Publications - By Research Area




Books

Rochat, P. (Fall 2020, in press). Moral acrobatics: How we avoid ethical ambiguities by thinking in black and white. Oxford University Press.

Rochat, P. (2014). Origins of possession: Owning and sharing in development. New York, N. Y.: Cambridge University Press.

Rochat, P. (2009). Others in mind-social origins of self-consciousness. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.

Hopkins, B.; Barr, R.; Michel, G. Rochat, P. (2005). (Eds.). The cambridge encyclopedia of child development. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.

Rochat, P. (2001). The infant's world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Foreign translations: French (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2006), Spanish (Madrid), Danish (Copenhagen), Japanese (Kyoto: Minerva Press, 2004), Chinese (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2006).

Rochat, P. (1999). (Editor). Early social cognition. Mahaw, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Rochat, P. (1995) (Editor). The self in infancy: Theory and research . Advances in Psychology Series, Book No. 112. Amsterdam: North Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers.

Rochat, P. (1984). Vision et toucher chez l'enfant: La construction de parametres spatiaux de l'object. (Vision and touch in children). European University Studies. Bern and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishing Co.


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Self in Development

Rochat, P. (2019, in press). Identité et développement (Identity and development). Dictionnaire encyclopédique de l'identité. Paris: Editions Gallimard.

Botto, S., & Rochat, P. (2019). Evaluative audience perception (EAP): How children come to care about reputation. Child Development Perspectives, 13(3), 180–185.

Rochat, P. (2019). Self-unity as ground zero of learning and development. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, 10.

Rochat, P. (2018). The ontogeny of human self-consciousness. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, 27 (5), 345-350.

Botto, S. & Rochat, P. (2018). Sensitivity to the evaluation of others emerges by 24 months. Developmental Psychology, 54(9), 1723–1734.

Beal, B. & Rochat, P. (2018). Innate valuation, existential framing, and one head for multiple moral hats. Commentary and reflections on John Doris' book: Talking to ourselves: reflection, ignorance, and agency. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 41, e38.

Rochat, P. (2018). Examen de conscience d'un psychologue a l'ere du cerveau (self-examination of a psychologist in the brain research era). In Le sens fondamental de soi et ses troubles volume honoring Pierre Bovet (pp. 189-203) . Paris: Vrin, Revue du Cercle Herméneutique.

Wang, S., & Rochat, P. (2017). Human perception of animacy in light of the uncanny valley phenomenon. Perception, 46(12), 1386–1411.

Cordonier, L., Nettles, T., & Rochat, P. (2017). Strong and strategic conformity by 3- and 5 year-old children. The British Psychological Society, 36, 438–451.

Zahavi, D., & Rochat, P. (2017). Embodied mentalization and selfhood: Commentary on "Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference" by Fotopoulou and Tsakiris. Neuropsychoanalysis, 19(1), 67-69.

Rochat, P. (2016). Roots of typical consciousness: Implications for developmental psychopathology. In Dante Cicchetti (Ed.), Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. N.Y., New York: Wiley Publishers.

Rochat, P. (2015, December). Layers of awareness in development. Developmental Review, 38, 122–145.

Wang, S., Lillienfeld, S. O., & Rochat, P. (2015, December). The uncanny valley: Existence and explanations. Review of General Psychology, 19(4), 393–407.

Rochat, P. (2015, June). Self-Conscious roots of human normativity. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 14(4), 741-753.

Rochat, P. (2015). The innate experience of self-agency. In P. Haggard (Ed.), Agency: Functions and Mechanisms (pp. 251–264). Oxford Scholarship Online.

Rochat, P. (2015, December). Engagement global du corps et connaissance précoce (Global engagement of the body and early cognition). Enfance, 2015(4), 453-462.

Rochat, P., & Zahavi, D. (2015). Der unheimliche spiegal (The Uncanny Mirror): Eine neubewertung der spiegel-selbsterfahrungsexperimente als test für das vorliegen von begrifflichem selbstbewusstsein. Deutshe Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 62(5), 1–24.

Rochat, P. (2014). Developpement de la conscience de soi (development of self-consciousness). Bulletin Scientifique de l'arapi - numéro 32 - automne 2013.

Rochat, P. (2013). Self-consciousness and the origins of the ethical stance. In B. Rastogi Kar (Ed.). Cognition and Brain Development (pp. 157–171). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Publisher.

Rochat, P. (2013). Self-conceptualizing in development. In P. D. Zelazo (Ed.), Oxford library of psychology. The Oxford handbook of developmental psychology, (Vol. 2, pp. 378–387). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Rochat, P. (2013). The gaze of others. In M. Banaji & S. Gelman, The Development of Social Cognition.

Rochat, P. (2012). Early embodied subjectivity and inter-subjectivity. In Dimensões da Intersubjetividade, Editora Escuta, São Paulo. L'organization est de Nelson Coelho Jr., Pedro Salem et Perla Klautau.

Rochat, P. (2012). Primordial sense of an embodied self-unity. In V. Slaughter & C. Brownell (Eds.) Early Development of Body Representations, Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development (pp.3-18). N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.

Rochat, P. (2012). Self-consciousness and "conscientiousness" in development. Revista Infancia y Aprendizaje (Journal for the Study of Education and Development), 35(4), 387–404.

Rochat, P., Broesch, T., & Jayne, K. (2012). Social awareness and early mirror self-recogition. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 1491–1497.

Rochat, P. (2011). The self as phenotype. Cognition and Consciousness, 20(1), 109–119.

Rochat, P. (2011) Sens de Soi et Sens de l'Autre au Debute de la Vie (Sense of self and sense of others early in life). A. Berthoz & Andrieu, B. (Eds.) Le Corps en Acte: Volume pour le Centenaire de la naissance de Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/ Presse Universitaire de Nancy.

Rochat, P., & Zahavi, D. (2011). The uncanny mirror: A re-framing of mirror self-experience. Cognition and Consciousness, 20, 204–213.

Rochat, P. (2011). What is it like to be a newborn? In S. Gallagher (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of the Self. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Rochat, P. (2010). Emergence de la co-conscience. In B. Andrieu La Philosophie du Corps: Experiences, interactions et ecologie corporelle. Paris: Vrin.

Rochat, P. (2010). Me and mine in early development. In T. Fuchs, C. Sattle, & P. Henningsen (Eds.), Embodied Self: Dimension, Coherence and Disorders. Frankfurt: Shattauer.

Rochat, P. (2010). The innate sense of the body develops to become a public affair by 2–3 years. Neuropsychologia, 48(3), 738–745. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009. 11.021

Rochat, P. (2010). Emerging self-concept. In J.G. Bremner & T.D. Wachs (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development. (2nd Edition). London: Blackwell Publishers.

Rochat, P. (2008). Know Thyself!...But what, how and why?. In Sani, F. (Ed.), Individual and collective self-continuity: Psychological perspectives (pp. 243-251). Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers

Rochat, P. (2004). The emergence of self-awareness as co-awareness in early development. In Zahavi Grunbaum (Eds.), The Strucure and Development of Self-Consciousness (pp. 1–20). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Rochat, P. (2004). Emerging co-awareness. In G. Bremner & A. Slater (Eds.), Theories of Infant Development (pp. 258–283). Blackwell Publishing.

Rochat, P. (2003). Five levels of self-awareness as they unfold early in life. Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal, 12(4), 717–731.

Rochat, P. (2003). Connaissance de soi et des autres au debut de la vie (Self-knowledge and social knowledge early in life). Enfance, 55(1), 39–47.

Rochat, P. (2002). Origins of self-concept. In G. Bremner & A. Fogel (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development. (pp. 191–212). Malden, MA, US: Blackwell Publishers.

Rochat, P. (2002). Naissance de la co-conscience (The emergence of co-consciousness). Intellectica, 34, 99–123.

Rochat, P., & Striano, T. (2002). Who's in the mirror: Self-other discrimination in specular images by 4- and 9-month-old infants. Child Development, 73, 35–46.

Rochat, P., & Striano, T. (2001). Perceived self in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 513–530.

Rochat, P., & Goubet, N. (2000). Connaissance implicite du corps au debut de la vie (implicit knowledge of the body early in life). Enfance, 3, 275–286.

Rochat, P., Striano, T. (1999). Emerging self-exploration by 2 month-old infants. Developmental Science, 2, 206–218.

Rochat, P. (1998). Self-perception and action in infancy. Experimental Brain Research, 117, 17–18.

Rochat, P., & Morgan, R. (1998). Two functional orientations of self-exploration in infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 139–154.

Rochat, P., & Hespos, S. J. (1997). Differential rooting response by neonates: Evidence for an early sense of self. Early Development & Parenting, 6, 105–112.

Morgan, R., & Rochat, P. (1997). Intermodal calibration of the body in early infancy. Ecological Psychology, 9 (1), 1-23.

Rochat, P. (1997). Early development of the ecological self. In C. Dent-Read & P. Zukow-Goldring (Eds.), Evolving Explanations of Development (pp. 91–121). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Rochat, P. (1995). Early objectification of the self. In P. Rochat (Ed.), The Self in Infancy. Advances in Psychology Book Series (pp. 395–415). Amsterdam, North Holland: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Rochat, P., & Morgan, R. (1995). The function and determinants of early self-exploration in infancy. In P. Rochat (Ed.) The Self in Infancy. Advances in Psychology Book Series (pp. 395–415). Amsterdam, North Holland: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Rochat, P., & Morgan, R. (1995). Spatial determinants in the perception of self-produced leg movements by 3-5 month old infants. Developmental Psychology, 31(4), 626–636.

Morgan, R., & Rochat, P. (1995). The perception of self-produced leg movements in self-versus object-oriented contexts by 3-5 month-old infants. In B.G. Bardy, R.J. Bootsma & Y. Guiard (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action III (pp. 243–246). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates inc.

Rochat, P. (1993). Connaissance de soi chez le bebe (Self-knowledge in infancy). Psychologie Francaise, 38(1), 41–51.


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Social Development

Deschenaux, A., Gruber, T., Cordonier, L. & Rochat, P. (submitted). Keeping together in time and space: Social affinity inference in 3-7 year-olds.

Rochat, P. (2019, in press). Possession. Origgi, G. (Ed). Dictionnaire des Passions Sociales (Dictionary of Social Passions). Paris: Presse Universitaire de France.

Wang, S., Lilienffeld, S. O., & Rochat, P. (2019). Schadenfreude deconstructed and reconstructed: A tripartite motivational. New Ideas in Psychology, 52, 1-11.

Rochat, P. (2018). Origins of social fusion. A commentary on whitehouse target article: "Dying for the group". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, E215.

Broesch, T., Itakura, S., & Rochat, P. (2017). Learning from others: Selective requests by 3-year-olds of three cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(9), 1432-1441.

Gibson, B., Tone, E. B., Baron, A., & Rochat, P. (2017). Sources of implicit and explicit intergroup race bias among African-American children and young adults. PLoS One, 12(9).

Rochat, P., & Robbins, E. (2016). Sharing and fairness in development. In J. Kiverstein (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy of the social mind (pp. 222-244). New York, NY: Routledge.

Zahavi, D. & Rochat, P. (2015, November). Empathy ≠ sharing: Perspectives from phenomenology. Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 543-553.

Gibson, B., Robbins, E., & Rochat, P. (2015). White bias in 3-7 year-old children across cultures. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 15(3-4), 344-373.

Rochat, P. (2014). Les deux tétines de l'homme ("The Two teats of Man", essay on mother). In Fabienne Audeoud (Ed). Mamanthologie: Maman – La peinture appellee sa mère (pp. 40-51). CNAP/Editions Particules, Eva Meyer Gallery, Paris.

Rochat, P. (2013). Comment la honte vient aux enfants. Communications, 93(2), 69-84.

Rochat P. & Robbins, E. (2013). Ego function of morality and developing tensions that are "within". Commentary on Baumard et al. A mutualistic approach to morality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(1), 98-99.

Rochat, P. (2013). Why play? The meaning of play in relation to creativity. In Cultures of Creativity: Nurturing Creative Mindsets Across Cultures. The LEGO Foundation Publications.

Rochat, P. (2012). Sense of 'sameness' as foundation of infants' embodied subjectivity and inter-subjectivity. In A. Fotopoulou, S. Pfaff,& M.A. Conway (Eds.), From the couch to the lab: Psychoanalysis, neuroscience and cognitive psychology in dialogue. Oxford University Press.

Rochat, P. (2011). Possession and morality in early development. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 132, 23-38.

Rochat, P. (2010). Trust in early development. In Arne Gron & Claudiea Welz (Eds.) Trust, sociality, Selfood (pp. 31-43). Mohr Siebeck Publishing.

Rochat, P. (2010). Is social cognition an oxymoron? In P. Zelazo (Ed.), Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development, on the topic of social cogntion. On-line since September 2010.

Rochat, P. & Passos-Ferreira, C. (2009). Three levels of intersubjectivity in early development. In A. Carassa, F. Morganti, & G. Riva (Eds.), Enacting intersubjectivity: Paving the way for a dialogue between Cognitive Sciences (pp. 13-14). Switzerland: Lugano.

Rochat, P. (2009). Social-affective origins of mind reading and meta-cognition. [Commentary on How we know our own minds: the relationship between mindreading and metacognition, by Peter Carruthers] Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32(2), 160-161.

Rochat, P. (2009). Foreword for Michel Heller's Manuel des psychotherapies corporelles. Bruxelles: De Boeck Editeur.

Rochat, P. (2008). Commentary: Mutual recognition as foundation of sociality and social comfort. In Striano, T. & Reid, V. (Eds.), Social cognition: Development, neuroscience and autism (pp. 303-317). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Rochat, P. & Passos-Ferreira, C. (2008). From imitation to reciprocation and mutual recognition. In J. A. Pineda (Ed.), Mirror neuron systems: The role of mirroring processes in social cognition (pp. 191-212). Series on Contemporary Neuroscience, Humana Press.

Bigelow, A., Power, M., Mcquaid, N., Ward, A. & Rochat, P. (2008). Distinguishing mother-infant interaction from stranger-infant interaction at 2, 4, and 6 months of age. Infancy, 13(2), 158-171.

Rochat, P. & Passos-Ferreira, C. (2008). Homo negotiatus: Ontogeny of the unique ways humans own, share, and reciprocate. In Itakura & Fujita (Eds) Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary and developmental views (pp. 141-156). Springer Publishers.

Layton, D. & Rochat, P. (2007). Contribution of motion information to maternal face discrimination in infancy. Infancy, 12(3), 257-271.

Rochat, P. (2007). Intentional action arises from early reciprocal exchanges. Acta Psychologica, 124(1), 8-25.

Bigelow, A. & Rochat, P. (2006). Two-month-old infants' sensitivity to social contingency in mother-infant and stranger-infant interaction. Infancy, 9(3), 313-325.

Goubet, N., Rochat, P., Maire-Leblond, C., & Poss, S. (2006). Learning from others in 9-18-month-old infants. Infant and Child Development, 15(2), 161-177.

Rochat, P. (2005). Humans evolved to become Homo negotiatus...the rest followed. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 714-715.

Agnetta, B., & Rochat, P. (2004). Imitative games by 9-, 14-, and 18-month-old infants. Infancy, 6(1), 1-36.

Rochat, P. (2002). Ego function of early imitation. In Meltzoff, A. N., & Prinz W.(Eds.), The imitative mind: Development, evolution, and brain bases (pp. 85-97). NY: Cambridge University Press.

Rochat, P. (2002). Various kinds of empathy as revealed by the developing child, not the monkey's brain. Commentary on Empathy: Proximate and ultimate bases, by Preston S. D., & de Waal, F. B. M. Behavioral and Brain, 25(1), 45-46.

Rochat, P., Striano, T., & Blatt, L. (2002). Differential effects of happy, neutral, and sad still faces on 2-, 4-, and 6-month-old infants. Infant and Child Development, 11(4), 289-303.

Rochat, P. (2001). Social contingency detection and infant development. Bulletin of the Meinninger Clinic, 65(3), 347-360.

Striano, T. & Rochat, P. (2000). Emergence of selective social referencing in infancy. Infancy, 2, 253-264.

Rochat, P., Querido, J., & Striano, T. (1999). Emerging sensitivity to the timing and structure of protoconversation in early infancy. Developmental Psychology, 35(4), 950-957.

Striano, T., & Rochat, P. (1999). Developmental link between dyadic and triadic social competence in infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 551-562.

Rochat, P. & Striano, T. (1999). Social-cognitive development in the first year. In P. Rochat (Ed.), Early Social Cognition (pp. 3-34). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rochat, P., Neisser, U., & Marian, V. (1998). Are young infants sensitive to interpersonal contingency? Infant Behavior & Development, 21(2), 355-366.

Rochat, P., Morgan, R., & Carpenter, M. (1997). Young infants' sensitivity to movement information specifying social causality. Cognitive Development, 12, 537-561.

Marian, V., Neisser, U. & Rochat, P. (1996). Can 2-month-old infants distinguish live from videotaped interactions with their mother. Emory Cognition Project Report # 33.


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Symbolic Development

Callaghan, T., Rochat, P., & Corbit, J. (2012). Young children's knowledge of the representational function of pictorial symbols: Development across the preschool years in three cultures. Journal of Cognition and Development, 13(3), 320-353.

Callaghan, T. & Rochat, P. (2008). Children's theories of the relation between artist and picture. In C. Milbrath & H. M. Trautner (Eds.), Children's understanding and production of pictures, drawing, and art: Theoretical and empirical approaches.

Rochat, P. (2006) What does it mean to be human? Anthropological Psychology, 17, 100-108.

Rochat, P. & Callaghan, T. (2005). What drives symbolic development? In Namy, L. (Ed.) Symbolic Use and Understanding (pp. 25-46). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Callaghan, T., Rochat, P. Maclellan, C. & McGillivray, T. (2004). Modeling referential actions in 6- to 18-month old infants: A precursor to symbolic understanding. Child Development, 75(6), 1733-1744.

Callaghan, T. & Rochat, P. (2003). Traces of the artist: Sensitivity to the role of the artist in children's pictorial reasoning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 21(3), 415-445.

Striano, T., Rochat, P. & Legerstee, M. (2003). Role of modelling and request type on symbolic comprehension of objects and gestures in young children. Journal of Child Language, 30(1), 27-45.

Rochat, P. (2001). The dialogical nature of cognition. Monograph of the Society for Research in Child Development, 66(2), 133-144.

Striano, T., Tomasello, M., & Rochat, P. (2001). Social and object support for early symbolic play. Developmental Science, 4(4), 442-455.

Tomasello, M., Striano, T., & Rochat, P. (1999). Do young children use objects as symbols? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17(4), 563-584.


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Perception and Motor Development

Wang, S. & Rochat, P. (submitted). When a humanlike face harbors a humanlike mind— Face animacy perception and the uncanny valley.

Rochat, P. (2007). Do Infants Dream of Baby Sheep? In. M. Tokoro & K. Mogi (Eds.). Creativity and the Brain. World Scientific Publishers.

Rochat, P., Striano, T., & Morgan, R. (2004). Who is doing what to whom? Young infants' developing sense of social causality in animated displays. Perception, 33(3), 355-369.

Rochat, P. (1999). Direct perception and representation in infancy. In R. Fivush, G. Winograd, & W. Hirst (Eds.) Ecological Approach to Cognition: Essays in Honor of Ulric Neisser (pp. 3-30). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate.

Rochat, P., Goubet, N., & Senders, S.J. (1999). To reach or not to reach? Perception of body effectivities by young infants. Infant and Child Development, 8, 129-148.

Rochat, P. & Striano, T. (1998) The primacy of action in infancy. Human Development, 41, 112-115.

Rochat, P., Goubet, N. & Shah, B. (1997). Enhanced sucking engagement by preterm infants during intermittent gavage feedings. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 18(1), 22-26.

Rochat, P. & Wraga M.J. (1997). An account for the systematic error in judging what is reachable. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 23(1), 199-212.

Rochat, P. (1995). Perceived reachability for self and for others by 3 to 5-year old children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 59, 317-333.

Rochat, P. & Goubet, N. (1995). Development of sitting and reaching in 5-6-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 18, 53-68.

Rochat, P. & Morgan, R. (1995). Spatial determinants in the perception of self-produced leg movements by 3-5 month old infants. Developmental Psychology, 31 (4), 626-636.

Rochat, P. & Wraga, M.J. (1994). Perceiving what is reachable: Systematic errors in the perception of an affordance. Emory Cognition Project, #29.

Clifton, R.K., Rochat, P., Robin, D.J., & Berthier, N.E. (1994). Multimodal perception in the control of infant reaching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 20(4), 876-886.

Rochat, P. & Bullinger, A. (1994). Posture and functional action in infancy. In Vyt, A., Bloch, H., & Bornstein, M. (Eds.), Early Child Development in the French Tradition: Contributions from Current Research (pp. 15-34). NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Rochat, P. (1993). Hand-mouth coordination in the newborn: Morphology, determinants, and early development of a basic act. In Savelsbergh (Ed.), The Development of Coordination in Infancy. Advances in Psychology Series (pp. 265-288). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publisher.

Rochat, P. & Wraga, M.J. (1993). Postural determinants of perceived reachability. In S. Stavros Valenti & John B. Pittenger (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action II (pp. 30-35). Hillsdale (NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Rochat, P. & Morgan, R. (1993). Self-perception by 3-month-old infants. In Stavros Valenti & John B. Pittenger (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action II (pp. 14-18). Hillsdale (NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Rochat, P. (1992). Self-sitting and reaching in 5-8 month old infants: The impact of posture and its development on early eye-hand coordination. Journal of Motor Behavior, 24(2), 210-220.

Clifton, R.K., Rochat, P., Litovsky, R., & Perris, E.E. (1991). Object representation guides infant reaching in the dark. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17(2), 323-329.

Rochat, P. (1991). Activite tactile-orale chez le nouveau-ne (Haptic-oral activity by young infants). In F. Jouen & A. Henocq (Eds.), Du Nouveau-Ne au Nourrisson: Recherche fondamentale et pediatrie (pp. 93-106). Presses Universitaires do France.

Rochat, P., & Senders, S.J. (1991). Active touch in infancy: Action systems in development. In M.J. Weiss & P.R. Zelazo (Eds.), Infant Attention: Biological Contraints and the Influence of Experience. NJ: Ablex Publishers, 412-442.

Rochat, P. (1989). Object manipulation and exploration in 2- to 5-month old infants. Developmental Psychology, 25, 871-884.

Blass, E.M., Fillion, T.J., Rochat, P., Hoffmeyer, L.B., & Metzger, M.A. (1989). Sensorimotor and motivational determinants of hand-mouthcoordination in 1-3 day old human infants. Developmental Psychology, 25, 963-975.

Rochat, P., Blass, E.M., & Hoffmeyer, L.B. (1988).Oropharyngeal control of hand-mouth coordination in newborn infants. Developmental Psychology, 24, 459-463.

Rochat, P. (1987). Mouthing and grasping in neonates: Evidence for the early detection of what hard or soft substance afford for action. Infant Behavior and Development, 10, 435-449.

Rochat, P. & Reed, E.S. (1987). Le concept d'affordance et les connaissances du nourrisson. Psychologie Francaise, tome 32-1/2 Juin., 97-104.

Bullinger, A. & Rochat, P. (1985). L'activite orale du nourrisson comme indice du comportement (Infants' oral activity as a behavioral index). In P.M. Baudonniere (Ed.), Etudier l'enfant do la naissance a trois ans: les grands courants methodologiques actuels (pp. 55-69). Paris: CNRS, Coll. Comportements.

Pont, D., Bullinger, A., & Rochat, P. (1984). Recording system of infant oral response during regular feeding session. Infant Behavior and Development, 7, 533-535.

Osiek, C. & Rochat, P. (1983). Codage de la forme d'un objet par l'enfant: Les processus sont-ils analogues dans les modalites visuelle ou tactile de prise d'information?(Visual and haptic coding of shapes: Analogous Processes?) Archives de Psychologie, 51, 93-99.

Rochat, P. (1983). Oral touch in young infants: Response to variations of nipple characteristics in the first months of life. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 6, 123-133.


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Comparative Cognition

Poss, S. & Rochat, P. (2003). Referential understanding of videos in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), and children (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117(4), 420-428.

Call, J. & Rochat, P. (1997). Perceptual strategies in the estimation of physical quantities by Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 111(4), 315-329.

Call, J. & Rochat, P. (1996). Liquid conservation in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and humans (Homo sapiens): Individual differences and perceptual strategies. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110(3), 219-232.


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Early Cognition

Rochat, P. (2017). Baby assault on Piaget. In Marti, E., & C. Rodriguez (Eds.) After Piaget (pp.71-82). Taylor & Francis ebook Publishing.

Taubert, J., Weiss-Sanders, K., Parr, L., & Rochat, P. (2016/submitted). The face of familiar races attract attention of infants in complex displays.

Rochat, P. (2014). La naissance de la conscience de soi (birth of self-consciousness). Revue Pour la Science. Paris.

Rochat, P. (2013). Naissance de l'identité chez l'enfant, Soigner l'enfant, Editions Erès.

Hespos, S.J. & Rochat, P. (1997). Dynamic mental representation in infacy. Cognition, 64, 153-188.

Rochat, P. & Hespos, S.J. (1996). Tracking and anticipation of invisible spatial transformations by 4-to-8-month old infants. Cognitive Development, 11, 3-17.

Simon, T., Hespos, S., & Rochat, P. (1995). Do infants understand simple arithmetic? A replication of Wynn (1992). Cognitive Development, 10, 253-269.

Tomasello, M. & Rochat, P. (1994). "Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science" by Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Philosophical Psychology, 7(4), 536-539.

Rochat, P. (1993). L'objet des actions du bebe (The object of babies' action). In V. Pouthas & F. Jouen (Eds.), les comportements du bebe: Expression de son savoir? (pp. 209-232). Bruxelles: Mardaga Publisher.

Clifton, R.K., Rochat, P., Litovsky, R., & Perris, E.E. (1991). Representation guides infant reaching in the dark. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17(2), 323-329.

Rochat, P. (1985). French translation of L.P. Lipsitt, "Cognition and behavior of the newborn" in P. Vert & L. Stern (Eds.), Neonatal medicine. Paris: Masson.

Rochat, P. (1983). "Adaptation and intelligence: Organic selection and phenocopy" by Piaget, J. Review of Psychoanalytic Books, 2, 193-195.


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Cross-Cultural Studies

Broesch, T., Aime, H. & Rochat, P. (submitted). Cultural differences in infant spontaneous behavior: Evidence from a small-scale, rural island society.

Guo, C. & Rochat, P. (submitted). Cultural Differences in Children's Evaluation of Lies.

Rochat, P. (2019). Fondements innés de l'acquis (Innate foundations of nurture). L'autre, Cliniques, Cultures et Sociétés, 20(2), 155-162.

Robbins, E., Shepard, J., & Rochat, P. (2017). Variations in judgments of intentional action and moral evaluation across eight cultures. Cognition, 164, 22-30.

Robbins, E., Shepard, J., & Rochat, P. (2016/submitted). Cross-cultural variability in praise and blame attribution: Evidence from 7 cultures.

Broesch, T., Rochat, P., Olah, K., Broesch, J., Henrich, J. (2016). Similarities and differences in maternal responsiveness in three societies: Evidence from Fiji, Kenya, and the United States. Child Development, 87(3), 700-711.

Robbins, E., Starr, S. & Rochat, P. (2016). Fairness and distributive justice by 3-to 5-year-old Tibetan children. APA Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,47(3), 330-340.

Rochat, P., Robbins, E. Passos-Ferreira, C., Donato Oliva, A., Dias, M.D.G., Liping G. (2014). Ownership reasoning in children across cultures Cognition, 132(3): 471-84.

Zebian, S., Rochat, P. (2012). Judgment of land ownership by young refugee Palestinian and US children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36(6), 449–456.

Callaghan, T., Rochat, P., & Corbit, J. (2012) Young children's knowledge of representational function of pictorial symbols: Develepoment across the preschool years in three cultures. Journal of Cognition and Development, 13(3), 320-353.

Robbins, E. & Rochat, P. (2011). Emerging signs of strong reciprocity in human ontogeny. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(353), 1-14.

Broesch, T., Callaghan, T., Henrich, J. & Rochat, P. (2010). Cultural variations in children's mirror self-recognition. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(6), 1018-1029.

Rochat, P. (2010). What is really wrong with a-priori claims of universality? Sampling, validity, process level, and the irresistible drive to reduce. [Commentary on J. Henrich et al.: Weirdest People in the World?] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2/3), 107-108.

Rochat, P., Dias, M.D.G., Guo, L. Broesch, T., Passos-Ferreira, C., Winning, A. Berg, B. (2009). Fairness in distributive justice by 3-and 5-year-olds across 7 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40(3), 416-442.

Callaghan, T., Rochat, P., Lillard, A., Claux, M.L., Odden, H., Itakura, S., Tapanya, S., & Singh, S. (2005). Synchrony in the onset of mental-state reasoning: Evidence from five cultures. Psychological Science, 16(5), 378-384.

Odden, H. & Rochat, P. (2004). Observational learning and enculturation. Educational and Child Development, 21(2), 39-50.

Rochat, P. (1981). "La naissance de l'intelligence chez l'enfant Baoule de Cote d'Ivoire" by Dasen, R. Inhelder, B., and Reitschisky, J. Infant Behavior and Development, 4, 110-111.


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