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Light correlated color temperature and task switching performance in preschool-age children: Preliminary insights by Hartstein, Lauren E, LeBourgeois, Monique K, Berthier, Neil E

“…Data from a growing number of experimental studies show that exposure to higher correlated color temperature (CCT) ambient light, containing more blue light,…”
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Visual information and object size in infant reaching by Berthier, Neil E., Carrico, Renee L.

“…It has been suggested that the onset of successful reaching in infants is mediated by the onset of an ability to use sight of the hand to make corrective…”
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Development of the coordination between posture and manual control by Haddad, Jeffrey M., Claxton, Laura J., Keen, Rachel, Berthier, Neil E., Riccio, Gary E., Hamill, Joseph, Van Emmerik, Richard E.A.

“…► Posture was assessed as children and adults performed a precision manual task. ► 10-year-olds exhibit immature postural control when performing a manual…”
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Transition to success on the model room task: the importance of improvements in working memory by Hartstein, Lauren E., Berthier, Neil E.

“…Previous work has shown that children under age 3 often perform very poorly on the model room task, in which they are asked to find a hidden toy based on its…”
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Development of reaching in infancy by BERTHIER, Neil E, KEEN, Rachel

“…The development of reaching for stationary objects was studied longitudinally in 12 human infants: 5 from the time of reach onset to 5 months of age, 5 from 6…”
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Handedness and Reach-to-Place Kinematics in Adults: Left-Handers Are Not Reversed Right-Handers by Nelson, Eliza L., Berthier, Neil E., Konidaris, George D.

“…The primary goal of this study was to examine the relations between limb control and handedness in adults. Participants were categorized as left or right…”
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Working memory and inhibitory control in visually guided manual search in toddlers by Jenkins, Iris L., Berthier, Neil E.

“…ABSTRACT Toddlers undergo a transition at about 2.5–3 years‐of‐age that dramatically improves their ability to search for hidden objects. The development of…”
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Investigating Individual Differences in Toddler Search with Mixture Models by Berthier, Neil E., Boucher, Kelsea, Weisner, Nina

“…Children's performance on cognitive tasks is often described in categorical terms in that a child is described as either passing or failing a test, or knowing…”
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Hand preference status and reach kinematics in infants by Nelson, Eliza L., Konidaris, George D., Berthier, Neil E.

“…•We measured hand preference status in 53 11- and 14-month-old infants.•Infants were classified into ‘right preference’ or ‘no preference’ groups.•3-D…”
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Preference for infant-directed speech in preterm infants by Butler, Samantha C., O'Sullivan, Laura P., Shah, Bhavesh L., Berthier, Neil E.

“…•Voice contingent and voice yoked control groups did not differ in sucking during test phase.•Maternal voice increased the rate of sucking over…”
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Evidence for motor planning in monkeys: rhesus macaques select efficient grips when transporting spoons by Nelson, Eliza L., Berthier, Neil E., Metevier, Christina M., Novak, Melinda A.

“…McCarty and colleagues (1999) developed the elevated spoon task to measure motor planning in human infants. In this task, a spoon containing food was placed on…”
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Approximate Optimal Control as a Model for Motor Learning by Berthier, Neil E, Rosenstein, Michael T, Barto, Andrew G

“…Current models of psychological development rely heavily on connectionist models that use supervised learning. These models adapt network weights when the…”
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Vision and precision reaching in 15-month-old infants by Carrico, Renee L., Berthier, Neil E.

“…Visual information about the location of the hand in space plays a key role in many theories of the development of reaching. Empirical data casts doubt on this…”
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What Do Two-Year-Olds Understand About Hidden-Object Events? by Mash, Clay, Novak, Elizabeth, Berthier, Neil E, Keen, Rachel

“…Preferential-looking studies suggest that by 2 months of age, infants may have knowledge about some object properties, such as solidity. Manual search studies…”
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Kinematics of reaching and implications for handedness in rhesus monkey infants by Nelson, Eliza L., Konidaris, George D., Berthier, Neil E., Braun, Maurine C., Novak, Matthew F.S.X., Suomi, Stephen J., Novak, Melinda A.

“…Kinematic studies of reaching in human infants using two‐dimensional (2‐D) and three‐dimensional (3‐D) recordings have complemented behavioral studies of…”
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The Undershoot Bias: Learning to Act Optimally under Uncertainty by Engelbrecht, Sascha E., Berthier, Neil E., O'Sullivan, Laura P.

“…Learning in stochastic environments is increasingly viewed as an important psychological ability. To extend these results from a perceptual to a motor domain,…”
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Learning to Reach: A Mathematical Model by Berthier, Neil E

“…This article presents a mathematical model of the development of reaching that assumes that the major problem facing infants is their lack of lower level motor…”
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Two-Year-Olds' Search Strategies and Visual Tracking in a Hidden Displacement Task by Butler, Samantha C, Berthier, Neil E, Clifton, Rachel K

“…Children younger than 3 years have difficulty with search tasks that involve hidden displacement. Partial visual information was provided about a ball's path…”
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Continuities and discontinuities in infants' representation of objects and events by Keen, Rachel E, Berthier, Neil E

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Attention during looking and reaching as assessed by heart rate in 7½-month-old infants by O'Sullivan, Laura P., Berthier, Neil E.

“…Attention mediates the acquisition and encoding of information about the world and is central to motor action. Heart rate deceleration and behavioral…”
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