Selected Publications

Cristina M. Atance, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences

Manuscripts in Preparation

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (2002). Anticipating future events and situations: Preschoolers' developing notion of the future.

Manuscripts Under Review

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (2002). Acting and planning on the basis of a false belief: Its effects on 3-year-old children's reasoning about their own false beliefs.

Scientific Publications

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (2001). Episodic future thinking. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 533-539.

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (2001). Planning in 3-year-olds: A reflection of the future self? In C. Moore & K. Lemmon (Eds.), The self in time: Developmental perspectives (pp. 121-140). Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum.

O'Neill, D. K., & Atance, C. M. (2000). Maybe my Daddy give me a big piano: The development of children's use of modals to express uncertainty. First Language, 20(58), 29-52.

Conference Presentations

Atance, C. M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2003, April). Causal reasoning in the context of future thinking. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa Bay, FL.
Bernstein, D. M., Atance, C. M., & Loftus, G. R. (2003, April). We saw it all along: Visual hindsight bias in children and adults. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa Bay, FL.

Atance, C. M. (2002, April). A preliminary investigation of parents' use of the term 'think' to highlight the notion of false belief. Poster session presented at the "Why language matters for a theory of mind" Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (2001, October). How acting and planning on the basis of a false belief affects reasoning about false beliefs in 3-year-olds. Poster session presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference, Virginia Beach, VA.

Atance, C. M., & Benson, J. B. (2001, April). Future thinking: Cognitive, contextual and social aspects. Symposium conducted at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D.K. (2001, April).The development of episodic future thinking. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Atance, C. M. (2001, April). Three-year-olds' explanations of their actions premised on false beliefs. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (2000, May). "I got the paper because there were candles in there!" Three-year-olds' understanding of actions premised on false beliefs. Poster session presented at Development 2000: A conference on child development, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (1999, October). The role of uncertainty in retrieving a false belief. Poster session presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (1999, April). Preschoolers' reasoning about future possibilities. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Albuquerque, NM.

Atance, C. M., & O'Neill, D. K. (1998, May). The emergence of self-related planning abilities. Paper presented at the 10th Biennial Waterloo Conference on Child Development, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

O'Neill, D. K., & Atance, C. M. (1998, October). The emergence of an understanding of future possibilities and its relationship to the emergence of children's verbal planning abilities. Paper presented at the Human Cognitive Specializations Conference, New Iberia, LA.

O'Neill, D. K., & Atance, C. M. (1997, April). Developing notions of uncertainty in the speech of 2-to 4-year-old children. Poster session presented at the University of Michigan Conference on Developmental Processes in Early Social Understanding, Ann Arbor, MI.