Publications and Presentations

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PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

• Brodsky, J. E., Bergson, Z., Chen, M., Hayward, E. O., Plass, J. L., & Homer, B. D. (2023). Language, ambiguity, and executive functions in adolescents' theory of mind. Child Development, 94, 202–218.
• Hayward, E. O. & Homer, B. D. (2017) Reliability and validity of advanced theory of mind measures in middle childhood and adolescence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35 (3), 454 – 462.
• Hayward, E. O., Homer, B. D. & Sprung, M. (2016). Developmental trends in flexibility & automaticity of social cognition. Child Development, 89 (3), 914 – 928.
• Homer, B. D., Kinzer, C. K., Plass, J. L., Letourneau, S. M., Hoffman, D., Bromley, M., Hayward, E. O., Turkay, S., & Kornak, Y. (2014). Moved to Learn: The Effects of Interactivity in a Kinect-based Literacy Game for Beginning Readers. Computers and Education, 74, 37-49.
• Plass, J. L., O’Keefe, P. A., Homer, B. D., Case, J., Hayward, E. O., Stein, M., & Perlin, K. (2013). The impact of individual, competitive, and collaborative mathematics game play on learning, performance, and motivation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105 (4), 1050.
• Plass, J. L., Heidig, S., Hayward, E. O., & Homer, B.D. (2014). Emotional Design in Multimedia Learning: Effects of Shape and Color on Affect and Learning. Learning and Instruction, 29, 128–140.
• Homer, B. D., Petroff, N., & Hayward, E. O. (2013) Linguistic Mediation of Children’s Performance in a New Symbolic Understanding Task. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14 (3), 455-366.
• Hayward, E. O. (2012) Evaluating measurement tools in science education research. Cultural Studies of Science Education,7 (4), 979 – 983.
• Homer, B. D., Hayward, E. O., Frye, J. & Plass, J. L. (2012). Gender and Player Characteristics in Video Game Play of Preadolescents. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 1782 – 1789.
• Plass, J. L., Milne, C., Homer, B. D., Schwartz, R. N., Hayward, E. O., Jordan, T., Verkuilen, J., Ng, F., Wang, Y., & Barrientos, J. (2012) Investigating the effectiveness of computer simulations for chemistry learning. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49(3), 394 – 419.
• Um, E., Plass, J.L., Hayward, E.O., & Homer, B.D. (2012) Emotional Design in Multimedia Learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104 (2), 485 – 498.
• Hayward, E. O. & Homer, B. (2009). Review of Infants’ Sense of People: Precursors to a Theory of Mind. Infant and Child Development, 18, 367 – 374.
• Plass, J.L., Homer, B.D., & Hayward, E.O. (2009). Design factors for educationally effective animations and simulations. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 21(1), 31-61.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Homer, B. & Hayward, E. (2008). Cognitive and representational development in children. In Cartwright, K (Ed.) Flexibility in Literacy Processes and Instructional Practice. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

PRESENTATIONS AT PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCES

• Brodsky, J. E., Bergson, Z., Hayward, E. O., Homer, B. D. (2019). Advanced Theory of Mind and Task-switching in Adolescents With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cognitive Developmental Society (CDS), Louisville, Kentucky.
• Plass, J. L., Homer, B. D., Hayward, E. O., Biles, M., Frye, J., & Huang, T. (April 2014). An Experimental Investigation of Learning Mechanics in a Digital Geometry Game. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA.
• Homer, B. D., Kinzer, C. K., Plass, J. L., Letourneau, S. M., Hoffman, D., Hayward, E.O., Turkay, S., & Kornak, Y (April 2014). How Do Kinect-Based Literacy Games Compare to Reading With a Caretaker? The Effects of Medium and Interactivity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA.
• Hayward, E. O., Donnelly, S. Acevedo, M., Homer, B., & Pramataris P. (February 2014). The Effects of Bilingualism on Executive Functioning in a Clinic-Referred Population. Poster presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society. Seattle, WA, USA.
• Sprung, M., Leyrer, J., Bromley, M., Homer, B., Hofmann, A., Scharl, J., Was, V., Bellmore, I., Pühringer, S., Kuczwara, J., Hayward, E., & Plass, J. (August 2013). Space Ranger Alien Quest: A Video Game to Assess and Promote Executive Functioning Skills. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Honolulu, HI, USA.
• Hayward, E., Homer B., Pace, K. & Bromley, M. (April 2013). Flexibility & Automaticity of Social Cognition (FASC): A Developmental, Multi- faceted, Continuous Measure of Theory of Mind. Poster presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA.
• Letourneau, S., Homer, B., & Hayward E. (April 2013) Gaze patterns and pupil responses in an advanced theory of mind task. Poster presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA.
• Homer, B.D., Hayward, E., & Plass, J.L. (June 2012). Gender and player characteristics in video game play. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, ON.
• Hayward, E. O., Frye, J., Huang, T., Biles, M., Homer, B. D., & Plass, J. L. (January 2012) An experimental investigation of the effect of learning mechanics design on learning outcomes in a computer-based geometry game. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Subway Summit on Cognition & Education Research, New York, NY.
• Hayward, E. O., & Homer, B. D. (October 2011). Scaling Advanced Theory of Mind Tasks. Poster presented Cognitive Development Society conference, Philadelphia, PA.
• Isbister, K., Rao, R., Schwekendiek, U., Hayward, E., & Lidasan, J. (June 2011). Is More Movement Better? A Controlled Comparison of Movement-based Games. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Bordeaux, France.
• Hayward, E. O. (June 2011). Theoretical and empirical support for the validity of an advanced Theory of Mind. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society conference, Berkeley, CA.
• Homer, B. D., Plass, J. L., O’Keefe, P. A., Hayward, E. O., & Stein, M. (June 2011). Social context, motivation and learning in an educational video game to teach middle school math. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society conference, Berkeley, CA.
• Case, J. R., Hendee, C. D., Hayward, E., Burleson, W., Verkuilen, J., Homer, B. D., Perlin, K., & Plass, J. L. (April 2011). Posture as an Indicator of Engagement in Handheld and Laptop Game-Play. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.
• Plass, J. L., O’Keefe, P. A., Homer, B. D., Hayward, E. O., Stein, M., & Perlin, K. (April 2011). Motivational and Educational Outcomes Associated with Solo, Competitive, and Collaborative Game Play. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.
• Hayward, E. O., & Homer, B. D. (April 2011). Measurement of Advanced Theory of Mind in School-Age Children. Poster presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
• Hayward, E., Homer, B.D. & Petroff, N. (May 2010). Young Preschoolers’ Learning of Symbols: Linguistic Mediation of Children’s Symbolic Understanding in a New Task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.
• Plass, J.L., Homer, B.D., Milne, C., Jordan, T., Ng, F., Schwartz, R., Hayward, E., Wang, Y., Barrientos, J., & Chang, Y.K. (May 2010). An Efficacy Study on the Integration of Optimized Simulations into the High School Chemistry Curriculum. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.
• Milne, C., Plass, J., Homer, B., Jordan, T., Schwartz, R., Wang, Y., Chang, Y.K., Hayward, E. O., Ching, D., & Khan, M. (March 2010). Exploring narrative scaffolding in the use of multimedia simulations for the teaching and learning of chemistry. Paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching International Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
• Petroff, N., Hayward, E. O., & Homer, B. (October 2009). Linguistic Mediation of Young Children’s Symbolic Understanding In A Modified DeLoache Model Task. Poster Presented at the Cognitive Development Society conference, San Antonio, TX.
• Ng, F.F., Homer, B.D., Plass, J.L., Milne, C., Jordan, T., Hayward, E.O., Schwartz, R., Chang, Y.K., & Flugman, B. (2009). Introducing Chemistry Simulations to High School Chemistry Classrooms: A Mixed-Methods Approach for Evaluation. Poster presented at the 2009 Institute for Educational Sciences (IES) Research Conference in Washington, D.C.
• Brodsky, J. E., Bergson, Z. G., Hayward, E. O., Homer, B. D. (October 2019). Advanced theory of mind and task-switching in adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference of the Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, KY, October, 2019.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• Hayward, E. (June 2013). Measurement of Social Cognition Beyond Preschool: Development of the FASC. Presentation at the Games for Impact Workshop, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.