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In Press:

	Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (in press). Development of the motor system. In H. Pashler, T. Crane, M. Kinsbourne, F. Ferreira, & R. Zemel (Eds.). The Encyclopedia of the mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
	Franchak, J. M. & Adolph, K. E. (in press). Affordances as probabilistic functions: Implications for development, perception, and decisions for action. Ecological Psychology, Collection to honor Herbert L. Pick, J. J. Lockman & J. Rieser, guest editors.

2013:

	Adolph, K.E., & Robinson, S.R (2013). The road to walking: What learning to walk tells us about development. In P. Zelazo (Ed.) Oxford handbook of developmental psychology, Volume 1, 403-443. NY: Oxford University Press.
	Cole, W. G., Chan, G. L. Y., Vereijken, B. & Adolph, K. E. (2013). Perceiving Possibilities for Action in Different Motor Skills. Experimental Brain Research, 10.1007/s00221-012-3328-9.
	Kretch, K. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2013). Cliff or step? Posture-specific learning at the edge of a drop-off. Child Development, 84, 226-240.
	Kretch, K. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2013). No bridge too high: Infants decide whether to cross based on the probability of falling not the severity of the potential fall. Developmental Science, 16, 336-351.

2012:

	Adolph, K. E. (2012). Remembering the Father of Cognitive Psychology: Ulric Neisser (1928-2012). APS Observer, 25.
	Adolph, K. E., Cole, W. G., Komati, M., Garciaguirre, J. S., Badaly, D., Lingeman, J. M., Chan, G. L. Y. , & Sotsky, R. B. (2012). How Do You Learn to Walk? Thousands of Steps and Dozens of Falls Per Day. Psychological Science, 23, 1387-1394. .
	Adolph, K. E., Gilmore, R. O., Freeman, C., Sanderson, P., & Millman, D. (2012). Toward open behavioral science. Commentary on Nosek & Bar-Anan’s ‘Scientific Utopia: I. Opening scientific communication.’. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 244-247.
	Adolph, K.E., & Kretch, K.S (2012). Infants on the edge: Beyond the visual cliff. In A. Slater & P. Quinn (Eds.). Developmental psychology: Revisiting the classic studies. London: Sage Publications.
	Cole, W. G., Lingeman, J. M., & Adolph, K. E. (2012). Go naked: Diapers affect infant  walking. Developmental Science, 15, 783-790.
	Franchak, J. M. & Adolph, K. E. (2012). What infants know and what they do: Perceiving possibilities for walking through openings. Developmental Psychology, 48, 1254-1261.
	Franchak, J. M., Celano, E. C., & Adolph, K. E. (2012). Perception of passage through openings depends on the size of the body in motion. Experimental Brain Research, 223, 301-310.
	Karasik, L. B., Adolph, K. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Zuckerman, A. L. (2012). Carry on: Spontaneous object carrying in 13-month-old crawling and walking infants. Developmental Psychology, 48, 389-397.
	Raudies, F., Gilmore, R. O., Kretch, K. S., Franchak, J. M., & Adolph, K. E. (2012). Understanding the development of motion processing by characterizing optic flow experienced by infants and their mothers. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning.
	Soska, K.C., Galeon, M.A., & Adolph, K.E (2012). On the other hand: Overflow movement of infants' arms and legs during unimanual object exploration. Developmental Psychobiology, 54, 372-382.

2011:

	Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E (2011). Physical and motor development. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook, (6th ed., pp. 241-302). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
	Adolph, K. E., Berger, S. E., & Leo, A. (2011). Developmental continuity? Crawling, cruising, and walking. Developmental Science, 14, 306-318.
	Adolph, K.E., & Robinson, S.R (2011). Sampling development . "Tools of the Trade" section, Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 411-423.
	Franchak, J.M., Kretch, K.S., Soska, K.C., & Adolph, K.E (2011). Head-mounted eye-tracking: A new method to describe infant looking. Child Development, 82, 1738-1750.
	Karasik, L. B., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2011). Transition from crawling to walking and infants' actions with objects and people. Child Development, 82, 1199-1209.

2010:

	Adolph, K. E (2010). Faculty Perspective: Influences on growth. [Invited Keynote Address, Undergraduate Research Conference] . Inquiry: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, New York University.
	Adolph, K. E., Joh, A. S., & Eppler, M. A. (2010). Infants' perception of affordances of slopes under high- and low-friction conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 36, 797-811.
	Adolph, K. E., Karasik, L. B., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2010). Using social information to guide action: Infants' locomotion over slippery slopes. Neural Networks, 23, 1033-1042. [Special issue on social cognition].
	Adolph, K. E., Karasik, L. B., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2010). Corrigendum to : "Using social information to guide action: Infants locomotion over slippery slopes" [Neural Netw. 23 (8-9) (2010) 1033-1042]. Neural Networks, 24, 217.
	Adolph, K. E., Karasik, L., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2010). Motor skills.In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of cultural developmental science, (pp. 61-88). New York: Taylor & Francis.
	Adolph, K. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Karasik, L. B. (2010). Cinderella indeed—a commentary on Iverson's "Developing language in a developing body: The relationship between motor development and language development". Journal of Child Language, 37, 269-273.
	Berger, S. E., Adolph, K. E., & Kavookjian, A. E. (2010). Bridging the gap: Solving spatial means-ends relations in a locomotor task. Child Development, 81, 1367-1375.
	Franchak, J. M. & Adolph, K. E. (2010). Visually guided navigation: Head-mounted eye-tracking of natural locomotion in children and adults. Vision Research, 50, 2766-2774.
	Franchak, J. M., Kretch, K. S., Soska, K. C., Babcock, J. S., & Adolph, K. E (2010). Head-mounted eye-tracking in infants' natural interactions: A new method. Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Austin, TX. [Winner of the Best Long Paper Award, ETRA 2010 Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium.]
	Franchak, J. M., van der Zalm, D., & Adolph, K. E. (2010). Learning by doing: Action performance improves performance perception. Vision Research, 50, 2758-2765.
	Karasik, L. B., Adolph, K. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Bornstein, M. (2010). WEIRD walking: Cross-cultural differences in motor development. Behavior and Brain Sciences, 33, 95.
	Soska, K. C., Adolph, K. E., & Johnson, S.P. (2010). Systems in development: Motor skill acquisition facilitates 3D object completion. Developmental Psychology, 46, 129-138.

2009:

	Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2009). Physical and motor development. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), ???? [Developmental science: An advanced textbook], (5th ed., pp. 315-393). (K. Kwak and the SNU Developmental Psychology Laboratory, Trans.). Seoul, South Korea: Hakjisa.
	Adolph, K. E. & Joh, A. S. (2009). Multiple learning mechanisms in the development of action. In A. Woodward & A. Needham (Eds.), Learning and the infant mind (pp. 172-207). New York: Oxford University Press.
	Gill, S. V., Adolph, K. E., & Vereijken (2009). Change in action: How infants learn to walk down slopes. Developmental Science, 12, 888-902.

2008:

	Adolph, K. E (2008). Learning to move. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 213-218.
	Adolph, K. E. (2008). Motor and physical development: Locomotion. In M. M. Haith & J. B. Benson, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development (pp. 359-373). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
	Adolph, K. E. (2008). The growing body in action: What infant locomotion tells us about perceptually guided action. In R. Klatzky, M. Behrmann, & B MacWhinney (Eds.), Embodiment, ego-space, and action: Carnegie Mellon Symposium (pp. 275-321). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
	Adolph, K. E. & Robinson, S. R (2008). In defense of change processes. Child Development, 79, 1648-1653.
	Adolph, K. E., Joh, A. S., Franchak, J. M., Ishak, S., & Gill-Alvarez, S. V. (2008). Flexibility in the development of action . In J. Bargh, P. Gollwitzer, & E. Morsella (Eds.), The psychology of action, Vol. 2, (pp. 399-426). New York: Oxford University Press.
	Adolph, K. E., Robinson, S. R., Young, J. W., & Gill-Alvarez, F (2008). What is the shape of developmental change?. Psychological Review, 115, 527-543.
	Adolph, K. E., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Ishak, S., Karasik, L. B., & Lobo, S. A. (2008). Locomotor experience and use of social information are posture specific. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1705-1714.
	Badaly, D. & Adolph, K. E. (2008). Beyond the average: Walking infants take steps longer than their leg length. Infant Behavior and Development, 31, 554-558.
	Ishak, S., Adolph, K. E.,& Lin, G. C. (2008). Perceiving affordances for fitting through apertures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1501-1514.
	Karasik, L. B., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Adolph, K. E., & Dimitropoulou, K. A. (2008). How mothers encourage and discourage infants' motor actions. Infancy, 13, 366-392.
	Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Adolph, K. E., Lobo, S. A., Karasik, L. B., Dimitroupoulou, K. D., & Ishak, S. (2008). When infants take mothers' advice: 18-month-olds integrate perceptual and social information for guiding motor action. Developmental Psychology, 44, 734-746.

2007:

	Adolph, K. E. & Joh, A. S. (2007). Motor development: How infants get into the act. In A. Slater & M. Lewis (Eds.), Introduction to infant development (2nd ed., pp. 63-80). New York: Oxford University Press.
	Berger, S. E. & Adolph, K. E. (2007). Learning and development in infant locomotion. In C. von Hofsten & K. Rosander (Eds.), Progress in brain research: Vol. 164: From action to cognition, (pp. 237-256). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
	Berger, S. E. & Theuring, C. F., & Adolph, K. E. (2007). How and when infants learn to climb stairs. FLASH Alert to New Science and Health Research Stories. Oxford: Elsevier. (Reprinted from Infant Behavior and Development, 30, 30-49, 2007).
	Berger, S. E., Theuring, C., & Adolph, K. E. (2007). How and when infants learn to climb stairs. Infant Behavior and Development, 30, 36-49.
	Garciaguirre, J. S. Adolph, K. E., & Shrout, P. E. (2007). Baby carriage: Infants walking with loads. Child Development, 78, 664-680.
	Ishak, S., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2007). Ensuring safety and providing challenge: Mothers? and fathers? expectations and choices about infant locomotion. Parenting: Science & Practice, 7, 57-68.
	Joh, A. S., Adolph, K. E., Narayanan, P., & Dietz, V. (2007). Gauging possibilities for action based on friction underfoot. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1145-1157.
	Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Adolph, K. E., Dimitropoulou, K. A., & Zack, E. A. (2007). "No! Don't! Stop!": Mothers' words for impending danger. Parenting: Science & Practice, 7, 1-25.

2006:

	Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E (2006). Motor development.In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Series Eds.) & D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 2: Cognition, perception, and language (6th ed.) New York: Wiley, pp. 161-213.
	Joh, A. S. & Adolph, K. E (2006). Learning from falling. Child Development, 77, 89-102.
	Joh, A. S., Adolph, K. E., Campbell, M. R., & Eppler, M. A (2006). Why walkers slip: Shine is not a reliable cue for slippery ground. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 339-352.

2005:

	Adolph, K. E (2005). Learning to learn in the development of action. In J. Lockman, J. Reiser, & C. A. Nelson (Eds.), Action as an organizer of perception and cognition during learning and development: Minnesota Symposium on Child Development (Vol. 33, pp. 91-122). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
	Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2005). Physical and motor development. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook, (5th ed., pp. 223-281). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
	Adolph, K. E. & Vereijken, B. (2005). Esther Thelen (1941-2004).American Psychologist, 60, 1032.
	Adolph, K. E., Corbetta, D., Vereijken, B., & Spencer, J. (2005). In Memoriam: Esther Thelen, President of SRCD 2003-2005.Developments: Newsletter of the Society for Research in Child Development, 48, 2, 9.
	Adolph, K. E., Corbetta, D., Vereijken, B., & Spencer, J. (2005). In Memoriam: Esther Thelen. Infancy, 7, 1-4.
	Berger, S. E., Adolph, K. E., & Lobo, S. A (2005). Out of the toolbox: Toddlers differentiate wobbly and wooden handrails. Child Development, 76, 1294-1307.
	Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. & Adolph, K. E. (2005). Social referencing in infant motor action. In B. Homer & C. S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), The development of social cognition and communication, (pp. 145-164). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.

2004:

Berger, S. E. & Adolph, K. E. (2004). Infants use handrails as tools in a locomotor task. In M. Gauvain & M. Cole (Eds.), Readings on the development of children (3rd ed., pp. 87-102). New York: Freeman. (Reprinted from Developmental Psychology, 39, pp. 594-605, 2003).

2003:

	Adolph, K. E., Vereijken, B., & Shrout, P. E. (2003). What changes in infant walking and why. Child Development, 74, 475-497.
	Adolph, K. E., & Eppler, M. A. (2003). Life after the lab (obituary for Eleanor Gibson).APS Observer, 16, 23.
	Adolph, K. E., Weise, I., & Marin, L. (2003). Motor development. In L. Nadel (Ed.), R. Goldstone (section Ed.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science (pp. 134-137). London: Nature Publishing Group.
	Berger, S.E. & Adolph, K. E. (2003). Infants use handrails as tools in a locomotor task. Developmental Psychology, 39, 594-605.

2002:

	Adolph, K. E. (2002). Babies' steps make giant strides toward a science of development. Infant Behavior and Development, 25, 86-90.
	Adolph, K. E. (2002). Learning to keep balance. In R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child development & behavior (Vol. 30, pp. 1-40). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
	Adolph, K. E. & Eppler, M. A. (2002). Flexibility and specificity in infant motor skill acquisition. In J. Fagan (Ed.), Progress in infancy research (Vol. 2, pp. 121-167). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2001:

	Adolph, K. E., Marin, L. M., & Fraisse, F. E. (2001). Learning and exploration: Lessons from infants. Commentary on Stoffregen & Bardy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 213-214.
	Anderson, J. , Bode, C. , Faradjian, G., & Adolph, K.E (2001). Effects of asymmetry on automaticity and adaptability in adult walking. In G. A. Burton & R. C. Schmidt (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action VI (pp. 223-226). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
	Fraisse, F. E., Couet, A. M., Bellanca, K. J., & Adolph, K. E (2001). Infants' response to potential risk: Social interaction and perceptual exploration. In G. A. Burton & R. C. Schmidt (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action VI (pp. 97-100). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2000:

	Adolph, K. E (2000). Specificity of learning: Why infants fall over a veritable cliff. Psychological Science, 11, 290-295.
	Adolph, K. E. & Avolio, A. M (2000). Walking infants adapt locomotion to changing body dimensions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1148-1166.
	Adolph, K. E., Eppler, M. A., Marin, L., Weise, I. B., & Clearfield, M. W (2000). Exploration in the service of prospective control. Infant Behavior and Development: Special Issue on Perception-Action Coupling, 23, 441-460.
	Marin, L., Weise, I., & Adolph, K. E. (2000). Locomotor development. In L. Balter (Ed.), Parenthood in America: An encyclopedia (pp. 354-358). Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO.
	Mondschein, E. R., Adolph, K. E., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S (2000). Gender bias in mothers' expectations about infant crawling. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Special Issue on Gender, 77, 304-316.

1999:

	Adolph, K. E. & Eppler, M. A. (1999). Obstacles to understanding: An ecological approach to infant problem solving. In E. Winograd, R. Fivush, & W. Hirst (Eds.), Ecological approaches to cognition: Essays in honor of Ulric Neisser (pp. 31-58). NJ: Erlbaum.
	Adolph, K. E., Avolio, A. M., & Leo, A. J (1999). Specificity of learning: Why infants fall over a veritable cliff. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thompson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V (pp. 236-239). NJ: Erlbaum.
	Chan, M. Y., Lu, Y., Marin, L. & Adolph, K. E (1999). A baby's day: Capturing crawling experience. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thompson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V (pp. 245-249). NJ: Erlbaum.
	Gibson, E. J., Adolph, K. E., & Eppler, M. A. (1999). Affordances. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 4-6). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
	Gibson, E. J., Eppler, M. A., & Adolph, K. E. (1999). Perceptual development. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 632-635). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
	Lo, T.W., Avolio, A. M., Massop, S.A., & Adolph, K.E. (1999). Why toddlers don't perceive risky ground based on surface friction. In M. A. Grealy & J. A. Thompson (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action V (pp. 231-235). NJ: Erlbaum.
	Vereijken, B. & Adolph, K. E. (1999). Transitions in the development of locomotion. In G.J.P. Savelsbergh, H. L. J. van der Maas, & P.C.L. van Geert (Eds.), Non-linear analyses of developmental processes (pp. 137-149). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

1998:

	Adolph, K. E. & Eppler, M. A. (1998). Development of visually guided locomotion. Journal of Ecological Psychology: Special Issue on Visually Guided Locomotion, 10, 303-322.
	Adolph, K. E., Vereijken, B., & Denny, M. (1998). Learning to crawl. Child Development, 69, 1299-1312.

1997:

	Adolph, K. E. (1997). Learning in the development of infant locomotion.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 62 (3, Serial No. 251).
	Eppler, M. A. & Adolph, K. E. (1997). Toward an ecological approach to perceptual learning and development: Commentary on Michaels and Beek. Ecological Psychology, 4, 353-356.
	Stergiou, C.S., Adolph, K.E., Alibali, M.W., Avolio, A.M., & Cenedella, C. (1997). Social expressions in infant locomotion:Vocalizations and gestures on slopes. In M. A. Schmuckler & J. M. Kennedy (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action IV (pp. 215 ? 219). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
	Stoffregen, T., Adolph, K. E., Thelen, E., Gorday, K. M., & Sheng, Y. Y. (1997). Toddlers' postural adaptations to different support surfaces. Motor Control, 1, 119-137.

1996:

	Eppler, M. A., Adolph, K. E., & Wiener, T (1996). The developmental relationship between exploration and action on sloping surfaces. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 259-264.
	Siegler, R. S., Adolph, K. E., & Lemaire, P. (1996). Strategy choices across the lifespan. In L. Reder (Ed.), Implicit memory and metacognition (pp. 79-121). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1995:

	Adolph, K. E (1995). A psychophysical assessment of toddlers' ability to cope with slopes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 734-750.
	Gorday, K. M., Stroop, M. A., Adolph, K. E., & Thelen, E. (1995). Toddlers' postural control on different surfaces.
	Vereijken, B., Adolph, K. E., Denny, M.A., Fadl, Y., Gill, S. V., & Lucero, A. A. (1995). Development of infant crawling: Balance on constraints on interlimb coordination.

1994:

Thelen, E. & Adolph, K. E. (1994). Arnold L. Gesell: The paradox of nature and nurture. Reprinted in R. D. Parke, P. A. Ornstein, J. J. Rieser, & C. Zahn-Waxler (Eds.), A century of developmental psychology (pp. 357-387). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

1993:

	Adolph, K. E., Eppler, M. A. & Gibson, E. J (1993). Crawling versus walking infants' perception of affordances for locomotion over sloping surfaces. Child Development: Special Issue on Biodynamics, 64, 1158-1174.
	Adolph, K. E., Eppler, M. A., & Gibson, E. J. (1993). Development of perception of affordances. In C. Rovee-Collier & L. P. Lipsett (Eds.), Advances in infancy research (Vol. 8, pp. 51-98). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

1992:

	Gibson, E. J. & Adolph, K. E (1992). The perceived self in infancy. Psychological Inquiry, 3, 119-121.
	Thelen, E. & Adolph, K. E (1992). Arnold L. Gesell: The paradox of nature and nurture. Developmental Psychology, 28, 368-380.

1990:

Adolph, K. E., Gibson, E. J. & Eppler, M. A. (1990). Perceiving affordances of slopes: The ups and downs of toddlers' locomotion. (Technical Report No.16). Atlanta, GA: Emory University, Emory Cognition Project.