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Child and Animal Learning Development

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Emily Liquin
Princeton University
2
Jiahong Su
University of Hong Kong
3
Anthea Pun
University of British Columbia
4
Francesco Poli
University of Cambridge
5
Jörn Alexander Quent
Fudan University
6
Gemma Williams
University of Brighton
7
Sabine Doebel
George Mason University
8
Emma Templeton
Dartmouth College
9
Rebecca Stower
Constructor University
10
Aaron Chuey
Harvard University Press

Rising Stars Papers

1
Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of AI Literacy Education for Young Children
International Journal of Technology and Design Education|2024
38 cit.
2
Early artificial intelligence education: Effects of cooperative play and direct instruction on kindergarteners' computational thinking, sequencing, self‐regulation and theory of mind skills
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning|2024
33 cit.
3
Conducting Developmental Research Online vs. In-Person: A Meta-Analysis
Open Mind|2024
30 cit.
4
When is it right for a robot to be wrong? Children trust a robot over a human in a selective trust task
Computers in Human Behavior|2024
22 cit.
5
Development and validation of an artificial intelligence literacy assessment for kindergarten children
Education and Information Technologies|2024
22 cit.
6
Kindergarten parents’ perceptions of the use of AI technologies and AI literacy education: Positive views but practical concerns
Education and Information Technologies|2024
22 cit.
7
‘Building our own house’ as an insider-only Community-Partnered Participatory Research Council: Co-creating a safe space for Autistic knowledge production
Autism|2024
12 cit.
8
Toddlers strategically adapt their information search
Nature Communications|2024
10 cit.
9
Exploration in 4-year-old children is guided by learning progress and novelty
Child Development|2024
10 cit.
10
Autistic traits foster effective curiosity-driven exploration
PLoS Computational Biology|2024
7 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jill X. O’Reilly
University of Oxford
2
Fumihiro Kano
University of Konstanz
3
Erie D. Boorman
University of California, Davis
4
Emily Mayberry
University of Manchester
5
Dagmar Zeithamová
University of Oregon
6
Rachel B. Sotsky
Johns Hopkins University
7
John Lawson
California Polytechnic State University
8
Alexander G. Huth
The University of Texas at Austin
9
Ilaria Gabbatore
University of Turin
10
Julie B. Eisengart
University of Minnesota Medical Center

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings
Nature Neuroscience|2023
368 cit.
2
Predictive Coding or Just Feature Discovery? An Alternative Account of Why Language Models Fit Brain Data
Neurobiology of Language|2022
46 cit.
3
A natural language fMRI dataset for voxelwise encoding models
Scientific Data|2023
45 cit.
4
Computational Language Modeling and the Promise of In Silico Experimentation
Neurobiology of Language|2023
40 cit.
5
Head-tracking of freely-behaving pigeons in a motion-capture system reveals the selective use of visual field regions
Scientific Reports|2022
39 cit.
6
Neural mechanisms of credit assignment for inferred relationships in a structured world
Neuron|2022
37 cit.
7
Increasing precision in the measurement of change in pediatric neurodegenerative disease
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism|2022
27 cit.
8
Generalization and false memory in acquired equivalence
Cognition|2023
25 cit.
9
3D-MuPPET: 3D Multi-Pigeon Pose Estimation and Tracking
International Journal of Computer Vision|2024
22 cit.
10
<scp>YOLO</scp> ‐Behaviour: A simple, flexible framework to automatically quantify animal behaviours from videos
Methods in Ecology and Evolution|2025
19 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2
Uta Frith
University College London
3
Paul L. Harris
Harvard University Press
4
Elizabeth S. Spelke
William James College
5
Susan Carey
Harvard University Press
6
Timothy D. Wilson
University of Virginia
7
Linda B. Smith
Indiana University Bloomington
8
Henry M. Wellman
University of Michigan
9
Keith J. Holyoak
University of California, Los Angeles
10
Elissa L. Newport
Georgetown University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.
Psychological Review|1977
11.3k cit.
2
Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind” ?
Cognition|1985
8.4k cit.
3
Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants
Science|1996
5.7k cit.
4
Schema induction and analogical transfer
Cognitive Psychology|1983
2.9k cit.
5
Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language
Cognitive Psychology|1989
2.7k cit.
6
Analogical problem solving
Cognitive Psychology|1980
2.6k cit.
7
Development and neurophysiology of mentalizing
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2003
2.3k cit.
8
The halo effect: Evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1977
2k cit.
9
Cultural learning
Behavioral and Brain Sciences|1993
1.8k cit.
10
Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees
Science|2006
1.6k cit.

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