Publications

This paper was authored by Dr Shaun Goh and his URECA FYP student Ms Vernessa Liew. Dr Goh can be contacted here should you have any questions about the article. SummaryThis study evaluated the Developmental Vocabulary Checklist (DVC) using data from Singapore’s “BE POSITIVE” project to measure English and Mandarin development in 137 infants and … Read more

This paper was authored by our then-Masters student, Ms Tasha Soh. The student was supervised by Associate Professor Anne Rifkin-Graboi, who can be contacted here should you have any questions about the article. SummaryThis study examined beliefs and behaviors regarding maternal sensitivity in Singapore by comparing observed and self-reported maternal behaviors alongside local early educators’ … Read more

This paper was authored Associate Professor Anne Rifkin-Graboi, who can be contacted here should you have any questions about the article. SummaryThis article explores how early life environments and caregiving shape human neurodevelopment from an evolutionary perspective. Human brains feature prolonged plasticity to adapt to complex, changing circumstances. Under the “Predictive Adaptive Response” model, infants … Read more

This paper was authored by Associate Professor Anne Rifkin-Graboi, who can be contacted here should you have any questions about the article. SummaryPrior to school entry, a child’s home environment provides critical signals that prompt the developing brain to conditionally adapt to anticipated future demands. This article explores how two primary experience-dependent factors shape domain-general … Read more