Selected Recent Publications

Buresh, J. S. & Woodward, A. L. (in press). Infants track action goals within and across agents. Cognition. (PDF)

Brune, C. W., & Woodward, A. L. (in press). Social cognition and social responsiveness in 10-month-old infants. Journal of Cognition and Development. (PDF)

Koenig, M. A., & Woodward, A. L. (in press). Word learning. In M. G. Gaskell (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (in press). The link between action production and action processing in infancy. In F. Grammont, D. Legrand, P. Livet (eds.) Naturalizing intention in action. (PDF)

Vaish, A. & Woodward, A. L. (in press). Baby steps on the path to understanding intentions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Buresh, J., Wilson Brune, C., & Woodward, A. L. (2006). Prelinguistic action knowledge and the birth of verbs. In K. Hirsh-Pasek & R. Golinkoff (eds). Action meets words(pp. 208-227). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2005). Infants’ sensitivity to the causal features of means-end support relations in action and perception. Infancy,  8 (2).

Woodward, A. L. (2005). The infant origins of intentional understanding. In R. V. Kail (ed.) Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 33 (pp. 229-262). Oxford: Elsevier. (PDF)

Sommerville, J. A., Woodward, A. L., & Needham, A. (2005). Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of othersÕ actions. Cognition, 96, B1ÐB11. (PDF)

Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2005). Pulling out the intentional structure of human action: The relation between action production and processing in infancy, Cognition, 95, 1Ð30 .(PDF)

Woodward, A. L. (2005). Infants' understanding of the actions involved in joint attention. In N. Eilan, C. Hoerl, T. McCormack and J. Roessler (eds.) Joint attention: Communication and other minds (pp. 110-128). Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Guajardo, J. J., & Woodward, A. L. (2004). Is agency skin-deep? Surface attributes influence infants' sensitivity to goal-directed action, Infancy , 6, 361-384. (PDF)

Wilson, C. & Woodward, A.L. (2004). What infants know about intentional action and how they might come to know it. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 129. (PDF)

Heineman-Pieper, J., & Woodward, A. (2003). Understanding infants' understanding of intentions: Two problems of interpretation (A reply to Kiraly et al, 2003). Consciousness and Cognition, 12, 770-772.

Woodward, A. L. (2003). Infants' use of action knowledge to get a grasp on words. In D. G. Hall and S. R. Waxman (eds.) Weaving a lexicon (pp. 149-172). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (PDF)

Woodward, A. L. (2003). Infants' developing understanding of the link between looker and object. Developmental Science, 6:3, 297-311.(PDF)

Woodward, A. L. (2002). Infant Cognition. In Nadel, L. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Vol. 2, pp. 525 - 531. London: Nature Publishing Group.

Woodward, A. L., & Guajardo, J. J. (2002). Infants' understanding of the point gesture as an object-directed action. Cognitive Development, 17, 1061-1084.(PDF)

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.

Woodward, A. L. (2000). Constraining the problem space in early word learning. In R. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Bloom, G. Hollich, L. Smith, A. L. Woodward, Akhtar, L., Tomasello, M., & Hollich, G. (Eds.) Becoming a word learner: A debate on lexical acquisition.(pp. 81-114). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woodward, A. L., & Sommerville, J. A. (2000). Twelve-month-old infants interpret action in context, Psychological Science, 11, 73-76.(PDF)

Couillard, N. L., & Woodward, A. L. (1999). Children's comprehension of deceptive points. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 515-521.

Woodward, A. L. (1999). Infants' ability to distinguish between purposeful and non-purposeful behaviors, Infant Behavior and Development, 22, 145-160.(PDF)

Woodward, A. L. & Hoyne, K. L. (1999). Infants' learning about words and sounds in relation to objects. Child Development, 70, 65-77.(PDF)

Woodward, A. L. (1998). Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach. Cognition, 69, 1-34.(PDF)

Woodward, A. L. & Markman, E. M. (1998). Early word learning. In W. Damon, D. Kuhn & R. Siegler, (Eds.) Handbook of child psychology, Volume 2: Cognition, perception and language (pp. 371-420). New York: John Wiley and Sons.