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
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Human infants are able to combine visual and proprioceptive target information in reaching
Part of Human Movement Science, 2026
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Part of Autism, p. 1510-1523, 2025
- DOI for Atypical development of sequential manual motor planning and visuomotor integration in children with autism at early school-age: A longitudinal kinematic study
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Multiple pathways to developmental continuity in infant cognition
Part of Trends in cognitive sciences, p. 692-693, 2023
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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
All publications
Articles in journal
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Human infants are able to combine visual and proprioceptive target information in reaching
Part of Human Movement Science, 2026
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Part of Autism, p. 1510-1523, 2025
- DOI for Atypical development of sequential manual motor planning and visuomotor integration in children with autism at early school-age: A longitudinal kinematic study
- Download full text (pdf) of Atypical development of sequential manual motor planning and visuomotor integration in children with autism at early school-age: A longitudinal kinematic study
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Multiple pathways to developmental continuity in infant cognition
Part of Trends in cognitive sciences, p. 692-693, 2023
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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
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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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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
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Reaching skills of infants born very preterm predict neurodevelopment at 2.5 years
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, 2019
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Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 822-830, 2018
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Do children grow into cerebral palsy?
Part of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, p. 1107-1107, 2017
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Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 4-12, 2017
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Visual tracking in very preterm infants at 4 mo predicts neurodevelopment at 3 y of age
Part of Pediatric Research, p. 35-42, 2016
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Desiderata for developmental cognitive architectures
Part of BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES, p. 116-127, 2016
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Maturational and situational determinants of reaching at its onset
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 64-72, 2015
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Improved visual perception in very low birth weight infants on enhanced nutrient supply
Part of Neonatalogy, p. 30-37, 2015
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Simulating newborn face perception
Part of Journal of Vision, p. 16, 2014
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Eighteen-month-olds' ability to make gaze predictions following distraction or a long delay
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 225-234, 2014
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Part of Ecological psychology, p. 79-87, 2014
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Using a head-mounted camera to infer attention direction
Part of International Journal of Behavioral Development, p. 468-474, 2013
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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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Dynamic reaching in infants during binocular and monocular viewing
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 1-12, 2013
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Part of Developmental Science, p. 91-100, 2013
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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
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Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 1144-1149, 2013
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Attention demands influence 10- and 12-month-old infants' perseverative behavior.
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 46-55, 2012
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Gaze performance in children with autism spectrum disorder when observing communicative actions
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 2236-2245, 2012
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Development of exploratory behavior in late preterm infants
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 912-915, 2012
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Action production influences 12-month-old infants' attention to others' actions
Part of Developmental Science, p. 35-42, 2012
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Using mu rhythm desynchronization to measure mirror neuron activity in infants
Part of Developmental Science, p. 327-335, 2011
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Part of Cognition & Emotion, p. 193-205, 2011
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Part of Neuropsychologia, p. 2911-2917, 2011
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Development of smooth pursuit eye movements in very preterm infants: 1. General aspects
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 983-991, 2011
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Reaching strategies of very preterm infants at 8 months corrected age
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 225-233, 2011
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Part of Clinica Terapeutica, p. 573-574, 2010
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Reorganization of Global Form and Motion Processing during Human Visual Development
Part of Current Biology, p. 411-415, 2010
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Eye tracking in infancy research
Part of Developmental Neuropsychology, p. 1-19, 2010
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Eye tracking in infancy research.
Part of Developmental Neuropsychology, p. 1-19, 2010
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Movement Planning Reflects Skill Level and Age Changes in Toddlers
Part of Child Development, p. 1846-1858, 2010
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The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development
Part of Neural Networks, p. 1125-1134, 2010
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Face scanning distinguishes social from communication impairments in autism
Part of Developmental Science, p. 864-875, 2010
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Eye tracking in infancy research
Part of Developmental Neuropsychology, p. 1-19, 2010
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How children with autism look at events
Part of Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, p. 556-569, 2009
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Young Children’s Ability to Solve Spatial Problems Involving a Choice
Part of European Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 685-704, 2009
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Part of Cognitive science, p. 1483-1502, 2009
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Action, the foundation for cognitive development
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 617-623, 2009
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Young Children’s Representations of Spatial and Functional Relations Between Objects
Part of Child Development, p. 1612-1627, 2009
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Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 137-146, 2009
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Planning to reach for a rotating rod: Developmental aspects
Part of Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie, p. 207-213, 2009
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Action Type and Goal Type Modulate Goal-Directed Gaze Shifts in 14-Month-Old Infants
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 1190-1194, 2009
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Some things never change: Object occlusions and predictive reaching in infants and adults
Part of Cognitive science, p. 1483-1502, 2009
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Part of Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, p. 651-659, 2008
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Sensitivity to second-order motion in 10-month-olds
Part of Vision Research, p. 1187-1195, 2008
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Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
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Predictive occluder tracking in 4-month-old infants
Part of Developmental Science, 10, 625-640., 2007
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Predictive tracking over occlusions by 4-month-old infants
Part of Developmental Science, p. 625-640, 2007
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Fitting Objects into Holes: On the Development of Spatial Cognition Skills
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 404-416, 2007
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Part of Developmental Science, p. 54-60, 2007
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Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
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Taking an action perspective on infant’s object representations
Part of Progress in Brain Research, p. 265-282, 2007
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The development of reactive saccade latencies
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 159-164, 2006
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Developmental asymmetries between horizontal and vertical tracking
Part of Vision Research, p. 1754-1761, 2006
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Infants predict other people's action goals.
Part of Nat Neurosci, p. 878-9, 2006
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12-month–old infants’ perception of attention direction in static video images
Part of Infancy, p. 217-231, 2005
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The development of two-dimensional tracking: a longitudinal study of circular pursuit
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 204-213, 2005
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Effects of visual flow display of flight maneuvers on perceived spatial orientation.
Part of Hum Factors, p. 378-93, 2005
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Infants' emerging ability to represent occluded object motion
Part of Cognition, p. 1-22, 2004
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An action perspective on motor development
Part of Trends in cognitive sciences, p. 266-272, 2004
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Part of Infancy, p. 165-184, 2004
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Infants' ability to track and reach for temporarily occluded objects
Part of Developmental Science, p. 88-101, 2003
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Development of the Infant’sAbility to Retrieve Food Througha Slit
Part of Infant and Child Development, p. 43-56, 2002
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Development of gaze tracking of small and large objects
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 257-264, 2002
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Development of the infant's ability to retrieve food through a slit
Part of Infant and Child Development, p. 43-56, 2002
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Infants' tracking of continuous circular motion interrupted by occlusion
Part of Infant behavior and Development, p. 1-21, 2002
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The development of anticipatory postural adjustments in Infancy
Part of Infancy, p. 495-517, 2002
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The development of fin motor control and their relation to children's academic achievement
Part of Acta Psychologica Sinica, p. 494-499, 2002
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Comparison of chopstick using skills between 3-7-year-old children and adults
Part of Acta Psychologica Sinica, p. 40-46, 2001
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Predictive reaching for occluded objects by 6-month-old infants
Part of Journal of Cognition and Development, p. 261-282, 2001
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Object representation and predictive action in infancy
Part of Developmental Science, p. 193-205, 2000
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Readability of vertically vibrating aircraft displays
Part of Displays (Guildford), p. 23-30, 1999
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Predictive action in infancy: Tracking and reaching for moving objects
Part of Cognition, p. 255-285, 1998
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Part of Human Development, p. 1-6, 1997
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Development of smooth pursuit tracking in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1799-1810, 1997
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The development of gaze control and predictive tracking in young infant
Part of Vision Research, p. 81-96, 1996
Articles, review/survey
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Perception-action in children with ASD
Part of Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012
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How special is social looking in ASD: a review
Part of Progress in Brain Research, p. 209-22, 2011
Chapters in book
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Motorisk og perseptuell utvikling i tidig barndom
Part of Nevrokognitiv utviklingspsykologi, p. 36-55, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S, 2021
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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
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Perception and action in the context of development
Part of Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development, p. 515-522, Cambridge University Press, 2017
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On the development of the mirror neuron system
Part of New Frontiers in Mirror Neuron Research, p. 270-320, Oxford University Press, 2015
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The Role of Looking in Social Cognition: Perspectives from Development and Autism.
Part of Social Cognition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
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The role of looking in social development: perspectives from development and autism
Part of Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism, Blackwell, 2008
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Motor development from an action perspective.
Part of Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development., Elsevier, 2008
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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
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Part of Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development, p. 348-351, Cambridge University Press, 2005
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The development of prospective control of looking
Part of Action as an organizer of perception and cognition during learning and development, 2005
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On the early development of perception, action and cognition
Part of Emerging cognitive abilities in early infancy, Erlbaum, Hillsdale N.J., 2001
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Perception action approach to cerebral palsy
Part of Neurophysiology and Psychology of Motor Development, p. 257-285, Mac Keith Press, 1997
Conference papers
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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
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Infants’ Prospective Control during Object Manipulation
2015
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2015
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Infants’ adaptation to object weight
2014
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Infants’ adaptation to object weight
2014
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The "whys" and "hows" of our epistemological and empirical journey
2012
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The development of the mirror neuron system
2012
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Measurement of dynamic visual fixation in infants at risk
2012
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How motor development can go astray
2012
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Action as a founding principle of cognitive development in humans and robots
2012
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How special is looking and acting in children with ASD?
2012
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Taking an action perspective on infant's object representations
Part of From action to cognition, p. 265-282, 2007