PUBLICATIONS

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Here are some of our most recent publications:

Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., ..., Poulin-Dubois, D., M. C., Rakoczy, H. (accepted pending data collection). Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state intoddlers and adults. Child Development.

Poulin-Dubois, D., Neumann, C., Masoud, S.,& Gazith, A. (2021). Effect of bilingualism on infants’ cognitive flexibility. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728921000912

Ruel, A., Chiarella, S. S.,Crivello, C., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2021). Concurrent validity of the modified checklist for autism in toddlers (M-CHAT): Socio-cognitive and verbal skills in 18-Month-Old infants. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(3), 933-949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04379-6

Crivello, C., Grossman, S., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2021). Specifying links between infants’ theory of mind, associative learning, and selective trust. Infancy, 26(5), 664-685. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12407.

Kehoe, M., Poulin-Dubois, D. & Friend, M (in press). Within- and cross-language relationsbetween phonological memory, vocabulary, and grammar in bilingual children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Kehoe,M., Friend, M., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2021). Relations between phonological production, grammar and the lexicon in bilingual French-English children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 136700692110319. doi.org/10.1177/13670069211031987

Resendes, T., Benchimol-Elkaim, B., Delisle, C., René, J-L., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2021). What I know and what you know: The role of metacognitive strategies in preschoolers’ selective social learning. Cognitive Development, 60, 101117. doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101117

Smolak, E., Hendrickson, K., Zesiger, P., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Friend, M. (2021). Visual and haptic responses as measures of word comprehension and speed ofprocessing in toddlers: Relative predictive utility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 203, 1-19. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105032.

Poulin-Dubois, D., Dutemple, E., & Burnside, K. (2021). Naïve Theories of Biology, Physics, and Psychology in Children with ASD. Journalof Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-10. doi:10.1007/s10803-020-04813-9.

Ruel, A., Chiarella, S. S., Crivello, C., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2020). Concurrent Validity of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT): Socio-cognitive and Verbal Skills in 18-Month-Old Infants. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-17. doi:10.1007/s10803-020-04379-6

Patrucco-Nanchen, T., Friend, M., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Zesiger, P. (2019). Do early lexical skills predict language outcome at 3 years? A longitudinal study of French-speaking children. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, 101379. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101379. Full Text

Friend, M., Smolak, E., Patrucco-Nanchen, T., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Zesiger, P. (2019). Language status at age 3: Group and individual prediction from vocabulary comprehension in the second year. Developmental Psychology, 55(1), 9–22. doi:10.1037/dev0000617​. Full Text

Poulin-Dubois, D., Rakoczy, H., Burnside, K., Crivello, C., Dörrenberg, S., Edwards, K., … Ruffman, T. (2018). Do infants understand false beliefs? We don’t know yet – A commentary on Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate’s commentary. Cognitive Development, 48, 302–315. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.09.005​. Full Text

Brosseau-Liard, P., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2018). Fiabilité et validité de l’Échelle de compréhension sociale des enfants [Reliability and validity of the French adaptation of the Children’s Social Understanding Scale]. Psychologie Francaise. Advance online publication. doi:10.1016/j.psfr.2018.01.003. Full Text

Burnside, K., Ruel, A., Azar, N., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2018). Implicit false belief across the lifespan: Non-replication of an anticipatory looking task. Cognitive Development. 46, 4–11. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.08.006. Full Text

Burnside, K., Wright, K., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2018). Social orienting predicts implicit false belief in preschoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 175, 67–79. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2018.05.015. Full Text

Chiarella, S. S., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2018). “Are you really sad?” Infants show selectivity in their behaviors toward an unconventional emoter. Infancy, 23(3), 453–470. doi:10.1111/infa.12230. Full Text

Crivello, C., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2017). Infants’ false belief understanding: A non-replication of the helping task. Cognitive Development, 46, 51–57. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.10.003. Full Text

DeAnda, S., Hendrickson, K., Zesiger, P., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Friend, M. (2018). Lexical access in the second year: A study of monolingual and bilingual vocabulary development. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21(2), 314–327. doi:10.1017/S1366728917000220. Full Text

Friend, M., Smolak, E., Liu, Y., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Zesiger, P. (2018). A cross-language study of decontextualized vocabulary comprehension in toddlerhood and kindergarten readiness. Developmental Psychology, 54, ​1317–1333. doi:10.1037/dev0000514. Full Text 

Poulin-Dubois, D., & Yott, J. (2018). Probing the depth of infants’ theory of mind: Disunity in performance across paradigms. Developmental Science, 21(4), e12600. doi:10.1111/desc.12600. Full Text

Burnside, K., Wright, K., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2017). Social motivation and implicit theory of mind in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research, 10, 1834–1844. doi:10.1002/aur.1836. Full Text

Byers-Heinlein, K., Behrend, D. A., Said, L. M., Girgis, H., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2017). Monolingual and bilingual children's social preferences for monolingual and bilingual speakers. Developmental Science, 20(4), e12392. doi:10.1111/desc.12392. Full Text 

Crivello, C., Phillips, S., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2017). Selective social learning in infancy: Looking for mechanisms. Developmental Science. 21(3), e12592. doi:10.1111/desc.12592. Full Text

Crivello, C., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2017). Infants’ false belief understanding: A non-replication of the helping task. Cognitive Development. 46, 51–57. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.10.003. Full Text

Friend, M., DeAnda, S., Arias-Trejo, N., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Zesiger, P. (2017). Developmental changes in maternal education and minimal exposure effects on vocabulary in English- and Spanish-learning toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 164, 250–259. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.07.003. Full Text

Hendrickson, K., Poulin-Dubois, D., Zesiger, P., & Friend, M. (2017). Assessing a continuum of lexical-semantic knowledge in the 2nd year: A multimodal approach. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 158, 95–111. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.01.003. Full Text 

Poulin-Dubois, D., Kuzyk, O., Legacy, J., Zesiger, P., & Friend, M. (2017). Translation equivalents facilitate lexical access in very young bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21, 856–866. doi:10.1017/S136672891700065. Full Text

DeAnda, S., Bosch, L., Poulin-Dubois, D., Zesiger, P., & Friend, M. (2016). The Language Exposure Assessment Tool: Quantifying language exposure in infants and children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 59(6), 1346–1356. doi:10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-15-0234. Full Text

DeAnda, S, Arias-Trejo, N., Poulin-Dubois, D., Zesiger, P., Friend, M. (2016). Minimal second language exposure, SES, and early word comprehension: New evidence from a direct assessment. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(1), 162–180. doi:10.1017/S1366728914000820. Full Text

DeAnda, S., Poulin-Dubois, D., Zesiger, P., & Friend, M. (2016). Lexical Processing and Organization in Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Guiding Future Research. Psychological Bulletin, 142, 655–667. doi:10.1037/bul0000042.  Full Text

Poulin-Dubois, D. & Brosseau-Liard, P. (2016). The Developmental Origins of Selective Social Learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25, 60–64. doi:10.1177/09637214 15613962. Full Text

Poulin-Dubois, D. (2016). Rattling the developmental psychologist's cage? Developmental Science. 20(2). doi:10.1111/desc.12414. Full Text

Wright, K., Kelley, E., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2016). Biological motion and the animate–inanimate distinction in children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 25, 1–11. doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2016.01.005. Full Text
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Yott, J., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2016). Are infants’ theory of mind abilities well integrated? Implicit understanding of intentions, desires, and beliefs. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17(5), 683–698. doi:10.1080/15248372.2015.1086771. Full Text

Crivello, C., Kuzyk, O., Rodrigues, M., Friend, M., Zesiger, P. & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2016). The cognitive benefits of growing up bilingual: A longitudinal study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.10.009. Full text 

Legacy, J., Reider, J., Crivello, C., Kuzyk, O., Friend, M., Zesiger, P., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2016). Dog or chien? Translation equivalents in the receptive and expressive vocabularies of young French–English bilinguals. Journal of Child Language. 1–24. doi:10.1017/S030500091 6000295. Full Text

Legacy, J., Zesiger, P., Friend, M, & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2016). Vocabulary size and speed of word recognition in very young French-English bilinguals: a longitudinal study. Bilingualism, Language and Cognition. 1–13. doi:10.1017/S1366728916000833. Full Text

Legacy, J., Zesiger, P., Friend, M., Poulin-Dubois, D. (2016). Vocabulary size, translation equivalents, and efficiency in word recognition in very young bilinguals. Journal of Child Language, 43(04), 760–783. doi:10.1017/S03050009 15000252. Full text

Brosseau-Liard, P., Penney, D., Poulin-Dubois, D. (2015). Theory of mind selectively predicts preschoolers’ knowledge-based selective learning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(4), 464–475. doi:10.1111/bjdp. 12107. Full text

Hendrickson, K., Mitsven, S., Poulin-Dubois, D., Zesiger, P., & Friend, M. (2015). Looking and touching: what extant approaches reveal about the structure of early word knowledge. Developmental Science, 18(5), 723–735. doi: 10.1111/desc.12250. Full Text

Poulin-Dubois, D., Crivello, C., & Wright, K. (2015). Biological Motion Primes the Animate/Inanimate Distinction in Infancy. PLoS ONE, 10(2), e0116910. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0116910. Full Text

Chiarella, S. & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2015). ‘Aren’t you supposed to be sad?’ Infants do not treat a stoic person as an unreliable emoter. Infant Behavior and Development, 38(57-66). doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.12.007. Full Text

Wright, K., Poulin-Dubois, D. and Kelley, E. (2015). The animate–inanimate distinction in preschool children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(1), 73–91. doi:10.1111/ bjdp.12068. Full text
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Trauble, B., Pauen, S., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2014). Speed and direction changes induce the perception of animacy in 7-month-old infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 11–41. doi:10.3389/ fpsyg.2014.01141. Full Text 

Brosseau-Liard, P.E., Poulin-Dubois, D. (2014). Sensitivity to Confidence Cues Increases during the Second Year of Life. Infancy, 19(5), 461–475. doi: 10.1111/infa.12056. Full text

Wright, K, Kelley, E. & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2014). Schematic and realistic biological motion identification in children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8, 1394–1404. doi:1016/j.rasd.2014.07.005. Full text

Kristen, S., Chiarella, S., Sodian,B., Aureli, T., Genco, M. & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2014). Crosslinguistic Developmental Consistency in the Composition of Toddlers’ Internal State Vocabulary: Evidence from Four Languages. Child Development Research, 2014, Article ID 575142. doi:10.1155/2014/575142. Full text

Baker, R.K., Pettigrew, T.L., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2014). Infants’ ability to associate motion paths with object kinds. Infant Behavior and Development, 37, 119–129. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.12.005. Full text

Poulin-Dubois, D & Yott, J. (2014). Fonctions exécutives et théorie de l’esprit chez le jeune enfant: une relation réciproque? Psychologie Francaise, 59, 59–69. doi:10.1016/j.psfr.2013.11.002. Full text​

Poulin-Dubois, D. (2020). Theory of mind development: State of the Science and Future Directions. In S. Hunnius & M. Mayer (Eds.), New Perspectives on Early Social-cognitive Development, Progress in Brain Research (Vol. 254). Elsevier. doi:10.1016/bs.pbr.2020.05.021

Poulin-Dubois, D. (in press). Goal Detection. In Todd K. Shackelford and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1–4). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3337-2

Poulin-Dubois, D. (2018). Animism. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp. 126–129). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Poulin-Dubois, D. (in press) Bilingualism. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp. 245–247). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Poulin-Dubois, D. & Pauen, S. (2017). The development of object categories: What, when, and how? In. H. Cohen & C. Lefebvre (Eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science (2nd Ed., pp. 653–708). Elsevier. doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-101107-2.00027-0

Wright, K., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2014). Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (MCHAT): Validation and Correlates in Infancy. In V.B. Patel, V.R. Preedy, & C.R. Martin (Eds), The Comprehensive Guide to Autism. (pp. 2813–2833). New York: Springer. 

Poulin-Dubois, D., Brooker, I., & Chow, V. (2009). The developmental origins of naïve psychology in infancy. In P. J. Bauer (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior (Vol. 37, pp. 55–104). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press.

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