Publikationen
In Press
Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., (…Liszkowski, U…) Frank, M., Rakoczy, R. (accepted; Stage 1 Registered Report). Action anticipation based on an agent’s epistemic state in toddlers and adults. PsyArXiv Preprint
2025
Mayer,M. & Liszkowski, U. (2025). Out of sight, not out of mind: New pupillometric evidence on object permanence in a sample of 10- and 12-month-old German infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2025 Jan, 249: 106060 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106060
2024
Kaletsch, K., & Liszkowski, U. (2024). Infants adapt their pointing frequency to experimentally manipulated parent responsiveness but not parent pointing. Infant and Child Development, e2548. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2548
2023
Alexander, N; Illius, S.; Feyerabend, D.; Wacker, J.; Liszkowski, U. (2023). Commentary on Burt: Don’t miss the chance to reap the fruits of recent advances in behavioral genetics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Kaletsch, K. & Liszkowski, U. (2023). A new online Paradigm to measure spontaneous pointing in infants and caregivers. Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101907
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Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann, J.-R., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 73, 101890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890
Haskaraca, F. N., Proft, M., Liszkowski, U., & Rakoczy, H. (2023). How robust are egocentric and altercentric interference effects in social cognition? A test with explicit and implicit versions of a continuous false belief task. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.
Ertaş, S., Koşkulu‐Sancar, S., Ger, E., Liszkowski, U., & Küntay, A. C. (2023). Relation of infants' and mothers' pointing to infants' vocabulary measured directly and with parental reports. Infancy.
Ger, E., Küntay, A. C., Ertaş, S., Koşkulu-Sancar, S., & Liszkowski, U. (2023). Correlates of Infant Pointing Frequency in the First Year. Infancy.
Rüther, J. & Liszkowski, U. (2023). Ontogeny of index-finger pointing. Journal of Child Language. 1-17. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000053
Kobayashi, H., Yasuda, T., Liszkowski, U. (2023). Marked Pointing Facilitates Learning Part Names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning. Journal of Child Language, 50(2), 296-310. doi:10.1017/S0305000921000891
2022
Karthik, S., Parise, E., & Liszkowski, U. (2022). Mirroring communicative actions: Contextual modulation of mu rhythm desynchronization in response to the ‘Back-of-hand’action in 9-month-old infants. Developmental Neuropsychology, 47(3), 158-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565641.2022.2055033
Klafka, M., & Liszkowski, U. (2022). Four-year-olds adapt their deception to the epistemic states of others. Cognitive Development, 64, 101243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101243
Rohlfing, K.J.; Lüke, C.; Liszkowski, U.; Ritterfeld, U.; Grimminger, A. (2022). Developmental Paths of Pointing for Various Motives in Infants with and without Language Delay. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19(9), 4982; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094982.
Lüke, C., Ritterfeld, U., & Liszkowski, U. (2022). In Bilinguals' Hands: Identification of Bilingual, Preverbal Infants at Risk for Language Delay. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 872.
2021
Koskulu, S., Uzundağ, B., Liszkowski, U., Küntay, A. Number and Type of Toys Affect Joint Attention of Mothers and Infants. Infant Behavior and Development. 2021 Aug;64:101589. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101589. Epub 2021 May 29. PMID: 34058634.
Heinrich, M. & Liszkowski, U. Three-year olds’ spontaneous lying in a novel interaction-based paradigm and its relations to explicit skills and motivational factors. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2021 Jul;207:105125. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105125. Epub 2021 Mar 21. PMID: 33761406.
Jartó, M. & Liszkowski, U. Inferring hidden objects from still and communicative onlookers at 8-, 14- and 36-months of age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2021 Jul;207:105115. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105115. Epub 2021 Mar 9. PMID: 33706217.
Klafka, M., & Liszkowski, U. (2021). The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds. Frontiers in Psychology, 4070. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700695/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychology&id=70069
Liszkowski, U. & Rüther, J. (2021). Ontogenetic origins of infant pointing.In Eds. Gontier, N., Lock, A., Sinha, C. Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Online Publlication Date: Apr 2021, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.013.31
Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, R.K., Renswoude, D. R. van, Black, A., Barr, R., Brown, A., Colomer, M., Durrant, S., Gampe, A., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hay, J. F., Hernik, M., Jartó, M., Kovács, A. M., Laoun-Rubenstein, A., Lew-Williams, C., Liszkowski, U., Liu, L., Noble, C., Potter, C. E., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Sebastian-Galles, N., Soderstrom, M., Visser, I., Waddell, C., Wermelinger, S., & Singh, L. (2021). Development of Gaze Following in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants: A Multi-Lab Study. Infancy, 26(1), 4-38.
2020
Wenzel, L., Dörrenberg, S., Proft, M., Liszkowski, U., & Rakoczy, H. (2020). Actions do not speak louder than words in an interactive false belief task. Royal Society Open Science, 7(10), 191998.
Pätzold, W. & Liszkowski, U. (2020). Pupillometric VoE paradigm reveals that 18- but not 10-month-olds spontaneously represent occluded objects (but not empty sets). PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0230913.
Rüther, J., & Liszkowski, U. (2020). Ontogenetic Emergence of Cognitive Reference Comprehension. Cognitive Science, 44(7), e12869.
The ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809
Lüke, C., Ritterfeld, U., Grimminger, A., Rohlfing, K. J., & Liszkowski, U. (2020). Integrated Communication System: Gesture and Language Acquisition in Typically Developing Children and Children With LD and DLD. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 118. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00118
2019
Pätzold, W. & Liszkowski, U. Pupillometry reveals communication‐induced object expectations in 12‐ but not 8‐months‐old infants. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12832
Grimminger, A., Rohlfing, K. J., Lüke, C., Liszkowski, U., Ritterfeld, U. (2019). Decontextualized Talk in Caregivers’ Input to 12-Month-Old Children During Structured Interaction. Journal of Child Language, 1-17.
Dörrenberg, S., Wenzel, L., Proft, M., Rakoczy, H. & Liszkowski, U. (2019). Reliability and generalizability of an acted-out false belief task in 3-year-olds. Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.11.
2018
Poulin-Dubois, D., Rakoczy, H., Burnside, K., Crivello, C., Dörrenberg, S., Edwards, K., Krist, H., Kulke, L., Liszkowski, U., Low, J., Perner, J., Powell, L., Priewasser, B., Rafetseder, E., Ruffman, T. (2018). Do infants understand false beliefs? We don’t know yet -- A commentary on Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate’s commentary. Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.09.005
Liszkowski, U. (2018). Emergence of shared reference and shared minds in infancy. Current opinion in psychology, 23, 26-29.
Dörrenberg, S., Rakoczy, H., & Liszkowski, U. (2018). How (not) to measure infant Theory of Mind: Testing the replicability and validity of four non-verbal measures. Cognitive Development. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.01.001
Ger, E., Altinok, N., Liszkowski, U., Küntay, A. (2018). Development of Infant Pointing from 10 to 12 months: The Role of Relevant Caregiver Responsiveness. Infancy 7(5). 708-729.
Kersken, V., Gómez, J. C., Liszkowski, U., Soldati, A., & Hobaiter, C. (2018). A gestural repertoire of 1-to 2-year-old human children: in search of the ape gestures. Animal Cognition. 1-19.
Liszkowski, U. (2018). Origins and complexities of infant communication and social cognition. In A. Newen, L. d. Bruin & S. Gallagher (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive and Extended. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2017
Liszkowski, U. (2017). Emergence of shared reference and shared minds in infancy. Current opinion in psychology.
Lüke, C., Grimminger, A., Rohlfing, K. J., Liszkowski, U. & Ritterfeld, U. (2017). In infants’ hands: Identification of preverbal infants at risk for primary language delay. Child Development, 88, 484-492. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12610
Lüke, C., Ritterfeld, U., Grimminger, A., Liszkowski, U., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2017). Development of pointing gestures in children with typical and delayed language acquisition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(11), 3185-3197.
2016
Esteve-Gibert, N., Liszkowski, U., & Prieto, P. (2016). Prosodic and gesture features distinguish the pragmatic meaning of pointing gestures in child-directed communication.
Esteve‐Gibert, N., Prieto, P., & Liszkowski, U. (2017). Twelve‐Month‐Olds Understand Social Intentions Based on Prosody and Gesture Shape. Infancy, 22(1), 108-129.
Grimminger, A., Lüke, C., Ritterfeld, U., Liszkowski, U., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2016). Effekte von Objekt-Familiarisierung auf die frühe gestische Kommunikation. Frühe Bildung, 5, 91-98.
Ramenzoni, V. C., & Liszkowski, U. (2016). The social reach: 8-month-olds reach for unobtainable objects in the presence of another person. Psychological science, 27(9), 1278-1285.
Mani, N., & Pätzold, W. (2016). Sixteen-month-old infants’ segment words from infant-and adult-directed speech. Language Learning and Development, 12(4), 499-508.
2015
Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2013). Social referencing during infancy and early childhood across cultures. In International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences.
Grünloh, T., & Liszkowski, U. (2015). Prelinguistic vocalizations distinguish pointing acts. Journal of child language, 42(6), 1312-1336.
Liszkowski, U. (2015). Vorsprachliche Kommunikation und sozial-kognitive Voraussetzungen des Spracherwerbs. In S. Sachse (Hrsg.), Handbuch Spracherwerb und Sprachentwicklungsstörungen. Kleinkindphase. München: Elsevier.
Liszkowski, U., & Ramenzoni, V. C. (2015). Pointing to Nothing? Empty Places Prime Infants' Attention to Absent Objects. Infancy, 20(4), 433-444.
Thorgrimsson, G. B., Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2015). 1-and 2-year-olds’ expectations about third-party communicative actions. Infant Behavior and Development, 39, 53-66.
2014
Liszkowski, U. (2014). Pointing. In P. Brooks, & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language development. (Vol. 15, pp. 471-473). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Liszkowski, U. (2014). Two sources of meaning in infant communication: preceding action contexts and act-accompanying characteristics. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 369(1651), 20130294.
Thorgrimsson, G. B., Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2014). Infants’ expectations about gestures and actions in third-party interactions. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 321.
Goot, M. H., Tomasello, M., & Liszkowski, U. (2014). Differences in the nonverbal requests of great apes and human infants. Child Development, 85(2), 444-455.
2013
Knudsen, B., & Liszkowski, U. (2013). One-year-olds warn others about negative action outcomes. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 424-436.
Liszkowski, U. (2013). Using theory of mind. Child Development Perspectives, 7(2), 104-109.
Ozturk, O., Shayan, S., Liszkowski, U., & Majid, A. (2013). Language is not necessary for color categories. Developmental Science, 16(1), 111-115.
Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2013). Sociocultural settings influence the emergence of prelinguistic deictic gestures. Child development, 84(4), 1296-1307.
2012
Behne, T., Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Twelve‐month‐olds’ comprehension and production of pointing. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 30(3), 359-375.
Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). Infants anticipate others' social preferences. Infant and Child Development, 21(3), 239-249.
Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). Mimicry and play initiation in 18-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 35(4), 689-696.
Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). Observation and initiation of joint action in infants. Child development, 83(2), 434-441.
Knudsen, B., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). 18‐month‐olds predict specific action mistakes through attribution of false belief, not ignorance, and intervene accordingly. Infancy, 17(6), 672-691.
Knudsen, B., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). Eighteen‐and 24‐month‐old infants correct others in anticipation of action mistakes. Developmental science, 15(1), 113-122.
Liszkowski, U., Brown, P., Callaghan, T., Takada, A., & De Vos, C. (2012). A prelinguistic gestural universal of human communication. Cognitive Science, 36(4), 698-713.
Puccini, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). 15-month-old infants fast map words but not representational gestures of multimodal labels. Frontiers in psychology, 3, 101.
Puccini, D., Hassemer, M., Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication [Reprint]. In J.-M. Colletta, & M. Guidetti (Eds.), Gesture and multimodal development (pp. 157-174). Amsterdam: John Benjamins
2011
Callaghan, T., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., Liszkowski, U., Behne, T., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Early social cognition in three cultural contexts. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, i-142.
Liszkowski, U. (2011). Three lines in the emergence of prelinguistic communication and social cognition. Journal of cognitive education and psychology, 10(1), 32.
Liszkowski, U., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Individual differences in social, cognitive, and morphological aspects of infant pointing. Cognitive Development, 26(1), 16-29.
2010
Liszkowski, U. (2010). Before L1. A differentiated perspective on infant gestures. Gestures in language development, 35-51.
Liszkowski, U. (2010). Deictic and other gestures in infancy. Acción psicológica, 7(2).
Puccini, D., Hassemer, M., Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2010). The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication. Gesture, 10(2), 279-296.
2009
Liszkowski, U., Schäfer, M., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. Psychological Science, 20(5), 654-660.
Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2009). Socialisation of prelinguistic communication. In Field manual volume 12 (pp. 56-57). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
2008
Behne, T., Carpenter, M., Gräfenhain, M., Liebal, K., Liszkowski, U., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., Warneken, F., & Wyman, E. (2008). Cultural learning and cultural creation. Social life and social knowledge: Toward a process account of development, 65-101.
Liszkowski, U. (2008). Before L1: A differentiated perspective on infant gestures. Gesture, 8(2), 180-196.
Liszkowski, U., Albrecht, K., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Infants’ visual and auditory communication when a partner is or is not visually attending. Infant Behavior and Development, 31(2), 157-167.
Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners. Cognition, 108(3), 732-739.
2007
Liszkowski, U. (2007). Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for for a communicative partner. Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates, 10, 123.
Liszkowski, U., & Brown, P. (2007). Infant pointing (9-25 months) in different cultures. In Field Manual Volume 10 (pp. 82-88). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Pointing out new news, old news, and absent referents at 12 months of age. Developmental science, 10(2).
Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Reference and attitude in infant pointing. Journal of child language, 34(1), 1-20.
Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., & Liszkowski, U. (2007). A new look at infant pointing. Child development, 78(3), 705-722.
2006
Liszkowski, U. (2006). Infant pointing at twelve months: Communicative goals, motives, and social-cognitive abilities. In Roots of human sociality: culture, cognition and interaction (pp. 153-178). Berg.
Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., Striano, T., & Tomasello, M. (2006). 12-and 18-month-olds point to provide information for others. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7(2), 173-187.
2005
Liszkowski, U. (2005). Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner. Gesture, 5(1), 135-154.
Liszkowski, U. (2005). Infant Pointing and its Role in the Ontogeny of Human Communication ans Social Cognition (Doctoral dissertation).
Striano, T., & Liszkowski, U. (2005). Sensitivity to the context of facial expression in the still face at 3-, 6-, and 9-months of age. Infant Behavior and development, 28(1), 10-19.
2004
Brown, P., Gaskins, S., Lieven, E., Striano, T., & Liszkowski, U. (2004). Multimodal multiperson interaction with infants aged 9 to 15 months. In Field Manual Volume 9 (pp. 56-63). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., Henning, A., Striano, T., & Tomasello, M. (2004). Twelve‐month‐olds point to share attention and interest. Developmental science, 7(3), 297-307.
2003
Liszkowski, U., & Epps, P. (2003). Directing attention and pointing in infants: a cross-cultural approach. In Field research manual 2003, part I: Multimodal interaction, space, event representation (pp. 25-27). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
2000
Liszkowski, U. (2000). A belief about theory of mind: The relation between children's inhibitory control and their common sense psychological knowledge. Master Thesis, University of Essex.