Publications by Research Area

Self in Development

Social Development

Symbolic Development

Perception and Motor Development

  • Wang, S. & Rochat, P. (submitted). When a humanlike face harbors a humanlike mind— Face animacy perception and the uncanny valley.
  • Rochat, P. (2007). Do Infants Dream of Baby Sheep? In. M. Tokoro & K. Mogi (Eds.). Creativity and the Brain. World Scientific Publishers.
  • Rochat, P., Striano, T., & Morgan, R. (2004). Who is doing what to whom? Young infants’ developing sense of social causality in animated displays. Perception, 33(3), 355-369.
  • Rochat, P. (1999). Direct perception and representation in infancy. In R. Fivush, G. Winograd, & W. Hirst (Eds.) Ecological Approach to Cognition: Essays in Honor of Ulric Neisser (pp. 3-30). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate.
  • Rochat, P., Goubet, N., & Senders, S.J. (1999). To reach or not to reach? Perception of body effectivities by young infants. Infant and Child Development, 8, 129-148.
  • Rochat, P. & Striano, T. (1998) The primacy of action in infancy. Human Development, 41, 112-115.
  • Rochat, P., Goubet, N. & Shah, B. (1997). Enhanced sucking engagement by preterm infants during intermittent gavage feedings. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 18(1), 22-26.
  • Rochat, P. & Wraga M.J. (1997). An account for the systematic error in judging what is reachable. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 23(1), 199-212.
  • Rochat, P. (1995). Perceived reachability for self and for others by 3 to 5-year old children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 59, 317-333.
  • Rochat, P. & Goubet, N. (1995). Development of sitting and reaching in 5-6-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 18, 53-68.
  • Rochat, P. & Morgan, R. (1995). Spatial determinants in the perception of self-produced leg movements by 3-5 month old infants. Developmental Psychology, 31 (4), 626-636.
  • Rochat, P. & Wraga, M.J. (1994). Perceiving what is reachable: Systematic errors in the perception of an affordance. Emory Cognition Project, #29.
  • Clifton, R.K., Rochat, P., Robin, D.J., & Berthier, N.E. (1994). Multimodal perception in the control of infant reaching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 20(4), 876-886.
  • Rochat, P. & Bullinger, A. (1994). Posture and functional action in infancy. In Vyt, A., Bloch, H., & Bornstein, M. (Eds.), Early Child Development in the French Tradition: Contributions from Current Research (pp. 15-34). NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
  • Rochat, P. (1993). Hand-mouth coordination in the newborn: Morphology, determinants, and early development of a basic act. In Savelsbergh (Ed.), The Development of Coordination in Infancy. Advances in Psychology Series (pp. 265-288). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publisher.
  • Rochat, P. & Wraga, M.J. (1993). Postural determinants of perceived reachability. In S. Stavros Valenti & John B. Pittenger (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action II (pp. 30-35). Hillsdale (NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
  • Rochat, P. & Morgan, R. (1993). Self-perception by 3-month-old infants. In Stavros Valenti & John B. Pittenger (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action II (pp. 14-18). Hillsdale (NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
  • Rochat, P. (1992). Self-sitting and reaching in 5-8 month old infants: The impact of posture and its development on early eye-hand coordination. Journal of Motor Behavior, 24(2), 210-220.
  • Clifton, R.K., Rochat, P., Litovsky, R., & Perris, E.E. (1991). Object representation guides infant reaching in the dark. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17(2), 323-329.
  • Rochat, P. (1991). Activite tactile-orale chez le nouveau-ne (Haptic-oral activity by young infants). In F. Jouen & A. Henocq (Eds.), Du Nouveau-Ne au Nourrisson: Recherche fondamentale et pediatrie (pp. 93-106). Presses Universitaires do France.
  • Rochat, P., & Senders, S.J. (1991). Active touch in infancy: Action systems in development. In M.J. Weiss & P.R. Zelazo (Eds.), Infant Attention: Biological Contraints and the Influence of Experience. NJ: Ablex Publishers, 412-442.
  • Rochat, P. (1989). Object manipulation and exploration in 2- to 5-month old infants. Developmental Psychology, 25, 871-884.
  • Blass, E.M., Fillion, T.J., Rochat, P., Hoffmeyer, L.B., & Metzger, M.A. (1989). Sensorimotor and motivational determinants of hand-mouthcoordination in 1-3 day old human infants. Developmental Psychology, 25, 963-975.
  • Rochat, P., Blass, E.M., & Hoffmeyer, L.B. (1988).Oropharyngeal control of hand-mouth coordination in newborn infants. Developmental Psychology, 24, 459-463.
  • Rochat, P. (1987). Mouthing and grasping in neonates: Evidence for the early detection of what hard or soft substance afford for action. Infant Behavior and Development, 10, 435-449.
  • Rochat, P. & Reed, E.S. (1987). Le concept d’affordance et les connaissances du nourrisson. Psychologie Francaise, tome 32-1/2 Juin., 97-104.
  • Bullinger, A. & Rochat, P. (1985). L’activite orale du nourrisson comme indice du comportement (Infants’ oral activity as a behavioral index). In P.M. Baudonniere (Ed.), Etudier l’enfant do la naissance a trois ans: les grands courants methodologiques actuels (pp. 55-69). Paris: CNRS, Coll. Comportements.
  • Pont, D., Bullinger, A., & Rochat, P. (1984). Recording system of infant oral response during regular feeding session. Infant Behavior and Development, 7, 533-535.
  • Osiek, C. & Rochat, P. (1983). Codage de la forme d’un objet par l’enfant: Les processus sont-ils analogues dans les modalites visuelle ou tactile de prise d’information?(Visual and haptic coding of shapes: Analogous Processes?) Archives de Psychologie, 51, 93-99.
  • Rochat, P. (1983). Oral touch in young infants: Response to variations of nipple characteristics in the first months of life. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 6, 123-133.

Comparative Cognition

  • Poss, S. & Rochat, P. (2003). Referential understanding of videos in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), and children (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117(4), 420-428.
  • Call, J. & Rochat, P. (1997). Perceptual strategies in the estimation of physical quantities by Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 111(4), 315-329.
  • Call, J. & Rochat, P. (1996). Liquid conservation in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and humans (Homo sapiens): Individual differences and perceptual strategies. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110(3), 219-232.

Early Cognition

  • Rochat, P. (2017). Baby assault on Piaget. In Marti, E., & C. Rodriguez (Eds.) After Piaget (pp.71-82). Taylor & Francis ebook Publishing.
  • Taubert, J., Weiss-Sanders, K., Parr, L., & Rochat, P. (2016/submitted). The face of familiar races attract attention of infants in complex displays.
  • Rochat, P. (2014). La naissance de la conscience de soi (birth of self-consciousness). Revue Pour la Science. Paris.
  • Rochat, P. (2013). Naissance de l’identité chez l’enfant, Soigner l’enfant, Editions Erès.
  • Hespos, S.J. & Rochat, P. (1997). Dynamic mental representation in infacy. Cognition, 64, 153-188.
  • Rochat, P. & Hespos, S.J. (1996). Tracking and anticipation of invisible spatial transformations by 4-to-8-month old infants. Cognitive Development, 11, 3-17.
  • Simon, T., Hespos, S., & Rochat, P. (1995). Do infants understand simple arithmetic? A replication of Wynn (1992). Cognitive Development, 10, 253-269.
  • Tomasello, M. & Rochat, P. (1994). “Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science” by Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Philosophical Psychology, 7(4), 536-539.
  • Rochat, P. (1993). L’objet des actions du bebe (The object of babies’ action). In V. Pouthas & F. Jouen (Eds.), les comportements du bebe: Expression de son savoir? (pp. 209-232). Bruxelles: Mardaga Publisher.
  • Clifton, R.K., Rochat, P., Litovsky, R., & Perris, E.E. (1991). Representation guides infant reaching in the dark. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17(2), 323-329.
  • Rochat, P. (1985). French translation of L.P. Lipsitt, “Cognition and behavior of the newborn” in P. Vert & L. Stern (Eds.), Neonatal medicine. Paris: Masson.
  • Rochat, P. (1983). “Adaptation and intelligence: Organic selection and phenocopy” by Piaget, J. Review of Psychoanalytic Books, 2, 193-195.

Cross Cultural Studies

  • Broesch, T., Aime, H. & Rochat, P. (submitted). Cultural differences in infant spontaneous behavior: Evidence from a small-scale, rural island society.
  • Guo, C. & Rochat, P. (submitted). Cultural Differences in Children’s Evaluation of Lies.
  • Rochat, P. (2019). Fondements innés de l’acquis (Innate foundations of nurture). L’autre, Cliniques, Cultures et Sociétés, 20(2), 155-162.
  • Robbins, E., Shepard, J., & Rochat, P. (2017). Variations in judgments of intentional action and moral evaluation across eight cultures. Cognition, 164, 22-30.
  • Robbins, E., Shepard, J., & Rochat, P. (2016/submitted). Cross-cultural variability in praise and blame attribution: Evidence from 7 cultures.
  • Broesch, T., Rochat, P., Olah, K., Broesch, J., Henrich, J. (2016). Similarities and differences in maternal responsiveness in three societies: Evidence from Fiji, Kenya, and the United States. Child Development, 87(3), 700-711.
  • Robbins, E., Starr, S. & Rochat, P. (2016). Fairness and distributive justice by 3-to 5-year-old Tibetan children. APA Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,47(3), 330-340.
  • Rochat, P., Robbins, E. Passos-Ferreira, C., Donato Oliva, A., Dias, M.D.G., Liping G. (2014). Ownership reasoning in children across cultures Cognition, 132(3): 471-84.
  • Zebian, S., Rochat, P. (2012). Judgment of land ownership by young refugee Palestinian and US children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36(6), 449–456.
  • Callaghan, T., Rochat, P., & Corbit, J. (2012) Young children’s knowledge of representational function of pictorial symbols: Develepoment across the preschool years in three cultures. Journal of Cognition and Development, 13(3), 320-353.
  • Robbins, E. & Rochat, P. (2011). Emerging signs of strong reciprocity in human ontogeny. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(353), 1-14.
  • Broesch, T., Callaghan, T., Henrich, J. & Rochat, P. (2010). Cultural variations in children’s mirror self-recognition. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(6), 1018-1029.
  • Rochat, P. (2010). What is really wrong with a-priori claims of universality? Sampling, validity, process level, and the irresistible drive to reduce. [Commentary on J. Henrich et al.: Weirdest People in the World?] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2/3), 107-108.
  • Rochat, P., Dias, M.D.G., Guo, L. Broesch, T., Passos-Ferreira, C., Winning, A. Berg, B. (2009). Fairness in distributive justice by 3-and 5-year-olds across 7 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40(3), 416-442.
  • Callaghan, T., Rochat, P., Lillard, A., Claux, M.L., Odden, H., Itakura, S., Tapanya, S., & Singh, S. (2005). Synchrony in the onset of mental-state reasoning: Evidence from five cultures. Psychological Science, 16(5), 378-384.
  • Odden, H. & Rochat, P. (2004). Observational learning and enculturation. Educational and Child Development, 21(2), 39-50.
  • Rochat, P. (1981). “La naissance de l’intelligence chez l’enfant Baoule de Cote d’Ivoire” by Dasen, R. Inhelder, B., and Reitschisky, J. Infant Behavior and Development, 4, 110-111.