E. Spelke

Most-cited papers

Representations of space, time, and number in neonates
M. D. de Hevia, V. Izard, Aurélie Coubart, E. Spelke +1 more
2014Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America272 citations Open access
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Mind Games: Game Engines as an Architecture for Intuitive Physics.
T. Ullman, E. Spelke, P. Battaglia, J. Tenenbaum
2017Trends in Cognitive Sciences264 citations
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Brief non-symbolic, approximate number practice enhances subsequent exact symbolic arithmetic in children
Daniel C. Hyde, Saeeda Khanum, E. Spelke
2014Cognition233 citations Open access
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Inferring Character From Faces: A Developmental Study
Emily J Cogsdill, Alexander T. Todorov, E. Spelke, M. Banaji
2014Psychology Science209 citations Open access
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What's worth the effort: Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions
Shari Liu, T. Ullman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, E. Spelke
2017Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society194 citations
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Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact
M. Sheskin, Kimberly Scott, Candice M. Mills, Elika Bergelson +12 more
2020Trends in Cognitive Sciences173 citations Open access
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Two Randomized Trials Provide No Consistent Evidence for Nonmusical Cognitive Benefits of Brief Preschool Music Enrichment
Samuel A. Mehr, Adena Schachner, Rachel C. Katz, E. Spelke
2013PLoS ONE118 citations Open access
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Cognitive science in the field: A preschool intervention durably enhances intuitive but not formal mathematics
M. Dillon, Harini Kannan, Joshua T. Dean, E. Spelke +1 more
2017Science107 citations Open access
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For 5-Month-Old Infants, Melodies Are Social
Samuel A. Mehr, Lee Ann Song, E. Spelke
2016Psychology Science106 citations
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First-person action experience reveals sensitivity to action efficiency in prereaching infants
A. Skerry, S. Carey, E. Spelke
2013Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America101 citations Open access
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Modeling Expectation Violation in Intuitive Physics with Coarse Probabilistic Object Representations
Kevin A. Smith, Ling-Jie Mei, Shunyu Yao, Jiajun Wu +3 more
2019Neural Information Processing Systems100 citations
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Preverbal infants identify emotional reactions that are incongruent with goal outcomes
A. Skerry, E. Spelke
2013Cognition99 citations Open access
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Core Knowledge, Language, and Number
E. Spelke
201792 citations
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Six-month-old infants expect agents to minimize the cost of their actions.
Shari Liu, E. Spelke
2017Cognition92 citations Open access
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Human infants’ understanding of social imitation: Inferences of affiliation from third party observations
Lindsey J. Powell, E. Spelke
2016bioRxiv89 citations Open access
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AGENT: A Benchmark for Core Psychological Reasoning
Tianmin Shu, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Chuang Gan, Kevin A. Smith +5 more
2021International Conference on Machine Learning85 citations
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Dissociation between small and large numerosities in newborn infants
Aurélie Coubart, V. Izard, E. Spelke, Julien Marie +1 more
2013Developmental Science77 citations Open access
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Core foundations of abstract geometry
M. Dillon, Yi Huang, E. Spelke
2013Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America75 citations Open access
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Melting lizards and crying mailboxes: Children's preferential recall of minimally counterintuitive concepts
Konika Banerjee, Omar S. Haque, E. Spelke
2013Cognitive Sciences73 citations Open access
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Toward Exact Number: Young Children Use One-to-one Correspondence to Measure Set Identity but not Numerical Equality
V. Izard, A. Streri, E. Spelke
2014Cognitive Psychology65 citations Open access
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Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships
Ashley J. Thomas, B. Woo, D. Nettle, E. Spelke +1 more
2022Science62 citations Open access
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Shared cultural knowledge: Effects of music on young children’s social preferences
Gaye Soley, E. Spelke
2016Cognition61 citations Open access
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Origins of the concepts cause, cost, and goal in prereaching infants
Shari Liu, Neon Brooks, E. Spelke
2019Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America59 citations Open access
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What do Different Beliefs Tell us? An Examination of Factual, Opinion-Based, and Religious Beliefs
Larisa Heiphetz, E. Spelke, P. Harris, M. Banaji
2014Cognitive development55 citations Open access
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Navigation by environmental geometry: the use of zebrafish as a model
Sang-Ah Lee, G. Vallortigara, Michele Flore, E. Spelke +1 more
2013Journal of Experimental Biology54 citations Open access
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Where Perceiving Ends and Thinking Begins: The Apprehension of Objects in Infancy
E. Spelke
201349 citations
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The aesthetic preference for symmetry dissociates from early-emerging attention to symmetry
Yi Huang, Xiao-Di Xue, E. Spelke, Li-Jie Huang +2 more
2018Scientific Reports46 citations Open access
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Children use targets' facial appearance to guide and predict social behavior.
T. Charlesworth, Sarah Hudson, Emily J Cogsdill, E. Spelke +1 more
2019Developmental Psychology42 citations Open access
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Third-Party Preferences for Imitators in Preverbal Infants
Lindsey J. Powell, E. Spelke
2018Open Mind40 citations Open access
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The Cradle of Social Knowledge: Infants’ Reasoning about Caregiving and Affiliation
Annie C. Spokes, E. Spelke
2016Cognition40 citations Open access
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Places in the Brain: Bridging Layout and Object Geometry in Scene-Selective Cortex
M. Dillon, Andrew S. Persichetti, E. Spelke, Daniel D. Dilks
2018Cerebral Cortex38 citations Open access
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Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily
R. Yan, Ghazal Jessani, E. Spelke, P. D. de Villiers +2 more
2021Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences37 citations Open access
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Children’s Expectations and Understanding of Kinship as a Social Category
Annie C. Spokes, E. Spelke
2016Frontiers in Psychology37 citations Open access
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Non-symbolic halving in an Amazonian indigene group
K. McCrink, E. Spelke, S. Dehaene, Pierre Pica
2013Developmental Science35 citations Open access
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Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others
Ashley J. Thomas, R. Saxe, E. Spelke
2022Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America34 citations Open access
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Effects of Non-Symbolic Approximate Number Practice on Symbolic Numerical Abilities in Pakistani Children
Saeeda Khanum, Rubina Hanif, E. Spelke, I. Berteletti +1 more
2016PLoS ONE34 citations Open access
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Shared musical knowledge in 11-month-old infants.
Samuel A. Mehr, E. Spelke
2018Developmental Science31 citations
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Two-year-old children interpret abstract, purely geometric maps
Nathan Winkler-Rhoades, S. Carey, E. Spelke
2013Developmental Science31 citations Open access
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Non-symbolic division in childhood
K. McCrink, E. Spelke
2015Journal of Experimental Child Psychology30 citations Open access
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Effects of early institutionalization on the development of emotion processing: A case for relative sparing?
M. Moulson, Kristin Shutts, N. Fox, C. Zeanah +2 more
2014Developmental Science30 citations Open access
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Generating a lexicon without a language model: Do words for number count?
Elizabet Spaepen, Marie Coppola, M. Flaherty, E. Spelke +1 more
2013Journal of Memory and Language30 citations Open access
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Core Social Cognition
E. Spelke, Emily P. Bernier, A. Skerry
201330 citations Open access
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Mastery of the logic of natural numbers is not the result of mastery of counting: Evidence from late counters
Julian Jara-Ettinger, S. Piantadosi, E. Spelke, R. Levy +1 more
2016Developmental Science29 citations Open access
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What Babies Know
E. Spelke
202227 citations
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In the Name of God: How Children and Adults Judge Agents Who Act for Religious Versus Secular Reasons
Larisa Heiphetz, E. Spelke, L. Young
2015Cognition26 citations Open access
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Not All Continuous Dimensions Map Equally: Number-Brightness Mapping in Human Infants
M. D. de Hevia, E. Spelke
2013PLoS ONE26 citations Open access
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THE FORMATION OF BELIEF-BASED SOCIAL PREFERENCES
Larisa Heiphetz, E. Spelke, M. Banaji
201425 citations Open access
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Inexperienced newborn chicks use geometry to spontaneously reorient to an artificial social partner.
C. Chiandetti, E. Spelke, G. Vallortigara
2015Developmental Science24 citations Open access
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Toddlers' Social Evaluations of Agents Who Act on False Beliefs.
B. Woo, E. Spelke
2022Developmental Science22 citations Open access
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Language, gesture, and judgment: Children's paths to abstract geometry.
C. Calero, Diego E. Shalom, E. Spelke, M. Sigman
2019Journal of Experimental Child Psychology20 citations Open access
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