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     Simon, T., Hespos, S. J., & Rochat, P. (1995). Do infants understand simple arithmetic? A replication of Wynn (1992). Cognitive Development, 10(2), 253–269. pdf

     Rochat, P. & Hespos, S. J. (1996). Tracking and anticipation of invisible spatial transformations by 4- to 8-month-old infants. Cognitive Development, 11(1), 3–19. pdf

     Rochat, P. & Hespos, S. J. (1997). Differential rooting response by neonates: Evidence for an early sense of self. Early Development and Parenting, 6(3 & 4), 105–112. pdf

     Hespos, S. J. & Rochat, P. (1997). Dynamic representation in infancy. Cognition, 64, 153–189. pdf

     Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2001). Reasoning about containment events in very young infants. Cognition, 78, 207 – 245. pdf

     Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2001). Infants’ knowledge about occlusion and containment: A surprising discrepancy. Psychological Science, 12(2), 141 – 147. pdf

14.Spelke, E.S. & Hespos, S.J. (2001). Continuity, competence, and the object concept. In E. Dupoux (Ed.), Language, brain and cognitive development: Essays in honor of Jacques Mehler. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (pp. 325 – 340). pdf

     Spelke, E.S. & Hespos, S.J. (2002). Conceptual Development in Infancy: The Case of Containment. (pp. 223 – 246) In N. Stein, P. Bauer, & M. Rabinowitch (Eds.), A Festschrift for Jean Mandler. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. pdf

     Hespos, S. J. & Spelke, E. S. (2004). Conceptual precursors to spatial language. Nature, 430, 453 - 456. pdf

     Hespos, S. J. (2004). Language: Life without numbers, Current Biology, 14, R927 - R928. pdf

     Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2006). Decalage in infants' reasoning about occlusion and containment events: Converging evidence from action tasks. Cognition, 99,B31-B41. pdf

      Hespos, S.J. & Spelke, E.S. (2007). Precursors to spatial language: The case of containment. In M. Aurnague, M. Hickman & L. Vieu (Eds.), The categorization of spatial entities in language and cognition. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins Publishers (pp. 233 – 245). pdf

  ......Hespos, S. J. (2007). Language Acquisition: When does the learning begin? Current Biology, 17(16), R628 – R630. pdf

15. Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2008). Young infants’ actions reveal their developing knowledge of support variables: Converging evidence for violation-of-expectation findings. Cognition. 107(1), 304 - 316. pdf

16. Hespos, S. J., & Piccin, T. (2008). Influences on spatial categories: Cross-linguisitic differences and developmental origins. Manuscript in press at Developmental Science. pdf

17. Hespos, S.J., Ferry, A. L., Cannistraci, C., Gore, J., Park, S. (2008) Optical imaging on human infants. To appear in A.W. Roe (Ed.) Imaging the brain with optical methods. Springer: New York. pdf

Manuscripts Under Review or In Preparation

18. Hespos, S.J., Gredebeck, G., von Hofsten, C., & Spelke, E.S. (2008). Some things never change: Object occlusion and predictive reaching in infants and adults. Manuscript under review. pdf

19. Hespos, S. J., Saylor, M., & Grossman, S. (2008). Infants’ ability to parse continuous actions series. Manuscript under review at Developmental Psychology. pdf

25. Hespos, S.J., Dora, B., Christie, S., & Rips, L. (2008). Infants make quantity discriminations for substances. Manuscript in preparation. pdf

20. Hespos, S. J. Cannestraci, C. & Gore, J. (2008). Shedding new light on cognition: Optical imaging on human infants. Manuscript in preparation.

21. Hespos, S. J. Park, S., Lane, A.P. & Gore, J. (2008). An optical imaging study of language recognition in the first year of life. Manuscript in preparation.

22. Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2008). Tracking object identity changes across occlusion and containment events. Manuscript in preparation.

23. Hespos, S.J., Ferry, A., Rips, L. (2008). Five-month-old infants have different expectations for solids and substances. Manuscript in preparation.

24. Ferry, A., Hespos, S.J., & Waxman, S. (2008). Language acts as an invitation to form categories in 4- but not 3-month-old infants. Manuscript in preparation.

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