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Brooks, R. & Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). The development of gaze following and its relation to language, Developmental Science, 8, 535-543.

Aylward, E. H, Park, J., Field, K. M., Grimme, A. C., Richards, T. L., Cramer, S. C., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). Brain activation during face processing: Evidence of a developmental change. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 308-319.

Bernstein, D. M., Loftus, G. R., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). Object identification in preschool children and adults. Developmental Science, 8, 151-161.

Chaminade, T., Meltzoff, A. N. & Decety, J. (2005). An fMRI study of imitation: Action representation and body schema. Neuropsychologia, 43, 115-127.

Decety, J. 2005. Perspective taking as the royal avenue to empathy. In B.F. Malle & S.D. Hodges (Eds.), Other minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and other (pp. 135-149). New York: Guildford Publications.

Decety, J. & Chaminade, T. 2005. The neurophysiology of imitation and intersubjectivity. In S. Hurley (Ed.), Perspectives on imitation: From cognitive neuroscience to social science (pp. 119-1409). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Huebner, C. H. & Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). Intervention to change parent-child reading style: A comparison of instructional methods. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 26, 296-313.

Imada, T. (2005). How does the brain work when hearing speech sounds? -- Human auditory-language neural system, neuroimaging, and artificial intelligence. Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 20, 94-103. [Japanese].

Jackson, P. L., Meltzoff, A. N. & Decety, J. (2005). How do we perceive the pain of others: A window into the neural processes involved in empathy. NeuroImage, 24, 771-779.

Lengua, L. J., Long, A. C., Smith, K. I., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). Pre-attack symptomatology and temperament as predictors of children's responses to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 631-645.

Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). Imitation and other minds: The "Like Me" hypothesis. In S. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.), Perspectives on imitation: From cognitive neuroscience to social science (Vol. 2, pp. 145-173). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). Imitation. In B. Hopkins (Ed.), Cambridge encyclopedia of child development (pp. 327-331). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Klarman, L., Garcia-Sierra, A. & Kuhl, P.K. (2005). ERP patterns to speech contrast in 11 month-old infants and later linguistic outcomes. NeuroReport, 16, 495-8.

Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Silva-Pereyra, J. & Kuhl, P.K. (2005). Brain potentials to native and non-native speech contrasts in seven- and eleven-month-old American infants. Developmental Science, 8, 162-172.

Silva-Pereyra, J., Rivera-Gaxiola, M. & Kuhl, P.K. (2005). An event-related brain potential study of sentence comprehension in preschoolers: Semantic and morphosyntatic processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 247-258.

Silva-Pereyra, J. & Rivera-Gaxiola, M. (2005). Event related potentials in poor readers. In H. D. Tobias (Ed.), Trends in dyslexia research. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Sommerville, J. A. & Woodward, A. L. (2005). Pulling out the structure of intentional action: The relation between action processing and production in infancy. Cognition, 95, 1-30.

Zhang, Y., Kuhl, P.K., Imada, T., Kotani, M., and Tohkura, Y. (2005). Effects of language experience: Neural commitment to language-specific auditory patterns. NeuroImage, 26 703-720.

Bernstein, D. M., Atance, C., Loftus, G., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2004). We saw it all along: Visual hindsight bias in children and adults. Psychological Science, 15, 264-267.

Cheour, M., Imada, T., Taulu, S., Ahonen, A., Salonen, J., & Kuhl, P.K. (2004). Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is feasible for infant assessment of auditory discrimination. Experimental Neurology, 190, S44-51.

Decety, J., & Jackson, P.L. (2004). The functional architecture of human empathy. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 71-100.

Decety, J., Jackson, P. L., Sommerville, J., Chaminade, T., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2004). The neural bases of cooperation and competition: an fMRI investigation. NeuroImage, 23, 744-751.

Farrer, C., Franck, N., Georgieff, N., Frith, C.D., Decety, J., & Jeannerod, M. (2004). Neural correlates of action attribution in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 131, 31-44.

Gulyas, B., Keri, S., O'Sullivan, B.T., Decety, J., Roland, P.E., & Savic, I. (2004). The putative pheromone androstadienone activates cortical fields in the human brain related to social cognition. Neurochemistry, 44, 39-44.

Jackson, P.L., & Decety, J. (2004). Motor cognition: A new paradigm to investigate social interactions. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14, 259-263.

Keri, S., Decety, J., Roland, P.E., & Gulyas, B. (2004). Feature uncertainty activates anterior cingulate cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 21, 26-33.

Kuhl, P.K. (2004). Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5, 831-843.

Meltzoff, A. N. (2004). The case for a developmental cognitive science: Theories of people and things. In G. Bremner & A. Slater (Eds.), Theories of infant development (pp. 145-173). Oxford: Blackwell.

Meltzoff, A. N. & Decety, J. (2004). What imitation tells us about social cognition: A rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In C. Frith & D. Wolpert (Eds.), The neuroscience of social interaction: Decoding, influencing, and imitating the actions of others (pp. 109-130). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Moore, M. K., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2004). Object permanence after a 24-hr delay and leaving the locale of disappearance: The role of memory, space, and identity. Developmental Psychology, 40, 606-620.

Repacholi, B., & Trapolini, T. (2004). Attachment and preschool children's understanding of maternal versus non-maternal psychological states. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22, 395-416.

Ruby, P., & Decety, J. (2004). How would you feel versus how do you think she would feel? A neuroimaging study of perspective taking with social emotions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 988-999.

Tsao, F.-M., Liu, H.-M., & Kuhl, P. K. (2004). Speech perception in infancy predicts language development in the second year of life: A longitudinal study. Child Development, 75, 1067-1084.

Watanabe, K., Sayres, R., Shimojo, S., Imada, T., & Nihei, K. (2004). Effect of sodium valproate on neuromagnetic responses to chromatic flicker: Implication for photosensitivity. Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, 61, 1-7, 2004.

Blakemore, S.-J., Boyer, P., Pachot-Clouard, M., Meltzoff, A., Segebarth, C., & Decety, J. (2003). The detection of contingency and animacy from simple animations in the human brain. La Cerebral Cortex, 13, 837-844.

Brunet, E. Sarfati, Y., Hardy-Bayle, M.-C., & Decety, J. (2003). Abnormalities of brain function during a nonverbal theory of mind task in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1574-1582.

Carver, L., Dawson, G., Panagiotides, H., Meltzoff, A. N., McPartland, J., Gray, J., & Munson, J. (2003). Age-related differences in neural correlates of face recognition during the toddler and preschool years. Developmental Psychobiology, 42,148-159.

Decety, J. & Sommerville, J.A. (2003). Shared representations between self and other: A social cognitive neuroscience view. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 527-533.

Iverson, P., Kuhl, P. K., Akahane-Yamada, R., Diesch, E., Tohkura, Y., Kettermann, A., & Siebert, C. (2003). A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes. Cognition, 87, B47-B57.

Kuhl, P. K.. (2003). Human speech and birdsong: Communication and the social brain. PNAS, 100, 9645-9646.

Kuhl, P.K., Taso, F.M., & Liu, H.M. (2003). Foreign-language experience in infancy: Effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learning. PNAS, 100, 9096-9101.

Liu, H. M., Kuhl, P. K., & Tsao, F. M. (2003). An association between mothers' speech clarity and infants' speech discrimination skills. Developmental Science, 6, F1-F10.

Meltzoff, A. N. (2003). The case for a developmental cognitive science: Theories of people and things. In G. Bremner & A. Slater (Eds.), Theories of infant development (pp. 145-173). Oxford: Blackwell.

Meltzoff, A.N., & Carver, L. J. (2003). Memory in infancy. In J. Byrne, H. Eichenbaum, H. Roediger, & R. Thompson (Eds.), Learning and memory (2nd edition). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan.

Meltzoff, A. N., & Decety, J. (2003). What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 358, 491-500.

Repacholi, B., Slaughter, V., Pritchard, M., & Gibbs, V. Theory of mind, Machiavellianism, and social functioning in childhood. In Repacholi, B., & Slaughter, V. (Eds.), Individual differences in theory of mind: Implications for typical and atypical development (pp. 67-98). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Silva-Pereyra, J., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Aubert E., Bosch, J. Galan, L. & Salazar, A. (2003). N400 during lexical decision tasks: a current source localization study. Clinical Neurophysiology, 114, 2469-2486.

Stevenson, R., & Repacholi, B. (2003). Age-related changes in children's hedonic response to male body odor. Developmental Psychology, 39: 670-679.

Watanabe, M., & Imada, T. (2003). Off-response to pure tone is not enhanced by the previous tone presented to the other ear. The Journal of Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetic Society, 16, 110-111. [Japanese]