Papers

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Bertenthal, B. I., & Boyer, T. W. (2025). Human infants' perception and understanding of others' actions. Infant Behavior & Development, 80, 102098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102098. 

• Holtzman, N. S., Chopik, W. J., Boyer, T. W., & Konrath, S. H. (2024). Concept creep of collective narcissism. Collabra: Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.117048

• Boyer, T. W., Bradley, L., & Branch Greer, N. (2024). Children’s understanding of relative quantities: Probability judgement and proportion matching. Cognitive Development, 101411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101411. 

• Hurst, M. A., Boyer, T. W., & Cordes, S. (2023). Spontaneous and directed attention to number and proportion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49, 33-50.

• Boyer,T. W., Harding, S. M., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2020). The temporal dynamics of infants' joint attention: Effects of others' gaze cues and manual actions. Cognition, 197.

• Aczel,B. et al. (2020).  A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6

• Boyer, T. W., & Wang, M. (2018). Direct gaze, eye movements, and covert and overt social attention processes. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-018-1590-z

• Sturz, B. R., Boyer, T. W., Magnotti, J. F., & Bodily, K. D. (2017). Do eye movements during shape discrimination reveal an underlying geometric structure? Animal Behavior & Cognition, 4, 267-285.  DOI: 10.26451/abc.04.03.06.2017

• Boyer, T. W., Harding, S. M., & Bertenthal, B. I.(2017). Infants’ motor simulation of observed actions is modulated by the visibilityof the actor’s body. Cognition, 164, 107-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.03.014

• Boyer, T. W., Maouene, J., & Sethuraman, N. (2017). Attention to body-parts varies with visual preference and verb-effector associations. Cognitive Processing, 18, 195-203. DOI: 10.1007/s10339-017-0792-y.

• Green, M. L., Locker, L., Boyer, T. W., & Sturz, B. R. (2016). Stroop-like interference in a match-to-sample task: Further evidence for semantic competition? Learning and Motivation, 56, 53-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2016.09.003

• Edwards, J. E., Boyer, T. W., Bell, Z. K., & Sturz, B. R. (2016). Isolated processing of geometric shapes and their corresponding shape words: Evidence from a delayed match-to-sample task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000210

• Boyer, T. W., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2016). Infants' observation of others' actions: Brief movement-specific visual experience primes motor representations. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34, 38-52. DOI:10.1111/bjdp.12103

• Boyer, T. W. & Levine, S. C. (2015). Prompting children to reason proportionally: Processing discrete units as continuous amounts. Developmental Psychology, 51, 615-620. doi.org/10.1037/a0039010

• Meyer, A., Frederick, S., Burnham, T., Guevara Pinto, J. D., Boyer, T. W., Ball, L. J., Pennycook, G., Ackerman, R., Thompson, V., & Schuldt, J. P. (2015). Disfluent fonts don’t help people solve math problems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, e16-e30. doi.org/10.1037/xge0000049.

• Cantrell, L., Boyer, T. W., Cordes, S., & Smith, L. B. (2015). Signal clarity: An account of the variability in infant quantity discrimination tasks. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.12283.

• Bertenthal, B. I., Boyer, T. W., & Harding, S. (2014). When do infants begin to follow a point? Developmental Psychology, 50, 2036-2048. doi.org/10.1037/a0037152

• Sturz B.R., Edwards J.E., & Boyer T.W. (2014) Asymmetrical interference effects between two-dimensional geometric shapes and their corresponding shape words. PLoS ONE, 9, e92740. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092740.

• Sturz, B. R., Green, M. L., Locker, L., & Boyer, T. W. (2013). Stroop interference in a delayed match-to-sample task: Evidence for semantic competition. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 842.

• Bertenthal, B. I., Gredeback, G., & Boyer, T. W. (2013). Differential contributions of development and learning to infants’ knowledge of object continuity and discontinuity. Child Development, 84, 413-421.

• Yurovsky, D., Boyer, T. W., Smith,L. B., & Yu, C. (2013). Probabilistic cue combination: Less is more. Developmental Science, 16, 149-158.

• Boyer, T. W., Longo, M. R., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2012). Is automatic imitation a specialized form of stimulus-response compatibility? Dissociating imitative and spatial compatibility. Acta Psychologica, 139, 440-448.

• Boyer, T. W., & Levine, S. C. (2012). The development of proportional scaling: Is 1/3 = 2/6 = 3/9 = 4/12? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 516-533.

• Boyer, T. W., Pan, J. S., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2011). Infants’ understanding of actions performed by mechanical devices. Cognition, 121, 1-11.

• Fabricius, W. V., Boyer, T. W., Weimer, A., & Carroll, K. (2010). True or false: Do five-year-olds understand belief? Developmental Psychology, 46, 1402-1416.

• Boyer, T. W. & Byrnes, J. P. (2009). Adolescent risk-taking: Integrating personal, cognitive, and social aspects of judgment. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30, 23-33.

• Boyer, T. W., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2008). Development of proportional reasoning: Where young children go wrong, Developmental Psychology, 44, 1478-1490.

• Boyer, T. W. (2007). Decision-making processes: Sensitivity to sequentially experienced outcome probabilities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 97, 28-43.

• Boyer, T. W. (2006). The development of risk-taking behaviors: A multi-perspective review. Developmental Review, 26, 291-345.

Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Harding, S. M., Boyer, T. W., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2016). Spatial attention to social cues is not a monolithic process. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 936-941). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Boyer, T. W., & Branch, N. (2016). Elementary school students’ quantitative reasoning: Processing whole numbers and proportions. American Educational Research Association Online Repository, Washington, DC, USA: AERA.

• Bertenthal, B. I. & Boyer, T. W. (2011). Brief familiarization primes covert imitation in 9-month-old infants. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1436-1441). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Boyer, T. W., Smith, T. G., Yu, C., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2011). Visual attention and change detection. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1735-1740). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Boyer, T. W., Scheutz, M., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2009). Dissociating ideomotor and spatial compatibility: Empirical evidence and connectionist models. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, & L. Schomaker (Eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2280-2285). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Invited Contributions to Edited Volumes

• Boyer, T. W. & Byrnes, J. P. (2016). Risk-taking. In R. J.R. Levesque (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Adolescence: 2nd Edition. Springer.

• Bertenthal, B. I., & Boyer, T. W. (2015). The development of social attention in humans. In A. Puce & B. I. Bertenthal (Eds.) The Many Faces of Social Attention: Behavioral and Neural Measures. Springer International Publishing AG.

• Boyer, T. W. & Byrnes, J. P. (2010). Risk-taking. In R. J.R. Levesque (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer.