Publications
Berger, S. E. & Nuzzo, K. (in press). Older siblings influence younger siblings' motor development. Infant and Child Development.
Berger, S. E. & Adolph, K. E. (2007). Learning and development in infant locomotion. In C. von Hofsten & K. Rosander (Eds.) From action to cognition (pp. 237-255). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier
Berger, S. E., Theuring, C. F., & Adolph, K. E. (2007). How and when infants learn to climb stairs. Infant Behavior and Development, 30(1), 36-49.
Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2006). Motor development. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Series Eds.) & D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 2: Cognition, Perception and Language (6th ed., pp. 161-213). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Berger, S. E., Adolph, K. E., & Lobo, S.A. (2005). Out of the toolbox: Toddlers differentiate wobbly and wooden handrails. Child Development, 76(6), 1294-1307.
Adolph, K. E. & Berger, S. E. (2005). Physical and motor development. In Marc H. Bornstein & Michael E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook (5th ed., pp. 223-281). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Berger, S. E. (2004). Demands on finite cognitive capacity cause infants' perseverative errors. Infancy, 5(2), 217-238.
Berger, S. E., and Adolph, K. E. (2003). Infants use handrails as tools in a locomotor task. Developmental Psychology, 39(3), 594-605.
Berger, S. E. (2001). Executive functioning in manual and locomotor tasks. Advances in Motor Development and Learning in Infancy: Behavioural, Neurological, and Modelling Issues. Edited by John van der Kamp, Annick Ledebt, Geert Savelsbergh and Esther Thelen
Berger, S. E. (2001). Accounting for infant perseveration beyond the manual search task. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(1), 34 – 35.
Berger, S. E. (1999). Infants’ perseverative errors in a locomotor A-not-B task. Studies in Perception and Action X. NJ: Erlbaum.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Berger, S. E. (2007, March). Perseveration in motion. Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Adolph, K. E., Joh, A. S., Ishak, S., Lobo, S. A., & Berger, S. E. (2005, October). Specificity of infants' knowledge for action. The Fourth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, CA.
Berger, S. E. (2005, May). Locomotor perseveration. The Second World Congress: Motor Development and Learning in Infancy, Murcia, SPAIN.
Berger, S. E., Theuring, C. F. *, & Adolph, K. E. (2005, May). Learning to ascend and descend stairs. The Second World Congress: Motor Development and Learning in Infancy, Murcia, SPAIN.
Berger, S. E. (2005, April). Out with the old, in with the new: Walkers’ reluctance to return to crawling elicits perseverative behaviors. Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
Berger, S. E. (2004, June). The development and learning of inhibition in infancy. North American Conference for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Vancouver, B. C., CANADA.
Berger, S. E. & Adolph, K. E. (2004, May). Necessity is the mother of invention: Infants’ tool-use depends on context-specific factors. International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL.
Berger, S. E., Theuring, C. F. *, & Adolph, K. E. (2004, May). Social, cognitive, geographic, and biomechanical factors affect infants’ learning to ascend and descend stairs. International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL.
Fisher, J.* & Berger, S. E. (2003, November). The effects of having an older sibling on motor development. Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development, Cambridge, MA.
Berger, S. E. (2003, October). Infants’ spatial reasoning about tools. Third Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, UT.
Berger, S. E. & Theuring, C. F.* (2003, May). Crawling is not enough: Contextual influences on infants’ stair ascent and descent. American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Berger, S. E. (2003, April). Practice makes perfect: The effect of locomotor experience on infants' capacity to inhibit. Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Berger, S. E. & Lobo, S. A.* (2003, April). Look, Ma, both hands: Infants discriminate wooden and wobbly handrails. Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Berger, S. E. & Adolph, K. E. (2002, April). Infants’ handrail use as a tool for balance control. International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.
Berger, S. E. (2002, April). A cognitive capacity explanation for perseverative errors in the A-not-B task. International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.
Berger, S. E. (2001, June). Executive functioning in infants’ locomotion. International Conference on Event Perception and Action, Storrs, CT.
Berger, S. E. (2001, May). Executive functioning in manual and locomotor tasks. The First World Congress: Motor Development and Learning in Infancy, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS.
Berger, S. E. (2001, April). Locomotor ability influences perseverative errors. Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Berger, S. E. (2001, April). Walking skill predicts accuracy of decision-making in a goal-directed locomotor task. Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Berger, S. E., McLaughlin, A. E.*, & Adolph, K. E. (2000, July). Toddlers’ recognition of a handrail as an aid for locomotion. International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, ENGLAND.
Berger, S. E. (2000, July). Task difficulty elicits perseverative behaviors in a locomotor A-not-B task. International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, ENGLAND.
Berger, S. E., McLaughlin, A. E.*, Adolph, K. E., & Hobson, M. M.* (2000, April). Toddlers’ exploratory behavior as a predictor of accurate decision-making in a locomotor task. Conference on Human Development, Memphis, TN.
*student authors