Vaunam P. Venkadasalam

Psychology · Social Sciences

5h-index105citations11works2.52yr avg
OpenAlex↗ORCID↗Google Scholar↗

Accepting Students?

No reports yet. Know if this professor is taking students?

Research Topics

Child and Animal Learning Development(5), Science Education and Pedagogy(4), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies(4), Reading and Literacy Development(2), Language Development and Disorders(2)

Publications11 total

B – 129 The impact of gender on the Autism Spectrum Rating Scales™ Adult (ASRS® Adult) scores in autistic adults
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology·2025
Promoting scientific understanding and conceptual change in young children using explanations and guidance.
Developmental Psychology·2024· 5 cited
Linking early maternal input during shared reading to later theory of mind through receptive language and executive function: A within- and between-family design
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2022· 5 cited
The Role of Alternative Theories and Anomalous Evidence in Children’s Scientific Belief Revision
Child Development·2020· 17 cited
Prompting Children’s Belief Revision About Balance Through Primary and Secondary Sources of Evidence
Frontiers in Psychology·2020· 7 citedOpen Access
How stories shape us, and how we shape stories.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2020
Science & engineering goals: Learning about the control-of-variable strategy from picture books.
Cognitive Science·2020
Without Conceptual Information Children Miss the Boat: Examining the Role of Explanations and Anomalous Evidence in Scientific Belief Revision.
Cognitive Science·2019· 1 cited
The Importance of Explanations in Guided Science Activities.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2019
Do objects of different weight fall at the same time? Updating naive beliefs about free-falling objects from fictional and informational books in young children
Journal of Cognition and Development·2018· 18 cited
The role of maternal responsiveness and linguistic input in pre-academic skill development: A longitudinal analysis of pathways
Cognitive Development·2018· 52 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Patricia A. Ganea(9), Nicole E. Larsen(6), Mark Wade(2), Jennifer M. Jenkins(2), Angela Nyhout(2), Noam Binnoon-Erez(1), Samantha W. Snetsinger(1), Mikkel Maharaj(1), Keith Oatley(1), Raymond A. Mar(1), Lynn G. Nguyen(1)