Publications

2025

Thinakaran, A., Fulcher, T., Chung, H., Woodward, A., & Colomer, M. (2025). Investigating neural correlates of attention in relation to the development of executive functions in early childhood. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 29406. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13713-w

2024

Colomer, M., Hwang, H. G., Burke, N., & Woodward, A. (2024). Development of infants’ preferential looking toward native language speakers across distinct social contexts. Developmental Psychology, 60(1), 124–134. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001669
Chung, H., Filippi, C. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2024). Infant action understanding: The roles of active training and motor development. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 2, 1349031. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdevp.2024.1349031
Meyer, M., Brezack, N., & Woodward, A. L. (2024). Neural correlates involved in perspective-taking in early childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 66, 101366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101366
Albuja, A. F., Muñoz, M., Kinzler, K., Woodward, A., & Gaither, S. E. (2024). Hypodescent or ingroup overexclusion? Children’s and adults’ racial categorization of ambiguous Black/White biracial faces. Developmental Science, 27(2), e13450. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13450
Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., … & Kovács, Á. M. (2024). Action anticipation based on an agent’s epistemic state in toddlers and adults [Registered report]. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00146
Padilla‐Iglesias, C., Basargekar, A., Woodward, A. L., & Shneidman, L. A. (2024). Exploring intra‐ and inter‐cultural differences in toddlers’ time allocation in a Yucatec Maya and US community. Social Development, 33(1), e12703. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12703

2023

Bashyam, A. C. J. E. P. G., Colomer, M., Santhanagopalan, R., Kinzler, K. D., & Woodward, A. (2023). Children’s language-based pedagogical preferences in a multilingual society. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001498
Brezack, N., Pan, S., Chandler, J., & Woodward, A. L. (2023). Toddlers’ action learning and memory from active and observed instructions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 232, 105670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105670
Burke, A. W. N., Brezack, N., & Meyer, M. (2023). Children’s social network size is related to their perspective-taking skills. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 1, Article 1063230. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdevp.2023.1063230
Colomer, M., Chung, H., Meyer, M., Debnath, R., Morales, S., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. (2023). Action experience in infancy predicts visual-motor functional connectivity during action anticipation. Developmental Science, 26(3), e13339. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13339
Colomer, M., & Woodward, A. (2023). Should I learn from you? Seeing expectancy violations about action efficiency hinders social learning in infancy. Cognition, 230, 105293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105293
Hwang, H. G., Filippi, C. A., Morales, S., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. (2023). Children’s social wariness toward a different‐race stranger relates to individual differences in temperament. Developmental Science, 26(6), e13390. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.1339

2022

Burke, N., Brezack, N., & Woodward, A. (2022). Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1009422. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009422
Chung, H., Meyer, M., Debnath, R., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. (2022). Neural correlates of familiar and unfamiliar action in infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 220, 105415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105415
Meyer, M., Chung, H., Debnath, R., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2022). Social context shapes neural processing of others’ actions in 9-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105260

2021

Brezack, N., Radovanovic, M., & Woodward, A. L. (2021). Everyday interactions support toddlers’ learning of conventional actions on artifacts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, 105201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105201
Brezack, N., Meyer, M., & Woodward, A. L. (2021). Three-year-olds’ perspective-taking in social interactions: Relations with socio-cognitive skills. Journal of Cognition and Development, 22(4), 537–560. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2021.1901713
Liberman, Z., Kinzler, K. D., & Woodward, A. L. (2021). Origins of homophily: Infants expect people with shared preferences to affiliate. Cognition, 212, 104695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104695
Hwang, H. G., Debnath, R., Meyer, M., Salo, V. C., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2021). Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races. Developmental Science, 24(4), e13070. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13070
Padilla-Iglesias, C., Woodward, A. L., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Shneidman, L. A. (2021). Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community. PLOS ONE, 16(6), e0252926. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252926

2020

Hwang, H.G., Debnath, R., Meyer, M.,Salo, V.C., Fox, N.A. & Woodward, A. (2020). Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants‘ neural responses to people of different races. Developmental Science, e13070. DOI: 1111/desc.13070
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Henderson, A. M., & Woodward, A. L. (2020). Let’s get it together: Infants generate visual predictions based on collaborative goals.Infant Behavior and Development, 59, 101446.
Howard, L. H., Riggins, T., & Woodward, A. L. (2020). Learning from others: The effects of agency of event memory in young children. Child Development, 91(4), 1317-1335.

2019

Howard, L.H. & Woodward, A. L. (2019). Human actions support infant memory. Journal of Cognition and Development, 20 (5), 772-789.
Filippi, C., Choi, Y. B., Fox, N., & Woodward, A. L. (2019). Neural correlates of infant action processing relate to theory of mind in early childhood. Developmental science, e12876. DOI: 1111/desc.12876

2018

Novack, M. A., Filippi, C. A., Goldin-Meadow, S. & Woodward, A. L. (2018). Actions speak louder than gestures when you are 2 years old. Developmental Psychology, 54(10), 1809-1821.
Rissman, L., Woodward, A., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2018). Occluding the face diminishes the conceptual accessibility of an animate agent. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 34(3), 273-288.
Krogh-Jespersen, S., & Woodward, A. L. (2018). Reaching the goal: Active experience facilitates 8-month-old infants’ prospective analysis of goal-based actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 171, 31-45.
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Kaldy, Z., Valadez, A. G., Carter, A. S., & Woodward, A. L. (2018). Goal prediction in 2-year-old children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: An eye-tracking study. Autism Research.
Liberman, Z., Howard, L. H., Vasquez, N. M., & Woodward, A. L. (2018). Children’s expectations about conventional and moral behaviors of ingroup and outgroup members. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 7-18.
Liberman, Z., Kinzler, K.D., & Woodward, A.L. (2018). The early social significance of shared ritual actions. Cognition, 171, 42-51.

2017

Kardan, Omid, Krogh-Jespersen, Shneidman, L, Gaskins, S., Berman, M.G., & Woodward, A.L. (2017). Cultural and developmental influences on overt visual attention to videos.Scientific Reports, 7,
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A., Keysar,B., & Kinzler, K. (2017) Exposure to multiple languages enhances communication skills in infancy.Developmental Science, 20.
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A.L., & Kinzler, K. D. (2017). The origins of social categorization.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 556-568.
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A. L., & Kinzler, K. D. (2017). Preverbal infants infer third-party social relationships based on language.Cognitive Science, 41, 622-634.
Howard, L.H., Wagner. K.E., Woodward, A.L., Ross, S.R., & Hopper, L.M. (2017). Social models enhance apes’ memory for novel events.Scientific Reports, 7,
Wellman, H., Ornstein, P., Woodward, A., & Uttal, D. (2017). History of the Cognitive Development Society: The first sixteen years.Journal of Cognition and Development.

2016

Cannon, E. N., Simpson, E.A., Fox, N. A., Vanderwert, R.E., Woodward, A. L., & Ferrari, P. F. (2016). Relations between infants’ emerging reach-grasp competence and event-related desynchronization in EEG.Developmental Science, 19, 60-62. doi: 1111/desc.12295
Filippi, C., Cannon, E.N., Fox, N.A., Thorpe, S., Ferrari, P.F., & Woodward, A. (2016). Motor system activation predicts goal imitation in 7-month-old infants.Psychological Science, 27(5), 675-684. doi: 1177/0956797616632231
Filippi, C., & Woodward, A. (2016). Action experience changes attention to kinematic cues.Frontiers in Psychology, 7, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00019
Krogh-Jespersen, S., & Woodward, A.L. (2016). Infant origins of social cognition. In L. Balter & C. Tamis-Lamonda (Eds.) Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues, Third Edition. Psychology Press.
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A. L., Sullivan, K. R., & Kinzler, K. D. (2016). Early emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 131(34), 9480-9485. doi: 1073/pnas.1605456113
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A., Keysar, B., & Kinzler, K. (2016). Exposure to multiple languages enhances communication skills in infancy.Developmental Science, 20(1). doi: 1111/desc.12420
Shneidman, L., & Woodward, A. L. (2016). Are child-directed interactions the cradle of social learning? Psychological Bulletin, 142(1), 1-17. doi: 1037/bul0000023
Shneidman, L., Gaskins, S., & Woodward, A. (2016). Child-directed teaching and social learning at 18 months of age: Evidence from Yucatec Mayan and U.S. infants.Developmental Science, 19(3), 372-381. doi: 1111/desc.12318
Shneidman, L., Gweon, H., Schulz, L., & Woodward, A. (2016). Learning from others and spontaneous exploration: A cross-cultural investigation.Child Development, 87(3), 723-735. doi: 1111/cdev.12502
Sodian, B., Licata, M., Kristen-Antonow, S., Paulus, M., Killen, M., & Woodward, A. (2016). Understanding of goals, beliefs, and desires predicts relevant theory of mind: A longitudinal investigation.Child Development, 87(4). 1221-1232. doi: 1111/cdev.12533

2015

Filippi, C., & Woodward, A. (2015). Mirroring and the ontogeny of social cognition.In P.F. Ferrari & G. Rizzolatti (Eds.) New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research (pp.315-330). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Garvin, L., & Woodward, A. L. (2015). Verbal framing of statistical evidence drives children’s preference inferences.Cognition,138, 35-48. doi: 1016/j.cognition.2015.01.011
Gerson, S.A., Mahajan, N., Sommerville, J.A., Matz, L., & Woodward, A. (2015). Shifting goals: Effects of active and observational experience on infants’ understanding of higher order goals. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(310), 1-13.
Howard, L.H., Henderson, A.M.E., Carrazza, C., & Woodward, A. (2015). Infants’ and young children’s imitation of linguistic ingroup and outgroup informants.Child Development, 86(1), 259-275. doi: 1111/cdev.12299
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Liberman, Z., & Woodward, A. L. (2015). Think fast! The relationship between goal prediction speed and social competence in infants.Developmental Science, 18(5), 815-823. doi: 1111/desc.12249
Novack, M. A., Goldin-Meadow, S., Woodward, A.L. (2015). Learning from gesture: How early does it happen?. Cognition, 142, 138-147.
Vaish, A., Grossmann, T., & Woodward, A. L. (2015). Person-centered positive emotions, object-centered negative emotions: Two-year-olds generalize negative but not positive emotions across individuals.British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(3), 391-397. doi: 1111/bjdp.12093

2014

Cannon, E. N., Yoo, K. H., Vanderwert, R., Ferrari, P.F., Woodward, A.L., & Fox, N.A. (2014). Action experience, more than observation, influences mu rhythm desynchronization. PLoSONE, 9(3): e9002. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092002
Gerson, S.A., & Woodward, A.L. (2014). Labels facilitate infants’ comparison of action goals.Journal of Cognition and Development, 15(2), 197-212. doi: 1080/15248372.2013.777842
Gerson, S., & Woodward, A. (2014). Learning from their own actions- The unique effect of producing actions on infants’ action understanding.Child Development, 85(1), 264-277. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12115
Gerson, S., & Woodward, A. (2014).The joint role of trained, untrained, and observed actions at the origins of goal recognition.Infant Behavior and Development, 37(1), 94-104. doi:1016/j.infbeh.2013.12.013
Howard, L.H., Carrazza, C., & Woodward, A. L. (2014). Neighborhood linguistic diversity predicts infants’ social learning. Cognition, 133(2), 474-479. doi:1016/j.cognition.2014.08.002
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Filippi, C., & Woodward, A.L. (2014). A developmental perspective on action and social cognition. Commentary, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(2), 208-209. doi:1017/S0140525X13002379
Krogh-Jespersen, S., & Woodward, A.L. (2014). Making smart social judgments takes time- Infants’ recruitment of goal information when generating action predictions. PLoSONE 9(5): e98085. doi:1371/journal.pone.0098085
Liberman, Z., Kinzler, K.D., & Woodward, A.L. (2014) Friends or foes- Infants predict others’ social relationships.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 966-971. doi:1037/a0034481
Licata, M., Paulus, M., Thoermer, C., Kristen, S., Woodward, A., & Sodian, B. (2014). Mother-infant interaction quality and infants’ ability to encode actions as goal-directed. Social Development, 23(2), 340-356 . doi: 1111/sode.05712
Novack, M., Henderson, A.M.E., & Woodward, A. (2014). Twelve-month old infants generalize novel signed-labels, but not preferences across individuals. Journal of Cognition and Development, 15(4),539-550. doi: 1080/15248372.2013.782460
Paulus, M., Licata, M., Kristen, S., Thoermer, C., Woodward, A., & Sodian, B. (2014). Social understanding and self-regulation predict preschoolers’ sharing with friends and disliked peers: A longitudinal study. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 39(1), (53-64).
Shneidman, L., Todd, R., & Woodward, A.L. (2014). Why do child-directed interactions support imitative learning in young children?PLoSONE 9(10): e110891. doi: 1371/journal.pone.0110891
Woodward, A.L., & Gerson, S.A. (2014). Mirroring and the development of action understanding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B,369,20130181. doi: 1098/rstb.2013.0181

2013

Gerson, S., & Woodward, A. (2013). The goal trumps the means- Highlighting goals is more beneficial than highlighting means in means-end training. Infancy, 18(2), 289-302. doi: 10.111/j.1532-7078.2012.00112.x
Henderson, A.M.E., Sabbagh, M. A., & Woodward, A. (2013). Preschoolers’ selective learning is guided by the principle of relevance. Cognition, 126(2), 246-257. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.10.006
Henderson, A.M.E., Wang, Y., Eisenband Matz, L., & Woodward, A. (2013). Active experience shapes 10-month-old infants’ understanding of collaborative goals.Infancy, 18(1), 10-39. doi:10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00126.x
Thoermer, C., Woodward, A., Eisenbeis, H., Kristen, S., & Sodian, B. (2013). To get the grasp- Seven-month-olds encode and reproduce goal-directed grasping.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 499-509. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.12.007
Woodward, A. L. (2013). Infant foundations of intentional understanding. In M. R. Banaji & S. A. Gelman (Eds.). Navigating the Social World: A Developmental Perspective(pp.75-80). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, A. L., & Cannon, E. (2013). Online action analysis: Infants’ anticipation of others’ intentional actions. In M. Rutherford & V. Kuhlmeier (Eds.) Social Perception(pp.383-404). MA: MIT Press.

2012

Cannon, E., & Woodward, A. L. (2012). Infants generate goal-based action predictions . Developmental Science, 15, 292-298. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01127.x
Cannon, E., Woodward, A., Gredebäck, G., Von Hofsten, C., & Turek, C. (2012). Action production influences 12-month-old infants’ attention to others’ actions. Developmental Science, 15, 35-42. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01095.x
Gerson, S., & Woodward, A. (2012). A claw is like my hand: Comparison supports goal analysis in infants. Cognition, 122, 181-192. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.10.014
Henderson, A.M.E., & Woodward, A. (2012). Nine-month old infants generalize object labels, but not object preferences across individuals. Developmental Science, 15(5), 641-652. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01157.
Koenig, M. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2012). Toddlers learn words in a foreign language: The role of native vocabulary knowledge. Journal of Child Language, 39, 322-337. doi: 10.1017/S0305000911000067
Striano, T., & Woodward, A. L. (2012). Learning from and about the social world. In S. Pauen & M. Bornstein (Eds.) Early Childhood Development and Later Achievement (pp.66-88). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2011

Henderson, A.M.E., & Woodward, A. L. (2011). Let’s work together: what do infants understand about collaborative goals?Cognition, 121, 12-21. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.05.008
Killen, M., Mulvey, K. L., Richardson, C., Jampol, N., & Woodward, A. (2011). The accidental transgressor: Morally relevant theory of mind. Cognition, 119, 197-215. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.006

2010

Gerson, S., & Woodward, A. L. (2010). Building intentional action knowledge with one’s hands. In S. P. Johnson (Ed.) Neo-constructivism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Koenig, M. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2010). Twenty-four-month-old’s sensitivity to the prior inaccuracy of the source. Developmental Psychology,46 (4), 815-82. doi: 1037/a0019664
Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2010). The link between action production and action processing in infancy. In F. Grammont, D. Legrand, & P. LIvet (Eds.). Naturalizing Intention in Action. (pp. 67-89). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Vaish, A., & Woodward, A. L. (2010).Infants use attention but not emotions to predict others’ actions. Infant Behavior and Development, 33 (1), 79-87. doi: 1016/j.infbeh.2009.11.003

2009

Mahajan, N., & Woodward, A. L. (2009) Seven month-old infants selectively reproduce the goals of animate but not inanimate agents. Infancy, 14(6), 667-679. doi: 1080/15250000903265184
Needham, A., & Woodward, A. L. (2009). Introduction. In A. Woodward & A. Needham (Eds.) Learning and the Infant Mind(pp. xii-xxvii). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Shneidman, L., Buresh, J., Shimpi, P., Knight-Schwartz, J., & Woodward, A. L. (2009).Social attention, social experience and word learning in an overhearing paradigm. Language Learning and Development, 5 (4), 266-281. doi: 1080/15475440903001115
Woodward, A. L. (2009).Infants’ grasp of others’ intentions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 53-57. doi: 1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01605.x
Woodward, A. L. (2009). Infants learning about intentional action. In A. Woodward & A. Needham (Eds.). Learning and the infant mind(pp.227-248). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, A. L., & Needham, A. (2009). Learning and the infant mind,. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, A. L., Sommerville, J.A., Gerson, S., Henderson, A. M. E., & Buresh, J. S. (2009).The emergence of intention attribution in infancy. In B. Ross (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 51 (pp.187-222). Waltham, MA: Academic Press. doi: 1016/S0079-7421(09)51006-7

2008

Cannon, E., & Woodward, A. L. (2008). Action anticipation and interference: A test of prospective gaze. In B.C. Love, K. McRae, & V.M. SLoutsky (Eds.)Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society(pp. 981-984). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2008/forms/authorindex.htm#C
Hamlin, J. K., Hallinan, E.V., & Woodward, A. L. (2008). Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others’ goals. Developmental Science, 11(4), 487-494. doi: 1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00694.x
Henderson, A.M.E., Gerson, S., & Woodward, A.L. (2008). The birth of social intelligence. Zero to Three, 28(5),13-20.
Rakison, D. H., & Woodward, A. L. (2008). Introduction to the special section: New perspectives on the effects of action on perceptual and cognitive development. Developmental Psychology,44 (5), 1209-1213. doi: 1037/a0012999
Vaish, A., Grossmann, T., & Woodward, A. (2008).Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in early development. Psychological Bulletin, 134 (3), 383-403. doi: 1037/0033-2909.134.3.383

2007

Brune, C. W., & Woodward, A. L. (2007). Social cognition and social responsiveness in 10-month-old infants. Journal of Cognition and Development, 8(2), 138-158. doi: 10.1080/15248370701202331
Buresh, J. S., & Woodward, A. L. (2007). Infants track action goals within and across agents. Cognition, 104(2), 287-314. doi: 1016/j.cognition.2006.07.001

2006

Buresh, J., Wilson Brune, C., & Woodward, A. L. (2006). The roots of verbs in prelinguistic action knowledge. In K. Hirsh-Pasek & R. Golinkoff (Eds). Action meets words(pp. 208-227). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Koenig, M. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2006). Word learning. In M. G. Gaskell (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2005

Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2005). Infants’ sensitivity to casual features of means-end support relations in action and perception. Infancy, 8 (2) 119-145. doi: 1207/s15327078in0802_2
Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2005). Pulling out the intentional structure of human action: The relation between action production and processing in infancy, Cognition, 119(2),197-215. doi: 1016/j.cognition.2003.12.004
Sommerville, J. A., Woodward, A. L., & Needham, A. (2005). Action experience alters 3-month-old infants’ perception of others’ actions. Cognition, 96, B1-B11. doi: 1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004
Vaish, A., & Woodward, A. L. (2005). Baby steps on the path to understanding intentions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences28(5), 717-719. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X05500128
Woodward, A. L. (2005).The infant origins of intentional understanding. In R. V. Kail (Ed.) Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 33 (pp. 229-262). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Woodward, A. L. (2005). Infants’ understanding of the actions involved in joint attention. In N. Eilan, C. Hoerl, T. McCormack, and J. Roessler (Eds.) Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds(pp. 110-128). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2004

Guajardo, J. J., & Woodward, A. L. (2004). Is agency skin-deep? Surface attributes influence infants’ sensitivity to goal-directed action, Infancy, 6(3), 361-384. doi: 1207/s15327078in0603_3
Wilson, C., & Woodward, A.L. (2004). What infants know about intentional action and how they might come to know it. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27(1), 129-129. doi: 1017/S0140525X04580032

2003

Heineman-Pieper, J., & Woodward, A. (2003). Understanding infants’ understanding of intention: Two problems of interpretation (A reply to Kiraly et al, 2003). Consciousness and Cognition, 12(14), 770-772. doi: 1016/j.concog.2003.08.007
Woodward, A. L. (2003).Infants’ use of action knowledge to get a grasp on words. In D. G. Hall and S. R. Waxman (Eds.) Weaving a Lexicon (pp. 149-172). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Woodward, A. L. (2003). Infants’ developing understanding of the link between looker and object. Developmental Science, 6(3), 297-311. doi:1111/1467-7687.00286

2002

Wilson, C., & Woodward, A.L. (2002). A window to the structure of the mind. Trends in Cognitive Science, 6(12), 537-538.
Woodward, A. L. (2002). Infant Cognition. In Nadel, L. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 2(pp. 525 – 531). London: Nature Publishing Group.
Woodward, A. L., & Guajardo, J. J. (2002). Infants’ understanding of the point gesture as an object-directed action. Cognitive Development, 17(1), 1061-1084. doi: 1016/S0885-2014(02)00074-6

2001

Regier, T., Corrigan, B., Cabasaan, R., Woodward, A., Gasser, M., & Smith, L. (2001). The emergence of words.In J. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.815-820). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Woodward, A. L., Sommerville, J. A., & Guajardo, J. J. (2001). How infants make sense of intentional action. In B. Malle, L. Moses, & D. Baldwin (Eds.) Intentions and intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition(pp.149-169). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2000

Golinkoff, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Bloom, L., Hollich, G., Smith, L., Woodward, A.L., Akhtar, N., Tomasello, M., & Hollich, G. (2000) Becoming a word learner: A debate on lexical acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, A. L. (2000). Constraining the problem space in early word learning. In R. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Bloom, G. Hollich, L. Smith, A. L. Woodward, L. Akhtar, M. Tomasello, & G. Hollich (Eds.) Becoming a Word Learner: A Debate on Lexical Acquisition(pp. 81-114). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, A.L. (2000). There is no silver bullet for word learning: Why monolithic accounts miss the mark.In R. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Bloom, G. Hollich, L. Smith, A. L. Woodward, L. Akhtar, M. Tomasello, & G. Hollich (Eds.) Becoming a Word Learner: A Debate on Lexical Acquisition (pp. 81-114). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, A. L., & Sommerville, J. A. (2000). Twelve-month-old infants interpret action in context. Psychological Science, 11(1), 73-76. doi: 1111/1467-9280.00218

1999

Couillard, N. L., & Woodward, A. L. (1999). Children’s comprehension of deceptive points. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 515-521. doi: 1348/026151099165447
Woodward, A. L. (1999). Infants’ ability to distinguish between purposeful and non-purposeful behaviors, Infant Behavior and Development, 22(2), 145-160. doi: 1016/S0163-6383(99)00007-7
Woodward, A. L., & Hoyne, K. L. (1999). Infants’ learning about words and sounds in relation to objects. Child Development, 70(1), 65-77. doi: 1111/1467-8624.00006

1998

Woodward, A. L. (1998). Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor’s reach. Cognition, 69(1), 1-34. doi: 1016/S0010-0277(98)00058-4
Woodward, A. L., & Markman, E. M. (1998). Early word learning. In W. Damon, D. Kuhn & R. Siegler, (Eds.) Handbook of Child Psychology, Volume 2: Cognition, Perception and Language(pp. 371-420). New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.

1996

Myers, J., Jusczyk, P. W., Kemler Nelson, D. G., Charles-Luce, J. C., Woodward, A. L., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1996). Infants’ sensitivity to word boundaries in fluent speech. Journal of Child Language, 23(1), 1-30.
Woodward, A. L. (1996). Testing the limits of domain specificity. Contemporary Psychology,41(4), 828-829.

1995

Spelke, E. S., Phillips, A. T., & Woodward, A. L. (1995). Infants’ knowledge of object motion and human action. In A.J. Premack, D. Premack, & D. Sperber (Eds.) Causal cognition: A multidisciplinary debate(pp.44-77). Oxford: Oxford University Press, New York, NY: Clarendon Press.

1994

Woodward, A. L., Markman, E. M., & Fitzsimmons, C. M. (1994). Rapid word learning in 13- and 18-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 30(4), 553-566.

1993

Woodward, A. L. (1993). The effect of labeling on children’s attention to objects. In E. V. Clark (Ed.) Proceedings of the 24th Annual Child Language Research Forum(pp. 35-47). Stanford, CA: CSLI.
Woodward, A. L., Phillips, A. T., & Spelke, E. S. (1993). Infants’ expectations about the motion of animate versus inanimate objects. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1087-1091). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

1992

Jusczyk, P. W., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Kemler Nelson, D. G., Kennedy, L. J., Woodward, A. L., & Piwoz, J. (1992). Perception of acoustic correlates of major phrasal units by young infants. Cognitive Psychology, 24(2), 252-293.

1991

Woodward, A. L., & Markman, E.M. (1991). Constraints on learning as default assumptions: Comments on Merriman and Bowman’s “The mutual exclusivity bias in children’s word learning.” Developmental Review, 11(2), 137-163.