Publikationen
2025
- Eiteljoerge, S., Matzerath, A., Gweon, H. & Mani, N. (2025). Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults. Social Development, 34(1), e12786. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12786.
- Eiteljoerge, S., Outters, V., Schildknecht, J. & Mani, N. (2025). I learn what I like: children’s preferences but not maternal IDS influence word learning from IDS and ADS. Language Learning and Development. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2025.2456253.
- Kalinowski, J., Hansel, L., Vystrcilova, M., Ecker, A. & Mani, N. (2025). The development of early phonological networks: An analysis of individual longitudinal vocabulary growth. Cognitive Science, 49(9), e70109. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70109.
- Mani, N. (2025). Timescales of Rational Inattention. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13571. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13571.
- Sivridag, F., Schürholz, J., Hoehl, S. & Mani, N. (2025). Children’s cortical speech tracking in face-to-face and online video communication. Scientific Reports, 15, 20134. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04778-8.
- Trouillet, L., Bothe, R., Mani, N. & Elsner, B. (2025). Goal saliency and verbal information influence the imitation of movements and goals in 20-to 22-month-old toddlers. Infant Behavior and Development, 79, 102063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102063.
- Zimmer, L., Sodian, B., Mani, N., Grosso, S., Kristen-Antonow, S., Schuwerk, T., ... Schuwerk, T. (2025). Two- to three-year-old toddlers differentiate the epistemic verbs 'know' and 'think' in a preferential looking eye-tracking paradigm. Developmental Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001933.
2024
- Ackermann, L., Förster, M., Schaarschmidt, J., Hepach, R., Mani, N., Eiteljörge, S., ... Eiteljörge, S. (2024). The role of interest in young children’s retention of words. Infant and Child Development, 33(e2466). https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2466.
- Bothe, R., Trouillet, L., Elsner, B. & Mani, N. (2024). Words and arbitrary actions in early object categorization: weak evidence for a word advantage. Royal Society Open Science, 11(2), 230648. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230648.
- Bothe, R., Eiteljoerge, S., Trouillet, L., Elsner, B. & Mani, N. (2024). Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word-action-object learning in early development. Infancy. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12590.
- Eiteljoerge, S., Elsner, B. & Mani, N. (2024). Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood. Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.7.
- Lo, C.-H., Hermes, J., Kartushina, N., Mayor, J. & Mani, N. (2024). e-Babylab: An open-source browser-based tool for unmoderated online developmental studies. Behaviour Research Methods, 56(5), 4530-4552. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02200-7.
- Madhavan, R., Malem, B., Ackmermann, L., Mundry, R. & Mani, N. (2024). An examination of measures of young children’s interest in natural object categories. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.02.015.
- Madhavan, R. & Mani, N. (2024). The quality of caregiver-child interaction is predicted by (caregivers’ perception of) their child’s interests. Royal Society Open Science, 11(4), 231677. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231677.
- Schmid, B., Bleijlevens, N., Mani, N. & Behne, T. (2024). The cognitive underpinnings and early development of children’s selective trust. Child Development. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14073.
- Schreiner, M., Zetterson, M., Bergmann, C., Frank, M., Fritzsche, T., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., ... Lippold, M. (2024). Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment. Developmental Science, e13551. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.13551.
- Sia, M., Mather, E., Crocker, M. W. & Mani, N. (2024). The role of systematicity in early referent selection. Developmental Science, 27(2), e13444. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13444.
- Sivridag, F. & Mani, N. (2024). Children’s word learning from socially contingent robots under active vs. passive learning conditions. HRI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 669–677. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634931.
- Trouillet, L., Bothe, R., Mani, N. & Elsner, B. (2024). Investigating the role of verbal cues on learning of tool-use actions in 18- and 24-month-olds in an online looking time experiment. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 2(1411276). https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2024.1411276.
- Trouillet, L., Bothe, R., Mani, N. & Elsner, B. (2024). The impact of goal saliency and verbal information on selective imitation in 16- to 18-month-olds. Infancy, 29(5), 713-728. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12601.
- de Eccher, M., Mundry, R. & Mani, N. (2024). Children’s subjective uncertainty-driven sampling behaviour. Royal Society Open Science, 11(4), 231283. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231283.
2023
- Outters, V., Hepach, R., Behne, T. & Mani, N. (2023). Children's affective involvement in early word learning. Scientific Reports, 13, 7351. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34049-3.
- Sia, M.-Y., Holmboe, K. & Mani, N. (2023). The relation between attention, inhibition and word learning in young children. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 90755. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.90755.
- Sommerfield, L., Staudte, M., Mani, N. & Kray, J. (2023). Even Young Children Make Multiple Predictions in the Complex Visual World. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 235(105690). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105690.
- Wienholz, A., Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan, D., Mani, N., Hermann, A., Onea, E., Steinbach, M., ... Steinbach, M. (2023). Neurophysiological evidence for the first mention effect during pronominal reference resolution in German Sign Language. Sign Language and Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.22006.wie.
2022
- Arias-Trejo, N., Q Angulo-Chavira, A., Avila-Varela, D., Chua-Rodriguez, F. & Mani, N. (2022). Developmental changes in phonological and semantic priming effects in Spanish-speaking toddlers. Developmental Psychology, 58(2), 236. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001290.
- Bergmann, C., Dimitrova, N., Alaslani, K., Keller, C. & Mani, N. (2022). Young children's screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 12 countries. Scientific Reports, 12(2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05840-5.
- Kartushina, N., Mani, N., Etkin-Erciyes, A., ..., .. & Mayor, J. (2022). COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Language Development Research, 2(1), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.34842/abym-xv34..
- Vergilova, Y., Jachmann, T., Mani, N. & Kray, J. (2022). Age-related Differences in Expectation-based Novel Word Learning. Psychophysiology, 59(8), e14030. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14030.