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DAVE NEALE

Game Designer, Writer, Play Researcher

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Play related

Narrative/dialog related

Executive function related

Game related

Kidby, S., Neale, D., Wass, S., & Leong, V. (2023). Parent–infant affect synchrony during social and solo play. Phil. Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378: 2021.0482.

Basilio, M., Pino-Pasternak, D., & Neale, D. (2022). In rememberance of David Whitebread: a tribute to David Whitebread’s research career: understanding play and living in play. International Journal of Play, 11(2), 122–124.

Whitebread, D., & Neale, D. (2020). Metacognition in early child development. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 6(1), 8–14.

Neale, D.*, Morano, C.*, Verdine, B., Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. (2020). ‘Why are there big squares and little squares?’ How questions reveal children’s understanding of a domain. In The Questioning Child, L. P. Butler, S. Ronfard & K. H. Corriveau (Eds.), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Neale, D. & Whitebread, D. (2019). Maternal scaffolding during play with 12- to 24-month-old infants: stability over time and relations with emerging effortful control. Metacognition & Learning.

Neale, D., Clackson, K., Georgieva, S., Dedetas, H., Wass, S. & Leong, V. (2018). Towards a neuroscientific understanding of play: A multi-dimensional methodological framework for analysing adult-infant neurobehavioural play patterns. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:273.

Zosh, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Hopkins, E. J., Jensen, H., Liu, C., Neale, D., Solis, S. L., & Whitebread, D. (2018). Accessing the inaccessible: Redefining play as a spectrum. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1124.

Pino-Pasternak D., Whitebread, D., & Neale, D. (2018). The role of social, dialogical and regulatory dynamics on young children’s productive collaboration in group problem solving. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.

Neale, D., Basilio, M., & Whitebread, D. (2018). The Grasping Task: A 12-month predictor of 24-month delay task performance and BRIEF-P Inhibition scores. Infant and Child Development.

Neale, D. & Pino-Pasternak, D. (2016). A review of reminiscing in early childhood settings and links to sustained shared thinking. Educational Psychology Review, 29(3), 641-665.

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