Claes von Hofsten
Professor emeritus at Department of Psychology; Developmental Psychology
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 049 61 27
- E-mail:
- claes.von_hofsten@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Publications
Recent publications
Multiple pathways to developmental continuity in infant cognition
Part of Trends in cognitive sciences, p. 692-693, 2023
Part of Brain Sciences, 2022
- DOI for Development of Motor Imagery in School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Longitudinal Study
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Visual tracking at 4 months in preterm infants predicts 6.5-year cognition and attention
Part of Pediatric Research, p. 1082-1089, 2022
Part of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2021
- DOI for Motor planning and movement execution during goal-directed sequential manual movements in 6-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder: A kinematic analysis
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Motorisk og perseptuell utvikling i tidig barndom
Part of Nevrokognitiv utviklingspsykologi, p. 36-55, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S, 2021
All publications
Articles in journal
Multiple pathways to developmental continuity in infant cognition
Part of Trends in cognitive sciences, p. 692-693, 2023
Part of Brain Sciences, 2022
- DOI for Development of Motor Imagery in School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Longitudinal Study
- Download full text (pdf) of Development of Motor Imagery in School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Longitudinal Study
Visual tracking at 4 months in preterm infants predicts 6.5-year cognition and attention
Part of Pediatric Research, p. 1082-1089, 2022
Part of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2021
- DOI for Motor planning and movement execution during goal-directed sequential manual movements in 6-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder: A kinematic analysis
- Download full text (pdf) of Motor planning and movement execution during goal-directed sequential manual movements in 6-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder: A kinematic analysis
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 250-265, 2020
- DOI for Kinematic characteristics of second-order motor planning and performance in 6- and 10-year-old children and adults: Effects of age and task constraints
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Infants plan prehension while pivoting
Part of Developmental Psychobiology, p. 1048-1063, 2019
Reaching skills of infants born very preterm predict neurodevelopment at 2.5 years
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, 2019
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 822-830, 2018
Do children grow into cerebral palsy?
Part of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, p. 1107-1107, 2017
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 4-12, 2017
Visual tracking in very preterm infants at 4 mo predicts neurodevelopment at 3 y of age
Part of Pediatric Research, p. 35-42, 2016
Desiderata for developmental cognitive architectures
Part of BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES, p. 116-127, 2016
Maturational and situational determinants of reaching at its onset
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 64-72, 2015
Improved visual perception in very low birth weight infants on enhanced nutrient supply
Part of Neonatalogy, p. 30-37, 2015
Simulating newborn face perception
Part of Journal of Vision, p. 16, 2014
Eighteen-month-olds' ability to make gaze predictions following distraction or a long delay
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 225-234, 2014
Part of Ecological psychology, p. 79-87, 2014
Using a head-mounted camera to infer attention direction
Part of International Journal of Behavioral Development, p. 468-474, 2013
Visualization and Analysis of Eye Movement Data from Children with Typical and Atypical Development
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 2249-2258, 2013
- DOI for Visualization and Analysis of Eye Movement Data from Children with Typical and Atypical Development
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Part of Developmental Science, p. 91-100, 2013
Dynamic reaching in infants during binocular and monocular viewing
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 1-12, 2013
Perception of conversations: The importance of semantics and intonation in children's development
Part of Journal of experimental child psychology (Print), p. 264-277, 2013
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 1144-1149, 2013
Attention demands influence 10- and 12-month-old infants' perseverative behavior.
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 46-55, 2012
Action production influences 12-month-old infants' attention to others' actions
Part of Developmental Science, p. 35-42, 2012
Development of exploratory behavior in late preterm infants
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 912-915, 2012
Gaze performance in children with autism spectrum disorder when observing communicative actions
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 2236-2245, 2012
Part of Neuropsychologia, p. 2911-2917, 2011
Part of Cognition & Emotion, p. 193-205, 2011
Using mu rhythm desynchronization to measure mirror neuron activity in infants
Part of Developmental Science, p. 327-335, 2011
Development of smooth pursuit eye movements in very preterm infants: 1. General aspects
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 983-991, 2011
Reaching strategies of very preterm infants at 8 months corrected age
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 225-233, 2011
Movement Planning Reflects Skill Level and Age Changes in Toddlers
Part of Child Development, p. 1846-1858, 2010
Reorganization of Global Form and Motion Processing during Human Visual Development
Part of Current Biology, p. 411-415, 2010
Eye tracking in infancy research
Part of Developmental Neuropsychology, p. 1-19, 2010
Part of Clinica Terapeutica, p. 573-574, 2010
Eye tracking in infancy research.
Part of Developmental Neuropsychology, p. 1-19, 2010
The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development
Part of Neural Networks, p. 1125-1134, 2010
Face scanning distinguishes social from communication impairments in autism
Part of Developmental Science, p. 864-875, 2010
Eye tracking in infancy research
Part of Developmental Neuropsychology, p. 1-19, 2010
How children with autism look at events
Part of Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, p. 556-569, 2009
Part of Cognitive science, p. 1483-1502, 2009
Action, the foundation for cognitive development
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 617-623, 2009
Young Children’s Ability to Solve Spatial Problems Involving a Choice
Part of European Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 685-704, 2009
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 137-146, 2009
Planning to reach for a rotating rod: Developmental aspects
Part of Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie, p. 207-213, 2009
Action Type and Goal Type Modulate Goal-Directed Gaze Shifts in 14-Month-Old Infants
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 1190-1194, 2009
Young Children’s Representations of Spatial and Functional Relations Between Objects
Part of Child Development, p. 1612-1627, 2009
Some things never change: Object occlusions and predictive reaching in infants and adults
Part of Cognitive science, p. 1483-1502, 2009
Part of Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, p. 651-659, 2008
Sensitivity to second-order motion in 10-month-olds
Part of Vision Research, p. 1187-1195, 2008
Part of Developmental Science, p. 54-60, 2007
Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
Predictive tracking over occlusions by 4-month-old infants
Part of Developmental Science, p. 625-640, 2007
Fitting Objects into Holes: On the Development of Spatial Cognition Skills
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 404-416, 2007
Predictive occluder tracking in 4-month-old infants
Part of Developmental Science, 10, 625-640., 2007
Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
Taking an action perspective on infant’s object representations
Part of Progress in Brain Research, p. 265-282, 2007
The development of reactive saccade latencies
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 159-164, 2006
Developmental asymmetries between horizontal and vertical tracking
Part of Vision Research, p. 1754-1761, 2006
Infants predict other people's action goals.
Part of Nat Neurosci, p. 878-9, 2006
12-month–old infants’ perception of attention direction in static video images
Part of Infancy, p. 217-231, 2005
The development of two-dimensional tracking: a longitudinal study of circular pursuit
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 204-213, 2005
Effects of visual flow display of flight maneuvers on perceived spatial orientation.
Part of Hum Factors, p. 378-93, 2005
Infants' emerging ability to represent occluded object motion
Part of Cognition, p. 1-22, 2004
An action perspective on motor development
Part of Trends in cognitive sciences, p. 266-272, 2004
Part of Infancy, p. 165-184, 2004
Infants' ability to track and reach for temporarily occluded objects
Part of Developmental Science, p. 88-101, 2003
Development of gaze tracking of small and large objects
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 257-264, 2002
Development of the Infant’sAbility to Retrieve Food Througha Slit
Part of Infant and Child Development, p. 43-56, 2002
Development of the infant's ability to retrieve food through a slit
Part of Infant and Child Development, p. 43-56, 2002
Infants' tracking of continuous circular motion interrupted by occlusion
Part of Infant behavior and Development, p. 1-21, 2002
The development of fin motor control and their relation to children's academic achievement
Part of Acta Psychologica Sinica, p. 494-499, 2002
The development of anticipatory postural adjustments in Infancy
Part of Infancy, p. 495-517, 2002
Comparison of chopstick using skills between 3-7-year-old children and adults
Part of Acta Psychologica Sinica, p. 40-46, 2001
Predictive reaching for occluded objects by 6-month-old infants
Part of Journal of Cognition and Development, p. 261-282, 2001
Object representation and predictive action in infancy
Part of Developmental Science, p. 193-205, 2000
Readability of vertically vibrating aircraft displays
Part of Displays (Guildford), p. 23-30, 1999
Predictive action in infancy: Tracking and reaching for moving objects
Part of Cognition, p. 255-285, 1998
Development of smooth pursuit tracking in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1799-1810, 1997
Part of Human Development, p. 1-6, 1997
The development of gaze control and predictive tracking in young infant
Part of Vision Research, p. 81-96, 1996
Articles, review/survey
Perception-action in children with ASD
Part of Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012
How special is social looking in ASD: a review
Part of Progress in Brain Research, p. 209-22, 2011
Chapters in book
Motorisk og perseptuell utvikling i tidig barndom
Part of Nevrokognitiv utviklingspsykologi, p. 36-55, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S, 2021
The Development of Sensorimotor Intelligence in Infants
Part of Studying The Perception-Action System As A Model System For Understanding Development, p. 73-106, Elsevier, 2018
Perception and action in the context of development
Part of Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development, p. 515-522, Cambridge University Press, 2017
On the development of the mirror neuron system
Part of New Frontiers in Mirror Neuron Research, p. 270-320, Oxford University Press, 2015
The Role of Looking in Social Cognition: Perspectives from Development and Autism.
Part of Social Cognition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
The role of looking in social development: perspectives from development and autism
Part of Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism, Blackwell, 2008
Motor development from an action perspective.
Part of Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development., Elsevier, 2008
Ideas on the development and control of actions.
Part of Closing the Gap: The Scientific Writings of David N. Lee. pp. 199-203, p. 199-242, Lawrence Erlbaum Ass, 2007
Part of Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development, p. 348-351, Cambridge University Press, 2005
The development of prospective control of looking
Part of Action as an organizer of perception and cognition during learning and development, 2005
On the early development of perception, action and cognition
Part of Emerging cognitive abilities in early infancy, Erlbaum, Hillsdale N.J., 2001
Perception action approach to cerebral palsy
Part of Neurophysiology and Psychology of Motor Development, p. 257-285, Mac Keith Press, 1997
Conference papers
Infants' Use of Multisensory Information for Postural Control
Part of 2016 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), p. 202-203, 2016
Infants’ Prospective Control during Object Manipulation
2015
2015
Infants’ adaptation to object weight
2014
Infants’ adaptation to object weight
2014
How special is looking and acting in children with ASD?
2012
Action as a founding principle of cognitive development in humans and robots
2012
How motor development can go astray
2012
Measurement of dynamic visual fixation in infants at risk
2012
The development of the mirror neuron system
2012
The "whys" and "hows" of our epistemological and empirical journey
2012
Taking an action perspective on infant's object representations
Part of From action to cognition, p. 265-282, 2007