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  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Amanda L. Woodward is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and neuroscience, with significant contributions to the fields of developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology. Their work intersects various subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology, and political science.

Their scholarly output highlights key topics such as child and animal learning development, action observation and synchronization, social and intergroup psychology, early childhood education and development, face recognition and perception, hearing impairment and communication, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Frequent venues for Amanda L. Woodward's publications include Developmental Science and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, each hosting four of their papers. Other notable publication outlets are Cognition, Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, and Scientific Reports.

Key recent papers by Amanda L. Woodward include:

  • Origins of homophily: Infants expect people with shared preferences to affiliate (2021, Cognition)
  • Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants' neural responses to people of different races (2020, Developmental Science)
  • Social context shapes neural processing of others' actions in 9-month-old infants (2021, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • Neural correlates of familiar and unfamiliar action in infancy (2022, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • Action experience in infancy predicts visual-motor functional connectivity during action anticipation (2022, Developmental Science)

Woodward's frequent co-authors include Marlene Meyer and Marc Colomer, each collaborating on seven publications. Other frequent collaborators are Nathan A. Fox with six joint works, Haerin Chung with six, and Hyesung G. Hwang with four publications.

In recognition of their contributions, Amanda L. Woodward was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach.

    Amanda L. Woodward

  • Not All Emotions Are Created Equal: The Negativity Bias in Social-Emotional Development

    Arnrisha Vaish;Tobias Grossmann;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions

    Jessica A. Sommerville;Amanda L. Woodward;Amy Needham

  • Infants' knowledge of object motion and human action.

    Elizabeth S. Spelke;Ann Phillips;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Infants' ability to distinguish between purposeful and non-purposeful behaviors

    Amanda L Woodward

  • Perception of acoustic correlates of major phrasal units by young infants.

    Peter W Jusczyk;Peter W Jusczyk;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Deborah G Kemler Nelson;Lori J Kennedy

  • Pulling out the intentional structure of action: the relation between action processing and action production in infancy.

    Jessica A. Sommerville;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Rapid Word Learning in 13- and 18-Month-Olds.

    Amanda L. Woodward;Ellen M. Markman;Colleen M. Fitzsimmons

  • Infants’ developing understanding of the link between looker and object

    Amanda L. Woodward

  • The Accidental Transgressor: Morally Relevant Theory of Mind

    Melanie Killen;Kelly Lynn Mulvey;Cameron Richardson;Noah Jampol

  • Infants’ understanding of the point gesture as an object-directed action

    Amanda L. Woodward;Jose J. Guajardo

  • Twelve-Month-Old Infants Interpret Action in Context

    Amanda L. Woodward;Jessica A. Sommerville

  • How infants make sense of intentional action.

    Amanda L. Woodward;Jessica A. Sommerville;Jose J. Guajardo

  • Infants' Grasp of Others' Intentions

    Amanda L. Woodward

  • The Origins of Social Categorization

    Zoe Liberman;Amanda L. Woodward;Katherine D. Kinzler

  • Infants' Learning about Words and Sounds in Relation to Objects

    Amanda L. Woodward;Karen L. Hoyne

  • Infants track action goals within and across agents.

    Jennifer Sootsman Buresh;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Infants generate goal-based action predictions.

    Erin N. Cannon;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Sensitivity of 24-month-olds to the prior inaccuracy of the source: Possible mechanisms.

    Melissa A. Koenig;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others' goals.

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Elizabeth V. Hallinan;Amanda L. Woodward

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine D. Kinzler
Katherine D. Kinzler University of Chicago
Jessica A. Sommerville
Jessica A. Sommerville University of Toronto
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Beate Sodian
Beate Sodian Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Pier Francesco Ferrari Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Peter W. Jusczyk
Peter W. Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University
Markus Paulus
Markus Paulus Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Amrisha Vaish
Amrisha Vaish University of Virginia

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