Philippe Rochat, Ph.D.

Recent Publications

Books

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

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

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

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

Rochat, P., & Striano, T. (2000). Perceived self in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 513-530. 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

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., & 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. & Callaghan, T. (in press). What drives symbolic development? In Namy, L. (Ed.) Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation. 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.