed development. Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, DOI: 10.1080/01942638.2018.1432005.
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Berger, S. E. & Scher, A. (2017). Naps improve new walkers’ locomotor problem solving. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 292-300.
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Berger, S. E., Cunsolo, M.*, Ali, M.*, & Iverson, J. M. (2017). The trajectory of concurrent motor and vocal behaviors over the transition to crawling in infancy. Infancy, 22(5), 681-694.
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Surkar, S. M.*, Edelbrock, C.*, Stergiou, N., Berger, S., & Harbourne, R. (2015). Sitting postural control affects the development of focused attention in children with cerebral palsy. Pediatric Physical Therapy, 27(1), 16-22.
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Berger, S. E., Chin, B.*, Basra, S.*, & Kim, H.* (2015). Step-by-step: A microgenetic study of the development of strategy choice in infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(1), 106-122.
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Berger, S. E., Chan, G. L. Y., & Adolph, K. E. (2014). What cruising infants understand about support for locomotion. Infancy, 19(2), 117-137.
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Atun-Einy, O.*, Berger, S. E., Ducz, J.*, & Scher, A. (2014). Strength of infants’ bimanual reaching patterns is related to the onset of upright locomotion. Infancy, 19(1), 82- 102.
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Atun-Einy, O.*, Berger, S. E., & Scher, A. (2013). Assessing motivation to move and its relationship to motor development in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 36(3), 457-469.
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Atun-Einy, O.*, Berger, S. E., & Scher, A. (2012). Pulling to Stand: Common trajectories and individual differences. Developmental Psychobiology, 54, 187-198.
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Berger, S. E., Friedman, R.*, & Polis, M. C.* (2011). The role of locomotor posture and experience on handedness and footedness in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 34(3), 472-480.
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Adolph, K. E., Berger, S. E., & Leo, A. J.* (2011). Developmental continuity? Crawling, cruising, and walking. Developmental Science, 14(2), 306-318.
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Berger, S. E., Adolph, K. E., & Kavookjian, A. E.* (2010). Bridging the gap: Solving spatial means-ends relations in a locomotor task. Child Development, 81(5), 1367-1375.
Berger, S. E. (2010). Locomotor expertise predicts infants’ perseverative errors. Developmental Psychology, 46(2), 326-336.
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Berger, S. E., & Nuzzo, K.* (2008). Older siblings influence younger siblings’ motor development. Infant and Child Development, 17(6), 607-615.
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Berger, S. E., Theuring, C. F.*, & Adolph, K. E. (2007). How and when infants learn to climb stairs. Infant Behavior and Development, 30(1), 36-49.
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Berger, S. E., Adolph, K. E., & Lobo, S.A.* (2005). Out of the toolbox: Toddlers differentiate wobbly and wooden handrails. Child Development, 76(6), 1294-1307.
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Berger, S. E. (2004). Demands on finite cognitive capacity cause infants' perseverative errors. Infancy, 5(2), 217-238.
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Berger, S. E., & Adolph, K. E. (2003). Infants use handrails as tools in a locomotor task. Developmental Psychology, 39(3), 594-605.
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Berger, S. E. (2001). Accounting for infant perseveration beyond the manual search task. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(1), 34 – 35.
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CHAPTERS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, & ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
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Horger, M. N., DeMasi, A., Allia, A. M., Scher, A., & Berger, S. E. (2021). Newly walking infants' night sleep impacts next day learning and problem solving. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 60, 57-83.
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Berger, S. E., Harbourne, R. T., & Horger, M. N.* (2018). Cognition–action trade-offs reflect organization of attention in infancy. In J. B. Benson (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 (pp. 45-86). Burlington: Academic Press.
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Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2015). Physical and motor development. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook, (7th ed., pp. 261-333). New York: Psychology Press/Tayor & Francis.
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Adolph, K. E., & Berger, S. E. (2013). Development of the motor system. In H. Pashler, T. Crane, M. Kinsbourne, F. Ferreira, & R. Zemel (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Mind (pp. 532-535). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
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Adolph, K. E., & Berger, S. E. (2011). Physical and motor development. In Marc H. Bornstein & Michael E. Lamb (Eds.), Cognitive Development: An Advanced Textbook (6th ed., pp. 257-318). New York: Psychology Press.
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Adolph, K. E., & Berger, S. E. (2011). Physical and motor development. In Marc H. Bornstein & Michael E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook (6th ed., pp. 241-302). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2009). Physical and motor development. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), [Developmental science: An advanced textbook], (5th ed., pp. 315-393). (K. Kwak and the SNU Developmental Psychology Laboratory, Trans.). Seoul, South Korea: Hakjisa.
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Berger, S. E., & Adolph, K. E. (2007). Learning and development in infant locomotion. C. von Hofsten & K. Rosander (Eds.), From Action to Cognition (pp. 237-255). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.
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Berger, S. E., Theuring, C. F., & Adolph, K. E. (2007). How and when infants learn to climb stairs. FLASH Alert to New Science and Health Research Stories. Oxford: Elsevier. (Reprinted from Infant Behavior and Development, 30, 36-49, 2007).
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Adolph, K. E., & Berger, S. E. (2006). Motor development. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Series Eds.) & D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 2: Cognition, Perception and Language (6th ed., pp. 161-213). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
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Adolph, K. E., & Berger, S. E. (2005). Physical and motor development. In Marc H. Bornstein & Michael E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook (5th ed., pp. 223-281). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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Berger, S. E., & Adolph, K. E. (2004). Infants use handrails as tools in a locomotor task. In M. Gauvain & M. Cole (Eds.), Readings on the development of children (3rd ed., pp. 87-102). New York: Freeman. (Reprinted from Developmental Psychology, 39, pp. 594-605, 2003).
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Berger, S. E. (2001). Executive functioning in manual and locomotor tasks. In J. van der Kamp, A. Ledebt, G. Savelsbergh and E. Thelen (Eds.), Advances in Motor Development and Learning in Infancy: Behavioural, Neurological, and Modelling Issues.
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Berger, S. E. (1999). Infants’ perseverative errors in a locomotor A-not-B task. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thomson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action X. NJ: Erlbaum.
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