Selected Publications

Jessica Sommerville, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Washington Department of Psychology

Scientific Publications

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

Decety, J., & SOMMERVILLE, J.A. (in press). Motor cognition. In Cognition: Mind and Brain, ed. S. Kosslyn, and E. Smith. New York: Prentice Hall.

Sommerville, J. A. (2002). Means-end reasoning: infants' developing ability to interpret and perform intentional actions. Doctoral dissertation, The University of Chicago.

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.

Zelazo, P. D., & Sommerville, J. A. (2001). Levels of consciousness of the self in time. In C. Moore & K. Skene (Eds.), The self in time: Developmental perspectives (pp. 229-252). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Woodward, A. L. & Sommerville, J. A. (2000). Twelve-month-old infants interpret action in context. Psychological Science, 11, 73-77.

Zelazo, P. D., Sommerville, J. A, & Nichols, S. (1999). Age-related changes in children’s use of external representations. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1059-1071.

Conference Presentations

Sommerville, J. A., & Hammond, A. J. (2003, October). "Did I do that or did you do that?” Remembering “who” vs. remembering “what” in the context of joint activity. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. Park City, UT.

Sommerville, J. A., & Hammond, A. J. (2003, April). "I did it all by myself": Exploring preschool children's source-monitoring errors. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa Bay, FL.

Sommerville, J. A., & Decety, J. (2003, April). A self-other representation network. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Sommerville, J. A. & Woodward, A. L. (2002, June). Learning through doing: Performing and understanding goal-directed action in infancy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society. Philadelphia, PA.

Sommerville, J. A. & Woodward, A. L. (2002, April) Infants' developing sensitivity to the intentional structure of action. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Sommerville, J. A. (2001, October). From one action to another: The relation between performing and perceiving goal-directed behavior in infancy. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Virginia Beach, VA.