Publications

2018

  • Frick, A. (2018). Mental transformation abilities and their relation to later academic achievement. Psychological Research, 1-20. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-018-1008-5. Online first at: https://rdcu.be/LbPo
  • Frick, A. (2018). Perspective taking. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp. 1627-1628). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.4135/9781506307633.n609
  • Möhring, W., Frick, A., & Newcombe, N. S. (2018). Spatial scaling, proportional thinking, and numerical under-standing in 5- to 7-year-old children. Cognitive Development, 45, 57-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.12.001
  • Newcombe, N. S., Möhring, W., & Frick, A. (2018). How big is many? Development of spatial and numerical magnitude understanding. In A. Henik & W. Fias (Eds.), Heterogeneity of function in numerical cognition (pp. 157-176). San Diego: Academic Press.

2017

  • Frick, A., & Baumeler, D. (2017). The relation between spatial perspective taking and inhibitory control in 6-year-old children. Psychological Research 81, 730-739.  DOI: 10.1007/s00426-016-0785-y
  • Möhring, W., Ishihara, M., Curiger, J., & Frick, A. (in press). Spatial-numerical associations in 1st-graders: Evidence from a manual-pointing task. Psychological Research, 1-9.DOI: 10.1007/s00426-017-0904-4
  • 2016
    • Möhring, W., Ramsook, K. S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R., & Newcombe, N. S. (2016). Where music meets space: Children’s sensitivity to pitch intervals is related to their mental spatial transformation skills. Cognition, 151, 1-5.
    • Möhring, W., Newcombe, N. S., & Frick, A. (2016). Using mental transformation strategies for spatial scaling: Evidence from a discrimination task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,42, 1473-1479. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000240 [PDF]
    • Frick, A., & Möhring, W. (2016). A matter of balance: Motor control is related to children’s spatial scaling and proportional reasoning skills. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:2049. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02049 [PDF]
    • Möhring, W., Newcombe, N. S., Levine, S. C., & Frick, A. (2016). Spatial proportional reasoning is associated with formal knowledge about fractions. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17, 67-84. DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2014.996289 [PDF]
  • 2015
    • Frick, A., & Newcombe, N. S. (2015). Young children’s perception of diagrammatic representations. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 15, 227-245. DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2015.1046988 [PDF]
    • Möhring, W., Newcombe, N. S., & Frick, A. (2015). The relation between spatial thinking and proportional reasoning in preschoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 132, 213-220. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.01.005 
  • 2014
    • Frick, A., Möhring, W., & Newcombe, N. S. (2014). Development of mental transformation abilities. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 536-542. DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.011 [PDF]
    • Frick, A., Möhring, W., & Newcombe, N. S. (2014). Picturing perspectives: Development of perspective-taking abilities in 4- to 8-year-olds. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:386. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00386 [PDF]
    • Möhring, W., Newcombe, N. S. & Frick, A. (2014). Zooming in on spatial scaling: Preschoolchildren and adults use mental transformations to scale spaces. Developmental Psychology, 50,1614-1619. DOI: 10.1037/a0035905 [PDF]
    • Frick, A., & Wang, S. (2014). Mental spatial transformations in 14- and 16-month-oldinfants: Effects of action and observational experience. Child Development, 85,278-293. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12116 [PDF]
  • 2013
    • Frick, A., Hansen, M. A., & Newcombe, N. S. (2013). Development of mental rotation in 3- to 5-year-old children. CognitiveDevelopment, 28, 386-399. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2013.06.002 [PDF]
    • Frick, A., Ferrara, K., & Newcombe, N. S. (2013). Using a touch screen paradigm toassess the development of mental rotation between 3½ and 5½ years of age. Cognitive Processing, 14,117-127. DOI 10.1007/s10339-012-0534-0[PDF]
    • Frick, A., & Möhring, W. (2013). Mental object rotation and motor development in 8- and 10-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115, 708-720. DOI:10.1016/j.jecp.2013.04.001 [PDF]  
    • Möhring, W., & Frick, A. (2013). Touching up mental rotation: Effects of manual experienceon 6-month-old infants' mental object rotation. Child Development, 84, 1554-1565. DOI:10.1111/cdev.12065 [PDF]
    • Lourenco, S. F.,& Frick, A. (2013). Remembering where: The origins and early development of spatial memory. In P. J. Bauer and R. Fivush (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on theDevelopment of Children's Memory, Volume I/II, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK. DOI: 10.1002/9781118597705.ch16     
  • 2012
    • Frick, A., & Newcombe, N. S. (2012). Getting the big picture: Development of spatial scaling abilities. Cognitive Development, 27, 270-282. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.05.004 [PDF]
    • Möhring, W., Libertus, M., & Bertin, E. (2012). Speed discrimination in 6- and 10-month-old infants follows Weber's law. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 405-418. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.11.002 [PDF]
    • Möhring, W., Cacchione, T., & Bertin, E. (2012). On the origin of the understanding oftime, speed, and distance interrelations. Infant Behavior and Development, 35, 22-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.09.008 [PDF] 
  • 2010