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Books

  • Infants' sense of people: Precursors to Theory of Mind (Cambridge University Press 9780521521697) (Japanese language edition), Shinyosha publishers (in press)

  • Legerstee, M. Haley. D. and Bornstein, M. (Eds.) (in press). The Developing Infant Mind: Integrating Biology and Experience, Guilford Press.


 

                          

 

 

Jodie A Baird, Megan M. Saylor (2006)

Knowing Others in the First Year of Life Human Development, 49:363-368 Essay Review of "Infants' sense of People: Precursors to a Theory of Mind."


  • Legerstee, M. (2007, ISBN: 8860301165), La comprensione sociale precoce, (translated, Dr Sabrina Rosini), Series: Development and Educational Processes, Olga Liverta-Sempio and Antonelle Marchetti – Special editors. (Raffaello Cortina, Publisher). La comprensione sociale precoce (2007)


Refereed Book chapters

Legerstee, M., (2009) The role of dyadic communication in infant
social-cognitive development. In: Patricia Bauer, editor: Advances in
Child Development and Behavior, Vol 37, The Netherlands: Elsevier,
pp. 1-53.

Markova, M. & Legerstee, M. (2010). Neural structures and Jealousy in young infants In: Hart, S. & Legerstee, M. (Eds.). Handbook of Jealousy: Theories, Principles and Multidisciplinary Approaches, Wiley Blackwell Publishers.

Legerstee, M., Ellenbogen, B., & Nienhuis, T. and Marsh. H. (2010). Early sensitivity to jealousy evocation reveals awareness of people’s motives. In: Hart, S. & Legerstee, M. (Eds.). Handbook of Jealousy: Theories, Principles and Multidisciplinary Approaches, (pp.163-191). Wiley Blackwell Publishers.

Legerstee, M. (2008). Das Bewusstseinmentaler Zustaende im Saeuglingsalter: Die Rolle von Beziehungen. (Translated from English: Mental state awareness in Infancy and Childhood: The role of relationships) In Karl-Heinz Brisch & Theodor Hellbrügge, (Eds). "Der Saeugling -Bindung,Neurobiologie und Gene", (The Infant, Attachment, Neurobiology and Genes), Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, (pp.266- 288).

Legerstee, M., Pasic, N., Barillas, Y. & Fahy, L. (2004). Social emotional development: The basis for mentalism, S. Gallagher, S. Watson, P. LeBrun & P. Romanski. (Eds.) Ipseity and Alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity, (pp. 33-46) Rouen: Publications de l'Université de Rouen. France

Legerstee, M. (2001). Domain specificity and the epistemic triangle: The development of the concept of animacy in infancy. In F. Lacerda, C. Von Hofsten and M. Heinemann (Eds.), Emerging Cognitive Abilities in Early Infancy. (pp. 193-212). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Legerstee, M. (1999). Mental and Bodily Awareness in Infancy: Consciousness of Self-existence, In Shaun Gallagher & Jonathan Shear (Eds.). Models of the Self, (pp. 213-230) Imprint Academic, UK.

Legerstee, M. (1997). Changes in social-conceptual development: Domain specific structures, self-organization and indeterminism, In: Fogel, Alan., Lyra, Maria C.D.P., Valsiner, Jaan. (Eds.) Dynamics and indeterminism in developmental and social processes. (pp. 245-260) Erlbaum, NJ.

Refereed articles: (student names in bold)

Marsh, H., Stavropoulos, J. Nienhuis, T & Legerstee, M. (2010). Six- and nine-month-old infants discriminate between goals despite similar action patterns. Infancy, Volume 15, Issue 1 (94-106).

http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=14201

Markova, M., & Legerstee, M (2008) (Invited contribution – M. Legerstee). How infants come to learn about the minds of others Zero to Three Journal, 28, 3, 26-31.

Legerstee, M., & Fisher. T. (2008). Coordinated attention, Imperative and Declarative Pointing in Infants with and without Down syndrome: Sharing experiences with Adults and Peers, First Language, 28, 281–311.

Legerstee, M., & Markova, G. (2008). Variations in Imitation: Ten-month-old infant awareness of intentional action. Infant Behavior and Development. 31, 81-91

Legerstee, M. & Markova, G. (2007). Intentions make a difference: Infant responses to still-face and modified still-face conditions. Infant Behavior and Development, 30, 232-250

Reddy, V. & Legerstee, M. (2007). What does it mean to communicate? Special Issue: Maria Legerstee & Vasu Reddy (Eds). What does it mean to communicate for Infants? Infant Behavior and Development, 30, 2, 177-297.

Legerstee, M. Markova, G. & Fisher, T. (2007). The role of maternal affect attunement in dyadic and triadic communication, Infant behavior and Development, 2, 296- 306.

Markova, G. & Legerstee, M. (2006). Contingency, Imitation or Affect sharing? Foundations of Infants’ social awareness, Developmental Psychology, 42, 132- 141.

Barna, J. & Legerstee, M. (2005). Nine and 12 month-old infants relate emotions to people’s actions, Cognition and Emotion, 19, 53-67

Legerstee, M. & Barillas, Y. (2003). Sharing attention and Pointing to objects at 12 months: Is the intentional stance implied? Cognitive Development, 18, 91-110.

Striano, T. Rochat, P., & Legerstee, M. (2003). The role of modeling and conventionality in the symbolic comprehension of prelinguistic gestures. Journal of Child Language, 30, 27- 45.

Legerstee, M., Van Beek, Y., & Varghese, J. (2002). Effects of Maintaining and Redirecting infant attention on the production of referential communication in infants with and without Down syndrome. Journal of Child Language, 29, 23-48.

Legerstee, M. (2001). Six month-old infants rely on explanatory inference when relating communication to people and manipulatory actions to inanimate objects: Reply to Gergely. Developmental Psychology, 5, 583-586.

Legerstee, M. & Varghese, J. M. (2001). The role of Maternal affect mirroring on Social Expectancies in 3-month-old infants. Child Development, 5, 1301-1313.

Legerstee, M., Di Adamo, C. & Barna, J. (2000). Precursors to the development of intention: Understanding people and their actions at 6-months. Developmental Psychology, 36, 627-634.

Legerstee, M.(1998). Mental and bodily awareness in infancy: Consciousness of self-existence, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5, 627-644.

Legerstee, M. Anderson, D. & Schaffer, M. (1998). Five and eight month-old infants recognize their faces and voices as familiar and social stimuli, Child Development, 69, 37-50.

Legerstee, M. (1997). Contingency effects of people and objects on subsequent cognitive functioning in three-month-old infants, Social Development, 3, 307-321.

Legerstee, M. and Weintraub, J. (1997).The integration of person and object attention in infants with and without Down syndrome. Infant Behavior and Development, 20, 71-83.

Legerstee, M. (1994). The role of familiarity and sound in the development of person and object permanence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 455-468.

Legerstee, M. (1994). Patterns of 4-month-old infant responses to hidden silent and sounding people and objects. Early Development and Parenting, 3, 71-80.

Legerstee, M., Bowman, T.G. & Fels, S. (1992). People and objects affect the quality of vocalizations in infants with Down syndrome. Early Development and Parenting, 1, 149-156.

 Legerstee, M. (1992). A review of the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy:  Implications for models of social and cognitive knowing. Early Development and Parenting, 1, 57-67.

Legerstee, M. (1991). Changes in the quality of infant sounds as a function of social and nonsocial stimulation, First Language, 11, 327-343.

Legerstee, M. (1991). The role of person and object in eliciting early imitation, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 51, 423-433.

Legerstee, M. (1990). Infants use multimodal stimulation to imitate speech sounds, Infant Behavior and Development, 13, 345-356.

Legerstee, M. Corter, C., and Kienapple, K. (1990). Hand, arm and facial actions of young infants to a social and nonsocial stimulus, Child Development, 61, 774-784.

Legerstee, M. & Bowman, T. (1989). The development of responses to people and a toy in infants with Down syndrome. Infant Behavior and Development, 12, 462-473.

Legerstee, M. Pomerleau, A., Malcuit, G. and Feider, H. (1987). The development of infants' responses to people and a doll: Implications for research in communication.  Infant Behavior and Development, 10, 81-95.

Legerstee, M. and Feider, H. (1986). The acquisition of pronouns in French speaking children. International Journal of Psychology, 21, 629-639.

Legerstee, M., Pomerleau, A. & Malcuit, G. (1985). The development of animate and inanimate distinctions in infants. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 5, 255-256.

Koepke, J.E., Hamm, M., Legerstee, M. & Russell, M. (1983). Neonatal imitation: Two failures to replicate. Infant Behavior and Development, 6, 97-102.

Koepke, J.E., Hamm, M., Legerstee, M. & Russell, M. (1983). Methodological issues in studies of imitation: Reply to Meltzoff and Moore. Infant Behavior and Development, 6, 113-16.

Legerstee, M. & Feider, H. (1982). Implantation et évaluation d'un programme motivationnelle en classe d'immersion. Canadian Modern Language Review, 39, 18-24.