Publications

Journal Articles (2012-Present)

Fears, N. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2020). Case- and form-sensitive letter frequencies in children’s picture books. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 53, 370–378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.05.004

Chinn, L. K., Noonan, C. F., & Lockman, J. J. (2020). The human face becomes mapped as a sensorimotor reaching space during the first year. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13405

Lockman, J., Tamis-LeMonda, C., & Adolph, K. (2020). Missing in action: Tool use is action based. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E170. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20000138

Fears, N. E., Walsh, L. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2020). Letter writing instruction for children: Case-sensitive letter frequencies in children’s handwriting workbooks. Reading and Writing, 33(1), 171–185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-019-09954-7

Fears, N. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2020). Using head-mounted eye-tracking to study handwriting development.  Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1123/jmld.2018-0057

Leed, J. E., Chinn, L. K., & Lockman, J. J. (2019). Reaching to the self: The development of infants’ ability to localize targets on the body. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619850168

Chinn, L. K., Hoffmann, M., Leed, J. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2019). Reaching with one arm to the other: Coordinating touch, proprioception, and action during infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 183, 19–32. http://doi.org/10.1016/J.JECP.2019.01.014

Fears, N. E., Bailey, B. C., Youmans, B., & Lockman, J. J. (2019). An Eye-Tracking Method for Directly Assessing Children’s Visual-Motor Integration. Physical Therapy. http://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzz027

Chinn, L. K., Noonan, C. F., Hoffmann, M., & Lockman, J. J. (2019). Development of infant reaching strategies to tactile targets on the face. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 9. http://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYG.2019.00009

Somogyi, E., Jacquey, L., Heed, T., Hoffmann, M., Lockman, J. J., Granjon, L., Fagard, J., & O’Regan, J. K. (2018). Which limb is it? Responses to vibrotactile stimulation in early infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36(3), 384–401. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12224

Liew, J., Cameron, C. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2018). Parts of the Whole: Motor and Behavioral Skills in Self-Regulation and Schooling Outcomes. Early Education and Development, 29(7), 909–913. http://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2018.1500513

Jung, W. P., Kahrs, B. A., & Lockman, J. J. (2018). Fitting handled objects into apertures by 17- to 36-month-old children: The dynamics of spatial coordination. Developmental Psychology, 54(2), 228–239. http://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000420

Fears, N. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2018). How beginning handwriting is influenced by letter knowledge: Visual–motor coordination during children’s form copying. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 171, 55–70. http://doi.org/10.1016/J.JECP.2018.01.017

Lockman, J. J., & Kahrs, B. A. (2017). New Insights Into the Development of Human Tool Use. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(4), 330–334. http://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417692035

Lockman, J. J., & Fears, N. E. (2016). Perception-action foundations of use of graphic instruments and tools in early childhood. International Journal of Psychology, 51, 254.

Green, D., Li, Q., Lockman, J. J., & Gredebäck, G. (2016). Culture Influences Action Understanding in Infancy: Prediction of Actions Performed With Chopsticks and Spoons in Chinese and Swedish Infants. Child Development, 87(3), 736–746. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12500

Maldarelli, J. E., Kahrs, B. A., Hunt, S. C., & Lockman, J. J. (2015). Development of early handwriting: Visual-motor control during letter copying. Developmental Psychology, 51(7), 879–888. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0039424

Jung, W. P., Kahrs, B. A., & Lockman, J. J. (2015). Manual action, fitting, and spatial planning: Relating objects by young children. Cognition, 134, 128–139. http://doi.org/10.1016/J.COGNITION.2014.09.004

Lockman, J. J. (2014). Looking Back and Looking Ahead. Child Development, 85(6), 2112–2113. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12328

Kahrs, B. A., & Lockman, J. J. (2014). Tool Using. Child Development Perspectives, 8(4), 231–236. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12087

Kahrs, B. A., & Lockman, J. J. (2014). Building Tool Use From Object Manipulation: A Perception–Action Perspective. Ecological Psychology, 26(1–2), 88–97. http://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2014.874908

Kahrs, B. A., Jung, W. P., & Lockman, J. J. (2014). When Does Tool Use Become Distinctively Human? Hammering in Young Children. Child Development, 85(3), 1050–1061. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12179

Kahrs, B. A., Jung, W. P., & Lockman, J. J. (2013). Motor Origins of Tool Use. Child Development, 84(3), 810–816. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12000

Kahrs, B. A., Jung, W. P., & Lockman, J. J. (2012). What is the role of infant banging in the development of tool use? Experimental Brain Research, 218(2), 315–320. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-012-3062-3

Kahrs, B. A., Jung, W. P., & Lockman, J. J. (2012). Hammering by Young Children with Their Left and Right Hands. Developmental Psychobiology, 54(7). 

Kahrs, B. A., & Lockman, J. J. (2012). Tool use of objects emerge continuously. Enfance, 64(1), 61–72. http://doi.org/10.4074/S0013754512001073

Books

Lockman, J. J., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (Eds.). (2020). Cambridge handbook infant development brain behavior and cultural context . Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/psychology/developmental-psychology/cambridge-handbook-infant-development-brain-behavior-and-cultural-context?format=PB

Book Chapters

Lockman, J. J., Fears, N. E., & Lewis, E. A. (2018). Spatial Development. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford, UK: Oxford  University Press. http://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.63

Lockman, J. J., Lewis, E. A., & Fears, N. E. (2018). Ecology. In M. H. Bornstein, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp.702-705). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n263

Lockman, J. J., Fears, N. E., & Jung, W. P. (2018). The Development of Object Fitting: The Dynamics of Spatial Coordination. In Advances in Child Development and Behavior (Vol. 55, pp. 31–72). JAI. http://doi.org/10.1016/BS.ACDB.2018.05.001

Conference Proceedings

Hoffmann, M., Chinn, L. K., Somogyi, E., Heed, T., Fagard, J., Lockman, J. J., & O ’regan, J. K. (2017). Development of reaching to the body in early infancy : From experiments to robotic models. Proceedings of the 2017 Joint IEEE Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robots. http://doi.org/10.1109/DEVLRN.2017.8329795

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