Publications

2026
Madhavan, R.*, Lee, J.*,Lee, D., Jung, J-H., & Ko, E-S. (2026). Cross-domain evaluation and fine-tuned adaptation of iCatcher+ for Korean infant gaze data. Infant Behavior and Development, 83, 102198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2026.102198

*shared first authors

Madhavan, R.*, Sia, M.Y.*, Chen, X., Mundry, R., Mani, N. (2026). Egocentricity in infants’ play with familiar objects in caregiver–child interactions. Royal Society Open Science, 13(2), 250852. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250852

*shared first authors

2025
Madhavan, R., & Mani, N. (2025). Children’s individual interests are sustained across development and predict later vocabulary development. Journal of Child Language, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000925100378

Venkatesan, S., Madhavan, R., & Mani, N. (2025, September). Vocal Dynamics of Caregiver-Child Interactions During Shared Book Reading Sessions. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL63968.2025.11204401

2024
Madhavan, R., Malem, B., Ackermann, L., Mundry, R., Mani, N. (2024). An examination of measures of young children's interest in natural object categories. Cortex, 175, 124–148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.02.015

Madhavan, R., & Mani, N. (2024). The quality of caregiver-child interaction is predicted by (caregivers’ perception of) their child’s interests. Royal Society Open Science, 11(4), 231677. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231677

Preprints
Madhavan, R.*, Von Holzen, K.*, Benavides-Varela, S., Havron, N., Mayor, J., Pomiechowska, B., Zettersten, M., & Ko, E. (2026, April 30). A cross-linguistic investigation of infant familiar word recognition across ages - The ManyBabies-AtHome: Looking-While-Listening project. Retrieved from osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/z5a3j_v1

*shared first authors

Shahidi, N., Burgardt, R., Calapai, A., Chavez, A., Franch, M., Guedjou, H., Madhavan, R., Mani, N., & Darani, Z. Y. (2026, February 19). Social brains meet robots: Perspectives on using artificial agents for investigating social and observational learning in humans and monkeys. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.172927049.98678655/v5