Publications

Gredebäck, G., Fikke, L.T., Melinder, A.M.D. (in press). The development of joint visual attention: A longitudinal study of gaze following during interactions with mothers and strangers. Developmental Science.

Gredebäck, G., Kochukhova, O. (in press). Goal anticipation during action observation is influenced by synonymous action capabilities, a puzzling developmental study. Experimental Brain Research.

Gredebäck, G., Melinder, A.M.D., Daum, M. (in press). The Development and Neural Basis of Pointing Comprehension. Social Neuroscience.

Kochukhova, O., Gredebäck, G. (in press). Preverbal Infants Anticipate that Food will be Brought to the Mouth: An Eye Tracking Study of Manual Feeding and Flying Spoons. Child Development.

Melinder, A.M.D., Gredebäck, G., Westerlund, A., Nelson, C. (in press). Brain Activation during Upright and Inverted Encoding of Own- and Other-Age Faces: ERP Evidence for an Own-Age Bias. Developmental Science. (PDF 348 kB)

Gredebäck, G., Johnson, S., von Hofsten, C. (2010). Eye tracking in infancy research. Developmental Neuropsychology.35(1), 1-19 (PDF 495 kB)

Gredebäck, G., Melinder, A.M. D. (2010). Infants Understanding of Everyday Social Interactions: A Dual Process Account. Cognition. (PDF 608 kB)

Falck-Ytter, T., Fernell, E., Gillberg, C., & von Hofsten, C. Face scanning distinguishes social from communication impairments in autism. Developmental Science (in press) (PDF 1,26MB)

Falck-Ytter, T. Young children with autism spectrum disorder use predictive eye movements in action observation. Biology Letters (in press) (PDF 306kB)

Gredebäck, G., Stasiewicz, D., Falck-Ytter, T., Rosander, K., & von Hofsten, C.(2009) Action type and goal type modulate goal-directed gaze shifts in 14-mont-old infants. Developmental Psychology, vol 45 (4), 1190-1194. (PDF 276kB)

Hespos, S., Gredebäck, G., von Hofsten, C., Spelke, e. (2009). Occlusion Is Hard: Comparing Predictive Reaching for Visible and Hidden Objects in Infants and Adults. Cognitive science. vol. 33, s 1483 - 1502 (PDF 451 kB)

Kenward, B., Folke, S., Holmberg, J., Johansson, a., Gredebäck, G. (2009) Goal Directedness and Decision Making in Infants. Developmental Psychology. vol. 45 (3) s.809 - 819 ( PDF 348 kB)

Falck-Ytter, T. (2008) Face Inversion Effects in Autism: a Combined Looking Time and Pupillometric Study. Autism Research, 1(5), 297-306. (PDF 259kB) 48 kB)

Kato, M., de Witt, T., Stasiewicz, D., & von Hofsten, C. (2008). Sensitivity to second-order motion in 10-month-olds. Vision Reserch, 48(10), 1187-1195. (PDF 188kB)

Gredebäck, G., Theuring, C., Hauf, P., Kenward, B. (2008). The Microstructure of Infants' Gaze as They View Adult Shifts in Overt Attention. Infancy. vol. 13 (5), s 533 - 543 (PDF 232 kB)

von Hofsten, C., Gredebäck, G. (2008). The Role of Looking in Social Cognition: Perspectives from Development and Autism. Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism, Blackwell Publishing.

de Wit, T., Falck-Ytter, T. & von Hofsten, C. (2008) Young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder look differently at positive versus negative emotional faces. Research In Autism Spectrum Disorders,doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2008.01.004.
(PDF 284kB)

Nyström, P. (2007) The infant mirror neuron system studied with high density EEG. Social neuroscience. In press.

von Hofsten, C. (2007). Motor development from an action perspective. To be published in M.M. Haith & J.B. Benson (Eds.), Encyklopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development. Elsevier.

von Hofsten, C., & Gredebäck, G. (2007). The role of looking in social development. In V. Reid & T. Striano (Eds.), Interpreting People through Brain and Behaviour. Blackwell.

von Hofsten, C. (2007). Action in development. Developmental Science, 10, 54-60. (PDF 284kB) 84 kB)

von Hofsten, C., Kochukhova, O., & Rosander, K. (2007). Predictive tracking over occlusion by 4-month-old infants. Developmental science, 10, 625-640. (PDF 281 kB)

Kochukhova, O., & Gredebäck, G. (2007). Learning about occlusion, initial assumptions and rapid adjustments. Cognition, 105, 26-46. (PDF 499kB)

Örnkloo, H., & von Hofsten, C. (2007). Fitting objects into holes: On the development of spatial cognition skills.
Developmental Psychology , 43(2), 404-416. (PDF 1073 kB)

Rosander, K., Nyström, P., Gredebäck, G., & von Hofsten, C. (2007). Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants. Vision Research, 47, 1614-1623. (PDF 1751kB)

Falck-Ytter, T., Gredebäck, G., & von Hofsten, C. (2006). Infants predict other people's action goals. Nature Neuroscience, 9 (7), 878-879. (PDF 138kB)

Gredebäck, G., Örnkloo, H., & von Hofsten, C. (2006). The development of reactive saccade latencies. Experimental Brain Research,173(1), 159-164. (PDF 247kB)

Grönqvist, H., Gredebäck, G., & von Hofsten, C. (2006). Developmental Asymmetries between Horizontal and Vertical Tracking. Vision Research, 46(11), 1754-176. (PDF 251kB)

von Hofsten, C., Dahlström, E., & Fredriksson, Y. (2005). 12-month-old infants' perception of attention direction in static video images. Infancy, 8(3), 217-231. (PDF 132kB)

Gredebäck, G., von Hofsten, C., Karlsson,J., & Aus, K. (2005). The development of two-dimensional tracking: A longitudinal study of circular visual pursuit. Experimental Brain Research, 163: 204-213. (PDF 352kB)

von Hofsten, C. (2005). The development of prospective control in looking. In J. Lockman and J. Rieser (Eds.) Action as an Organizer of Perception and Cognition during Learning and Development. Minnesota symposium on Child Psychology. Vol 36. Mahwah,NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum.

von Hofsten, C. (2004). An action perspective on motor development. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, 266-272. (PDF 356kB)

Gredebäck, G., & von Hofsten, C. (2004). Infants' evolving representation of moving objects between 6 and 12 months of age. Infancy, 6, 165-184. (PDF 255kB)

von Hofsten, C. (2004). Development of prehension. In B. Hopkins (Ed.) Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development.

Rosander, R., & von Hofsten, C. (2004). Infants' emerging ability to represent occluded object motion. Cognition, 91, 1-22.
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von Hofsten, C. (2003). On the development of perception and action. In J. Valsiner and K. J. Connolly (Eds.) Handbook of Developmental Psychology. London: Sage. pp: 114-140.

Jonsson, B., & von Hofsten, C. (2003). Infants ability to track and reach for temporarily occluded objects. Developmental Science, 6, 88-101.

Witherington, D. C., von Hofsten, C., Rosander K., Robinette, A.Woollacott, M. H., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2002). The Development of Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in Infancy. Infancy, 3, 495-517.

Gredebäck, G., von Hofsten, C., & Boudreau, P. (2002). Infants' visual tracking of continuous circular motion under conditions of occlusion and non-occlusion. Infant Behavior and Development, 144, 1-21. (PDF 225kB)

Rosander, K. & von Hofsten, C. (2002). Development of gaze tracking of small and large objects. Experimental Brain Research, 146, 257-264. (PDF 146kB)

Achard, B. & von Hofsten, C. (2002). Development of Infants' ability to feed themselves through an aperture. Infant and Child Development, 11, 43-56.

Spelke, E. S. & von Hofsten, C. (2001). Predictive Reaching for Occluded Objects By Six-Month-Old Infants. Journal of Cognition and Development, 2, 261-282.

Lin, L., Dong, Q., Sun, Y., & von Hofsten, C. (2001). Comparison of Chopstick Using Skills between 3-7 Year-Old Children and Adults (Article written in chinese). Acta Psychologica Sinica, 33, 231-237.

von Hofsten, C. (2000). On the early development of perception, action and cognition. In F. Lacerda, C. von Hofsten and M. Heimann, (Eds.) Emerging Cognitive abilities in early infancy. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

von Hofsten, C. Feng, Q., & Spelke, E.S. (2000). Object representation and predictive action in infancy. Developmental Science, 3, 193-205.

Rosander, K., & von Hofsten, C. (2000). Visual-vestibular interaction in early infancy. Experimental Brain Research, 133, 321-333.

Bertenthal, B. & von Hofsten, C. (1998). Eye, head and trunk control: The foundation for manual development. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 22, 515-520.

von Hofsten, C., Vishton, P., Spelke, E.S., Feng, Q., & Rosander, K. (1998). Predictive action in infancy: Tracking and reaching for moving objects. Cognition, 67, 255-285.

von Hofsten, C., & Rosander, K. (1997). Development of smooth pursuit tracking in young infants. Vision Research, 37, 1799-1810. (PDF 1.06MB)

Lee, D.N., and von Hofsten, C., & Cotton, E. (1997). Perception Action Approach to Cerebral Palsy. In C. Connolly, C. and Forssberg, H. (Eds.) Neurophysiology and Psychology of Motor Development. Clinics in Developmental Medicine. pp. 257 - 285.

Savelsbergh, G., von Hofsten, C., & Jonsson, B. (1997). The coupling of head movements and the reaching and grasping components of arm movements in 9-month-old infants. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 38, 325-334.

von Hofsten, C., and Rosander, K. (1996). The development of gaze control and predictive tracking in young infants. Vision Research, 36, 81-96.

Spelke, E.S., Vishton, P., & von Hofsten, C. (1995). Object perception, object-directed action, and physical knowledge in Infancy. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences. Cambridge, Mass: MIT press. pp. 165-179.

Rösblad, B., & von Hofsten, C. (1994). the control of repetitive goal directed arm movements in children with developmental coordination disorders. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 11, 190-202. (Special issue on "clumsiness" in children).

Rönnqvist, L., & von Hofsten, C. (1994). Varieties and determinants of finger movements in neonates. Early Development & Parenting, 3, 81-94.

von Hofsten, C. (1993). Prospective control: A basic aspect of action development. Human Development, 36, 253-270.

von Hofsten, C., & Rönnqvist, L. (1993). Structuring of neonatal arm movements. Child Development, 64, 1046-1057.

17. von Hofsten, C., & Siddiqui, A. (1993). Using the mother as a reference in exploring the world. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 11, 61-74.

Rösblad, B., & von Hofsten, C. (1992). Perceptual control of manual pointing in children with motor impairmants. Physiotherapy, Theory and Practice, 8, 223-233.

von Hofsten, C., Kellman, P.J., & Putaansuu, J. (1992). Young infants' sensitivity to motion parallax. Infant Behavior and Development, 15, 245-264.

Putaansuu, J., & von Hofsten, C. (1991). Infants' sensitivity to differential luminance as information about depth. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 32, 144-153.

von Hofsten, C. (1991). Structuring of early reaching movements: A longitudinal study. Journal of Motor Behavior, 23, 280-292.

von Hofsten, C. (1989). Motor development as the development of systems. Comments on the special issue of Developmental Psychology on motor development. Developmental Psychology, 25, 950-953.

Spelke, E.S., von, Hofsten, C., & Kestenbaum, R. (1989). Object perception and object-directed reaching in infancy: Interaction of spatial and kinetic information for object boundaries. Developmental Psychology, 25, 185-196.

von Hofsten, C., & Rösblad, B. (1988). The integration of sensory information in the development of precise manual pointing. Neuropsychologica, 26, 805-821.

von Hofsten, C., & Rönnqvist, L. (1988). Preparation for grasping an object: A developmental study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 610-621.

Kellman, P.J., von Hofsten, C., & Soares, J. (1987). Concurrent motion in infant event perception. Infant Behavior and Development, 10, 1-10.

von Hofsten, C., & Spelke, E.S. (1985). Object perception and object directed reaching in infancy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 114, 198 - 212.

von Hofsten, C., & Fazel-Zandy, S. (1984). Development of visually guided hand orientation in reaching. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 38, 208-219.

von Hofsten, C. (1984). Developmental changes in the organization of pre-reaching movements. Developmental Psychology, 20, 378-388.

von Hofsten, C. (1983). Catching skills in infancy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 75-85.

von Hofsten, C. (1982). Eye-hand coordination in newborns. Developmental Psychology , 18, 450-461.

von Hofsten, C. (1980). Predictive reaching for moving objects by human infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 30, 369-382.

von Hofsten, C., & Lindhagen, K. (1980). Perception of occlusion in 4 1/2 month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 2, 215-226.

von Hofsten, C., & Lindhagen, K. (1979). Observations on the development of reaching for moving objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 28, 158-173.

von Hofsten, C. (1979). Development of visually guided reaching: the approach phase. Journal of Human Movement Studies, 5, 160-178.

von Hofsten, C. (1977). Binocular convergence as a determinant of reaching behavior in infancy. Perception, 6, 139-144