Publications

Barrett, T.M., & Needham, A. (2008). Developmental differences in infants’ use of an object’s shape to grasp it securely. Developmental Psychobiology, 50, 97-106.

Barrett, T.M., Traupman, E., & Needham, A. (2008). Infants’ visual anticipation of object structure in grasp planning. Infant Behavior and Development, 31, 1-9.

Fitzpatrick, P., Needham, A., Natale, L., & Metta, G. (2008). Shared challenges in object perception for robots and infants. Infant and Child Development, 17, 7-24.

Needham, A. & Libertus, K. (2008). Neonativism. In Haith, M.M. and Benson, J.B. (Eds.),  Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development (p. 406-414). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Barrett, T.M., Davis, E.F., & Needham, A. (2007). Learning about tools in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 43(2), 352-368.  

Needham, A., Cantlon, J.F., & Ormsbee Holley, S.M. (2006). Infants' use of category knowledge and object attributes when segregating objects at 8.5 months of age. Cognitive Psychology, 53, 345-360.

Dueker, G.L., & Needham, A. (2005). Infants' object category formation and use: Real-world context effects on cateory use in object processing. Visual Cognition, 12, 1177-1198.

Needham, A., Dueker, G.L., & Lockhead, G. (2005). Infants' formation and use of categories to segregate objects. Cognition, 94, 215-240.

Sommerville, J.A., Woodward, A.L., & Needham, A. (2005). Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions. Cognition, 96, B1-B11.

Dueker, G., Modi, A., & Needham, A. (2003). 4.5-month-old infants’ learning, retention, and use of object boundary information. Infant Behavior and Development, 26(4), 588-605.

Needham, A. & Orbsbee, S.M. (2003). The Development of Object Segregation During the First Year of Life. In Kimchi, R., Behrmann, M., and Olson, C. Carnegie Symposium on Cognition (Eds.), Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives (p. 205-232). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Needham, A., Barrett, T., & Peterman, K. (2002). A Pick-Me-Up for Infants' Exploratory Skills: Early Stimulated Experiences Reaching for Objects Using 'Sticky Mittens' Enhances Young Infrants' Object Exploration Skills. Infant Behavior and Development, 25, 279-295.

Needham, A. (2001). Object Recognition and Object Segregation in 4.5-Month-Old Infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 3-22.

Needham, A. (2001). Perceptual, Conceptual, and Representational Processes in Infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 98-106.

Huettel, S.A., & Needham, A. (2000). Effects of Balance Relations Between Objects on Infants' Object Segregation. Developmental Science, 3, 415-427.

Needham, A. (2000). Improvements in Object Exploration Skills May Facilitate the Development of Object Segregation in Early Infancy. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1, 131-156.

Needham, A. & Baillargeon, R. (2000). Infants' use of featural and experiential information in segregating and individuating objects: a reply to Xu, Carey and Welch (2000). Cognition, 74, 255-284.

Kaufman, J. & Needham, A. (1999). Objective spatial coding by 6.5-month-old infants in a visual dishabituation task. Developmental Science, 2, 432-441.

Needham, A. (1999). How Infants Grasp Two Adjacent Objects: Effects of Perceived Display Composition on Infants' Actions. Developmental Science, 2, 219-233.

Needham, A. (1999). The Role of Shape in 4-Month-Old Infants' Segregation of Adjacent Objects. Infant Behavior and Development, 22, 161-178.

Needham, A. & Modi, A. (1999). Infants' Use of Prior Experiences with Objects in Object Segregation: Implications for Object Recognition in Infancy. In Reese, H.W. (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior (vol. 27, p. 100-135).  San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Needham, A. (1998). Infants' use of featural information in the segregation of stationary objects. Infant Behavior and Development, 21, 47-76.

Needham, A. & Baillargeon, R. (1998). Effects of Prior Experience on 4.5 -Month-Old Infants’ Object Segregation. Infant Behavior and Development, 21, 1-24.

Needham, A. (1997). Factors Affecting Infants' Use of Featural Information in Object Segregation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 6, 26-33.

Needham, A. & Baillargeon, R. (1997). Object segregation in 8-month-old infants. Cognition, 62, 121-149.

Needham, A., Baillargeon, R. & Kaufman, L. (1997). Object segregation in infacy. In C. Rovee-Collier and L. Lipsitt (Eds.), Advances in Infacy Research (vol. 11, p. 1-44). Greenwich, CT: Ablex.

Needham, A. & Kaufman, J. (1997). Infants' integration of information from different sources in object segregation. Early Development and Parenting, 6, 137-148.

Baillargeon, R., Kotovsky, L., & Needham, A. (1995). Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate. In D. Sperber, D. Premack, & A. J. Premack (Eds..), The acquisition of physical knowledge in infancy (p. 79-116). Oxford University Press .

Needham , A., & Baillargeon, R. (1993). Intuitions about support in 4.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 47, 121-148.

Baillargeon, R., Needham, A., & DeVos, J. (1992). The Development of Young Infants' Intuitions about Support. Early Development and Parenting, 1, 69-78.