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Dr. Stuart Marcovitch

Dr. Stuart Marcovitch studies cognitive development, particularly the conscious control of behavior in childhood and across the lifespan. Dr. Marcovitch currently holds an RO3 Award from NICHD. The DUCK (Development and Understanding of Childrens' Knowledge) lab is co-directed by Dr. Marcovitch and Dr. Janet Boseovski. Please see the DUCK Lab Website for more details.

Dr. Marcovitch is also a co-investigator in the NICHD funded Cognition, Affect, and Psychophysiology (CAP) Project, and the NICHD funded School Transitions and Academic Readiness (STAR) Project.

Selected publications:

Marcovitch, S., & Zelazo, P. D. (in press). A hierarchical competing systems model of the emergence and early development of executive function. Developmental Science.

Marcovitch, S., Boseovski, J. J., & Knapp, R. J. (2007). Use it or lose it: Examining preschoolers’ difficulty in maintaining and executing a goal. Developmental Science, 10, 559-564.

Marcovitch, S., & Zelazo, P. D. (2006). Non-monotonic influence of number of A trials on 2-years-old’s perseverative search: A test of the hierarchical competing systems model. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7, 477-501 .

Lewkowicz, D. J., & Marcovitch, S. (2006). Perception of audiovisual rhythm and its invariance in 4- to 10-month-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 48, 288-300.

Marcovitch, S. & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2004). U-shaped functions: Artifact or hallmark of development? Journal of Cognition and Development, 5, 113-118.

Zelazo, P. D., Muller, U., Frye, D., & Marcovitch, S. (2003). The development of executive function in early childhood. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 68(3), Serial No. 274.

Marcovitch, S., Zelazo, P. D., & Schmuckler, M. A. (2002). The effect of number of A trials on performance on the A-not-B task. Infancy, 3, 519-529.

Marcovitch, S., & Zelazo, P. D. (2000). A generative connectionist model of the development of rule use in children. Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 334-339). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Marcovitch, S., & Zelazo, P.D. (1999). The A-not-B error: Results from a logistic meta-analysis. Child Development, 70, 1297-1313.