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2024:

Adolph, K. E. & Hospodar, C. M. (2024). Motor development. M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook, (8th ed., pp. XXX-XXX). New York: Routledge.

Hoch, J. S.*, Hospodar, C. M.*, Koch da Costa Aguiar Alves, G.*, & Adolph, K. E. (2024). Variations in infants’ physical and social environments shape spontaneous locomotion. Developmental Psychology, 60(6), 991-1001. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001745

Franchak, J.* & Adolph, K. E. (2024). An update of the development of motor behavior WIREs Cogn Sci.2024;e1682 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1682

Hospodar, C., Adolph, K. E. (2024). The development of gait and mobility: Form and function in infant locomotion. WIREs Cogn Sci.2024;e1677 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1677

Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Kachergis, G., Masek, L. R., Gonzalez, S. L., Soska, K. C., Herzberg, O., Xu, M., Adolph, K. E., Gilmore, R. O., Bornstein, M. H., Cassola, M., Fausey, C. M., Frank, M. C., Meadow, S. G., Louis, J. G., Pasek, K. H., Iverson, J., Willams, C. L., MacWhinney, B., Marchman, V. A., Naigles, L., Namy, L., Perry, L. K., Rowe, M., Sheya, A., Soderstrom, M., Song, L., Walle, E., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshida, H., Yu, C. & Yurovsky, D. (2024). Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English-Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners. The official journal of the internal congress of infant studies.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/infa.12571

2023:

Adolph, K. E. & Froemke, R. C. (2023). How to get rich quick: Using video to enrich psychology and neuroscience research. Comment on "Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior" by Maselli et al. Physics of life reviews 48 (2024) 16-18.

Han, D., Cole, W., Joh, A., Liu, Y., Robinson, S., & Adolph K. E. (2023). Pitfall or pratfall? Behavioral differences in infant learning from falling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 3243-3265.

Blumberg, M. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2023). Infant action and cognition: what's at stake? Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Blumberg, M. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2023). Protracted development of motor cortex constraints rich interpretations of infant cognitions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Adolph, K. E. (2023). Reflections: Eleanor Gibson. In A. Szokolszky (Ed.), Pioneers of ecological psychology: Interviews then and now. New York: Routledge.

Hospodar, C.*, Franchak, J.*, Adolph, K. E. (2023). Performance variability and affordance perception: practice effects on perceptual judgments for walking versus throwing. Experimental Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06662-1.

Karasik, L.*, Adolph, K. E., Fernandes, S.*,Robinson, S.*, & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2023). Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development. Child Development. 2023;94:1049–1067.

Ossmy, O., Han, D., Hoch, J., MacAlpine, P., Stone, P., & Adolph, K. (in press). Walking and falling: Using simulated robots to model the role of errors in infant walking. Developmental Science. [Ossmy & Han, shared first authorship]

Cole, W. & Adolph, K. (2023). Learning to Move in a Changing Body in a Changing World. Integrative and Comparative Biology,volume63,number3,pp.653–663 https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad083

2022:

Adolph, K. E. & West, K. L.* (2022). Autism: The face value of eye contact. Current Biology, 32, R559–R588.

Herzberg, O.*, Fletcher, K.*, Schatz, J.*, Adolph, K. E., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2022). Infant exuberant object play at home: Immense amounts of time-distributed variable practice. Child Development, 3, 150–164.

Kaplan, B. E., Rachwani, J., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2022). The process of learning the designed actions of toys. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 221, 105442.

Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B., Han, D., Xu, M., Bianco, C., Mukamel, R., & Adolph, K.E. (2022). Real-time processes in the development of action planning. Current biology, 32, 190-199.

Rachwani, J., Herzberg, O.*, Kaplan, B. E.*, Comalli, D. M.*, O’Grady, S.*, & Adolph, K. E. (2022). Flexibility in action: Development of locomotion under overhead barriers. Developmental Psychology, 58, 807-820.

West, K. L.*, Fletcher, K. K.*, Adolph, K. E., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2022). Mothers talk about infants' actions: How verbs correspond to infants' real-time behavior. Developmental Psychology, 58, 405-416.

2021:

Adolph, K. E*., Kaplan, B. E*., & Kretch, K. S*. (2021). Infants on the edge: Beyond the visual cliff. In A. Slater & P. Quinn (Eds.), Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the classic studies, 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications, pp 51-72.

Adolph, K. E. & Young, J. W. (2021). Learning to move in the real world. Science, 373, 620-621

Gilmore, R. O., Xu, M., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). Data sharing. In S. Panicker & B. Stanley (Eds.), How to conduct research ethically. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Han, D., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). The impact of errors in infant development: Falling like a baby. Developmental science, 24(5), e13069.

Le. H*, Hoch, J.*, Ossmy, O.*, Adolph, K. E., Fern, X., & Fern, A. (2021). Modeling infant free play using Hidden Markov Models. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning ICDL-EPIROB. Finalist for best paper award.

Hoch, J. E.*, Ossmy, O.*, Cole, W. G.*, Hasan, S.*, & Adolph, K. E. (2021). "Dancing" together: Infant-mother locomotor synchrony. Child Development, 92, 1337-1353.

Hospodar, C. M., Hoch, J. E., Lee, D. K., Shrout, P. E., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, e22187.

Ossmy, O.*, Han, D.*, Kaplan, B.E.*, Xu, M.*, Bianco, C.*, Mukamel, R., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). Children do not distinguish efficient from inefficient actions during observation. Scientific Reports, 11, 18106.

Rachwani, J., Kaplan, B. E.*, Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., &Adolph, K. E. (2021). Children's use of everyday artifacts: Learning the hidden affordance of zipping. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, 793-799.

Soska, K.C.*, Xu, M.*, Gonazalez, S. L.*, Herzberg, O.*, Tamis-Lemonda, C. S., Gilmore, R. O, & Adolph, K. E. (2021). (Hyper)active data curation: A video case study from behavioral science. Journal of eScience Librarianship, 10, e1208.s

2020:

Adolph, K. E. (2020). Oh, behave! Presidential address. Infancy, 25, 347-392.

Adolph, K. E. (2020). Ecological validity: Mistaking the lab for real life. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), My biggest research mistake: Adventures and misadventures in psychological research. New York: Sage, pp. 187-190.

Adolph, K. E. & Hoch, J. E.* (2020). The importance of motor skills for development. In M. M. Black, A. Singhal, & C. H. Hillman (Eds.), Building future health and well-being of thriving toddlers and young children. 95th Nestle Nutrition Institute Workshop, Geneva, September 2020. Basel: Kargarer, pp. 1-9.’

Adolph, K. E., Hoch, J. E., & Ossmy, O. (2020). James Gibson’s ecological approach to locomotion and manipulation: Development and changing affordances. In J. Wagman & J. Blau (Eds.). Perception as information detection: Reflections on Gibson’s ecological approach to visual perception. New York: Taylor & Francis, pp. 248-266.

Hoch, J. E., Rachwani, J., & Adolph, K. E. (2020). Where infants go: Real-time dynamics of locomotor exploration in crawling and walking infants . Child Development, 91, 1001-1020.

Lockman, J. J., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2020). Missing in action: Tool use is action based. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e170.

Ossmy, O., Adolph, K.E. (2020). Real-time assembly of coordination patterns in human infants. Current Biology, 30, 1-10.

Ossmy, O., Han, D., Chen, M., Kaplan, B., & Adolph, K. E. (2020). Look before you fit: The real-time planning cascade in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 189, 104696.

Ossmy, O., Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E (2020). AutoViDev: A computer-vision framework to enhance and accelerate research in human development. In K. Arai & S. Kapoor (Eds.), Advances in computer vision: CVC 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 944. Springer, Cham.

Rachwani, J., Hoch, J. E., & Adolph, K. E. (2020). Action in development: Variability, flexibility, and plasticity. In C. S. Tamis-LeMonda & J. J. Lockman (Eds.). Handbook of infant development. Cambridge University Press, pp. 469-494.

Rachwani, J., Kaplan, B. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Adolph, K. E. (2020). Children’s use of everyday artifacts: Learning the hidden affordance of zipping. Developmental Psychobiology, 1– 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22049

Rachwani, J., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Lockman, J. J., Karasik, L. B., Adolph, K. E. (2020). Learning the Designed Actions of Everyday Objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 67-78 .

Shaw, P., Lee, M., Shen, Q., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Adolph, K. E., Oudeyer, P. Y., & Popp, J. (2020). Editorial: Modeling Play in Early Infant Development. Frontiers in neurorobotics, 14, 50.

Sheskin, M., Scott, K., Mills C. M., Bergelson, E., Bonawitz, E., Spelke, E. S., Fei-Fei, L., Keil, F. C., Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J. B., Jara-Ettinger, J., Adolph, K. E., Rhodes, M., Frank, M. C., Mehr, S. A., & Schulz, L. (2020). Online developmental science to foster innovation, access, and impact. Trends in Cognitive Science, 24, 675-678.

2019:

Adolph, K. E. (2019). An ecological approach to learning in (not and) development. Human Development, 63, 180-201.

Adolph, K. E. & Hoch. J. E. (2019). Motor development: Embodied, embedded, enculturated, and enabling. Annual Review of Psychology, 70, 141-164.

Cole, W. G., Vereijken, B., Young, J. W., Robinson, S. R., & Adolph, K. E. (2019). Use it or lose it? Effects of age, experience, and disuse on crawling. Developmental Psychobiology, 61, 29-42. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21802 .

Gilmore, R. O. & Adolph, K. E. (2019). Open sharing of research video: Breaking down the boundaries of the research team. In K. Hall, R. Croyle, & A. Vogel (Eds.), Strategies for team science success: Handbook of evidence-based principles for cross-disciplinary science and practical lessons learned from health researchers. Cham: Springer, pp. 575-583.

Heiman, C. M., Cole, W. G., Lee, D. K., & Adolph, K. E. (2019). Object interaction and walking: Integration of old and new skills in infant development. Infancy, 24, 547-569. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12289 .

Hoch, J. E., O'Grady, S., & Adolph, K. E. (2019). It's the journey, not the destination: Locomotor exploration in infants. Developmental Science, e12740.

LoBue, V. & Adolph, K. E. (2019). Fear in infancy: Lessons from snakes, spiders, heights, and strangers. Developmental Psychology, 55, 1889-1907.

Rachwani, J., Herzberg, O., Golenia, L., & Adolph, K. E. (2019). Postural, visual, and manual coordination in the development of prehension. Child Development, 90, 1559-1568.

Soska, K. C.*, Rachwani, J.*, Hofsten, C., & Adolph, K. E. (2019). Infants plan prehension while pivoting. Developmental Psychobiology, 61, 1048-1063.

2018:

Adolph, K. E. (2018). Motor development. In M. Bornstein & M. Arterberry (Eds.). The SAGE encyclopedia of lifespan human development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers, pp. 1450-1453.

Adolph, K. E., Hoch, J. E., & Cole, W. G. (2018). Development (of walking): 15 suggestions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 699-711.

Adolph, K. E., Rachwani, J., & Hoch, J. E. (2018). Motor and physical development: Locomotion. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Elsevier. ISBN 9780128093245.

Franchak, J. M., Kretch, K. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2018). See and be seen: Infant-caregiver social looking during locomotor free play. Developmental Science, 21, e12626. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12626.

Gilmore, R. O., Kennedy, J. L., & Adolph, K. E. (2018). Practical solutions for sharing data and materials from Psychological Research. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS).

Karasik, L. B., Ossmy, O., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2018). The ties that bind: Cradling in Tajikistan. PLOS ONE, 13, e0204428.

Lee, D. K., Cole, W. G., Golenia, L., & Adolph, K. E. (2018). The cost of simplifying complex developmental phenomena: A new perspective on learning to walk. Developmental Science, 21, e12615. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12615.

Ossmy, O.*, Hoch, J. E.*, MacAlpine, P., Hasan, S., Stone, P., & Adolph, K. E. (2018). Variety wins: Soccer-playing robots and infant walking. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 12: 19. [Ossmy & Hoch, shared first authorship].

2017:

Adolph, K. E., Gilmore, R. O., & Kennedy, J. L. (2017). Video data and documentation will improve psychological science. Psychological Science Agenda, (www.apa.org/science/about /psa/2017/10/index.aspx).

Comalli, D. M., Persand, D., & Adolph, K. E. (2017). Motor decisions are not black and white: Selecting actions in the "gray zone". Experimental Brain Research, 235, 1793-1807.

Gilmore, R.O. & Adolph, K. E. (2017). Video can make behavioral science more reproducible. Nature Human Behavior, 1, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0128.

Kennedy, J. L., Adolph, K. E., & Gilmore, R. O. (2017). Video and reproducibility in the behavioral sciences. Blog: https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2017-08-04-video-and-reproducibility-behavioural-sciences.

Kretch, K. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2017). The organization of exploratory behaviors in infant locomotor planning. Developmental Science, 20, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12421.

Rachwani, J., Soska, K. C., & Adolph, K. E. (2017). Behavioral flexibility in learning to sit. Developmental Psychobiology. 2017, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21571.

2016:

Adolph, K. E. (2016). Video as data: From transient behavior to tangible recording. APS Observer, 29, 23-25.

Adolph, K. E. & Franchak, J. M. (2016). The development of motor behavior. WIREs Cogn Sci, 8, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1430.

Cole, W. G., Robinson, S. R., & Adolph, K. E. (2016). Bouts of steps: The organization of infant exploration. Developmental Psychobiology, 58, 341-354.

Comalli, D. M., Keen, R., Abraham, E. S., Foo, V. J., Lee, M-H., & Adolph, K. E. (2016). The Development of tool use: Planning for end-state comfort. Developmental Psychology, 52, 1878-1892.

Franchak, J. M., Heeger, D. J., Hasson, U., & Adolph, K. E. (2016). Free-viewing gaze behavior in infants and adults. Infancy, 21, 262-287.

Gilmore, R. O., Adolph, K. E., & Millman, D. S. (2016). Curating identifiable data for sharing: The Databrary project. In Proceedings of the 2016 New York Scientific Data Summit

Gilmore, R. O., Adolph, K. E., Millman, D. S., & Gordon. A (2016). Transforming education research through open video data sharing. Advances in Engineering Education, 5.

Gordon, A. S.*, Steiger, L.*, & Adolph, K. E. (2016). Losing research data due to lack of curation and preservation. In L. Johnston (Ed.), Curating research data Volume 2: A handbook of current practice (pp. 108-115). Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Karasik, L. B., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S, & Adolph, K. E. (2016). Decisions at the brink: Locomotor experience affects infants' use of social information on an adjustable drop-off. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 797.

2015:

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/Taylor & Francis.

Adolph, K. E. & Kretch, K. S. (2015). Gibson's theory of perceptual learning. In H. Keller (Developmental Section Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (2nd ed., Vol.10, pp. 127-134). New York, NY: Elsevier.

Adolph, K. E. & Robinson, S. R. (2015). Motor development. In R. M. Lerner (Series Eds.) & L. Liben & U. Muller (Vol. Eds), Handbook of child psychology and developmental science: Vol. 2: Cognitive processes (7th ed.) New York: Wiley, pp. 114-157.

Adolph, K. E., Cole, W. G., & Vereijken, B. (2015). Intra-individual variability in the development of motor skills in childhood. In M. Diehl, K. Hooker, & M. Sliwinski (Eds.), Handbook of Intra-individual Variability Across the Lifespan. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 59-83.

Gordon, A. S., Millman, D. S., Steiger, L., Adolph, K. E., & Gilmore, R. O. (2015). Researcher-library collaborations: Data repositories as a service for researchers. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(2), 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1238.

Karasik, L. B., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Adolph, K. E., & Bornstein, M. H. (2015). Places and postures: A cross-cultural comparison of sitting in 5-month-olds. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46, 1023-1038.

Kretch, K. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2015). Active vision in passive locomotion: Real-world free viewing in infants and adults. Developmental Science, 18, 736-750.

Nayar, K., Franchak, J., Adolph, K., & Kiorpes, L. (2015). From local to global processing: The development of illusory contour perception. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 131, 38-55.

Soska, K. C., Robinson, S. R., & Adolph, K. E. (2015). A new twist on old ideas: how sitting reorients crawlers. Developmental Science, 18, 206-218.

2014:

Adolph, K. E. & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2014). The costs and benefits of development: The transition from crawling to walking. Child Development Perspectives, 8, 187-192.

Adolph, K. E., Kretch, K. S., & LoBue, V. (2014). Fear of heights in infants? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 60-66.

Berger, S. E., Chan, G., & Adolph, K. E. (2014). What cruising infants understand about support for locomotion. Infancy, 19, 117-137.

Cole, W.G., Gill, S.V., Vereijken, B., & Adolph, K.E. (2014). Coping with asymmetry: How infants and adults walk with one elongated leg. Infant Behavior & Development, 37, 305-314.

Franchak, J. M. & Adolph, K. E. (2014). Affordances as probabilistic functions: Implications for development, perception, and decisions for action. Ecological Psychology, 26, 109-124.

Franchak, J. M., & Adolph, K. E. (2014). Gut estimates: Pregnant women adapt to changing possibilities for squeezing through doorways. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 460-470.

Ishak, S., Franchak, J. M., & Adolph, K. E. (2014). Perception-action development from infants to adults: Perceiving affordances for reaching through openings. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 117, 92-105.

Karasik, L. B., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2014). Crawling and walking infants elicit different verbal responses from mothers. Developmental Science, 17, 388-395.

Keen, R., Lee, M-H., & Adolph, K. E. (2014). Planning an action: A developmental progression in tool use. Ecological Psychology, 26, 98-108.

Kretch, K. S., Franchak, J. M., & Adolph, K. E. (2014). Crawling and walking infants see the world differently. Child Development, 85, 1503-1518.

Shapiro, L. J., Cole, W. G., Young, J. W., Raichlen, D. A, Robinson, S. R., & Adolph, K. E (2014). Human quadrupeds, primate quadrupedalism, and Uner Tan Syndrome. PLoS ONE 9(7), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101758.

Soska, K. C. & Adolph, K. E. (2014). Posture constrains multi-modal object exploration in infants. Infancy, 19, 138-161.

2013:

Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2013). Development of the motor system. In H. Pashler, T. Crane, M. Kinsbourne, F. Ferreira, & R. Zemel (Eds.). The Encyclopedia of the mind (pp. 532-535). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.

Adolph, K. E., & Robinson, S. R. (2013). The road to walking: What learning to walk tells us about development. In P. Zelazo (Ed.) Oxford handbook of developmental psychology, Volume 1, 403-443. NY: Oxford University Press.

Cole, W. G., Chan, G. L. Y., Vereijken, B. & Adolph, K. E. (2013). Perceiving affordances for different motor skills. Experimental Brain Research, 225, 309-319.

Comalli, D., Franchak, J., Char, A. & Adolph, K. (2013). Ledge and wedge: Younger and older adults' perception of action possibilities. Experimental Brain Research, 228, 183-192.

Ekberg, T. L., Rosander, K., von Hofsten, C., Olsson, U., Soska, K. C., & Adolph, K. E. (2013). Infants' dynamic reaching during binocular and monocular viewing. Experimental Brain Research, 229, 1-12.

Hedges, J.H., Adolph, K. E., Amso, D., Bavelier, D., Fiez, J. A., Krubitzer, L., McAuley, J. D., Newcombe, N. S., Fitzpatrick, S. M., & Ghajar, J. (2013). Play, attention, and learning: How do play and timing shape the development of attention and influence classroom learning? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1292, 1-20.

Kretch, K. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2013). Cliff or step? Posture-specific learning at the edge of a drop-off. Child Development, 84, 226-240.

Kretch, K. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2013). No bridge too high: Infants decide whether to cross based on the probability of falling not the severity of the potential fall. Developmental Science, 16, 336-351.

2012:

Adolph, K. E. (2012). Remembering the father of cognitive psychology: Ulric Neisser (1928-2012). APS Observer, 25.

Adolph, K. E., & Kretch, K. S. (2012). Infants on the edge: Beyond the visual cliff. In A. Slater & P. Quinn (Eds.). Developmental psychology: Revisiting the classic studies. London: Sage Publications.

Adolph, K. E., Cole, W. G., Komati, M., Garciaguirre, J. S., Badaly, D., Lingeman, J. M., Chan, G. L. Y. , & Sotsky, R. B. (2012). How do you learn to walk? Thousands of steps and dozens of falls per day. Psychological Science, 23, 1387-1394.

Adolph, K. E., Gilmore, R. O., Freeman, C., Sanderson, P., & Millman, D. (2012). Toward open behavioral science. Commentary on Nosek & Bar-Anan's 'Scientific Utopia: I. Opening scientific communication'. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 244-247.

Cole, W. G., Lingeman, J. M., & Adolph, K. E. (2012). Go naked: Diapers affect infant walking. Developmental Science, 15, 783-790.

Franchak, J. M. & Adolph, K. E. (2012). What infants know and what they do: Perceiving possibilities for walking through openings. Developmental Psychology, 48, 1254-1261.

Franchak, J. M., Celano, E. C., & Adolph, K. E. (2012). Perception of passage through openings depends on the size of the body in motion. Experimental Brain Research, 223, 301-310.

Karasik, L. B., Adolph, K. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Zuckerman, A. L. (2012). Carry on: Spontaneous object carrying in 13-month-old crawling and walking infants. Developmental Psychology, 48, 389-397.

Raudies, F., Gilmore, R. O., Kretch, K. S., Franchak, J. M., & Adolph, K. E. (2012). Understanding the development of motion processing by characterizing optic flow experienced by infants and their mothers. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning.

Soska, K. C., Galeon, M. A., & Adolph, K. E. (2012). On the other hand: Overflow movement of infants' arms and legs during unimanual object exploration. Developmental Psychobiology, 54, 372-382.

2011:

Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2011). Physical and motor development. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook, (6th ed., pp. 241-302). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Adolph, K. E., & Robinson, S. R. (2011). Sampling development. "Tools of the Trade" section, Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 411-423.

Adolph, K. E., Berger, S. E., & Leo, A. (2011). Developmental continuity? Crawling, cruising, and walking. Developmental Science, 14, 306-318.

Franchak, J. M., Kretch, K. S., Soska, K. C., & Adolph, K. E. (2011). Head-mounted eye-tracking: A new method to describe infant looking. Child Development, 82, 1738-1750.

Karasik, L. B., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2011). Transition from crawling to walking and infants' actions with objects and people. Child Development, 82, 1199-1209.

2010:

Adolph, K. E. (2010). Faculty Perspective: Influences on growth. [Invited Keynote Address, Undergraduate Research Conference] . Inquiry: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, New York University.

Adolph, K. E., Joh, A. S., & Eppler, M. A. (2010). Infants' perception of affordances of slopes under high- and low-friction conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 36, 797-811.

Adolph, K. E., Karasik, L. B., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2010). Using social information to guide action: Infants' locomotion over slippery slopes. Neural Networks, 23, 1033-1042. [Special issue on social cognition].

Adolph, K. E., Karasik, L. B., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2010). Corrigendum to : "Using social information to guide action: Infants locomotion over slippery slopes" [Neural Netw. 23 (8-9) (2010) 1033-1042]. Neural Networks, 24, 217.

Adolph, K. E., Karasik, L., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2010). Motor skill. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of cultural developmental science, (pp. 61-88). New York: Taylor & Francis.

Adolph, K. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Karasik, L. B. (2010). Cinderella indeed—a commentary on Iverson's "Developing language in a developing body: The relationship between motor development and language development". Journal of Child Language, 37, 269-273.

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, 1367-1375.

Franchak, J. M. & Adolph, K. E. (2010). Visually guided navigation: Head-mounted eye-tracking of natural locomotion in children and adults. Vision Research, 50, 2766-2774.

Franchak, J. M., Kretch, K. S., Soska, K. C., Babcock, J. S., & Adolph, K. E (2010). Head-mounted eye-tracking in infants' natural interactions: A new method. Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Austin, TX. [Winner of the Best Long Paper Award, ETRA 2010 Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium.]

Franchak, J. M., van der Zalm, D., & Adolph, K. E. (2010). Learning by doing: Action performance improves performance perception. Vision Research, 50, 2758-2765.

Karasik, L. B., Adolph, K. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Bornstein, M. (2010). WEIRD walking: Cross-cultural differences in motor development. Behavior and Brain Sciences, 33, 95.

Soska, K. C., Adolph, K. E., & Johnson, S.P. (2010). Systems in development: Motor skill acquisition facilitates 3D object completion. Developmental Psychology, 46, 129-138.

2009:

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.

Adolph, K. E. & Joh, A. S. (2009). Multiple learning mechanisms in the development of action. In A. Woodward & A. Needham (Eds.), Learning and the infant mind (pp. 172-207). New York: Oxford University Press.

Gill, S. V., Adolph, K. E., & Vereijken (2009). Change in action: How infants learn to walk down slopes. Developmental Science, 12, 888-902.

2008:

Adolph, K. E (2008). Learning to move. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 213-218.

Adolph, K. E. (2008). Motor and physical development: Locomotion. In M. M. Haith & J. B. Benson, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development (pp. 359-373). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Adolph, K. E. (2008). The growing body in action: What infant locomotion tells us about perceptually guided action. In R. Klatzky, M. Behrmann, & B MacWhinney (Eds.), Embodiment, ego-space, and action: Carnegie Mellon Symposium (pp. 275-321). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Adolph, K. E. & Robinson, S. R (2008). In defense of change processes. Child Development, 79, 1648-1653.

Adolph, K. E., Joh, A. S., Franchak, J. M., Ishak, S., & Gill-Alvarez, S. V. (2008). Flexibility in the development of action . In J. Bargh, P. Gollwitzer, & E. Morsella (Eds.), The psychology of action, Vol. 2, (pp. 399-426). New York: Oxford University Press.

Adolph, K. E., Robinson, S. R., Young, J. W., & Gill-Alvarez, F (2008). What is the shape of developmental change? Psychological Review, 115, 527-543.

Adolph, K. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Ishak, S., Karasik, L. B., & Lobo, S. A. (2008). Locomotor experience and use of social information are posture specific. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1705-1714.

Badaly, D. & Adolph, K. E. (2008). Beyond the average: Walking infants take steps longer than their leg length. Infant Behavior and Development, 31, 554-558.

Ishak, S., Adolph, K. E.,& Lin, G. C. (2008). Perceiving affordances for fitting through apertures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1501-1514.

Karasik, L. B., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Adolph, K. E., & Dimitropoulou, K. A. (2008). How mothers encourage and discourage infants' motor actions. Infancy, 13, 366-392.

Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Adolph, K. E., Lobo, S. A., Karasik, L. B., Dimitroupoulou, K. D., & Ishak, S. (2008). When infants take mothers' advice: 18-month-olds integrate perceptual and social information for guiding motor action. Developmental Psychology, 44, 734-746.

2007:

Adolph, K. E. & Joh, A. S. (2007). Motor development: How infants get into the act. In A. Slater & M. Lewis (Eds.), Introduction to infant development (2nd ed., pp. 63-80). New York: Oxford University Press.

Berger, S. E. & Adolph, K. E. (2007). Learning and development in infant locomotion. In C. von Hofsten & K. Rosander (Eds.), Progress in brain research: Vol. 164: From action to cognition, (pp. 237-256). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

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, 30-49, 2007).

Berger, S. E., Theuring, C., & Adolph, K. E. (2007). How and when infants learn to climb stairs. Infant Behavior and Development, 30, 36-49.

Garciaguirre, J. S. Adolph, K. E., & Shrout, P. E. (2007). Baby carriage: Infants walking with loads. Child Development, 78, 664-680.

Ishak, S., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2007). Ensuring safety and providing challenge: Mothers' and fathers' expectations and choices about infant locomotion. Parenting: Science & Practice, 7, 57-68.

Joh, A. S., Adolph, K. E., Narayanan, P., & Dietz, V. (2007). Gauging possibilities for action based on friction underfoot. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1145-1157.

Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Adolph, K. E., Dimitropoulou, K. A., & Zack, E. A. (2007). "No! Don't! Stop!": Mothers' words for impending danger. Parenting: Science & Practice, 7, 1-25.

2006:

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.) New York: Wiley, pp. 161-213.

Joh, A. S. & Adolph, K. E (2006). Learning from falling. Child Development, 77, 89-102.

Joh, A. S., Adolph, K. E., Campbell, M. R., & Eppler, M. A (2006). Why walkers slip: Shine is not a reliable cue for slippery ground. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 339-352.

2005:

Adolph, K. E (2005). Learning to learn in the development of action. In J. Lockman, J. Reiser, & C. A. Nelson (Eds.), Action as an organizer of perception and cognition during learning and development: Minnesota Symposium on Child Development (Vol. 33, pp. 91-122). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum

Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2005). Physical and motor development. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook, (5th ed., pp. 223-281). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Adolph, K. E. & Vereijken, B. (2005). Esther Thelen (1941-2004). American Psychologist, 60, 1032.

Adolph, K. E., Corbetta, D., Vereijken, B., & Spencer, J. (2005). In Memoriam: Esther Thelen, President of SRCD 2003-2005. Developments: Newsletter of the Society for Research in Child Development, 48, 2, 9.

Adolph, K. E., Corbetta, D., Vereijken, B., & Spencer, J. (2005). In Memoriam: Esther Thelen. Infancy, 7, 1-4.

Berger, S. E., Adolph, K. E., & Lobo, S. A (2005). Out of the toolbox: Toddlers differentiate wobbly and wooden handrails. Child Development, 76, 1294-1307.

Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2005). Social referencing in infant motor action. In B. Homer & C. S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), The development of social cognition and communication, (pp. 145-164). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.

2004:

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)

2003:

Adolph, K. E., Vereijken, B., & Shrout, P. E. (2003). What changes in infant walking and why. Child Development, 74, 475-497.

Adolph, K. E., & Eppler, M. A. (2003). Life after the lab (obituary for Eleanor Gibson). APS Observer, 16, 23.

Adolph, K. E., Weise, I., & Marin, L. (2003). Motor development. In L. Nadel (Ed.), R. Goldstone (section Ed.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science (pp. 134-137). London: Nature Publishing Group.

Berger, S.E. & Adolph, K. E. (2003). Infants use handrails as tools in a locomotor task. Developmental Psychology, 39, 594-605.

2002:

Adolph, K. E. (2002). Babies' steps make giant strides toward a science of development. Infant Behavior and Development, 25, 86-90.

Adolph, K. E. (2002). Learning to keep balance. In R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child development & behavior (Vol. 30, pp. 1-40). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.

Adolph, K. E. & Eppler, M. A. (2002). Flexibility and specificity in infant motor skill acquisition. In J. Fagan (Ed.), Progress in infancy research (Vol. 2, pp. 121-167). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2001:

Adolph, K. E., Marin, L. M., & Fraisse, F. E. (2001). Learning and exploration: Lessons from infants. Commentary on Stoffregen & Bardy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 213-214.

Anderson, J. , Bode, C. , Faradjian, G., & Adolph, K.E (2001). Effects of asymmetry on automaticity and adaptability in adult walking. In G. A. Burton & R. C. Schmidt (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action VI (pp. 223-226). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Fraisse, F. E., Couet, A. M., Bellanca, K. J., & Adolph, K. E (2001). Infants' response to potential risk: Social interaction and perceptual exploration. In G. A. Burton & R. C. Schmidt (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action VI (pp. 97-100). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2000:

Adolph, K. E (2000). Specificity of learning: Why infants fall over a veritable cliff. Psychological Science, 11, 290-295.

Adolph, K. E. & Avolio, A. M (2000). Walking infants adapt locomotion to changing body dimensions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1148-1166.

Adolph, K. E., Eppler, M. A., Marin, L., Weise, I. B., & Clearfield, M. W (2000). Exploration in the service of prospective control. Infant Behavior and Development: Special Issue on Perception-Action Coupling, 23, 441-460.

Marin, L., Weise, I., & Adolph, K. E. (2000). Locomotor development. In L. Balter (Ed.), Parenthood in America: An encyclopedia (pp. 354-358). Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO.

Mondschein, E. R., Adolph, K. E., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S (2000). Gender bias in mothers' expectations about infant crawling. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Special Issue on Gender, 77, 304-316.

1999:

Adolph, K. E. & Eppler, M. A. (1999). Obstacles to understanding: An ecological approach to infant problem solving. In E. Winograd, R. Fivush, & W. Hirst (Eds.), Ecological approaches to cognition: Essays in honor of Ulric Neisser (pp. 31-58). NJ: Erlbaum.

Adolph, K. E., Avolio, A. M., & Leo, A. J (1999). Specificity of learning: Why infants fall over a veritable cliff. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thompson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V (pp. 236-239). NJ: Erlbaum.

Chan, M. Y., Lu, Y., Marin, L. & Adolph, K. E (1999). A baby's day: Capturing crawling experience. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thompson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V (pp. 245-249). NJ: Erlbaum.

Gibson, E. J., Adolph, K. E., & Eppler, M. A. (1999). Affordances. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 4-6). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gibson, E. J., Eppler, M. A., & Adolph, K. E. (1999). Perceptual development. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 632-635). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lo, T.W., Avolio, A. M., Massop, S.A., & Adolph, K.E. (1999). Why toddlers don't perceive risky ground based on surface friction. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thompson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V (pp. 231-235). NJ: Erlbaum.

Vereijken, B. & Adolph, K. E. (1999). Transitions in the development of locomotion. In G.J.P. Savelsbergh, H. L. J. van der Maas, & P.C.L. van Geert (Eds.), Non-linear analyses of developmental processes (pp. 137-149). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

1998:

Adolph, K. E. & Eppler, M. A. (1998). Development of visually guided locomotion. Journal of Ecological Psychology: Special Issue on Visually Guided Locomotion, 10, 303-322.

Adolph, K. E., Vereijken, B., & Denny, M. (1998). Learning to crawl. Child Development, 69, 1299-1312.

1997:

Adolph, K. E. (1997). Learning in the development of infant locomotion. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 62 (3, Serial No. 251).

Eppler, M. A. & Adolph, K. E. (1997). Toward an ecological approach to perceptual learning and development: Commentary on Michaels and Beek. Ecological Psychology, 4, 353-356.

Stergiou, C. S., Adolph, K. E., Alibali, M. W., Avolio, A. M., & Cenedella, C. (1997). Social Expression In Infant Locomotion: Vocalization and Gestures on Slopes. In M. A. Schmuckler & J. A. Kennedy (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action IV (pp. 215-218). NJ: Erlbaum.

Stoffregen, T., Adolph, K. E., Thelen, E., Gorday, K. M., & Sheng, Y. Y. (1997). Toddlers' postural adaptations to different support surfaces. Motor Control, 1, 119-137.

1996:

Eppler, M. A., Adolph, K. E., & Wiener, T (1996). The developmental relationship between exploration and action on sloping surfaces. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 259-264.

Siegler, R. S., Adolph, K. E., & Lemaire, P. (1996). Strategy choices across the lifespan. In L. Reder (Ed.), Implicit memory and metacognition (pp. 79-121). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1995:

Adolph, K. E (1995). A psychophysical assessment of toddlers' ability to cope with slopes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 734-750.

Gorday, K. M., Stroop, M. A., Adolph, K. E., & Thelen, E. (1995). Toddlers' postural control on different surfaces.

Vereijken, B., Adolph, K. E., Denny, M.A., Fadl, Y., Gill, S. V., & Lucero, A. A. (1995). Development of infant crawling: Balance on constraints on interlimb coordination.

1994:

Thelen, E. & Adolph, K. E. (1994). Arnold L. Gesell: The paradox of nature and nurture. Reprinted in R. D. Parke, P. A. Ornstein, J. J. Rieser, & C. Zahn-Waxler (Eds.), A century of developmental psychology (pp. 357-387). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

1993:

Adolph, K. E., Eppler, M. A. & Gibson, E. J (1993). Crawling versus walking infants' perception of affordances for locomotion over sloping surfaces. Child Development: Special Issue on Biodynamics, 64, 1158-1174.

Adolph, K. E., Eppler, M. A., & Gibson, E. J. (1993). Development of perception of affordances. In C. Rovee-Collier & L. P. Lipsett (Eds.), Advances in infancy research (Vol. 8, pp. 51-98). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

1992:

Gibson, E. J. & Adolph, K. E (1992). The perceived self in infancy. Psychological Inquiry, 3, 119-121.

Thelen, E. & Adolph, K. E (1992). Arnold L. Gesell: The paradox of nature and nurture. Developmental Psychology, 28, 368-380.

1990:

Adolph, K. E., Gibson, E. J. & Eppler, M. A. (1990). Perceiving affordances of slopes: The ups and downs of toddlers' locomotion. (Technical Report No.16). Atlanta, GA: Emory University, Emory Cognition Project.