PUBLICATIONS
Conference Presentations
Owens, B., Libertus, K., (2021). Fetal kick counting and its effect on parental anxiety. Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual meeting
Ran, A., Libertus, K., (2021). Unintentional Consequences: the Impact of Study Participation on Infant Motor Skills. Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual meeting
Smith, D.K.,* Libertus, K., (2021). Biology or SES? Examining the factors that impact motor development during infancy. Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual meeting
Ran, A., Libertus, K., (2021). Unintentional Consequences: the Impact of Study Participation on Infant Motor Skills. Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual meeting
Lee, C. An, R. Smith, D.K.*, Libertus, K., (2020). Toy-selection choices by non-parent adults playing with a toddler. Accepted at International Conference on Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK
Smith, D.K.*, Libertus, K., (2020). Beyond the dichotomy: A new self-report instrument to quantify gender as a continuous construct. Accepted at International Conference on Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK
Smith, D.K.*, An, R., Lee, C., Libertus, K., (2020). Gender as a factor influencing number-talk during adult-child interactions. Accepted at International Conference on Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK
Smith, D.K.*, Libertus, K., (2020). The Early Motor Questionnaire (EMQ): An exploration of item structure by age. Accepted at International Conference on Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK
Turingan, J. An, R. Smith, D.K.*, Libertus, K., (2020). Do babies move to get praised? Associations between parental praise and infant motor skills. To be presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK
Smith, An, Thippana, Libertus (2019). Gender Differences in Adult-Child Interactions: Evidence from non-parent undergraduate students. Cognitive Development Society Meeting 2019
Journal Articles
Sansavini, A., Libertus, K., Guarini, A., Libertus, M., Benassi, M., & Iverson, J. M.
(2021). Understanding Trajectories and Promoting Change from Early to Complex Skills in Typical and Atypical Development: A Cross-Population Approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 392.
Elliott, L., Thippana, J., Gehman, S., Libertus, K., & Libertus, M. (2020).
Parents' use of number talk during play at home: Exploring variability across activities and families. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
Libertus, K. (2020). Scaffolded reaching can encourage motor development:
Commentary on van den Berg & Gredeback (2020). Dev Sci, e13079.
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13079
Libertus, K., Smith., D.K.*, (2020). Milestones: Physical development from
Birth to Age 3. In Benson, J.B. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development (2nd edition), vol. 2, pp 339-346.
Libertus, K., (2020). Motor development in infants and children. In K.
Cohen Kadosh (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Libertus, K., Landa, R.J., Haworth, J.L. (2017). Development of Attention to Faces
during the First 3 Years: Influences of Stimulus Type. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(1976). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01976
Needham, A., Wiesen, S., Gibson, J., Libertus, K., Christopher, C., (2017).
Characteristics of Brief Sticky Mittens Experience That Lead to Increases in Object Exploration. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 164, 209-224. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.009
Libertus, K., Libertus, M.E., Einspieler, C., Marschik, P.B. (2017).
“What” matters more than “Why” – Neonatal behaviors initiate social responses. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e394. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1600191
Libertus, K., & Hauf, P. (2017). Editorial: Motor Skills and their
Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(301). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00301
Northrup, J. B., Libertus, K., & Iverson, J. M. (2017). Response to changing
contingencies in infants at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research. doi:10.1002/aur.1770
Libertus, K., & Violi, D. A. (2016). Sit to talk: Relation between motor skills and language development in infancy. Frontiers in Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00475
Libertus, K., Greif, M. L., Needham, A., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2016). Infants’ observation of tool-use events over the first year of life. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 152, 123-135. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2016.07.004
Libertus, K., Joh, A. S., & Needham, A. W. (2015). Motor training at 3 months affects object exploration 12 months later. Developmental Science. doi:10.1111/desc.12370
Libertus, K., & Needham, A. (2014). Encouragement is nothing without control: Factors influencing the development of reaching and face preference. Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2(1), 12-27. doi:10.1123/jmld.2013-0019
Libertus, K., & Landa, R. J. (2014). Scaffolded reaching experiences encourage grasping activity in infants at high risk for autism. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(1071). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01071
Libertus, K., Shepard, K. A., Ross, S. W., & Landa, R. J. (2014). Limited fine motor and grasping skills in 6-month-old infants at high risk for autism. Child Development. doi:10.1111/cdev.12262
Libertus, K., Gibson, J., Hidayatallah, N. Z., Hirtle, J., Adcock, R. A., & Needham, A. (2013). Size matters: How age and reaching experiences shape infants’ preferences for different sized objects. Infant Behavior and Development, 36(2), 189-198. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.006