Publications

• Peltola, M. J., Biro, S., Huffmeijer, R., Sinisalo, H., Bakermans‐Kranenburg, M. J., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2025). Exploring Associations Between Infant Attachment, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attention to Maternal Emotion Expressions. Developmental Science, 28(5), e70057. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70057
• Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., ... & Rakoczy, H. (2024). Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-2A82-1
• Geambașu, A., Spit, S., van Renswoude, D., Blom, E., Fikkert, P., Hunnius, S., Junge, C., Verhagen, J., Visser, I., Wijnen, F., & Levelt, C. C. (2023). Robustness of the rule-learning effect in 7-month-old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999). Developmental Science, 26, e13244.
• Spit, S., Geambașu, A., Renswoude, D., Blom, E., Fikkert, P., Hunnius, S., Junge, C., Verhagen, J., Visser, I., Wijnen, F., & Levelt, C. C. (2023). Robustness of the cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants: A close multi-center replication of Kovács and Mehler (2009). Developmental Science, 00, e13377.
• Biro, S. (2023). Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress. Infancy the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies.
• Bródy, G., Oláh, K., Király, I., & Biro, S. (2022). Individuation of agents based on psychological properties in 10 month‐old infants. Infancy.
• Biro, S., Peltola, M., Huffmeijer, R., Alink, L.R.A., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., van IJzendoorn, M.H. (2021) Frontal EEG asymmetry in infants observing separation and comforting events: The role of infants’ attachment relationship. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 48. 
• ter Haar, S. & Levelt, C. (in print). Disentangling Attention for Frequency and Phonological Markedness in 9- And 12-Month-Old Infants. Language Learning and Development.
• Kant, van der A., Biro, S., Levelt, C., Huijbregts, S. (2018). Negative affect is related to reduced differential neural responses to social and non-social stimuli in 5-to-8-month-old infants: A functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy-study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 23-30. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.12.003
• Biro, S., Alink, L. R. A., Huffmeijer, R., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2017). Attachment quality is related to the synchrony of mother and infant monitoring patterns. Attachment and Human Development. 19/3, 243–258.
• Frank, M. C., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., Hamlin, J. K., Hannon, E. E., Kline, M., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Nazzi, T., Panneton, R., Rabagliati, H., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., Waxman, S. and Yurovsky, D. (2017), A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building. Infancy. doi:10.1111/infa.12182
• Gulian, M. (2017). The development of the speech production mechanism in young children; Evidence from the acquisition of onset clusters in Dutch. LOT Dissertations in Linguistics.
• Geambasu, A., Scheel, M. & Levelt, C. (2016). Cross-linguistics patterns in infant babbling. Proceedings of the 40th Boston University Conference of Language Development, Jennifer Scott and Deb Waughtal, 155-168. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Biro, S., Alink, L. R. A., Huffmeijer, R., van IJzendoorn, M. H. & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. (2015). Attachment and maternal sensitivity are related to infants’ monitoring of animated social interactions. Brain and Behavior. 5/12.
• Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J. Alink, L.R.A, Biro, S., Voorthuis, A.& van IJzendoorn, M.H. (2015). The Leiden Infant Simulator Sensitivity Assessment (LISSA): Parenting an Infant Simulator as Your Own Baby. Infant and Child Development, 24: 220–227. DOI: 10.1002/icd.1905.
• Verschoor, S.A., Paulus, M., Spapé, M., Biro, S. & Hommel, B. (2015). The developing cognitive substrate of sequential action control in 9- to 12-month-olds: Evidence for concurrent activation models. Cognition, 138, 64–78.
• Peltola M.J., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J., Alink L.R.A., Huffmeijer R., Biro S. & Van IJzendoorn M.H. (2014). Resting frontal EEG asymmetry in children: Meta-analyses of the effects of psychosocial risk factors and associations with internalizing and externalizing behavior. Developmental Psychobiology56(6): 1377-1389.
• Biro, S. Verschoor, S., Coalter, E. & Leslie, A. (2014). Outcome producing potential influences twelve-month-olds’ interpretation of a novel action as goal-directed. Infant Behavior and Development, 37, 729-738.
• Biro, S., Alink, L. R. A., van IJzendoorn, M. H. & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. (2014). Infants’ monitoring of social interactions: The effect of emotional cues. Emotion, 14, 2, 263–271.
• Gulian, M., Junge, C. & C. Levelt (2014). Two-year-olds distinguish snakes from nakes but not trains from tains. BUCLD 38 proceedings, Cascadilla Press.
• Verschoor, S., Spape, M., Biro, S., Hommel, B. (2013). From outcome prediction to action selection: developmental change in the role of action–effect bindings. Developmental Science, 16(6), 801–814.
• Biro, S. (2013). The role of the efficiency of novel actions in infants’ goal anticipation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 415-427. 
• ter Haar, S. (2013). Birds and babies: a comparison of early development in vocal learners. PhD Dissertation, Leiden University
• Biro, S. (2012). The nature of infants’ goal representation: commentary on Hernik and Southgate. Developmental Science, 15( 5), 723-724 . doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01161.x
• Verschoor, S., Eenshuistra, R., Kray, J., Biro, S. & Hommel, B. (2012). Explicit learning of arbitrary and non-arbitrary action–effect relations in adults and 4-year-olds. Frontiers in Cognition, 2, 354. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.20 1 .00354
• Verschoor, S. & Biro, S. (2012). Primacy of Information About Means Selection Over Outcome Selection in Goal Attribution by Infants. Cognitive Science, 36, 714–725.
• Levelt, C. (2012). Perception mirrors production in 14- and 18-month-olds: the case of coda consonants. Cognition 123, 74-79.
• Biro, S., Verschoor, S. & Coenen, L. (2011). Evidence for a unitary goal-concept in 12 months old infants. Developmental Science, 14(6), 1255–1260.
• Levelt, C. (2011). Consonant Harmony in child language. In: M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewen & K. Rice (eds.). Companion to Phonology. Boston MA: Blackwell, 1691-1716.
• Verschoor, S., Weidema, M. Biro, S. and Hommel B. (2010). Where do action goals come from? Evidence for spontaneous action-effect binding in infants. Frontiers in Cognition. 1:201. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00201
• Fikkert, P. & Levelt C. (2008). How does Place fall into place. The lexicon and emergent constraints in children’s developing grammars. In: Dresher, E. & K. Rice (Eds.) Contrast in Phonology. Berlin: Mouton, 231-270.
• Levelt, C. (2008). Phonology and phonetics in the development of schwa in Dutch child language. Lingua 118, 9, 1344 – 1361.
• Biro, S., Csibra, G., and Gergely, G. (2007). The role of behavioural cues in understanding goal-directed actions in infancy. In C. von Hofsten and K. Rosander (Eds.). Progress in Brain Research: From Action to Cognition. 164, 303-322.
• Biro, S. & Hommel, B. (2007). Becoming an intentional agent: Introduction to the special issue. Acta Psychologica, 124 (1), 1-7.
• Biro, S. & Leslie A. (2007). Infants’ perception of goal-directed actions. Development through cues-based bootstrapping. Developmental Science, 10(3), 379-398.
• Levelt, C. & van Oostendorp M. (2007). Feature co-occurrence constraints in L1 acquisition. In: Los, B. & M. van Koppen (Eds.) Linguistics in The Netherlands 2007. Amsterdam/Philadelpia: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 162-172.
• Mennen, I., Levelt C. & Gerrits E. (2007). Dutch speech acquisition. In: McLeod, S. (Ed.) The International Guide to Speech Acquisition. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning, 327-339.
• Levelt, C. & Van de Vijver R. (2004). Syllable types in cross-linguistic- and developmental grammars. In: Kager, R., Pater J. & W. Zonneveld (Eds.) Fixing Priorities: Constraints in Phonological Acquisition. Cambridge University Press. 204-218.
• Csibra, G., Biro, S., Gergely, G. & O. Koos. (2003). One-year-old infants use teleological representations of actions productively. Cognitive Science. Vol. 27(1), 111-133.
• Biro, S. & Russell, J. (2001). The execution of arbitrary procedures by children with autism. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 97-110.
• Biro, S. (1999). Executive functions deficit in children with autism: Following arbitrary rules in means-end tasks. Psychology, 19, 1, 29-78. (in Hungarian).
• Csibra, G., Gergely, G., Biro, S. & O. Koos. (1999). Goal attribution without agency cues: the perception of ‘pure reason’ in infancy. Cognition, 72, 237-267.
• Biro, S., Koos, O., Csibra, G., & Gergely, G. (1997). Understanding rational action in infancy. Psychology of Language and Communication, Vol.1. No.2
• Biro, S., Gergely, G., Csibra, G., & Koos, O. (1995). The perception of rationality in infancy. In: C. Pleh, Z. Vinkler, & A. Bocz, (Eds.), Proceedings of FIKOG, (pp. 75-99), Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.
• Gergely, G., Csibra, G., Biro S., & Koós, O. (1995). The Attribution of Intentionality at the age of 12 months. Psychology, (15), 3, 331-367. (in Hungarian).
• Gergely, G., Csibra, G., Nádasdy, Z., & Biro, S. (1995). Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age. Cognition, 56, 165-193.