Philippe Rochat, Ph.D.

Publications

Books

Rochat, P. (2009/in press). Others in Mind? Social origin of self-consciousness. N.Y. Cambridge University Press.

Hopkins, B. (Ed.), Barr, R. G., Michel, G. F., and Rochat, P. (Assoc. Eds.). (2005). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Cambridge University Press.

Rochat, P. The infant's world. (2001). The developing child series. Harvard University Press. Review by Debbie Ann I. Rassario, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; October 01, 2002.

Rochat, P. (Ed.). (1999). Early social cognition. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rochat, P. (Ed.). (1995). Self in Infancy: theories and research. Elsevier.

Journal Articles

Rochat, P. (in press/2009). Social-affective origins of mind reading and meta-cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Rochat, P., Dias, M.D.G., Guo, L. Broesch, T., Passos-Ferreira, C., Winning, A. Berg, B. (in press/2009). Fairness in Distributive Justice by 3- and 5-Year-Olds across 7 Cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 

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.

Rochat, P. (2007). Intentional Action Arises from Early Reciprocal Exchanges. Acta Psychologica, 124, 8-25. PDF

Layton, D. & Rochat, P. (2007). Contribution of motion information to maternal face discrimination in infancy. Infancy, Vol. 12(3), 1-15.

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

Bigelow, A. & Rochat, P. (2006) Two-month-old Infants’ Sensitivity to Social Contingency in Mother-Infant and Stanger-Infant Interaction. Infancy Vol 9(3), 313-325.

Rochat, P. (2006)  What does it mean to be human? Anthropological Psychology, No 17, 100-108.

Rochat, P. (2006). Humans evolved to become Homo Negotiatus...the rest followed. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 714-715.

Callaghan, T., Claux, M. L., Itakura, S., Lillard, A., Rochat, P., Singh, S., et al. (2005). Synchrony in the onset of mental-state reasoning. Psychological Science, 16(5), 378-384. PDF

Rochat, P. (2004). Emerging co-awareness. Theories of Infant Development, 258-283. PDF

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

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

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

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

Rochat, P. (2004). The emergence  of self awareness as co-awareness in early development. In Zahavi & Grünbaum (Eds.). The strucure and development of self-consciousness (Pp. 1-20). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Rochat, P. (2003). Five levels of self-awareness as they unfold early in life. Consciousness and Cognition, 12, 717-731. PDF

Poss, S., R., & Rochat, P. (2003). Referential understanding of videos in chimpanzees, orangutans and children. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117(4), 420-428. PDF

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

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, 415-445. PDF

Rochat, P. (2003). La 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., & Striano, T. (2002). Who's in the mirror? Self-other discrimination in specular images by four- and nine-month old infants. Child Development, 73(1), 35-46. PDF

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

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

Rochat, P. (2002). The Ego Function of Early Imitation. In A.N. Meltzoff & W. Prinz (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 Preston & DeWaal “ Empathy: Proximate and ultimate bases.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(1), 45-46.

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

Rochat, P. (2001). Social contingency detection and infant development. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 65(3). PDF

Rochat, P. (2001). Origins of self-concept. In G. Bremner & A. Fogel Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development. (Pp. 191-212).  Malden, MA, US: Blackwell Publishers.

Rochat, P. (2001). The dialogical nature of cognition. Monograph of the Society for Research in Child Development, 66, 2, No.265, pp. 133-144.

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

Rochat, P., & Striano, T. (2000). Emergence of selective social referencing in infancy. Infancy, 1(2), 253-264. PDF

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

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

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

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, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 3-34.

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. (1998). Self-perception and action in infancy. Exp Brain Res, 123, 102-109. PDF

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

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

Rochat, P. & Morgan, R.  (1998). Two Functional Orientations of Self-Exploration in Infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 139-154.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. PDF

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

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

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

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

Rochat, P. (1993). Self-knowledge in infants [French]. Psychologie francaise, 38(1), 41-51. PDF

Rochat, P. (1993). Hand-mouth coordination in the newborn; Morphology, determinants, and early development of a basic act. The Development of Coordination in Infancy, 265-288. PDF

Rochat, P., & Senders, S. (1991). Active touch in infancy: Action systems in development. Newborn attention: biological constraints and the influence of experience, 412-442. PDF

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

Rochat, P. (1989). Object manipulation and exploration in 2- to 5- month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 25(6), 871-884. PDF

Blass, E., M., Fillion, T., J., Hoffmeyer, L., B., Metzger, M. A., & Rochat, P. (1989). Sensorimotor and motivational determinants of hand-mouth coordination in 1-3-day-old human infants. Developmental Psychology, 25(6), 963-975. PDF

Blass, E., M., Hoffmeyer, L., B., & Rochat, P. (1988). Oropharyngeal control of hand-mouth coordination in newborn infants. Developmental Psychology, 24(4), 459-463. PDF

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

Reed, E., S, & Rochat, P. (1987). The concept of 'affordances' and infant cognition [French]. Psychologie francaise, 32(1-2), 97-104. PDF

Bullinger, A., Pont, D., & Rochat, P. (1984). Recording system of infant oral response during regular feeding session. Infant Behavior and Development, 7, 523-525. PDF

Rochat, P. Dialogical nature of cognition. PDF

Book Chapters

Rochat, P. (in press/2009). Emerging Self-Concept. In J.G. Bremner & T.D, Wachs (Eds.) Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, 2nd Edition. 

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.

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

Callaghan, T. & Rochat, P. (2008/in press). Children’s Understanding of Artist Picture Relations: Implications for Their Theories of Pictures. In C. Milbrath & H. M. Trautner (Eds.). Children’s understanding and production of pictures, drawing, and art: Theoretical and empirical approaches. (pp. 187-205). Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

Rochat, P. (2008). Mutual recognition as foundation of sociality and social comfort. In Striano, T. & Reid, V. (Eds). Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism. 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? Series on Contemporary Neuroscience, Humana Press.

Rochat, P. & Callaghan, T. (2005). What drives symbolic development? In Namy, L. (Ed.) Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation. (pp. 1-22). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Rochat, P. (2004). The emergence of self awareness as co-awareness in early development. In Zahavi & Grünbaum (Eds.). The strucure and development of self-consciousness (pp. 1-20) . Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Rochat, P. (2003). Emerging co-awareness. In G. Bremner Essays in Honor of George Butterworth. Cambridge University Press.

Rochat, P. (2003). Origins of self-concept. In G. Bremner & A. Fogel Blackwell Handbook of Infancy Research. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.

Rochat, P. (2002). The Ego Function of Early Imitation. In A.N. Meltzoff & W. Prinz (Eds.) The imitative mind. Cambridge University Press.

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. (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. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate.