Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Janette B. Benson is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Denver. She served for five years as the Director of the University-wide Office of Academic Assessment and co-chaired the successful University reaccreditation. Most recently she served as the Associate Dean of the Morgridge College of Education (2014-2017). Dr. Benson’s expertise is in cognitive and sensorimotor development in infancy and early childhood, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, The MacArthur Foundation and the March of Dimes. Dr. Benson has published several articles, book chapters and has edited or co-edited several books, including The Encyclopedia of Infancy and Early Childhood Development. She has been the recipient of several awards and honors, including the University of Denver Scholar – Teacher of the Year (1993), the 2000 CASE Colorado Professor of the Year, a Carnegie Scholar, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, member of the Board of Directors of Shortridge Academy, and the serial editor of Advances in Child Development and Behavior.

• 1. Brains for all the Ages: Structural Neurodevelopment in Infants and Children From a Life-Span Perspective John E. Richards and Wanze Xie2. The Importance of Puberty for Adolescent Development: Conceptualization and Measurement Sheri A. Berenbaum , Adriene M. Beltz3. Foundations of children’s numerical and mathematical skills: The Roles of Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Representations of Numerical MagnitudeIan Lyons and Daniel Ansari4. Developmental Origins of the Face Inversion Effect Cara H. Cashon and Nicholas A. Holt5. Early Testimonial Learning: Monitoring Speech Acts and SpeakersElizabeth Stephens, Sarah Suarez and Melissa Koenig6. Beyond Sally’s Missing Marble:Further Development in Children’s Understanding of Mind and Emotion in Middle ChildhoodKristin Hansen Lagattuta, Hannah J. Kramer, Katie Kennedy, Karen HjortsvangDeborah Goldfarb and  Sarah Tashjian7. Television and Children’s Executive FunctionAngeline S. Lillard, Katie Bogusweski and Hui Li8. Moral Judgments and Emotions in Contexts of Peer Exclusion and VictimizationMelanie Killen and Tina Malti