Eliza Nelson

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Florida International University

United States

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Eliza Nelson is an Associate Professor at Florida International University in the United States. Her research encompasses developmental psychology, specifically focusing on infant manipulation behaviors and their impact on language outcomes, as well as the employment perspectives for emerging adults with Down syndrome. Recent articles highlight her work on fine motor skills, executive function, and the developmental trajectories of hand preferences and object skills in infants.

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Infant motor skill trajectories and language outcomes.

Open Date: 2019-01-01

Close Date: 2020-12-31

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The origins of bimanual skill in infants

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2017-01-01

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Measuring motor experience in the infant brain

Open Date: 2015-01-01

Close Date: 2016-01-01

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Development of MacArthur-Bates forms and norms for children from varied Spanish language communities

Open Date: 2014-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

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Brain measures for examining lateralization in infants

Open Date: 2014-01-01

Close Date: 2015-01-01

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Atefeh Karimi

Florida International University

UNITED STATES

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Michelle A. Rodrigues

UNITED STATES

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Stefany Coxe

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Florida International University

UNITED STATES

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Dionne Stephens

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Florida International University

UNITED STATES

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Amy Needham

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Vanderbilt University

UNITED STATES

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Infant manipulation complexity trajectories as predictors of language outcomes at 2 years of age

Infant reaching and grasping: Frameworks for testing developmental cascades

Work as joy: parental perspectives on factors affecting employment for emerging adults with Down syndrome

The translational value of platyrrhine primates in laterality research

Fine Motor Skills, Executive Function, and School Readiness in Preschoolers with Externalizing Behavior Problems

The meaning of adulthood for emerging adults with Down syndrome: Parent perspectives on relevant skills

Object Skill Advantage in Infants with a Hand Preference

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

Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants

Reach-to-grasp kinematic signatures in Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris).

Early, concurrent, and consistent hand preferences predict stacking in toddlerhood

Systematic Review: The Development of Behavioral Laterality Across the First Year of Life in Nonhuman Primates

How babies use their hands to learn about objects: Exploration, reach‐to‐grasp, manipulation, and tool use

Motor-language links in children with Down syndrome: a scoping review to revisit the literature with a developmental cascades lens

Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research

Insights Into Human and Nonhuman Primate Handedness From Measuring Both Hands

Factor analysis of the Home Handedness Questionnaire: Unimanual and role differentiated bimanual manipulation as separate dimensions of handedness

Preschool language ability is predicted by toddler hand preference trajectories

Network analysis as a tool to understand social development in spider monkeys

Measuring infant handedness reliably from reaching: A systematic review

Collaborators (5)

Atefeh Karimi

Michelle A. Rodrigues

Stefany Coxe

Dionne Stephens

Amy Needham

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