The University of Queensland

Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Evidence

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) : Elsevier Inc.. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.23073-0

Failure to find over-imitation in captive orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus): Implications for our understanding of cross-generation information transfer

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 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.

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

Measuring the effect of soil-transmitted helminth infections on cognitive function in children: systematic review and critical appraisal of evidence

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, . 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

Imitation, collaboration, and their interaction among Western and Indigenous Australian preschool children

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

The ritual stance and the precaution system: the role of goal-demotion and opacity in ritual and everyday actions

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, 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

The perpetuation of ritualistic actions as revealed by young children's transmission of normative behavior

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

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens) know when they are ignorant about the location of food

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

Video games and prosocial behavior: a study of the effects of non-violent, violent and ultra-violent gameplay

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

Where culture takes hold: "overimitation" and its flexible deployment in Western, Aboriginal, and Bushmen children

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

Iranian Mothers' Disciplinary Strategies and Theory of Mind in Children: A Focus on Belief Understanding

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

Cultural and family influences on children's theory of mind development: a comparison of Australian and Iranian school-age children

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 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

Object-directed imitation in children with high-functioning autism: testing the social motivation hypothesis

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

The imitative behaviour of children and chimpanzees: A window on the transmission of cultural traditions

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

Pretend play, mirror self-recognition and imitation: A longitudinal investigation through the second year

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

A longitudinal investigation of self-other discrimination and the emergence of mirror self-recognition

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.

Pretending Primates

Nielsen, M (2002) Pretending Primates. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, 6 10: 445-445. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01983-6

An investigation of pretend play, mental state terms and false belief understanding: In search of a metarepresentational link

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

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

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

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.