Publications

Benton, D.T. (in press). “But what is the mechanism?”: Demystifying mechanisms of developmental change. Infant and Child Development. [Link]

Sobel, D.M., Benton, D.T., Finiasz, Z., Taylor, Y., & Weisberg, D. (in press). Children’s play is influenced by the efficacy of their first action, but their learning is influenced by their play. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology. [Link]

Benton, D. T., & Lapan, C. (2022). Moral masters or moral apprentices? A connectionist account of sociomoral evaluation in preverbal infants. Cognitive Development, 62, 101164. [Link]

Benton, D. T., Rakison, D. H., & Sobel, D. M. (2021). When correlation equals causation: A behavioral and computational account of second-order correlation learning in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 202, 105008. [Link]

Haber, A. S., Leech, K. A., Benton, D. T., Dashoush, N., & Corriveau, K. H. (2021). Questions and explanations in the classroom: Examining variation in early childhood teachers’ responses to children’s scientific questions. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 57, 121-132. [Link]

Benton, D.T., & Sobel, D.M. (2021) Do children think Alea Iacta Est?: Developing concepts of uncertainty in causal reasoning. Palgrave Macmillan. [Link]

Rakison, D.H., & Benton, D.T. (2019). Second-order correlation learning of dynamic stimuli: evidence from infants and computational modeling. Infancy. [Link]

Rakison, D.H., Benton, D.T., & Dinh, P.N. (2019). Infant Categorization. In: Janette B Benson and Marshall M Haith (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development, 2nd edition, Elsevier. [Link]

Rakison, D.H., & Benton, D.T. (2018). Developmental Timetables. The Sage Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development.

Benton, D.T., & Rakison, D.H. (2018). Computational modeling and what it can tell you about behavior. The Sage Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. [Link]

Benton, D.T., & Rakison, D.H. (2016). Causal Reasoning in Infants and Adults: Revisiting backwards-blocking. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Society, 38, pp. 830-835. [Link]