Esther Thelen
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American psychologist & scholar
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- PhD Psychology University of Missouri
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Esther Thelen was an expert in the field of developmental psychology. Thelen's research was focused on human development, especially in the area of infant development. Thelen was also president of the Society for Research in Child Development and the International Society for Infant Studies. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Psychological Society.
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Published Works
- A Dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action (1994) (1888)
- Development as a dynamic system (1992) (916)
- The dynamics of embodiment: A field theory of infant perseverative reaching (2001) (905)
- Motor development. A new synthesis. (1995) (724)
- Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals (2001) (690)
- The transition to reaching: mapping intention and intrinsic dynamics. (1993) (635)
- Dynamic Systems Theories (2007) (625)
- Rhythmical stereotypies in normal human infants (1979) (540)
- Hidden skills: a dynamic systems analysis of treadmill stepping during the first year. (1991) (540)
- Knowing in the context of acting: the task dynamics of the A-not-B error. (1999) (427)
- Development of early expressive and communicative action: Reinterpreting the evidence from a dynamic systems perspective. (1987) (404)
- Development of reaching during the first year: role of movement speed. (1996) (372)
- Self organizing systems and infant motor development (1987) (359)
- Hand, mouth and brain. The dynamic emergence of speech and gesture (1999) (354)
- Dynamic Systems Theory and the Complexity of Change (2005) (347)
- Rhythmical behavior in infancy: An ethological perspective. (1981) (305)
- Newborn stepping: An explanation for a "disappearing" reflex. (1982) (290)
- Grounded in the World: Developmental Origins of the Embodied Mind. (2000) (277)
- Developmental origins of motor coordination: leg movements in human infants. (1985) (269)
- The organization of spontaneous leg movements in newborn infants. (1983) (267)
- The relationship between physical growth and a newborn reflex (1984) (251)
- A dynamical systems approach to motor development. (1990) (245)
- Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development (1993) (232)
- Using dynamic field theory to rethink infant habituation. (2006) (208)
- A dynamic systems approach to development: Applications. (1993) (202)
- The developmental origins of bimanual coordination: a dynamic perspective. (1996) (201)
- Motor development as foundation and future of developmental psychology (2000) (200)
- Postural Control During Reaching in Young Infants: A Dynamic Systems Approach (1998) (197)
- Treadmill-elicited stepping in seven-month-old infants. (1986) (177)
- Connectionism and dynamic systems: are they really different? (2003) (175)
- Understanding movement control in infants through the analysis of limb intersegmental dynamics. (1990) (174)
- Time-scale dynamics and the development of an embodied cognition (1996) (163)
- Motor development: A new synthesis. (1995) (148)
- Tests of a dynamic systems account of the A-not-B error: the influence of prior experience on the spatial memory abilities of two-year-olds. (2001) (145)
- Spontaneous kicking in month-old infants: manifestation of a human central locomotor program. (1981) (143)
- Self‐Organization in Developmental Processes: Can Systems Approaches Work? (2008) (141)
- Kicking, rocking, and waving: Contextual analysis of rhythmical stereotypies in normal human infants (1981) (141)
- Motor constraints on the development of perception-action matching in infant reaching (2000) (134)
- Lateral biases and fluctuations in infants' spontaneous arm movements and reaching. (1999) (132)
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEWBORN STEPPING AND LATER WALKING: A NEW INTERPRETATION (1987) (123)
- Bilateral coordination in human infants: stepping on a split-belt treadmill. (1987) (113)
- The dynamic nature of early coordination: Evidence from bilateral leg movements in young infants. (1987) (109)
- Learning to walk: ecological demands and phylogenetics constraints (1984) (108)
- Development of Coordinated Movement: Implications for Early Human Development (1986) (107)
- The (re)discovery of motor development: Learning new things from an old field. (1989) (104)
- Shifting patterns of bilateral coordination and lateral dominance in the leg movements of young infants. (1983) (100)
- Developmental biodynamics: brain, body, behavior connections. (1993) (98)
- Systems and Development (1989) (85)
- Posture and the emergence of manual skills (2000) (83)
- U-Shaped Changes in Behavior: A Dynamic Systems Perspective (2004) (83)
- Effects of body build and arousal on newborn infant stepping. (1982) (83)
- Three-month-old infants can select specific leg motor solutions. (2002) (82)
- Three-Month-Old Infants Can Learn Task-Specific Patterns of Interlimb Coordination (1994) (80)
- Young infants reach correctly in A-not-B tasks: on the development of stability and perseveration. (2006) (79)
- Motor memory is a factor in infant perseverative errors (2000) (79)
- From spontaneous to instrumental behavior: kinematic analysis of movement changes during very early learning. (1983) (76)
- Cue salience and infant perseverative reaching: tests of the dynamic field theory. (2009) (76)
- Arnold L. Gesell: The paradox of nature and nurture. (1992) (73)
- Feet first: Object exploration in young infants. (2004) (73)
- Adaptive Dynamics of the Leg Movement Patterns of Human Infants: I. The Effects of Posture on Spontaneous Kicking. (1994) (72)
- An Ethological Study of Peaceful Associative Outcomes to Conflict in Preschool Children. (1984) (70)
- Determinants of amounts of stereotyped behavior in normal human infants (1980) (68)
- Learning to walk is still an "old" problem: a reply to Zelazo (1983). (1983) (68)
- Artificial intelligence. Autonomous mental development by robots and animals. (2001) (67)
- Training infant treadmill stepping: the role of individual pattern stability. (1997) (65)
- Spatially Specific Changes in Infants' Muscle Coactivity as They Learn to Reach. (2000) (62)
- The role of target distinctiveness in infant perseverative reaching. (2001) (58)
- Toward an Action-Based Theory of Infant Development (1989) (56)
- Coordination and Control in the Bow Arm Movements of Highly Skilled Cellists (1994) (55)
- Exploration and selection in the early acquisition of skill. (1994) (55)
- Microdevelopment: Microdevelopment and dynamic systems: Applications to infant motor development (2002) (54)
- Hand, Mouth and Brain (2005) (48)
- Adaptive Dynamics of the Leg Movement Patterns of Human Infants: III. Age-Related Differences in Limb Control. (1995) (47)
- Coupling Perception and Action in the Development of Skill: A Dynamic Approach (1990) (44)
- An unlearned principle for controlling natural movements. (1999) (43)
- Adaptive Dynamics of the Leg Movement Patterns of Human Infants: II. Treadmill stepping in Infants and Adults. (1994) (40)
- Primate Paradigms: Sex Roles and Social Bonds, Linda Marie Fedigan. Eden Press (1982), 386, Price $18.95 (1983) (40)
- A Method for Identifying the Initiation of Reaching Movements in Natural Prehension. (1995) (37)
- Toddlers' Postural Adaptations to Different Support Surfaces (1997) (32)
- The developmental roots of the speed-accuracy trade-off. (2005) (30)
- Normal infant stereotypes: A dynamic systems approach. (1996) (23)
- Evolving and Dissolving Synergies in the Development of Leg Coordination (1989) (23)
- Treadmill stepping in infants born prematurely. (1994) (21)
- Dynamic mechanisms of change in early perceptual-motor development. (2001) (20)
- A multimuscle state analysis of adult motor learning (1999) (20)
- The Central Role of Action in Typical and Atypical Development (2004) (19)
- The role of intersegmental dynamics in infant neuromotor development (1992) (17)
- Proximal control of fetal rat behavior. (1994) (17)
- Shifting Patterns of Interlimb Coordination in Infants' Reaching (1994) (16)
- Many Roads Lead to Rome: Locomotion and Dynamics. (2000) (15)
- An Analysis of the Grooming Behavior of Wild and Mutant Strains of Bracon Hebet or (Braconidae : Hymenoptera) (1977) (15)
- Timing in Motor Development as Emergent Process and Product (1991) (14)
- Stability and Variation in the Development of Infant Stepping: Implications for Control (1991) (12)
- The development of reaching across the first year in twins of known placental type. (2007) (12)
- Constraints on multi-joint movements: From the spontaneity of infancy to the skill of adults: Reaction to G.J. van Ingen Schenau (1989) (1989) (12)
- Chapter 9 – Expression as Action: A Motor Perspective of the Transition from Spontaneous to Instrumental Behaviors (1985) (12)
- Development of Locomotion from a Dynamic Systems Approach (1992) (11)
- Infant Motor Development: Implications for Motor Neuroscience (1991) (11)
- The hand leads the mouth in ontogenesis too (2003) (11)
- The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion (1999) (10)
- Introduction to the special issue: why this question and why now? (2003) (9)
- Newborn Stepping: A Review of Puzzling Infant Co‐ordinotion (1987) (8)
- The dynamics of goal-directed reaching: a comparison of adult and infant movement patterns: aspects of normal and delayed development (1994) (8)
- Origins of origins of motor control (1995) (7)
- So what's a modeler to do? (2001) (7)
- Developmental “movement disorders” and problem solving (1996) (6)
- The Effects of Supplemental Vestibular Stimulation on Stereotyped Behavior and Development in Normal Infants (1986) (6)
- Dynamic Systems for Everyone. (1996) (5)
- Context effects on neuromuscular control during stepping in newly walking infants (1996) (4)
- "Was McGraw a maturationist?": Reply. (1996) (4)
- A novel technology for investigating the dynamics of infant perseverative reaching (2007) (3)
- Advances in motor development and learning in infancy (2001) (3)
- Timing and Developmental Dynamics in the Acquisition of Early Motor Skills (2013) (3)
- Motor memory influences performance in the A-not-B task (1998) (3)
- An ‘Outside-in’ Approach to the Development of Leg Movement Patterns (1989) (3)
- Development A Dynamical Systems Approach to Motor (2006) (2)
- Posture-related modulations of limb dynamics during spontaneous kicking of infants (1989) (2)
- Simplifying assumptions: Can development help? (1985) (2)
- Short survey Feet first: object exploration in young infants (2004) (1)
- Cost function analysis of infant reaching (1994) (1)
- The effect of developing reaching skill on infant perseverative reaching errors (1998) (1)
- Retention of specific motor solutions in three month-olds using a constrained contingent reinforcement procedure (1998) (0)
- Quantitative Methods of Movement Analysis-- Kinematics and Electromyography (2006) (0)
- Adaptation and constraint: Evolution and infancy (1984) (0)
- "Tradition" Questioned (1986) (0)
- Interactionalism in Theory and Practice. (1989) (0)
- Improvisations on the behavioral-genetics theme (1991) (0)
- CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE ACQUISITION OF MOTOR DEVELOPMENT FROM IDEAS (2013) (0)
- Timing and systems in early motor development (1986) (0)
- Interactionism is good, but not good enough (1988) (0)
- Attractors at different time scales in infant development (1996) (0)
- Grounded in the World: Developmental Origins of the Embodied Mind (2003) (0)
- Is social information special (1992) (0)
- "One thing follows another": initial state, task, and developmental change in human infants (2002) (0)
- Linda Marie Fedigan Primate Paradigms: Sex Roles and Social Bonds (1983) (0)
- Social Policy Report Giving Child and Youth Development Knowledge Away (2002) (0)
- 1987 Conference on Dynamic Patterns in Complex Systems (1988) (0)
- The development of crossing the midline behavior is not only related to object position, but also to ball size (2001) (0)
- Of Time and New Forms. (1986) (0)
- Developmental psychobiology: A statement of scope and intent (1986) (0)
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