Selected Publications

Leevers, H. J., Roesler, C. P., Flax, J., & Benasich, A. A. (in press). The Carter Neurocognitive Assessment for Children with Severely Compromised Expressive Language and Motor Skills. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Benasich, A. A. & Leevers, H. J. (2003). Processing of rapidly presented auditory cues in infancy: implications for later language development. In J. Fagan & H. Haynes (Eds.). Progress in Infancy Research, Vol. 3, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. pp. 245-288. ISBN: 0-8058-4327-2.

Harris, P. L. & Leevers, H. J. (2000). Reasoning from False Premises. In P. Mitchell & K. J. Riggs. (Eds.) Children's Reasoning and the Mind, pp67-86. Hove, U.K.: Psychology Press. ISBN 0-86377-854-2 Abstract

Harris, P. L. & Leevers, H. J. (2000). Pretending, imagery and self-awareness in autism. In S. Baron-Cohen., H. Tagler-Flusberg, & D. Cohen, D. J. (Eds.) Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Autism and Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd edition.), pp.182-202. Oxford University Press, UK. ISBN: 0-19-852446-3. Abstract

Leevers, H. J. & Harris, P. L. (2000). Counterfactual syllogistic reasoning in normal four-year-olds, children with learning disabilities, and children with autism. Journal of Experimental Child Psycholog, 76 , 64-87. ISSN: 0022-0965. Abstract

Leevers, H. J. & Harris, P. L. (1999). Persisting effects of instruction on young children's syllogistic reasoning with incongruent and abstract premises. Thinking and Reasoning, 2, 145-173. ISSN: 1354-6783. Abstract

Goswami, U., Leevers, H., Pressley, S., & Wheelwright, S. (1998). Causal reasoning about pairs of relations and analogical reasoning in young children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 553-569. ISSN: 0261-510X. Abstract

Leevers, H. J. & Harris, P. L. (1998). Drawing impossible entities: A measure of the imagination in children with autism, children with learning disabilities, and normal four-year-olds. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 39, 399-410. ISSN: 0021-9630. Abstract

Leevers, H.J. (1997). Children's logical reasoning. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Oxford, U.K.

Treiman, R., Goswami, U., Tincoff, R., & Leevers, H. (1997). Effects of dialect on American and British children's spelling. Child Development., 68, 229-245. ISSN: 0009-3920. Abstract

MacLaren, I. P. L., Leevers, H. J., & Mackintosh, N. J. (1994). Recognition, categorization, and perceptual learning (or, how learning to classify things together helps one to tell them apart). In C. Umiltà & M. Moscovitch, (Eds.) Attention and Performance XV, Conscious and Nonconscious Information Processing. MIT Press. ISBN: 0-262-21012-6. Abstract

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