Publications

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  1. Kaplan, B. E., & Yu, C. (under review). Infant Face Preference Does Not Generalize to Natural Behavior: Selective Social Attention Across Daily Activities.

  2. Kaplan, B. E., Rachwani, J., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (in revision). A “Twist” on Children’s Actions on Objects: The Role of Perceptual Feedback. Developmental Psychology.

  3. Kaplan, B. E., Monroy, C., & Yu, C. (2026). Seizing Learning Opportunities in Everyday Life: Infants are Attentive During Non-Child-Directed Activity. Developmental Science, 29(2), e70141.

  4. Kaplan, B. E., & Yu, C. (2026). From Toy Play to Meal Preparation: Multimodal Pathways to Establishing Joint Attention in Naturalistic Contexts.Child Development, 97(3), 724-737.

  5. Yu, C., Kaplan, B. E., Schroer, S. & Hayhoe, M. (2026). Examining Micro-Level Natural Behavior to Improve Generalizability in Behavioral Science. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 381(1943).

  6. *Golmakani, S., *Kaplan, B. E., Adolph, K. E., & Ossmy, O. (2025). Children Plan Manual Actions Similarly in Structured Tasks and in Free Play. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 250, 106124.   

  7. *equal contributors Kaplan, B. E., Kasaba, I., Rachwani, J., Adolph, K. E. & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2023). How Mothers Help Children Learn to Use Everyday Objects. Developmental Psychobiology, 65(8), e22435.

  8. Kaplan, B. E., Rachwani, J., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2022). The Process of Learning the Designed Actions of Toys. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 221, 105442.

  9. Ossmy, O., Kaplan, B. E., Han, D., Xu, M., Mukamel, R., Adolph, K. E. (2022). Real-time Processes in the Development of Action Planning. Current Biology, 32(1), 190-199.

  10. Schatz, J., Suarez-Rivera, C., Kaplan, B. E., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2022). Infant Object Interactions are Longer and More Complex in the Context of Multimodal Joint Engagement. Developmental Science, 2594), e13239.

  11. Rachwani, J., Hertzburg-Keller, O., Kaplan, B. E., O’Grady, S., Comalli, D. M., & Adolph, K. E. (2022). Flexibility in Action: Development of Locomotion Under Overhead Barriers. Developmental Psychology, 58(5), 807.

  12. West, K. L., Soska, K. C., Cole, W. G., Han, D., Hoch, J. E., Hospodar, C.M., & Kaplan, B. E. (2022). From Description to Generalization, or There and Back Again. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e37.

  13. Ossmy, O., Han, D., Kaplan, B. E., Xu, M., Bianco, C., Mukamel, R., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). Children Do Not Distinguish Efficient from Inefficient Actions During Observation. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 18106.

  14. Adolph, K. E., Kaplan, B. E., & Kretch, K. S. (2021). Infants on the Edge: Beyond the Visual Cliff. In A. Slater & P. Quinn (Eds.), Developmental psychology: Revisiting the classic studies, 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications, pp 51-72.

  15. Rachwani, J., Kaplan, B. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). Children’s Use of Everyday Artifacts: Learning the Hidden Affordance of Zipping. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(4), 793-799.

  16. Ossmy, O., Han, D., Cheng, M., Kaplan, B. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2020). Look Before you Fit: The Real-Time Planning Cascade in Children and Adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 189, 104696.

  17. Ogren, M., Kaplan, B. E., Peng, Y., Johnson, K. L., & Johnson, S. P. (2019). Infant Emotion Discrimination from Biological Motion. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, 101324.

Journal Articles

  1. Kaplan, B. E., Thomas, J., Martinez, E., & Yu, C. (in press). Infants Show Selective Social Attention Across Different Activities. In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (1-6). IEEE.

  2. Kaplan, B. E., & Yu, C. (in press). Unsupervised Clustering of Multimodal Behavior Reveals Behavioral Structure Driving Infant Attention. In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (1-6). IEEE.

  3. White, J., Martinez, E., Kaplan, B. E., Crandall, D., & Yu, C. (in press). A Multimodal Cross-Situational Learning Model of Visual Object Recognition. In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (1-6). IEEE.

  4. Kaplan, B. E., & Yu, C. (2025). Near-Zipfian Distribution is Prevalent in Infant Input. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol. 47. 2025. 

  5. Kaplan, B. E., & Yu, C. (2025). Using Head-Mounted Eye Tracking to Examine Infant Face Looking During Naturalistic Freeplay. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol. 47. 2025.

  6. Kaplan, B. E. &Yu, C. (2024). Multimodal Pathways to Joint Attention in Naturalistic Contexts. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (1-6). IEEE.

  7. Krishna, A., Kaplan, B. E., Pope, J., Todorovic, S., Adolph, K. E. & Ossmy, O. (2024). A Computer-Vision Approach for Testing Developmental Changes in Object Manipulation. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (1-6). IEEE.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings