In prep

  • Blakey, E., Outhwaite, L. A., Braithwaite, E., & Hendry, A. (submitted). How we Measure and Operationalise Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Developmental Research has Implications for Theory and Policy. [Preprint]

  • Veselic, S., Smid, C. R., Beveridge, F., & Steinbeis, N. (submitted). Developmental changes in reward processing are reward specific. [Preprint]

  • Bowler, A., Habicht, J., Steinbeis, N., Moutoussis, M., & Hauser, T. U. (submitted). Look up what you cannot solve in your mind! Children increase information gathering to counteract imprecise planning abilities. [Preprint]

  • Paulus, M., Christner, N., Beaulieu, S. Beveridge, F. Bonandrini, R., Bullinger, J., Kellermann, C., Mammen, M., Urian, R., Gniewosz, G., Gniewosz, B., Dunfield, K.*, Steinbeis, N.* (registered report submitted to Child Development) Structure and ontogenetic growth of prosociality from early to middle childhood (* denotes shared authorship). [PDF]

In press

  • Ganesan, K., Thompson, A., Smid, C., Cañigueral, R., Yongjing, L., Revill, G., Puetz, V., Bernhardt, B., Dosenbach, N., Kievit, R., Steinbeis, N. (accepted). Training cognitive control through domain-general response inhibition does not change children’s brains or behavior. Nature Neuroscience. [Preprint]

2024

  • Viding, E., Lloyd, A., Law, R., Martin, P., Lucas, L., Wu, T. C. H., Steinbeis, N., Midgley, N., Veenstra, R., Smith, J., Ly, L., Bird, G., Murphy, J., Plans, D., Munafo, M., Penton-Voak, I., Deighton, J., Richards, K., Richards, M., & Fearon, P. (2024). Trial protocol for the Building Resilience through Socio-Emotional Training (ReSET) programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for adolescents. Trials, 25(1), 143. [PDF]

  • Hoffman, F., Linz, R., Steinbeis, N., Bauer, M., Dammering, F., Lazarides, C., Entringer, S., Winter, S, Buss, C., Heim, C. (2024). Children with Maltreatment Exposure Exhibit Rumination-like Spontaneous Thought Patterns: Association with Symptoms of Depression, Subcallosal Cingulate Cortex Thickness, and Cortisol Levels. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. [PDF]

2023

  • Pezzoli, P., Parsons, S., Kievit, R. A., Astle, D. E., Huys, Q. J., Steinbeis, N., & Viding, E. (2023). Challenges and solutions to measurement of neurocognitive mechanisms in developmental settings. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. [PDF]

  • Smid, C. R., Kool, W., Hauser, T. U., & Steinbeis, N. (2023). Computational and behavioral markers of model-based decision making in childhood. Developmental Science. e13295. [PDF]

  • McWilliams, A., Bibby, H., Steinbeis, N., David, A. S., & Fleming, S. (2023). Age-related decreases in global metacognition are independent of local metacognition and task performance. Cognition, 235, 105389. [PDF]

  • Smid, C. R., Ganesan, K., Thompson, A., Cañigueral, R., Veselic, S., Royer, J., ... & Steinbeis, N. (2023). Neurocognitive basis of model-based decision making and its metacontrol in childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101269. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N. (2023). A Rational Account of Cognitive Control Development. Annual Review in Developmental Psychology. [PDF].

  • Cañigueral, R., Ganesan, K., Smid, C., Thompson, A., Dosenbach, N., Steinbeis, N. (2023). Intra-individual variability adaptively increases following inhibition training during middle childhood Cognition. [PDF]

  • Ganesan, K., Smid, C. R., Thompson, A., Buchberger, E. S., Spowage, J., Iqbal, S., ... & Steinbeis, N. (2023).Examining mechanisms of child cognitive control. Journal of Cognition. [Preprint]

2022

  • Ganesan, K., & Steinbeis, N. (2022). Development and plasticity of executive functions: A value-based account. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 215-219. [PDF]

  • Hoffmann, F., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. (2022). Development of functional network architecture explains changes in children's altruistically motivated helping. Developmental Science, 25(2), e13167. [PDF]

  • Dubois, M., Bowler, A., Moses-Payne, M. E., Habicht, J., Moran, R., Steinbeis, N., & Hauser, T. U. (2022). Exploration heuristics decrease during youth. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-15. [PDF]

2021

  • Cañigueral, R., Palmer, J., Ashwood, K. L., Azadi, B., Asherson, P., Bolton, P. F., ... & Tye, C. (2021). Alpha oscillatory activity during attentional control in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and ASD+ ADHD. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. [PDF}

  • Moses-Payne, M. E., Habicht, J., Bowler, A., Steinbeis, N., & Hauser, T. U. (2021). I know better! Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice. Developmental Science. [PDF]

  • Thompson, A., & Steinbeis, N. (2021). Socio-cognitive Processes Training. In Cognitive Training (pp. 271-287). Springer, Cham. [Link]

  • Thompson, A., Schel, M. A., & Steinbeis, N. (2021). Changes in BOLD variability are linked to the development of variable response inhibition. NeuroImage, 228, 117691. [PDF]

  • Bowler, A., Habicht, J., Moses-Payne, M. E., Steinbeis, N., Moutoussis, M., & Hauser, T. U. (2021). Children perform extensive information gathering when it is not costly. Cognition, 208, 104535. [PDF]

  • Decety, J., Steinbeis, N., & Cowell, J. M. (2021). The neurodevelopment of social preferences in early childhood. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 68, 23-28. [PDF]

  • Ganesan, K., & Steinbeis, N. (2021). Effort-related decision-making and its underlying processes during childhood. Developmental Psychology, 57(9), 1487. [PDF]

  • Cañigueral, R., Ward, J. A. & Hamilton, A. F. de C. (2021). Effects of being watched on eye gaze and facial displays of typical and autistic individuals during conversation. Autism. [PDF]

2020

  • Thompson, A., & Steinbeis, N. (2020). Computational modelling of attentional bias towards threat in paediatric anxiety. Developmental science, 24(3), e13055. [PDF]

  • Grosse-Wiesmann, C., Friederici, A.D., Singer, T#., Steinbeis, N. # (2020). Two systems for thinking about other people’s thoughts in the developing brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (# shared senior authorship) [PDF].

  • Decety, J., & Steinbeis, N. (2020). The many mechanisms of prosocial behavior. In: Decety, J. The Social Brain – A Developmental Perspective. MIT Press. [Link]

  • Steinbeis, N. (Ed.) & McCrory, E. (Ed.). (2020). Mechanisms of cognitive training and transfer in development [Special issue]. Developmental Science, 23(4). [Link]

  • Smid, C. R., Karbach, J. & Steinbeis, N. (2020). Toward a Science of Effective Cognitive Training. Current Directions in Psychological Science. [PDF]

  • Thompson, A. & Steinbeis, N. (2020). Sensitive periods in executive function development. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 36, 98-105. [PDF]

  • Thompson, A., Shahidiani, A., Fritz, A., O’Muircheartaigh, J., Walker, L., D’Almeida, V., ... & Deoni, S. (2020). Age-related differences in white matter diffusion measures in autism spectrum condition. Molecular Autism, 11(1), 1-10. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N. (2020). The development of social behavior during childhood. In: Cohen Kadosh, K. The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.

2019

  • Keil, J., Perren, S., Schlesier‐Michel, A., Sticca, F., Sierau, S., Klein, A., Steinbeis, N., von Klitzing, K., & White, L. (2019). Getting less than their fair share: Maltreated youth are hyper‐cooperative yet vulnerable to exploitation in a public goods game. Developmental science, 22(3), e12765. [PDF]

  • Wilkinson, H. R., Smid, C., Morris, S., Farran, E. K., Dumontheil, I., Mayer, S., ... & Mareschal, D. (2019). Domain-specific inhibitory control training to improve children’s learning of counterintuitive concepts in Mathematics and Science. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 1-19. [PDF]

2018

  • Meulen, M., Steinbeis, N., Achterberg, M., Ijzendoorn, M. H., & Crone, E. (2018). Heritability of neural reactions to social exclusion and prosocial compensation in middle childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 42-52. [PDF]

  • Wiesmann, C. G., Friederici, A. D., Disla, D., Steinbeis, N.#, & Singer, T.# (2018). Longitudinal evidence for 4-year-olds’ but not 2-and 3-year-olds’ false belief-related action anticipation. Cognitive development, 46, 58-68. (# shared senior authorship). [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N. (2018). Neurocognitive mechanisms of prosociality in childhood. Current opinion in psychology, 20, 30-34. [Link]

  • Mendes, N.#, Steinbeis, N.#, Bueno-Guerra, N., Call, J., & Singer, T. (2018). Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others. Nature human behaviour, 2(1), 45-51. (# shared first authorship). [PDF]

2017

  • Meulen, M., Steinbeis, N., Achterberg, M., Bilo, E., Bulk, B. Ijzendoorn, M., & Crone, E.A. (2017). The neural correlates of dealing with social exclusion in childhood. Neuropsychologia, 103, 29-37. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., Crone, E.A., Blakemore, S.J. & Cohen Kadosh, K. (2017). Development holds the key to understanding the interplay of nature versus nurture in shaping the individual. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 1-4. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., & Over, H. (2017). Enhancing behavioural control increases sharing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 310-318. [PDF]

  • Crone, E. A. & Steinbeis, N. (2017). New perspectives on the development of cognitive control. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 205-215. [PDF]

  • Grosse-Wiesmann, C., Schreiber, J., Singer, T., Steinbeis, N.#, & Friederici, A.F.# (2017). White matter maturation in temporoparietal junction and its connection to prefrontal cortex supports the emergence of theory of mind. Nature Communications, 8, 14692 (# shared senior authorship). [PDF]

  • McAuliffe, K., Steinbeis, N., Blake, P., & Warneken, F. (2017). The developmental foundations of fairness. Nature Human Behavior, 1, 42. [PDF]

  • Crone, E.A., Peters, S., & Steinbeis, N. (2017). Executive function development in adolescence. In S.A. Wiebe & J. Karbach (Eds). Executive Function: Development Across the Life Span. New York: Routledge. [Link]

  • Grosse Wiesmann, C., Friederici, A. D., Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. (2017). Implicit and explicit false belief development in preschool children. Developmental Science, 20(5), e12445. [PDF]

2016

  • Steinbeis, N. (2016). Taxing behavioral control diminishes sharing and costly punishment in childhood. Developmental science, 21(1), e12492. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., Margulies, D. (2016). Opportunities and Challenges for Current Developmental Neuroscience. Theory and Psychology, 26, 620-631. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., & Crone, E. A. (2016). The link between cognitive control and decision-making across child and adolescent development. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 10, 28-32. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N. (2016). The role of self-other distinction in the understanding others’ mental and affective states: Neurocognitive mechanisms in children and adults. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371 (1686). [PDF]

  • Hoffman, F., Köhne, S., Steinbeis, N., Dziobek, I., & Singer, T. (2016). Preserved self-other distinction during empathy in autism is linked to network integriy of right supramarginal gyrus. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2, 637-648. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., Haushofer, J., Fehr, E., & Singer, T. (2016). Development of impulse control and associated vmPFC-DLPFC connectivity explains resistance to temptation in intertemporal choice during childhood. Cerebral Cortex, 26, 32-42. [PDF]

2015

  • Steinbeis, N#., Engert, V#., Linz, R., & Singer, T. (2015). The effects of stress and affiliation on social decision-making: Investigating the tend-and-befriend pattern. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 62, 138-148 (# shared first authorship). [PDF]

  • Hoffmann, F., Singer, T., &  Steinbeis, N., (2015). Age-related Differences in Emotional Egocentricity Bias are Mediated by the Ability to Resolve Emotional Conflict. Child Development, 86, 265-780. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., Bernhardt, B. C., & Singer, T. (2015). Age-related differences in Function and Structure of rSMG and Reduced Functional Connectivity with DLPFC explains Heightened Affective Egocentricity Bias in Childhood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 302-310. [PDF]

2014

  • McCall, C#., Steinbeis, N#., Ricard, M., & Singer, T. (2014). The Plasticity of Fairness-based Sanctioning Behavior: Compassion Meditators Show Less Anger-based Punishment and More Compensation of Victims in Response to Fairness Violations. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, 8, 424-430 (# shared first authorship). [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., & Singer, T. (2014). Projecting my Envy onto you: Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Offline Emotional Egocentricity Bias. NeuroImage, 102, 370-380. [PDF]

  • Bernhardt, B., Smallwood, J. Tusche, A., Ruby, F.J., Engen, H.G., Steinbeis, N., & Singer, T. (2014) Medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortical thickness predicts shared individual differences in self-generated thought and temporal discounting. NeuroImage, 90, 290-297. [PDF]

2013

  • Steinbeis, N., & Singer, T. (2013). The effects of social comparison on social emotions and -behavior during childhood: The ontogeny of envy and Schadenfreude predicts developmental changes in equity-related decisions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115 (1), 198-209. [PDF]

2012

  • Steinbeis, N., Bernhardt, B. C., & Singer, T. (2012). Impulse control and underlying functions of the left DLPFC mediate age-related and age-independent individual differences in strategic social behavior. Neuron, 73(5), 1040-1051. [PDF]

2011

  • Steinbeis, N., & Koelsch, S. (2011). Affective priming effects of musical sounds on the processing of word meaning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(3), 604-621. [PDF]

before 2011

  • Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. (2009). Differential roles of fairness- and compassion-based motivations for cooperation, defection and punishment. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1167, 41-50. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., & Koelsch, S. (2009). Understanding the intentions behind man-made products elicits neural activity in areas dedicated to mental state attribution. Cerebral Cortex, 19(3), 619-623. [PDF]

  • Koelsch, S.,  Kilches, S., Steinbeis, N. & Schelinski, S. (2008). Effects of Unexpected Chords and of Performer's Expression on Brain Responses and Electrodermal Activity. PLoS One, 3(7), e2631. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002631. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., & Koelsch, S. (2008). Shared neural resources between music and language indicate semantic processing of musical tension-resolution patterns. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 1169 - 1178. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., & Koelsch, S. (2008). Comparing the processing of music and language meaning using EEG and fMRI provides evidence for similar and distinct neural representations. PLoS One, 3(5), e2226. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002226. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., Koelsch, S. & Sloboda, J.A. (2006). The role of harmonic expectancy violations in musical emotions: Evidence from subjective, physiological and neural responses. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18 (8), 1380-1393. [PDF]

  • Steinbeis, N., Koelsch, S. & Sloboda, J.A. (2005). Emotional Processing of Harmonic Expectancy Violations. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060, 457-461. [PDF]