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Diane Poulin-Dubois

Diane Poulin-Dubois

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Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
7670
World Ranking
5762
National Ranking
395

Overview

Diane Poulin-Dubois is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their work extensively covers Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Themes frequently addressed in their publications include:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Cultural Differences and Values

The scientist has contributed to various scholarly articles published in prominent venues such as Cognitive Development, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, and Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. The following recent papers showcase some of their research output:

  • Theory of mind development: State of the science and future directions, 2020, Progress in Brain Research
  • Testing the stability of theory of mind: A longitudinal approach, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Discontinuity from implicit to explicit theory of mind from infancy to preschool age, 2022, Cognitive Development

Frequent collaborators include Elizabeth J. Goldman, Anna-Elisabeth Baumann, Kimberly Burnside, Elizabeth Dutemple, and Margaret Friend. Collaboration with these coauthors has occurred across multiple publications, reinforcing thematic continuity in their research pursuits.

In addition to journal articles, the researcher has authored a book titled Theory of Mind in Childhood, published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Developmental origin of the animate-inanimate distinction.

    David H. Rakison;Diane Poulin-Dubois

  • The effects of bilingualism on toddlers’ executive functioning

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Agnes Blaye;Julie Coutya;Ellen Bialystok

  • Gender stereotyping in infancy: Visual preferences for and knowledge of gender-stereotyped toys in the second year

    Lisa A. Serbin;Diane Poulin-Dubois;Karen A. Colburne;Maya G. Sen

  • Word Mapping and Executive Functioning in Young Monolingual and Bilingual Children

    Ellen Bialystok;Raluca Barac;Agnes Blaye;Diane Poulin-Dubois

  • Infants' concept of animacy.

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Anouk Lepage;Doreen Ferland

  • Men Don’t Put on Make‐up: Toddlers’ Knowledge of the Gender Stereotyping of Household Activities

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Lisa A. Serbin;Julie A. Eichstedt;Maya G. Sen

  • Lexical access and vocabulary development in very young bilinguals.

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Ellen Bialystok;Agnes Blaye;Alexandra Polonia

  • To See or Not to See: Infants Prefer to Follow the Gaze of a Reliable Looker.

    Virginia Chow;Diane Poulin-Dubois;Jessica Lewis

  • Early lexical development: the contribution of parental labelling and infants' categorization abilities.

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Susan Graham;Lorrie Sippola

  • The effects of bilingual growth on toddlers' executive function.

    Cristina Crivello;Olivia Kuzyk;Monyka Rodrigues;Margaret Friend

  • Infants' Ability to Distinguish Between Intentional and Accidental Actions and Its Relation to Internal State Language

    Kara M. Olineck;Diane Poulin-Dubois

  • The development of the understanding of human behavior: From agency to intentionality.

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Thomas R. Shultz

  • Infants' Intermodal Knowledge about Gender.

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Lisa A. Serbin;Brenda Kenyon;Alison Derbyshire

  • The Developmental Origins of Selective Social Learning

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Patricia Brosseau-Liard

  • Do infants understand false beliefs? We don't know yet – A commentary on Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate's commentary

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Hannes Rakoczy;Kimberly Burnside;Cristina Crivello

  • Infants' disambiguation of novel object words

    Susan A. Graham;Diane Poulin-Dubois;Rachel K. Baker

  • Infants prefer to imitate a reliable person.

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Ivy Brooker;Alexandra Polonia

  • Infants' distinction between animate and inanimate objects: The origins of naive psychology.

    Diane Poulin-Dubois

  • Breaking the rules: Do infants have a true understanding of false belief?

    Jessica Yott;Diane Poulin-Dubois

  • The Language Exposure Assessment Tool: Quantifying Language Exposure in Infants and Children

    Stephanie DeAnda;Stephanie DeAnda;Laura Bosch;Diane Poulin-Dubois;Pascal Zesiger

  • Infants' reliance on shape to generalize novel labels to animate and inanimate objects.

    Susan A. Graham;Diane Poulin-Dubois

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa A. Serbin
Lisa A. Serbin Concordia University
Susan A. Graham
Susan A. Graham University of Calgary
Beate Sodian
Beate Sodian Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Krista Byers-Heinlein Concordia University
Thomas R. Shultz
Thomas R. Shultz McGill University
Ellen Bialystok
Ellen Bialystok York University
Josef Perner
Josef Perner University of Salzburg
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Paul D. Hastings
Paul D. Hastings University of California, Davis

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