Amy Needham

4.4k total citations
57 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Amy Needham is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Needham has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 16 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Amy Needham's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (44 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (16 papers) and Hearing Impairment and Communication (14 papers). Amy Needham is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (44 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (16 papers) and Hearing Impairment and Communication (14 papers). Amy Needham collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Australia. Amy Needham's co-authors include Klaus Libertus, Jessica A. Sommerville, Amanda L. Woodward, Renée Baillargeon, Karen Peterman, Jordy Kaufman, Gwenden Dueker, Amy S. Joh, Gregory R. Lockhead and Avani C. Modi and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Amy Needham

55 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Amy Needham United States 22 1.7k 874 728 329 289 57 2.3k
Jeffrey J. Lockman United States 24 1.1k 0.6× 786 0.9× 564 0.8× 135 0.4× 157 0.5× 67 1.8k
Jacqueline Fagard France 26 1.0k 0.6× 1.2k 1.4× 436 0.6× 247 0.8× 103 0.4× 88 1.8k
Emily W. Bushnell United States 19 924 0.5× 714 0.8× 338 0.5× 149 0.5× 322 1.1× 35 1.5k
Gudrun Schwarzer Germany 25 826 0.5× 1.6k 1.9× 486 0.7× 93 0.3× 668 2.3× 146 2.4k
Daniela Corbetta United States 24 1.6k 0.9× 1.2k 1.4× 525 0.7× 608 1.8× 79 0.3× 52 2.6k
Rachel Keen United States 19 772 0.4× 510 0.6× 324 0.4× 101 0.3× 124 0.4× 34 1.1k
B. E. McKenzie Australia 21 1.0k 0.6× 613 0.7× 164 0.2× 295 0.9× 189 0.7× 44 1.4k
Gedeon O. Deák United States 26 1.4k 0.8× 776 0.9× 582 0.8× 53 0.2× 327 1.1× 72 2.0k
Frances Degen Horowitz United States 22 828 0.5× 596 0.7× 260 0.4× 393 1.2× 442 1.5× 87 1.8k
J. Gavin Bremner United Kingdom 23 949 0.5× 789 0.9× 311 0.4× 61 0.2× 569 2.0× 74 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amy Needham

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy Needham

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All Works

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Nelson, Eliza L., et al.. (2025). Infant reaching and grasping: Frameworks for testing developmental cascades. Infant Behavior and Development. 80. 102104–102104.
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Salo, Virginia C., et al.. (2023). Infant placement and language exposure in daily life. Infant and Child Development. 32(3). 5 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy, et al.. (2023). Case report: An evaluation of early motor skills in an infant later diagnosed with autism. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1205532–1205532. 1 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy, et al.. (2022). Infants exploring objects: A cascades perspective. Advances in child development and behavior. 64. 39–68. 16 indexed citations
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Schworer, Emily K., Deborah J. Fidler, Maninderjit Kaur, et al.. (2021). Infant precursors of executive function in Down syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 66(1-2). 108–120. 10 indexed citations
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Fidler, Deborah J., Emily K. Schworer, Amy Needham, et al.. (2021). Feasibility of a syndrome‐informed micro‐intervention for infants with Down syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 65(4). 320–339. 12 indexed citations
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Maitre, Nathalie L., Paul J. Yoder, Alexandra P. Key, et al.. (2020). Kinematic and Somatosensory Gains in Infants with Cerebral Palsy After a Multi-Component Upper-Extremity Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Brain Topography. 33(6). 751–766. 28 indexed citations
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Schworer, Emily K., Deborah J. Fidler, Maninderjit Kaur, et al.. (2020). Goal‐directed action planning in infants with Down syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 64(9). 713–724. 6 indexed citations
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Fidler, Deborah J., Emily K. Schworer, Mark A. Prince, et al.. (2019). Exploratory behavior and developmental skill acquisition in infants with Down syndrome. Infant Behavior and Development. 54. 140–150. 16 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy, et al.. (2017). Characteristics of brief sticky mittens training that lead to increases in object exploration. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 164. 209–224. 24 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy, et al.. (2016). Active Motor Training Has Long-term Effects on Infants’ Object Exploration. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 599–599. 27 indexed citations
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Chorna, Olena, Jill Heathcock, Alexandra P. Key, et al.. (2015). Early childhood constraint therapy for sensory/motor impairment in cerebral palsy: a randomised clinical trial protocol. BMJ Open. 5(12). e010212–e010212. 22 indexed citations
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Libertus, Klaus, et al.. (2013). Size matters: How age and reaching experiences shape infants’ preferences for different sized objects. Infant Behavior and Development. 36(2). 189–198. 27 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy & Klaus Libertus. (2010). Embodiment in early development. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 2(1). 117–123. 50 indexed citations
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Libertus, Klaus & Amy Needham. (2010). Teach to reach: The effects of active vs. passive reaching experiences on action and perception. Vision Research. 50(24). 2750–2757. 108 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy, et al.. (2007). Developmental differences in infants' use of an object's shape to grasp it securely. Developmental Psychobiology. 50(1). 97–106. 19 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy, et al.. (2007). Infants’ visual anticipation of object structure in grasp planning. Infant Behavior and Development. 31(1). 1–9. 50 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy, et al.. (2007). Learning about tools in infancy.. Developmental Psychology. 43(2). 352–368. 66 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy, Gwenden Dueker, & Gregory R. Lockhead. (2004). Infants' formation and use of categories to segregate objects. Cognition. 94(3). 215–240. 63 indexed citations
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Needham, Amy & Renée Baillargeon. (1993). Intuitions about support in 4.5-month-old infants. Cognition. 47(2). 121–148. 146 indexed citations

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