The Development of attention - Research and Theory

Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories

1975 • 5,591 citations

Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life

1984 • 2,683 citations

The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology

1984 • 2,271 citations

The Processing of Information and Structure

1974 • 2,203 citations

Categorization of Natural Objects

1981 • 1,932 citations

A precursor of language acquisition in young infants

1988 • 1,528 citations

The Biology and Evolution of Language.

1985 • 1,155 citations

Four-month-old infants prefer to listen to motherese

1985 • 1,011 citations

Tracing the dynamic changes in perceived tonal organization in a spatial representation of musical keys.

1982 • 846 citations

Scale and contour: Two components of a theory of memory for melodies.

1978 • 628 citations

Examination of perceptual reorganization for nonnative speech contrasts: Zulu click discrimination by English-speaking adults and infants.

1988 • 625 citations

Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants: Is the Melody the Message?

1989 • 621 citations

Primary auditory stream segregation and perception of order in rapid sequences of tones.

1971 • 591 citations

Cross-language speech perception: Initial capabilities and developmental change.

1988 • 565 citations

Expanded intonation contours in mothers' speech to newborns.

1984 • 529 citations

Maternal speech to infants in a tonal language: Support for universal prosodic features in motherese.

1988 • 450 citations

How the prosodic cues in motherese might assist language learning

1989 • 443 citations

Infant preference for both male and female infant-directed talk: A developmental study of attentional and affective responsiveness.

1989 • 427 citations

The Psychology of Left and Right

2020 • 396 citations

Quantification of the hierarchy of tonal functions within a diatonic context.

1979 • 396 citations

Rhythmic (hierarchical) versus serial structure in speech and other behavior.

1972 • 388 citations

The prosody of maternal speech: infant age and context related changes

1983 • 387 citations

Spectral cues used in the localization of sound sources on the median plane

1974 • 383 citations

Olfaction in the Development of Social Preferences in the Human Neonate

1975 • 361 citations

Contour, Interval, and Pitch Recognition in Memory for Melodies

1971 • 356 citations

Pitch as a Medium: A New Approach to Psychophysical Scaling

1971 • 341 citations

Structural packaging in the input to language learning: Contributions of prosodic and morphological marking of phrases to the acquisition of language

1987 • 284 citations

Infant Recognition of Mother's Voice

1978 • 279 citations

Thresholds for hearing mistuned partials as separate tones in harmonic complexes

1986 • 263 citations

Infants'Perception of Melodies: The Role of Melodic Contour

1984 • 260 citations

Acquisition of the hierarchy of tonal functions in music

1982 • 250 citations

Optical and photoreceptor immaturities limit the spatial and chromatic vision of human neonates

1988 • 241 citations

Anchoring effects in music: The resolution of dissonance

1984 • 227 citations

Maternal Depression and Motherese: Temporal and Intonational Features

1988 • 225 citations

Recognition of transposed melodies: A key-distance effect in developmental perspective.

1980 • 224 citations

Rhythm perception in early infancy

1977 • 214 citations

Good patterns have few alternatives.

1970 • 212 citations

Developmental Changes in Speech Discrimination in Infants

1977 • 210 citations

Infants’ Perception of Phrase Structure in Music

1990 • 208 citations

Hearing musical streams

1979 • 207 citations

Intonation contours as signals in maternal speech to prelinguistic infants.

1982 • 205 citations

Discernible differences in the babbling of infants according to target language

1984 • 201 citations

Infants' perception of rhythm: Categorization of auditory sequences by temporal structure.

1989 • 197 citations

Perception of structure in short melodic sequences.

1981 • 189 citations

Recognition of maternal axillary odors by infants.

1985 • 186 citations

Familiar voice recognition: patterns and parameters Part II: Recognition of rate-altered voices

1985 • 184 citations

Newborn Infants Orient to Sounds

1979 • 183 citations

Human newborns' perception of male voices: Preference, discrimination, and reinforcing value

1984 • 183 citations

Contextual Effects in Infant Speech Perception

1980 • 180 citations

Categorization of speech by infants: Support for speech-sound prototypes.

1989 • 179 citations

Musical elements in the infant's vocalization: Their significance for communication, cognition, and creativity.

1981 • 176 citations

Recovery of the tonal hierarchy: Some comparisons across age and levels of musical experience

1987 • 159 citations

Why does memory span increase with age?

1976 • 159 citations

Prenatal experience with low-frequency maternal-voice sounds influence neonatal perception of maternal voice samples

1987 • 151 citations

Duration illusion and auditory grouping in infancy.

1989 • 149 citations

Developmental changes in infants' sensitivity to octave-band noises

1980 • 148 citations

Organizational Processes in Infants' Perception of Auditory Patterns

1987 • 147 citations

Rhythmic groups and subjective chunks in memory for melodies

1973 • 143 citations

Infants' perception of substance and temporal synchrony in multimodal events

1983 • 133 citations

Perceived harmonic structure of chords in three related musical keys.

1982 • 122 citations

Auditory stream segregation in infancy

1982 • 119 citations

The imitation of pitch in infants

1979 • 118 citations

Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology

1976 • 113 citations

Infants' Perception of Temporal Grouping in Auditory Patterns

1977 • 111 citations

Infants' perception of melodies: Changes in a single tone

1985 • 107 citations

The development of a human auditory localization response: A U-shaped function.

1989 • 105 citations

The language environment of the young infant: Implications for early perceptual development.

1989 • 105 citations

Attractiveness of Lactating Females' Breast Odors to Neonates

1989 • 104 citations

Recognition of melodic transformations: Inversion, retrograde, and retrograde inversion

1972 • 104 citations

The intrauterine heartbeat: A potent reinforcer for newborns

1983 • 104 citations

Infants' perception of musical relations in short transposed tone sequences.

1987 • 103 citations

Perceptual grouping by infants and preschool children.

1988 • 99 citations

Perception of symmetry in infancy: The salience of vertical symmetry and the perception of pattern wholes

1985 • 98 citations

Perception of Moving, Sounding Objects by Four-Month-Old Infants

1983 • 96 citations

The effect of continuity on auditory stream segregation

1973 • 95 citations

Development of categorization skills: Changes in the nature or structure of infant form categories?

1988 • 92 citations

On the Perception of Temporal Phenomena in Speech

1972 • 92 citations

Music as a stimulus for psychological motion: Part I. Some determinants of expectancies.

1981 • 90 citations

Development of the perception of musical relations: Semitone and diatonic structure.

1986 • 88 citations

The Pitch Set as a Level of Description for Studying Musical Pitch Perception

1982 • 82 citations

Identification of temporal order in three-tone sequences

1974 • 82 citations

Geometric psychology generates the visual Gestalt.

1985 • 79 citations

Age-related changes in auditory temporal perception

1987 • 77 citations

Disrupting the isochrony underlying rhythm: An asymmetry in discrimination

1986 • 74 citations

Music as a stimulus for psychological motion: Part II. An expectancy model.

1982 • 72 citations

Intonation and Speaker Identification

1978 • 72 citations

Infants' Orientation to Lateral Sounds from Birth to Three Months

1980 • 72 citations

Infants’ perception of musical patterns

1987 • 70 citations

Ontogeny of Olfaction: Reciprocal Roles of Sensation and Behavior in the Development of Perception

1981 • 63 citations

Coordination of Auditory and Visual Space in Newborn Human Infants

1976 • 56 citations

Non-segmental phonology in language acquisition: A review of the issues

1973 • 56 citations

Effects of sound frequency on behavioral and cardiac orienting in newborn and five-month-old infants

1984 • 56 citations

Infants' localization of sounds along the horizontal axis: Estimates of minimum audible angle.

1988 • 55 citations

Precision of auditory localization in human infants.

1987 • 54 citations

The beginning of conversation: Early patterns of mother-infant vocal responsiveness

1986 • 54 citations

Melodic Structure and Note Transition Probabilities: A Content Analysis of 15,618 Classical Themes

1984 • 52 citations

Reaching in the Dark

1978 • 48 citations

Properties of feature detectors for VOT: The voiceless channel of analysis

1977 • 44 citations

Auditory-visual transfer in four-month-old infants.

1982 • 43 citations

The role of structure in infant visual pattern perception.

1989 • 43 citations

Infants' orientation to the location of sound sources.

1985 • 37 citations

Development of Infant Reaching in the Dark to Luminous Objects and ‘Invisible Sounds’

1989 • 32 citations

Neonatal habituation and dishabituation of head turning to rattle sounds

1984 • 30 citations

Scale, key, and contour in the discrimination of tuned and mistuned approximations to melody

1985 • 28 citations

Infants' categorization of melodic contour

1989 • 25 citations

Effect of element composition on streaming and the ordering of repeating sequences.

1977 • 25 citations

The effects of sound duration on newborns' head orientation

1985 • 22 citations

The role of symmetry in the good continuation ratings of two-part tonal melodies

1981 • 20 citations

Auditory Pattern Perception in Infancy

1985 • 18 citations

Infants’ localization of sounds in the median sagittal plane: Effects of signal frequency

1987 • 15 citations

Reflections on the development of speech perception.

1979 • 14 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations