Mark joined the School of Psychology in 2002 as a UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow after completing his PhD at La Trobe University. His research interests lie in a range of inter-related aspects of socio-cognitive development in young human children and non-human primates. His current research is primarily focused on charting the origins and development of human cultural cognition. He became Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning) in 2015.
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Mark has forged an international reputation for cutting-edge research on multiple aspects of developmental social cognition. Based on the quality of his research, he was presented with an Early Career Researcher Award from the International Society on Infant Studies (2006), a Research Excellence Award from the (then) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (2009), and in 2016 was made a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He has published over 60 papers, had his research feature in over 50 conference presentations and over 10 invited conference and colloquia talks that in 2015 include the Cultural Diversity in Social Learning Pre-Conference of the CDS Biennial Meeting, USA and TEDxUQ, Brisbane.
Journal Article: Children's perceptions of the moral worth of live agents, robots, and inanimate objects
Sommer, Kristyn, Nielsen, Mark, Draheim, Madeline, Redshaw, Jonathan, Vanman, Eric J. and Wilks, M. (2019) Children's perceptions of the moral worth of live agents, robots, and inanimate objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187 . doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.06.009
Journal Article: A cross-cultural investigation of children’s willingness to imitate prosocial and antisocial groups
Wilks, Matti, Redshaw, Jonathan, Mushin, Ilana and Nielsen, Mark (2019) A cross-cultural investigation of children’s willingness to imitate prosocial and antisocial groups. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 185 164-175. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.04.018
Journal Article: Individual differences in neonatal 'imitation' fail to predict early social cognitive behaviour
Redshaw, Jonathan, Nielsen, Mark, Slaughter, Virginia, Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Oostenbroek, Janine, Crimston, Jessica and Suddendorf, Thomas (2019) Individual differences in neonatal 'imitation' fail to predict early social cognitive behaviour. Developmental Science, . doi:10.1111/desc.12892
The developmental origins of tool innovation
(2014–2017) ARC Discovery Projects
A brain stimulation and portable eye-tracking suite for human behavioural research
(2013) UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
Over-imitation, trial-and-error learning and the inter-generational transmission of information
(2011–2013) ARC Discovery Projects
Cross-cultural perspectives on the development of inequity
Doctor Philosophy
Preschool Children's Normative and Instrumental Learning
(2019) Doctor Philosophy
Tool innovation in children and chimpanzees: context matters
Doctor Philosophy
The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean
Shipton, Ceri and Nielsen, Mark (2018). The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean. In DiPaolo, L. D., DiVincenzo, F. and DePetrillo, F. (Ed.), Evolution of Primate Social Cognition (pp. 283-297) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93776-2_18
Owada, Kei, Nielsen, Mark, Lau, Colleen L., Clements, Archie C. A., Yakob, Laith and Magalhaes, Ricardo J. Soares (2017). Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Evidence. In Rollinson, D. and Stothard, J. R. (Ed.), Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Evidence (pp. 1-37) Maryland Heights, MO United States: Academic Press. doi:10.1016/bs.apar.2017.05.002
Pretend Play and Cognitive Development
Nielsen, Mark (2015). Pretend Play and Cognitive Development. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition (pp. 870-876) Orlando, FL, USA: Elsevier . doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.23073-0
Nielsen, Mark and Susianto, Erna W. E. (2010). Failure to find over-imitation in captive orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus): Implications for our understanding of cross-generation information transfer. In Johan Håkansson (Ed.), Developmental Psychology (pp. 153-167) New York. NY, U.S.A.: Nova Science Publishers.
Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy
Nielsen, Mark and Slaughter, Virginia (2007). Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy. In Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. and Dautenhahn, Kerstin (Ed.), Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions (pp. 343-360) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511489808.023
Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy
Nielsen, Mark G. and Slaughter, Virginia (2007). Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy. In Nehaniv, C. L. and Dautenhahn, K. (Ed.), Imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals First ed. (pp. 343-359) United States: Cambridge University Press.
Children's communication of pretend acts using social cues
Randell, A. C. and Nielsen, M. G. (2006). Children's communication of pretend acts using social cues. In M.A. Vanchevsky (Ed.), Frontiers in Cognitive Psychology (pp. 127-144) New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc..
Imitation and self-recogntion in autism: In search of an explanation
Nielsen, M G, Suddendorf, T and Dissanayake, C (2006). Imitation and self-recogntion in autism: In search of an explanation. In S.J. Rogers and J.H.G. Williams (Ed.), Imitation and the Social Mind: Autism and Typical Development (pp. 138-197) New York: The Guilford Press.
Children's perceptions of the moral worth of live agents, robots, and inanimate objects
Sommer, Kristyn, Nielsen, Mark, Draheim, Madeline, Redshaw, Jonathan, Vanman, Eric J. and Wilks, M. (2019) Children's perceptions of the moral worth of live agents, robots, and inanimate objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187 . doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.06.009
A cross-cultural investigation of children’s willingness to imitate prosocial and antisocial groups
Wilks, Matti, Redshaw, Jonathan, Mushin, Ilana and Nielsen, Mark (2019) A cross-cultural investigation of children’s willingness to imitate prosocial and antisocial groups. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 185 164-175. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.04.018
Individual differences in neonatal 'imitation' fail to predict early social cognitive behaviour
Redshaw, Jonathan, Nielsen, Mark, Slaughter, Virginia, Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Oostenbroek, Janine, Crimston, Jessica and Suddendorf, Thomas (2019) Individual differences in neonatal 'imitation' fail to predict early social cognitive behaviour. Developmental Science, . doi:10.1111/desc.12892
Owada, Kei, Nielsen, Mark, Lau, Colleen L., Yakob, Laith, Clements, Archie C. A., Leonardo, Lydia and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2019) Functional illiteracy burden in soil-transmitted helminth (STH) endemic regions of the Philippines: an ecological study and geographical prediction for 2017. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13 6: e0007494. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007494
Neldner, Karri, Redshaw, Jonathan, Murphy, Sean, Tomaselli, Keyan, Davis, Jacqueline, Dixson, Barnaby and Nielsen, Mark (2019) Creation across culture: children’s tool innovation is influenced by cultural and developmental factors. Developmental Psychology, . doi:10.1037/dev0000672
Owada, Kei, Nielsen, Mark, Lau, Colleen, Yakob, Laith, Clements, Archie, Leonardo, Lydia and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo (2019) Determinants of spatial heterogeneity of functional illiteracy among school-aged children in the Philippines: an ecological study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16 1: . doi:10.3390/ijerph16010137
Ritualized objects: how we perceive and respond to causally opaque and goal demoted action
Kapitány, Rohan and Nielsen, Mark (2019) Ritualized objects: how we perceive and respond to causally opaque and goal demoted action. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 19 1-2: 170-194. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340053
Wilks, Matti, Kirby, James and Nielsen, Mark (2018) Developmental changes in young children's willingness to copy the antisocial actions of ingroup members in a minimal group context. Developmental Psychology, . doi:10.1037/dev0000667
Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences
Kapitány, R., Kavanagh, C., Whitehouse, H. and Nielsen, M. (2018) Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences. Cognition, 181 46-57. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.005
An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures
Kapitány, Rohan, Davis, Jacqueline T., Legare, Cristine and Nielsen, Mark (2018) An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures. PLoS One, 13 11: . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206884
Owada, Kei, Lau, Colleen L., Leonardo, Lydia, Clements, Archie C A, Yakob, Laith, Nielsen, Mark, Carabin, Hélène and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J (2018) Spatial distribution and populations at risk of A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura co-infections and infection intensity classes: an ecological study. Parasites and Vectors, 11 1: 535. doi:10.1186/s13071-018-3107-y
Re-evaluating the neonatal imitation hypothesis
Oostenbroek, Janine, Redshaw, Jonathan, Davis, Jacqueline, Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Nielsen, Mark, Slaughter, Virginia and Suddendorf, Thomas (2018) Re-evaluating the neonatal imitation hypothesis. Developmental Science, e12720. doi:10.1111/desc.12720
Behavioral investments in the short term fail to produce a sunk cost effect
Nash, Jeremy S., Imuta, Kana and Nielsen, Mark (2018) Behavioral investments in the short term fail to produce a sunk cost effect. Psychological Reports, . doi:10.1177/0033294118790908
The social glue of cumulative culture and ritual behavior
Nielsen, Mark (2018) The social glue of cumulative culture and ritual behavior. Child Development Perspectives, 12 4: 264-268. doi:10.1111/cdep.12297
The cost of helping: an exploration of compassionate responding in children
Green, Mitchell, Kirby, James N. and Nielsen, Mark (2018) The cost of helping: an exploration of compassionate responding in children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36 4: 673-678. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12252
Neldner, Karri, Crimston, Daniel, Wilks, Matti, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2018) The developmental origins of moral concern: an examination of moral boundary decision making throughout childhood. PLoS One, 13 5: e0197819. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197819
Redshaw, Jonathan, Suddendorf, Thomas, Neldner, Karri, Wilks, Matti, Tomaselli, Keyan, Mushin, Ilana and Nielsen, Mark (2018) Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities. Child Development, . doi:10.1111/cdev.13084
The influence of goal demotion on children's reproduction of ritual behavior
Nielsen, Mark, Tomaselli, Keyan and Kapitány, Rohan (2018) The influence of goal demotion on children's reproduction of ritual behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39 3: 343-348. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.02.006
Children imitate antisocial in-group members
Wilks, Matti, Kirby, James and Nielsen, Mark (2018) Children imitate antisocial in-group members. Developmental Science, 21 6: e12675. doi:10.1111/desc.12675
Shamanism and the social nature of cumulative culture
Nielsen, Mark, Fischer, Ronald and Kashima, Yoshihisa (2018) Shamanism and the social nature of cumulative culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41 . doi:10.1017/S0140525X17002126
Young children's tool innovation across culture: Affordance visibility matters
Neldner, Karri, Mushin, Ilana and Nielsen, Mark (2017) Young children's tool innovation across culture: Affordance visibility matters. Cognition, 168 335-343. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.07.015
Early stone tools and cultural transmission resetting the null hypothesis: comment
Nielsen, Mark and Whiten, Andrew (2017) Early stone tools and cultural transmission resetting the null hypothesis: comment. Current Anthropology, 58 5: 659-660.
The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: a call to action
Nielsen, Mark, Haun, Daniel, Kaertner, Joscha and Legare, Cristine H. (2017) The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: a call to action. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162 31-38. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.017
Children disassociate from antisocial in-group members
Wilks, Matti and Nielsen, Mark (2017) Children disassociate from antisocial in-group members. Journal of experimental child psychology, 165 37-50. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.003
Are yawns really contagious? A critique and quantification of yawn contagion
Kapitany, Rohan and Nielsen, Mark (2017) Are yawns really contagious? A critique and quantification of yawn contagion. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 3 2: 134-155. doi:10.1007/s40750-017-0059-y
Owada, Kei, Nielsen, Mark, Lau, Colleen L., Clements, Archie C. A., Yakob, Laith and Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J. (2017) Measuring the effect of soil-transmitted helminth infections on cognitive function in children: systematic review and critical appraisal of evidence. Advances in Parasitology, 98 1-37. doi:10.1016/bs.apar.2017.05.002
There is no compelling evidence that human neonates imitate
Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Oostenbroek, Janine, Suddendorf, Thomas, Nielsen, Mark, Redshaw, Jonathan, Davis, Jacqueline, Clark, Sally and Slaughter, Virginia (2017) There is no compelling evidence that human neonates imitate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 . doi:10.1017/S0140525X16001898
Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans
Oostenbroek, Janine, Suddendorf, Thomas, Nielsen, Mark, Redshaw, Jonathan, Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Davis, Jacqueline, Clark, Sally and Slaughter, Virginia (2016) Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans. Current Biology, 26 10: 1334-1338. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.047
Nielsen, Mark, Mushin, Ilana, Tomaselli, Keyan and Whiten, Andrew (2016) Imitation, collaboration, and their interaction among Western and Indigenous Australian preschool children. Child Development, 87 3: 795-806. doi:10.1111/cdev.12504
Kapitany, Rohan and Nielsen, Mark (2016) The ritual stance and the precaution system: the role of goal-demotion and opacity in ritual and everyday actions. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 7 1: 1-16. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2016.1141792
Preschool's children's learning proclivities: when the ritual stance trumps the instrumental stance
Wilks, Matti, Kapitany, Rohan and Nielsen, Mark (2016) Preschool's children's learning proclivities: when the ritual stance trumps the instrumental stance. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34 3: 402-414. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12139
Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives
Nielsen, Mark and Haun, Daniel (2016) Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371 1686: 1-7. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0071
Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions
Kapitany, Rohan and Nielsen, Mark (2015) Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions. Cognition, 145 13-29. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.08.002
Imitation and innovation: the dual engines of cultural learning
Legare, Cristine H. and Nielsen, Mark (2015) Imitation and innovation: the dual engines of cultural learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19 11: 688-699. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2015.08.005
Before cumulative culture: the evolutionary origins of overimitation and shared intentionality
Shipton, Ceri and Nielsen, Mark (2015) Before cumulative culture: the evolutionary origins of overimitation and shared intentionality. Human Nature, 26 3: 331-345. doi:10.1007/s12110-015-9233-8
Nielsen, Mark, Kapitany, Rohan and Elkins, Rosemary (2015) The perpetuation of ritualistic actions as revealed by young children's transmission of normative behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36 3: 191-198. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.11.002
Neldner, Karri, Collier-Baker, Emma and Nielsen, Mark (2015) Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens) know when they are ignorant about the location of food. Animal Cognition, 18 3: 683-699. doi:10.1007/s10071-015-0836-6
Childhood and the evolution of higher-effort teaching
Nielsen, Mark and Shipton, Ceri (2015) Childhood and the evolution of higher-effort teaching. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38 1: 34-35. doi:10.1017/S0140525X14000545
Direct cost does not impact on young children's spontaneous helping behavior
Nielsen, Mark, Gigante, Julia and Collier-Baker, Emma (2014) Direct cost does not impact on young children's spontaneous helping behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 5 DEC: 1-7. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01509
Preschool children favor copying a successful individual over an unsuccessful group
Wilks, Matti, Collier-Baker, Emma and Nielsen, Mark (2014) Preschool children favor copying a successful individual over an unsuccessful group. Developmental Science, 18 6: 1014-1024. doi:10.1111/desc.12274
Tear, Morgan J. and Nielsen, Mark (2014) Video games and prosocial behavior: a study of the effects of non-violent, violent and ultra-violent gameplay. Computers in Human Behavior, 41 8-13. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.09.002
Knowledge and Belief Understanding Among Iranian and Australian Preschool Children
Shahaeian, Ameneh, Nielsen, Mark, Peterson, Candida C., Aboutalebi, Maedeh and Slaughter, Virginia (2014) Knowledge and Belief Understanding Among Iranian and Australian Preschool Children. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45 10: 1643-1654. doi:10.1177/0022022114548484
Motivated empathy: the mechanics of the empathic gaze
Cowan, David G., Vanman, Eric J. and Nielsen, Mark (2014) Motivated empathy: the mechanics of the empathic gaze. Cognition and Emotion, 28 8: 1522-1530. doi:10.1080/02699931.2014.890563
Exploring tool innovation: a comparison of Western and Bushman children
Nielsen, Mark, Tomaselli, Keyan, Mushin, Ilana and Whiten, Andrew (2014) Exploring tool innovation: a comparison of Western and Bushman children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126 384-394. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2014.05.008
Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children
Turner, Cameron R., Nielsen, Mark and Collier-Baker, Emma (2014) Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children. PLoS One, 9 9: e107375.1-e107375.10. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107375
Nielsen, Mark, Mushin, Ilana, Tomaselli, Keyan and Whiten, Andrew (2014) Where culture takes hold: "overimitation" and its flexible deployment in Western, Aboriginal, and Bushmen children. Child Development, 85 6: 2169-2184. doi:10.1111/cdev.12265
Shahaeian, Ameneh, Nielsen, Mark, Peterson, Candida C. and Slaughter, Virginia (2014) Iranian Mothers' Disciplinary Strategies and Theory of Mind in Children: A Focus on Belief Understanding. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45 7: 1110-1123. doi:10.1177/0022022114534772
Shahaeian, Ameneh, Nielsen, Mark, Peterson, Candida C. and Slaughter, Virginia (2013) Cultural and family influences on children's theory of mind development: a comparison of Australian and Iranian school-age children. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, OnlineFirst 4: 1-14. doi:10.1177/0022022113513921
Failure to demonstrate that playing violent video games diminishes prosocial behavior
Tear, Morgan J. and Nielsen, Mark (2013) Failure to demonstrate that playing violent video games diminishes prosocial behavior. PLoS ONE, 8 7: e68382.1-e68382.7. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068382
Nielsen, Mark, Slaughter, Virginia and Dissanayake, Cheryl (2013) Object-directed imitation in children with high-functioning autism: testing the social motivation hypothesis. Autism Research, 6 1: 23-32. doi:10.1002/aur.1261
Is newborn imitation developmentally homologous to later social-cognitive skills?
Suddendorf, Thomas, Oostenbroek, Janine, Nielsen, Mark and Slaughter, Virginia (2013) Is newborn imitation developmentally homologous to later social-cognitive skills?. Developmental Psychobiology, 55 1: 52-58. doi:10.1002/dev.21005
Why the confusion around neonatal imitation? A review
Oostenbroek, Janine, Slaughter, Virginia, Nielsen, Mark and Suddendorf, Thomas (2013) Why the confusion around neonatal imitation? A review. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 31 4: 328-341. doi:10.1080/02646838.2013.832180
Young children's imitative and innovative behaviour on the floating object task
Nielsen, Mark (2013) Young children's imitative and innovative behaviour on the floating object task. Infant and Child Development, 22 1: 44-52. doi:10.1002/icd.1765
Childhood and advances in human tool use
Nielsen, Mark (2012) Childhood and advances in human tool use. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35 4: 232-233. doi:10.1017/S0140525X11001932
Fourteen-month-olds' imitation of differently aged models
Zmyj, Norbert, Daum, Moritz M., Prinz, Wolfgang, Nielsen, Mark and Aschersleben, Gisa (2012) Fourteen-month-olds' imitation of differently aged models. Infant and Child Development, 21 3: 250-266. doi:10.1002/icd.750
Imitation, pretend play, and childhood: Essential elements in the evolution of human culture?
Nielsen, Mark (2012) Imitation, pretend play, and childhood: Essential elements in the evolution of human culture?. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 126 2: 170-181. doi:10.1037/a0025168
Social learning in humans and nonhuman animals: Theoretical and empirical dissections
Nielsen, Mark, Subiaul, Francys, Galef, Bennett, Zentall, Thomas and Whiten, Andrew (2012) Social learning in humans and nonhuman animals: Theoretical and empirical dissections. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 126 2: 109-113. doi:10.1037/a0027758
Young children overimitate in third-party contexts
Nielsen, Mark, Moore, Chris and Mohamedally, Jumana (2012) Young children overimitate in third-party contexts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112 1: 73-83. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2012.01.001
When the transmission of culture is child's play
Nielsen, Mark, Cucchiaro, Jessica and Mohamedally, Jumana (2012) When the transmission of culture is child's play. PLoS One, 7 3: e34066.1-e34066.6. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034066
Product-based television and young children's pretend play in Australia
Fletcher, Renee and Nielsen, Mark (2012) Product-based television and young children's pretend play in Australia. Journal of Children and Media, 6 1: 5-17. doi:10.1080/17482798.2011.633397
Imitation in young children: When who gets copied is more important than what gets copied.
Nielsen, Mark and Blank, Cornelia (2011) Imitation in young children: When who gets copied is more important than what gets copied.. Developmental Psychology, 47 4: 1050-1053. doi:10.1037/a0023866
Children's capacity to remember a novel problem and to secure its future solution
Suddendorf, Thomas, Nielsen, Mark and von Gehlen, Rebecca (2011) Children's capacity to remember a novel problem and to secure its future solution. Developmental Science, 14 1: 26-33. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00950.x
Over-imitation in children with autism and Down syndrome
Nielsen, Mark and Hudry, Kristelle (2010) Over-imitation in children with autism and Down syndrome. Australian Journal of Psychology, 62 2: 67-74. doi:10.1080/00049530902758613
Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman children and the origins of human cultural cognition
Nielsen, Mark and Tomaselli, Keyan (2010) Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman children and the origins of human cultural cognition. Psychological Science, 21 5: 729-736. doi:10.1177/0956797610368808
12-Month-Olds Produce Others' Intended but Unfulfilled Acts
Nielsen, Mark (2009) 12-Month-Olds Produce Others' Intended but Unfulfilled Acts. Infancy, 14 3: 377-389. doi:10.1080/15250000902840003
Nielsen, Mark (2009) The imitative behaviour of children and chimpanzees: A window on the transmission of cultural traditions. Revue de primatologie, 1 2-13.
Tools, TV and trust: Introduction to the special issue on imitation in typically developing children
Nielsen, Mark Gregory and Carpenter, Malinda (2008) Tools, TV and trust: Introduction to the special issue on imitation in typically developing children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101 4: 225-227. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2008.09.005
Reflecting on imitation in autism: Introduction to the special issue
Nielsen, Mark and Carpenter, Malinda (2008) Reflecting on imitation in autism: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101 3: 165-169. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2008.06.004
Adult modelling facilitates young children's generation of novel pretend acts
Nielsen, Mark and Christie, Tamara (2008) Adult modelling facilitates young children's generation of novel pretend acts. Infant and Child Development, 17 2: 151-162. doi:10.1002/icd.538
Interacting socially with human hands at 24 months of age
Slaughter, Virginia, Nielsen, Mark and Enchelmaier, Petrina (2008) Interacting socially with human hands at 24 months of age. Infancy, 13 2: 185-195. doi:10.1080/15250000701795721
The effect of social engagement on 24-month-olds' imitation from live and televised models
Nielsen, Mark, Simcock, Gabrielle and Jenkins, Linda (2008) The effect of social engagement on 24-month-olds' imitation from live and televised models. Developmental Science, 11 5: 722-731. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00722.x
The social motivation for social learning
Nielsen, Mark (2008) The social motivation for social learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31 1: 33-33. doi:10.1017/S0140525X0700324X
Visual self-recognition in mirrors and live videos: Evidence for a developmental asynchrony
Suddendorf, Thomas, Simcock, Gabrielle and Nielsen, Mark (2007) Visual self-recognition in mirrors and live videos: Evidence for a developmental asynchrony. Cognitive Development, 22 2: 185-196. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.09.003
Copying actions and copying outcomes: Social learning through the second year
Nielsen, M (2006) Copying actions and copying outcomes: Social learning through the second year. Developmental Psychology, 42 3: 555-565. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.42.3.555
Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) understand single invisible displacement?
Collier-Baker, Emma, Davis, Joanne M., Nielsen, Mark and Suddendorf, Thomas (2006) Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) understand single invisible displacement?. Animal Cognition, 9 1: 55-61. doi:10.1007/s10071-005-0004-5
Mirror self-recognition beyond the face
Nielsen, Mark, Suddendorf, Thomas and Slaughter, Virginia (2006) Mirror self-recognition beyond the face. Child Development, 77 1: 176-185. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00863.x
Imitation recognition in a captive chimpanzee (pan troglodytes)
Nielsen, M. G., Collier-Baker, E., Davis, J. M. and Suddendorf, T. (2005) Imitation recognition in a captive chimpanzee (pan troglodytes). Animal Cognition, 8 1: 31-36. doi:10.1007/s10071-004-0232-0
Nielsen, Mark and Dissanayake, Cheryl (2004) Pretend play, mirror self-recognition and imitation: A longitudinal investigation through the second year. Infant Behavior & Development, 27 3: 342-365. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2003.12.006
Nielsen, M., Dissanayake, C. and Kashima, Y. (2003) A longitudinal investigation of self-other discrimination and the emergence of mirror self-recognition. Infant Behavior & Development, 26 2: 213-226. doi:10.1016/S0163-6383(03)00018-3
A longitudinal study of immediate, deferred, and synchronic imitation through the second year
Nielsen, M. G. and Dissanayake, C A (2003) A longitudinal study of immediate, deferred, and synchronic imitation through the second year. A I S B J, 1 4: 305-318.
Nielsen, M (2002) Pretending Primates. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, 6 10: 445-445. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01983-6
Nielsen, M and Dissanayake, C (2000) An investigation of pretend play, mental state terms and false belief understanding: In search of a metarepresentational link. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 18 609-624. doi:10.1348/026151000165887
William James and the evolution of consciousness
Nielsen, Mark and Day, R. H. (1999) William James and the evolution of consciousness. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 19 1: 90-113. doi:10.1037/h0091189
Children's Judgments of Anti-Social Behaviour Towards a Robot: Liking and Learning
Davidson, Rebecca, Sommer, Kristyn and Nielsen, Mark (2019). Children's Judgments of Anti-Social Behaviour Towards a Robot: Liking and Learning. In: 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Daegu South Korea, (709-711). 11-14 March 2019.
Owada, Kei, Nielsen, Mark, Lau, Colleen, Clements, Archie, Yakob, Laith and Magalhaes, Ricardo J. Soares (2017). MEASURING THE EFFECT OF SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTH (STH) INFECTIONS ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN CHILDREN: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF EVIDENCE. In: 65th Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-Tropical-Medicine-and-Hygiene (ASTMH), Atlanta Ga, (335-335). Nov 13-16, 2016.
Hand in hand: tools and techniques for understanding children's touch with a social robot
Hensby, Kristyn, Wiles, Janet, Boden, Marie, Heath, Scott, Nielsen, Mark, Pounds, Paul, Riddell, Joshua, Rogers, Kristopher, Rybak, Nikodem, Slaughter, Virginia, Smith, Michael, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Worthy, Peter and Weigel, Jason (2016). Hand in hand: tools and techniques for understanding children's touch with a social robot. In: HRI 2016 - 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction. 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand, (437-438). 7-10 March 2016. doi:10.1109/HRI.2016.7451794
Is the human mirror system operational at birth?
Slaughter, Virginia, Oostenbroek, Janine, Suddendorf, Thomas and Nielsen, Mark (2013). Is the human mirror system operational at birth?. In: ACNS-2013 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia, (). 28 Nov - 1 Dec, 2013. doi:10.3389/conf.fnhum.2013.212.00043
The development of self-recognition in mirrors and live videos
Suddendorf, T., Simcock, G., Nielsen, M. and Collier-Baker, E. (2006). The development of self-recognition in mirrors and live videos. In: Ottmar V. Lipp and Sarah Price, Australian Journal of Psychology: The Abstracts of the 33rd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. 33rd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Bardon Conference Centre, Brisbane, (91-92). 20-23 April, 2006. doi:10.1080/00049530600940016
Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) understand invisible displacement?
Collier-Baker, E, Davis, JM, Suddendorf, T and Nielsen, M (2004). Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) understand invisible displacement?. In: Folia Primatologica. , , (249-249). .
Synchronic imitation as pre-linguistic social interaction
Nielsen, M. G. and Dissanayake, C A (2003). Synchronic imitation as pre-linguistic social interaction. In: K. Dautenhahn and C. Nehaniv, Proceedings of the AISB '03 Second International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts. AISB '03 Cognition in Machines & Animals, Aberystwyth / The University of Wales, (131-137). April 7-11, 2003.
Deferred imitation and the onset of pretend play in the second year
Nielsen, M. G. and Dissanayake, C.A. (2002). Deferred imitation and the onset of pretend play in the second year. In: Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Paris, France, (). May 2002.
A longitudinal investigation of imitation, pretend play and mirror self-recognition in human infants
Nielsen, Mark G. (2002). A longitudinal investigation of imitation, pretend play and mirror self-recognition in human infants PhD Thesis, School of Psychological Science, Latrobe University.
The developmental origins of tool innovation
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A brain stimulation and portable eye-tracking suite for human behavioural research
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Over-imitation, trial-and-error learning and the inter-generational transmission of information
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Charting the prevalence, time course and social-cognitive correlates of neonatal imitation.
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Synchronic imitation in children with ASD: imitation and the social deficit hypothesis.
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Thinking about the future: The nature and development of mental time travel
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An Investigation of Social Learning in Human Infants
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Cross-cultural perspectives on the development of inequity
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Tool innovation in children and chimpanzees: context matters
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Examining Compassion: A developmental perspective
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Moral Self Licensing in Children
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Emotion in self-regulated learning and the potential role for advanced learning technologies
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Do culture and bilingualism influence Children¿s Theory of Mind Development?
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The Early Development of Young Children¿s Imitation of Social Robots
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Preschool Children's Normative and Instrumental Learning
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The Sunk Cost Effect: Short-Term Behavioural Evidence in Adults
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The role of antisocial behaviour and group membership on children's imitation across development
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Ritual Cognition: Ritualized Action and Artefact
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Very Early Social Learning within the Context of the Mother-Baby Relationship
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The Role of Functional Knowledge in Children's Judgments of Inefficient Tools
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Violent video games and prosocial behavior
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Does Living on Farms Influence the Acquisition of Biological Concepts in Childhood? An Examination of the Effects of Environment, Experiences, and Parent Communication on Children¿s Biological Concepts
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The Empathic Gaze and How to Find it: Eye-gaze Behaviour to Expressions of Emotion
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The nature, ontogeny, and phylogeny of episodic foresight
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Parenting Skills Assessment: Beyond Self-Report
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Developing an Understanding of Mind: A View Across Cultures
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Inferential reasoning by exclusion in non-human primates and children
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Relationships between children's social interactions and theory of mind development: An investigation of pretend play and conflict using parent reports
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Infants' Perception of Moving Human Bodies
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INVISIBLE DISPLACEMENT UNDERSTANDING IN DOGS (Canis familiaris), CHIPANZEES (Pan troglodytes), AND OTHER PRIMATES
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