Laboratoire d'apprentissage et de cognition de l'enfant

2022

Burns, P., O'Connor, P. A., Atance, C., & McCormack, T. (2022). The effects of cueing episodic future thinking on delay discounting children, adolescents, and adults. Cognition, 218.

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2021

Atance, C. M., Rutt, J. R., Cassidy, K., & Mahy, C. E. V. (2021). Young children’s future-oriented reasoning for self and other: effects of conflict and perspective. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209. [infographic]

Burns, P., McCormack, T., O’Connor, P., Fitzpatrick, A., Atance, C. M. (2021). The effect of episodic future thinking on young children's future-oriented decision making. Developmental Psychology, 57, 976-990. 

Martin-Ordas, G., & Atance, C. M. (2021). What will you want tomorrow? Children—but not adults- mis-predict another person’s future desires. PLoS ONE, 16(11). 

Kopp, L., Hamwi, L., & Atance, C. M. (2021). Self-projection in early development: Preschoolers’ reasoning about changes in their future and past preferences. Journal of Cognition and Development, 22, 246-266. [infographic]

Burns, P., O’Connor, P. A., Atance, C., & McCormack, T. (2021). More later: Delay of gratification and thought about the future in children. Child Development, 92, 1554-1573. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13521

Caza, J. S., O’Brien, B. M., Cassidy, K. S., Ziani-Bey, H. A., & Atance, C. M. (2021). Tomorrow will be different: Children’s ability to incorporate an intervening event when thinking about the future. Developmental Psychology, 57, 376–385.

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2020

Mazachowsky, T. R., Atance, C. M., Mitchinson, S., Mahy, C. E. V. (2020). “What should you bring with you to this place?”: Examining children’s episodic foresight using open-ended questions. The Journal of Genetic Psychology (Special issue on temporal cognition), 181, 223-236.

Tanguay, A. N., Palombo, D. J., Atance, C. M., Renoult, L., & Davidson, P. S. R. (2020). Scrutinizing the grey areas of declarative memory: Do the self-reference and temporal orientation of a trait knowledge task modulate the Late Positive Component (LPC)? (Special issue in honor of Endel Tulving: Memory, consciousness, and beyond). Neuropsychologia, 142, 107444.

O’Brien, B., Rutt, J. L., & Atance, C. M. (2020). Are all distances created equal? Insights from developmental psychology (Commentary on Gilead, Trope, & Liberman). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E140.

Mahy, C. E. V., Moses, L., O'Brien, B., Castro, A., Kopp, L., & Atance, C. M. (2020). The roles of perspective and language in children’s ability to delay gratification. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 192, 104767.

Burns, P., Fay, O., McCafferty, M-F, McKeever, V., Atance, C., & McCormack, T. (2020). Examining children’s ability to delay reward: Is the delay discounting task a suitable measure? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33, 208-219.

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2019

Goulding, B. W., Atance, C. M., & Friedman, O. (2019). An ownership-advantage in preschoolers’ future-oriented thinking. Developmental Psychology, 55, 1702–1708.

Atance, C. M., Celebi, S. N., Mitchinson, S., & Mahy, C. E. V. (2019). Thinking about the future: comparing children’s forced-choice versus “generative” responses in the “spoon test.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 181, 1-16.

Barragan-Jason, G., Atance, C., Stieglitz, J, Hopfensitz, A., & Cauchoix, M. (2019). Commentary: Revisiting the marshmallow test: a conceptual replication investigating links between early delay of gratification and later outcomes. Frontiers in Psychology, section Developmental Psychology. [PDF]

Martin-Ordas, G., & Atance, C. M. (2019). Adults’ performance in an episodic-like memory task: the role of experience. Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognition. [PDF]

Bauckham, G., Lambert, R., Atance, C. M., Davidson, P. S. R., Taler, V., & Renoult, L. (2019). Predicting our own and others’ future preferences: The role of social distance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 634-642. 

Caza, J. S., & Atance, C. M. (2019). Children's behavior and spontaneous talk in a future thinking task. Psychological Research, 83, 761-773.

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2018

Cauchoix, M., Chow, P. K. Y., van Horik, J. O., Atance, C. M., Barbeau, E. J., Barragan-Jason, G., … Morand-Ferron, J. (2018). The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373. [PDF]

Barragan-Jason, G., Atance, C. M., Kopp, L., & Hopfensitz, A. (2018). Two facets of patience in young children: Waiting with and without an explicit reward. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 171, 14-30.

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2017

Kopp, L., Atance, C. M., & Pearce, S. (2017). “Things aren’t so bad!”: Preschoolers over-predict the emotional intensity of negative outcomes. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35, 623-627.

Atance, C. M., & Caza, J. S. (2017). “Will I know more in the future than I know now?” Preschoolers’ judgments about changes in general knowledge. Developmental Psychology, 54, 857-865.

Mahy, C. E. V., Bernstein, D. M., Gerrard, L. D., & Atance, C. M. (2017). Testing the validity of a continuous false belief task in three to seven year old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 160, 50-66.

Martin-Ordas, G, Atance, C. M., & Caza, J. S. (2017). Did the popsicle melt? Preschoolers’ performance in an episodic-like memory task. Memory, 25, 1260-1271. 

Barragan-Jason, G., & Atance, C. M. (2017). A New Approach to Measuring Patience in Preschoolers. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 738-748. 

Atance, C. M., Metcalf, J. L., & Thiessen, A. (2017). Helping Children Save: Tell Them They Can (if They Want to). Cognitive Development, 43, 67-79.

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2016

Lee, W. S. C., & Atance, C. M. (2016). The effect of psychological distance on children's reasoning about future preferences. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164382. [PDF]

Caza, J. S., Atance, C. M., & Bernstein, D. M. (2016). Older (but not younger) preschoolers understand that knowledge differs between people and across time. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34, 313-324.

Renoult, L., Kopp, L., Davidson, P. S. R., Taler, V., & Atance, C. M. (2016). You'll change more than I will: Adults' predictions about their own and others' future preferences. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 299-309.

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2015

Atance, C. M. (2015). Young children's thinking about the future. Child Development Perspectives, 9, 178-182.

Atance, C. M., Louw, A., & Clayton, N. S. (2015). Thinking ahead about where something is needed: New insights about episodic foresight in preschoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 129, 98-109. 

Thompson, E. L., Plowright, C. M. S., Atance, C. M., & Caza, J. S. (2015). Reasoning and relatedness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 38–43. 

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2014

Atance, C. M., Metcalf, J. L., Martin-Ordas, G., & Walker, C. L. (2014). Young children’s causal explanations are biased by post-action associative information. Developmental Psychology, 50, 2675–2685. 

Hanson, L. K., Atance, C. M., & Paluck, S. W. (2014). Is thinking about the future related to theory of mind and executive function? Not in preschoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 128, 120-137. 

Bélanger, M. J., Atance, C. M., Varghese, A. L., Nguyen, V., & Vendetti, C. (2014). What will I like best when I’m all grown up? Preschoolers’ understanding of future preferences. Child Development, 85, 2419-2431. 

Martin-Ordas, G., Atance, C. M., & Caza, J. S. (2014). How do episodic and semantic memory contribute to episodic foresight in young children? Frontiers in Psychology, 5(732), 1-11 . [PDF] 

Atance, C. M., & Sommerville, J. A. (2014). Assessing the role of memory in preschoolers’ performance on episodic foresight tasks. Memory, 22, 118-128. 

Hanson, L. K., & Atance, C. M. (2014). Episodic foresight in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 674-684. 

Martin-Ordas, G., Atance, C. M., & Call, J. (2014). Remembering in tool-use tasks in children and apes: The role of the information at encoding. Memory, 22, 129-144 . 

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2012

Martin-Ordas, G., Atance, C. M., & Louw, A. (2012). The role of episodic and semantic memory in episodic foresight. Learning and Motivation, 43, 209-219. 

Atance, C. M., Metcalf J. L., & Zuijdwijk, A. M. (2012). Preschoolers’ explanations of actions based on past realities and false beliefs. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1-14. 

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2011

Davies, J., Atance, C. M., & Martin-Ordas, G. (2011). A framework and open questions on imagination in adults and children. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 31, 143-157. 

Metcalf, J. L., & Atance, C. M. (2011). Do preschoolers save to benefit their future selves? Cognitive Development, 26, 371-382. 

McCormack, T., & Atance, C. M. (2011). Planning in young children: A review and synthesis. Developmental Review, 31, 1-31. 

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2010

Atance, C. M., Bernstein, D. M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2010). False belief understanding: It’s not just what children say, but how long it takes them to say it. Cognition, 116, 297-301. 

Atance, C. M., Bélanger, M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2010). Preschoolers’ understanding of others’ desires: fulfilling mine enhances my understanding of yours. Developmental Psychology, 46, 1505-1513. 

Quon, E., & Atance, C. M. (2010). A comparison of preschoolers’ memory, knowledge, and anticipation of events. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11, 37-60. 

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2009

Atance, C. M., & Jackson, L. K. (2009). The development and coherence of future-oriented behaviors during the preschool years. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 379-391. 

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2008

Jackson, L. K., & Atance, C. M. (2008). Future thinking in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A pilot study. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 14, 40-45.

Atance, C. M. (2008). Future thinking in young children. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 295-298.

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2007

Atance, C. M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2007). How developmental science contributes to theories of future thinking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 314-315. 

Bernstein, D. M., Atance, C. M., Meltzoff, A. N., & Loftus, G. R. (2007). Hindsight bias and developing theories of mind. Child Development, 78, 1374-1394.

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2006

Atance, C. M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2006). Preschoolers’ current desires warp their choices for the future. Psychological Science, 17, 583-587. 

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Before 2005

Atance, C. M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). My future self: Young children’s ability to anticipate and explain future states. Cognitive Development, 20, 341-361. 

Atance, C. M., & O’Neill, D. K. (2005). The emergence of episodic future thinking in humans. Learning & Motivation, 36, 126-144. 

Atance, C. M., & O’Neill, D. K. (2005). Preschoolers’ talk about future situations. First Language, 25, 5-18.

Atance, C. M., & O’Neill, D. K. (2004). Acting and planning on the basis of a false belief: Its effects on 3-year-old children’s reasoning about their own false beliefs. Developmental Psychology, 40, 953-964. 

Bernstein, D. M., Atance, C., Loftus, G. R., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2004). We saw it all along: Visual hindsight bias in children and adults. Psychological Science, 15, 264-267.

Atance, C. M., & O’Neill, D. K. (2001). Episodic future thinking. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 533-539. 

O’Neill, D. K., & Atance, C. M. (2000). “Maybe my Daddy give me a big piano:” The development of children’s use of modals to express uncertainty. First Language, 20, 29-52.

Coambs, R. B., Jarry, J. L., Santhiapillai, A. C., Abrahamsohn, R. V. & Atance, C. M. (1996). The SISAP: A new screening instrument for identifying potential opioid abusers in the management of chronic nonmalignant pain within general medical practice. Pain Research and Management, 1, 155-162. [PDF]

Atance, C. M. (2018). Future-thinking in young children: how do we measure it and how can we optimize it? In G. Oettingen, A. Timur Sevincer, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), The psychology of thinking about the future (pp. 71-88). New York: The Guilford Press.

Atance, C. M., & Mahy, C. E. V. (2016). Episodic future thinking in children: Methodological and theoretical approaches. In K. Michaelian, S. B. Klein, & K. K. Szpunar (Eds.), Seeing the future: theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel (pp. 367-385). Oxford University Press.

Atance, C. M., & Martin-Ordas, G. (2014). Projecting the self into the future. In P. J. Bauer & R. Fivush (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on the Development of Children’s Memory (pp. 645-664). Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Atance, C.M., & Metcalf, J. L. (2013). Future thinking in young children. In M. Taylor (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination (pp. 305-324). New York: Oxford University Press.

Atance, C. M., & Jackson, L. K. (2011). Making Predictions: A Developmental Perspective. In M. Bar (Ed.), Predictions in the Brain: Using Our Past to Generate a Future (pp. 311-324). New York: Oxford University Press Inc.

Atance, C. M. (2008). From the past into the future: The developmental origins and trajectory of episodic future thinking. In E. Dere, A. Eason, L. Nadel, & J. P. Huston (Eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience: Handbook of Episodic Memory Research (pp. 99-114). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Press.

Atance, C. M., & O’Neill, D. K. (2001). Planning in 3-year-olds: A reflection of the future self? In C. Moore & K. Lemmon (Eds.), The self in time: Developmental perspectives (pp. 121-140). Mahwah, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dueck, K., Castro, A., Kamawar, D., Milyavskaya, M., & Atance, C. M. (2021). Factors associated with saving in early childhood. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Virtual Conference.

Ayson, G., Kopp, L., Hamwi, L., Atance, C. M. (2021). Theory of mind and inhibitory control predict preschoolers’ perspective shifts into the future, but not the past. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual Conference.

Hamwi, L., Kopp, L., Ovtsyn, D., & Atance, C. M. (2021). Links between preschoolers’ reasoning about changes in their future and past preferences. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual Conference.

O’Brien, B., Greenspon, M., Hamwi, L., Castro, A. W., & Atance, C. M. (2021). Do temporal distance and event frequency influence children’s future event representations? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual Conference.

Hunsberger, K., Heck, I., Borgers, C., Atance, C. M., & Kushnir, T. (2021). The dichotomy of distance: Effects of social context on the implications of psychological distance. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual Conference.

Ayson, G., & Atance, C. M. (2019). Future thinking and memory: Addressing a keycriticism of the spoon task. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference of the Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, Kentucky.

Rutt, J., Cassidy, K., Mahy, C. E. V., & Atance, C. M. (2019). How do conflict and perspective affect children’s future thinking? Poster presented at the Biennial Conference of the Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, Kentucky.

O’Brien, B., Castro, A., Hamwi, L., & Atance, C. M. (2019). Are children more optimistic about distant versus near future events? Poster presented at the Biennial Conference of the Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, Kentucky.

Tanguay, A., Rutt, J., Renoult, L., & Atance, C. M. (2019). The role of psychological distance in predicting future preferences. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada.

Dueck, K., Castro, A., Kamawar, D., Milyavskaya, M., & Atance, C. (2019). Children’s saving in a token task and its relation to household income and parental education. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association’s Annual Meeting, Halifax, Canada.

Atance, C., Nur Celebi S., Mitchinson, S., & Mahy, C. (2019). Assessing “generative” forms of future thought and their underlying mechanisms in young children. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.

Zamuner, T., Atance, C., & Fennell, C. (2019). Big Data from One Location: Museum-Based Developmental Research. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.

Dueck, K., Aubin, E., Castro, A., Jerome, E., Kamawar, D., Milyavskaya, M., & Atance, C. (2019).The effect of verbal prompts on children's saving behavior in a novel token-based task. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.

Goulding, B., Atance, C., & Friedman, O. (2019). Young children show an ownership advantage in their future-thinking. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA. 

Kopp, L., Hamwi, L., Noble, A., & Atance, C. (2019). Preschoolers’ reasoning about changes in their own past preferences. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.

Mazachowsky, T., Atance, C., Mitchinson, S., & Mahy, C. (2019). Examining children’s episodic foresight on the picture-book task using open-ended and forced-choice questions. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.

Rutt, J., O’Brien, B., & Atance, C. (2019). Spatial distance and reasoning about the future. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.   

Cassidy, K., Ziani-Bey, H., Caza, J., & Atance, C. (2019). Does executive function predict future thinking when present and future conflict? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.

Burns, P., McCormack, T., O’Connor, P., & Atance, C. (2019). Are we there yet? Diminishing sensitivity to future time horizons predicts children’s discounting of delayed rewards. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.

Burns, P., McCormack, T., O’Connor, P., & Atance, C. (2018). Subjective time perception and episodic future thinking in children’s delay of gratification. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Reijka, Croatia.

McCormack, T., Burns, P., Fitzpatrick, A., & Atance, C. (2018). Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in pre-schoolers. Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam.

McCormack, T., Burns, P., Fitzpatrick, A., & Atance, C. (2018). Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in pre-schoolers. Experimental Psychology Society, London.

Tanguay, A. N., Palombo, D. J., Atance, C., Renoult, L., & Davidson, P. S. R. (2018).Scrutinizing the grey zones of declarative memory: Does the Late Positive Component (LPC) reflect self-relevance, mental time travel, or proximity of self to other? Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, USA.

Goulding, B., Atance, C. M., & Friedman, O. (2018). An ownership-advantage in preschoolers’ future-oriented thinking. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, USA.

Atance, C. M., Rutt, J. R., & Mahy, C. E. V. (2018). How do psychological distance and conflict affect children’s future-oriented reasoning? Talk presented at the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Caza, J., O’Brien, B., & Atance, C. M. (2018). “The garbage man will throw out the candy!”: When can children plan to avoid a future mishap? Development, 2018. Saint-Catharines, Canada.

Kopp, L., & Atance, C. M. (2018). “But will I really like Kool-Aid when I'm all grown up?”: Preschoolers’ understanding of changing preferences. Development, 2018. Saint-Catharines, Canada.

Atance C. M., Bélanger, M. J. (2017). The cognitive correlates of future-oriented perspective-taking in young children. Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, United States.

Caza, J. S., Atance C. M. (2017). Planning across domains in preschoolers. Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, United States.

Tsui, A., Atance C. M. (2017). Is children’s perception of their future selves associated with their future thinking, saving and delay of gratification? Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, United States.

Atance, C. M., & Lee, W. S. C. (January, 2016). The effects of psychological distance on future-oriented reasoning in preschoolers. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.