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  1. *Boeving, E. R., & Nelson, E.L. (In Preparation). Innovators broker social interactions in spider monkeys.

  2. Nelson, E.L., **Rodriguez, V., *Karimi, A., & *Contino, K. (In Preparation). The AHEMD-IS as a tool for predicting outcomes across developmental domains: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  3. *Long, K.L., Nelson, E.L., & Stephens, D.P. (In Preparation). Work as joy: Parental perspectives on factors affecting employment for emerging adults with Down syndrome.

  4. *Karimi, A., *Contino, K., Poznanski, B., Flores, H., Hart, K., & Nelson, E.L. (In Preparation). Deficits in fine motor skills among preschoolers with externalizing behavior problems predict delays in school readiness.

  5. *Contino, K., & Nelson, E.L. (In Preparation). Infants’ manipulation complexity is influenced by object affordances.

  6. Nelson, E.L., *Karimi, A., & *Contino, K. (In Preparation). When does handedness stabilize? A new look at preschoolers with LCGA.

  7. Nelson, E.L., Weiss, D.J. & **Shoukry, C.V. (In Preparation). Motor planning in Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris): A test of the morphological constraint hypothesis.

  8. Nelson, E.L., Short, A.D., *Long, K.L., *Karimi, A., Daunhauer, L.A., Diamond, S., & Needham, A.W. (Submitted). Parents report greater fine motor independence in children with Down syndrome who have a consistent hand preference.

  9. *Long, K.L., *Karimi, A., **Mini, A., Stephens, D.P., & Nelson, E.L. (In Revision). The meaning of adulthood for emerging adults with Down syndrome: Parent perspectives on relevant skills.

  10. Michel, G.F., Babik, I., Nelson, E.L., Ferre, C.L., Campbell, J.M., & Marcinowski, E.C. (In Revision). Development of lateralized functions during infancy and early childhood. In P. Corballis & C. Papagno (Eds.), Cerebral Asymmetries. Elsevier.

    11. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  11. Nelson, E.L. (2024). The future of comparative cognition: Answering developmental questions with big team science. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 19, 79-83. https://doi.org/10.3819/CCBR.2024.190022

  12. Nelson, E.L., *Taylor, M.A., **del Valle, A., **Pavon, N. (2024). Reach-to-grasp kinematic signatures in Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 138(1), 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000355.

  13. *Taylor, M.A., Coxe, S., & Nelson, E.L. (2024). Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 74, 101925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101925

  14. *Contino, K., Campbell, J.M., Marcinowski, E.C., Michel, G.F., Ramos, M., Coxe, S., Hayes, T., & Nelson, E.L. (2023). Hand preference trajectories as predictors of language outcomes above and beyond SES: Infant patterns explain more variance than toddler patterns at 5 years of age. Infant and Child Development, e2468. https://doi.org/10.1002/ICD.2468

  15. *Karimi, A., & Nelson, E.L. (2023). Motor-language links in children with Down syndrome: A scoping review to revisit the literature with a developmental cascades lens. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1275325. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1275325. Contribution to Research Topic Cognitive-Motor Development and Its Consequences in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

  16. Nelson, E.L., & *Karimi, A. (2023). Systematic review: The development of behavioral laterality across the first year of life in nonhuman primates. Symmetry, 15(7), 1335. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15071335. Contribution to Special Issue Early Laterality in Behaviour and Brain. *Selected as the cover image for the July 2023 issue*.

  17. Needham, A.W., & Nelson, E.L. (2023). How babies use their hands to learn about objects: Exploration, reach-to-grasp, manipulation, and tool use. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(6), e1661. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1661.

  18. Vingerhoets, G., Verhelst, H., Gerrits, R., Badcock, N., Bishop, D.V.M., Carey, D., ... & LICI consortium, including E. Nelson. (2023). Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research. Laterality, 28(2-3), 122-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963.

  19. Marcinowski, E.C., Nelson, E.L., Campbell, J.M., & Michel, G.F. (2023). Early, concurrent, and consistent hand preferences predict stacking in toddlerhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 65(5), e22397. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22397.

  20. Nelson, E.L. (2022). Developmental cascades as a framework for primate handedness. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 1063348. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.1063348. Contribution to Research Topic Expert Opinion in Environmental and Genetic Factors Impacting Functional Brain Lateralization in Development and Evolution.

  21. Nelson, E.L. (2022). Insights into human and nonhuman primate handedness from measuring both hands. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31(2), 154-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214211062876.

  22. *Gonzalez, S.L., Nelson, E.L. (2021). Factor analysis of the Home Handedness Questionnaire: Unimanual and role differentiated bimanual manipulation as separate dimensions of handedness. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 28(2), 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2019.1611578.

  23. *Boeving, E.R., Rodrigues, M.A., Nelson, E.L. (2020). Network analysis as a tool to understand social development in spider monkeys. American Journal of Primatology, e23182. Contribution to Joint Issue of Developmental Psychobiology and American Journal of Primatology Psychobiological Development in Primates.

  24. Nelson, E.L., *Gonzalez, S.L. (2020). Measuring infant handedness reliably from reaching: A systematic review. Laterality, 25(4), 430-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2020.1726367.

  25. *Gonzalez, S.L., Campbell, J.M., Marcinowski, E.C., Michel, G.F., Coxe, S., Nelson, E.L. (2020). Preschool language ability is predicted by toddler hand preference trajectories. Developmental Psychology, 56(4), 699-709. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000900.

  26. *Gonzalez, S.L., **Alvarez, V., Nelson, E.L. (2019). Do gross and fine motor skills differentially contribute to language outcomes?: A systematic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 2670. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02670. Contribution to Research Topic Understanding Trajectories and Promoting Change from Early to Complex Skills in Typical and Atypical Development: A Cross-Population Approach.

  27. Nelson, E.L. *Gonzalez, S.L., El-Asmar, J.M., Ziade, M.F., Abu-Rustum, R.S. (2019). The Home Handedness Questionnaire: Pilot data from preschoolers. Laterality, 24(4), 482-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2018.1543313.

  28. Marcinowski, E.C., Nelson, E.L., Campbell, J.M., Michel, G.F. (2019). The development of object construction from infancy through toddlerhood. Infancy, 24(3), 368-391. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12284.

  29. *Gonzalez, S.L., Nelson, E.L. (2018). Measuring Spanish comprehension in infants from mixed Hispanic communities using the IDHC: A preliminary study on 16-month-olds. Behavioral Sciences, 8(12), 117. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs8120117.

  30. *Boeving, E.R., Nelson, E.L. (2018). Social risk dissociates social network structure across lateralized behaviors in spider monkeys. Symmetry, 10(9), 390. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym10090390. Contribution to Special Issue: Left Versus Right Asymmetries of Brain and Behaviour.

    [Reprinted 2019 in L.J. Rogers (Ed.), Left Versus Right Asymmetries of Brain and Behaviour (pp. 11-19). Basel, Switzerland: MDPI Books. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03921-693-2.]

  31. Nelson, E.L., Berthier, N.E., Konidaris, G.D. (2018). Handedness and reach-to-place kinematics in adults: Left-handers are not reversed right-handers. Journal of Motor Behavior, 50(4), 381-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/0022895.2017.1363698.

  32. Nelson, E.L., **Kendall, G.A. (2018). Goal-directed tail use in Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris) is highly lateralized. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 132(1), 40-47. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000094. *Layperson summary on Kudos Research Showcase*

  33. Nelson, E.L., *Gonzalez, S.L., Coxe, S., Campbell, J.M., Marcinowski, E.C., Michel, G.F. (2017). Toddler hand preference trajectories predict 3-year language outcome. Developmental Psychobiology, 59 (7), 876-887. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21560. *Layperson summary on Kudos Research Showcase*

  34. *Boeving, E.R., *Belnap, S.C., Nelson, E.L. (2017). Embraces are lateralized in spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). American Journal of Primatology, 79:e22654. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22654.

  35. Michel, G.F., Campbell, J.M., Marcinowski, E.C., Nelson, E.L., Babik, I. (2016). Infant hand preference and the development of cognitive abilities. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:410. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00410. Contribution to the Research Topic Motor skills and their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development. *Research Topic Top 10 Finalist for Frontiers Spotlight Award*

    [Reprinted 2017 in P. Hauf & K. Libertus (Eds.), Motor Skills and Their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development (pp. 10-15). Lausanne: Frontiers Media. https://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88945-159-3.]

  36. *Gonzalez, S.L., Reeb-Sutherland, B.C., Nelson, E.L. (2016). Quantifying motor experience in the infant brain: EEG coherence, power and mu desynchronization. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:216. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00216. Contribution to the Research Topic Motor skills and their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development. *Research Topic Top 10 Finalist for Frontiers Spotlight Award*

    [Reprinted 2017 in P. Hauf & K. Libertus (Eds.), Motor Skills and Their Foundational Role for Perceptual, Social, and Cognitive Development (pp. 278-283). Lausanne: Frontiers Media. https://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88945-159-3.]

  37. Nelson, E.L., *Boeving, E.R. (2015). Precise digit use increases the expression of handedness in Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). American Journal of Primatology, 77, 1253-1262. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22478. *Layperson summary on Kudos Research Showcase*

  38. *Gonzalez, S.L., Nelson, E.L. (2015). Addressing the gap: A blueprint for studying bimanual hand preference in infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:560. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00560. Contribution to the Research Topic Hand and Touch: Evolution, Ability and Preference.

  39. *Boeving, E.R., Lacreuse, A., Hopkins, W.D., Phillips, K.A., Novak, M.A., Nelson, E.L. (2015). Handedness influences intermanual transfer in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) but not rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Experimental Brain Research, 233, 829-837. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-4158-8.

  40. Nelson, E.L., **Figueroa, A., **Albright, S.N., **Gonzalez, M.F. (2015). Evaluating handedness measures in spider monkeys. Animal Cognition, 18 (1), 345-353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0805-5.

  41. Nelson, E.L., Konidaris, G.D., Berthier, N.E. (2014). Hand preference status and reach kinematics in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 37 (4), 615-623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.013.

  42. Nelson, E.L., Campbell, J.M., Michel, G.F. (2014). Early handedness in infancy predicts language ability in toddlers. Developmental Psychology, 50, 809-814. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033803.

  43. Michel, G.F., Babik, I., Nelson, E.L., Campbell, J.M., Marcinowski, E.C. (2013). How the development of handedness could contribute to the development of language. Developmental Psychobiology, 55, 608-620. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21121.

  44. Nelson, E.L., Campbell, J.M., Michel, G.F. (2013). Unimanual to bimanual: Tracking the development of handedness from 6 to 24 months. Infant Behavior and Development, 36 (2), 181-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.009. *Elsevier Highly Cited Research Award December 2016*

  45. Nelson, E.L., Konidaris, G.D., Berthier, N.E., Braun, M.C., Novak, M.F.S.X., Suomi, S.J., Novak, M.A. (2012). Kinematics of reaching and implications for handedness in rhesus monkey infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 54, 460-467. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.20604.

  46. Nelson, E.L., Berthier, N.E., Metevier, C.M., Novak, M.A. (2011). Evidence for motor planning in monkeys: Rhesus macaques select efficient grips when transporting spoons. Developmental Science, 14, 822-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01030.x.

  47. Nelson, E.L., Emery, M.S., Babcock, S.M., Novak, M.F.S.X., Suomi, S.J., Novak, M.A. (2011). Head orientation and handedness trajectory in rhesus monkey infants (Macaca mulatta). Developmental Psychobiology, 53, 246-255. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.20517. *Selected as the 2011 Hennessy-Smotherman-Wiley Best Student Paper*

  48. Nelson, E.L., O'Karma, J.M., Ruperti, F.S., Novak, M.A. (2009). Laterality in semi-free-ranging black and white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata variegata): Head-tilt correlates with hand use during feeding. American Journal of Primatology, 71, 1032-1040. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.20746.

  49. Hopkins, W., Cantalupo, C., Freeman, H., Russell, J., Kachin, M., Nelson, E. (2005). Chimpanzees are right-handed when recording bouts of hand use. Laterality, 10 (2), 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576500342000347.

    50. Invited Refereed Book Chapters

  50. Nelson, E.L., **Alvarez, J., **Jimenez, B., & **Padron, K. (2022). State of the field: Developmental primate cognition. In B.L. Schwartz & M.J. Beran (Eds.), Primate Cognitive Studies (pp. 88-114). New York: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955836.005.

  51. Needham, A.W., Nelson, E.L., Short, A.D., Daunhauer, L.A., & Fidler, D.J. (2021). The emergence of fine motor skills in children with Down syndrome. In: R.M. Hodapp & D.J. Fidler (Eds.), International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 60, 113-151. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.irrdd.2021.08.002.

  52. Michel, G.F., Babik, I., Nelson, E.L., Marcinowski, E.C., Campbell, J.M. (2018). Evolution and development of handedness: An evo-devo approach. In: G.S. Forrester, W.D. Hopkins, K. Hurdy, & A. Lindell, Eds., Progress in Brain Research (Vol. 238), Cerebral Lateralization and Cognition: Evolutionary and Developmental Investigations of Behavioral Biases (pp. 347-376). Cambridge, MA: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.06.007.

  53. Michel, G.F., Marcinowski, E.C., Babik, I., Campbell, J.M., Nelson, E.L. (2015). An interdisciplinary biopsychosocial perspective on psychological development. In S.D. Calkins (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Development: Biopsychosocial Perspectives (pp. 427-446). Guilford Publications.

  54. Michel, G.F., Nelson, E.L., Babik, I., Campbell, J.M., Marcinowski, E.C. (2013). Multiple trajectories in the developmental psychobiology of human handedness. In R.M. Lerner & J.B. Benson (Eds.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 45: Embodiment and Epigenesis: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Understanding the Role of Biology within the Relational Developmental System Part B: Ontogenetic Dimensions (pp. 227-260). Elsevier: Academic Press.

    55. Published Instruments

  55. Nelson, E.L., Campbell, J.M., Michel, G.F. (2013). Role-Differentiated Bimanual Manipulation (RDBM) Handedness Assessment. PsycTESTS Dataset. https://doi.org/10.1037/t22653-000.

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