Nelson, Eliza

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Nelson, Eliza Graduate Faculty

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Associate Professor, Psychology , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

elnelson@fiu.edu

selected scholarly works & creative activities

Article
- 2026
  
  Work as joy: parental perspectives on factors affecting employment for emerging adults with Down syndrome. Disability and Rehabilitation. 48:144-151.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2527952 Web of Science: 001522168500001
- 2026
  
  Manipulation Complexity in Infants. Infant and Child Development. 35.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/icd.70087 Web of Science: 001702132000001
- 2025
  
  Infant manipulation complexity trajectories as predictors of language outcomes at 2 years of age. Infant Behavior and Development. 80.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102080 Web of Science: 001504898100001
- 2025
  
  Infant reaching and grasping: Frameworks for testing developmental cascades. Infant Behavior and Development. 80.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102104 Web of Science: 001530208100001
- 2025
  
  Fine Motor Skills, Executive Function, and School Readiness in Preschoolers with Externalizing Behavior Problems. Behavioral Sciences. 15.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/bs15050708 Web of Science: 001496654200001
- 2024
  
  Object Skill Advantage in Infants with a Hand Preference. Symmetry. 16.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/sym16091148 Web of Science: 001323718200001
- 2024
  
  The meaning of adulthood for emerging adults with Down syndrome: Parent perspectives on relevant skills. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. 37.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/jar.13286 Web of Science: 001279078900001
- 2024
  
  Hand preference trajectories as predictors of language outcomes above and beyond SES: Infant patterns explain more variance than toddler patterns at 5 years of age. Infant and Child Development. 33.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/icd.2468 Web of Science: 001083465500001
- 2024
  
  Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants. Infant Behavior and Development. 74.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101925 Web of Science: 001174783200001
- 2024
  
  Reach-to-Grasp Kinematic Signatures in Colombian Spider Monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 138:56-67.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/com0000355 Web of Science: 001327867800007
- 2023
  
  Early, concurrent, and consistent hand preferences predict stacking in toddlerhood. Developmental Psychobiology. 65.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.22397 Web of Science: 000980192800001
- 2023
  
  How babies use their hands to learn about objects: Exploration, reach-to-grasp, manipulation, and tool use. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1661 Web of Science: 001002765900001
- 2023
  
  Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research. Laterality. 28:122-191.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963 Web of Science: 000990387200001
- 2022
  
  Developmental cascades as a framework for primate handedness. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 16.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.1063348 Web of Science: 000890020000001
- 2022
  
  Insights Into Human and Nonhuman Primate Handedness From Measuring Both Hands. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 31:154-161.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/09637214211062876 Web of Science: 000772471200001
- 2021
  
  Factor analysis of the Home Handedness Questionnaire: Unimanual and role differentiated bimanual manipulation as separate dimensions of handedness. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. 28:173-184.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/23279095.2019.1611578
- 2020
  
  Network analysis as a tool to understand social development in spider monkeys. American Journal of Primatology. 82.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23182 Web of Science: 000559480700001
- 2020
  
  Preschool Language Ability Is Predicted by Toddler Hand Preference Trajectories. Developmental Psychology. 56:699-709.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/dev0000900 Web of Science: 000518804000003
- 2019
  
  The home handedness questionnaire: pilot data from preschoolers. Laterality. 24:482-503.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2018.1543313 Web of Science: 000465148100006
- 2018
  
  Measuring Spanish Comprehension in Infants from Mixed Hispanic Communities Using the IDHC: A Preliminary Study on 16-Month-Olds. Behavioral Sciences. 8.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/bs8120117 Web of Science: 000455149800009
- 2018
  
  Social Risk Dissociates Social Network Structure across Lateralized Behaviors in Spider Monkeys. Symmetry. 10.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/sym10090390 Web of Science: 000447336700036
- 2018
  
  Goal-Directed Tail Use in Colombian Spider Monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris) Is Highly Lateralized. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 132:40-47.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/com0000094 Web of Science: 000425100500006
- 2018
  
  Handedness and Reach-to-Place Kinematics in Adults: Left-Handers Are Not Reversed Right-Handers. Journal of Motor Behavior. 50:381-391.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2017.1363698 Web of Science: 000438133900004
- 2017
  
  Toddler hand preference trajectories predict 3-year language outcome. Developmental Psychobiology. 59:876-887.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.21560 Web of Science: 000412450000007
- 2017
  
  Embraces are lateralized in spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). American Journal of Primatology. 79.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22654 Web of Science: 000403923100008
- 2016
  
  Infant Hand Preference and the Development of Cognitive Abilities. Frontiers in Psychology. 7.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00410 Web of Science: 000372568000001
- 2015
  
  Precise digit use increases the expression of handedness in Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). American Journal of Primatology. 77:1253-1262.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22478 Web of Science: 000363892500002
- 2015
  
  Addressing the gap: a blueprint for studying bimanual hand preference in infants. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:1-4.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00560 Web of Science: 000354821200001
- 2015
  
  Handedness influences intermanual transfer in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) but not rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Experimental Brain Research. 233:829-837.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4158-8 Web of Science: 000349554600014
- 2015
  
  Evaluating handedness measures in spider monkeys. Animal Cognition. 18:345-353.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10071-014-0805-5 Web of Science: 000347249100032
- 2014
  
  Hand preference status and reach kinematics in infants. Infant Behavior and Development. 37:615-623.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.013 Web of Science: 000348016800017
- 2014
  
  Early Handedness in Infancy Predicts Language Ability in Toddlers. Developmental Psychology. 50:809-814.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0033803 Web of Science: 000334523400015
- 2013
  
  Unimanual to bimanual: Tracking the development of handedness from 6 to 24 months. Infant Behavior and Development. 36:181-188.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.009 Web of Science: 000317883300001
- 2012
  
  Kinematics of reaching and implications for handedness in rhesus monkey infants. Developmental Psychobiology. 54:460-467.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.20604 Web of Science: 000302358800010
- 2011
  
  Evidence for motor planning in monkeys: rhesus macaques select efficient grips when transporting spoons. Developmental Science. 14:822-831.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01030.x Web of Science: 000292850300018
- 2011
  
  Head Orientation and Handedness Trajectory in Rhesus Monkey Infants (Macaca mulatta). Developmental Psychobiology. 53:246-255.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.20517 Web of Science: 000288332500003
- Infant manipulation complexity and caregiver object labeling during play. Cognitive Development. 76.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101643 Web of Science: 001611783900001
- The Development of Object Construction From Infancy Through Toddlerhood. Infancy. 24:368-391.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/infa.12284 Web of Science: 000463026200005
Book Chapter
- 2025
  
  Development of handedness and other lateralized functions during infancy and early childhood. 181-194.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-15646-5.00003-8
- 2022
  
  State of the Field. 88-114.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/9781108955836.005
- 2021
  
  The emergence of fine motor skills in children with Down syndrome. 113-151.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/bs.irrdd.2021.08.002 Web of Science: 000752588900005
- 2018
  
  Evolution and development of handedness: An Evo-Devo approach. 347-374.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.06.007 Web of Science: 000452414500014
- 2013
  
  Multiple Trajectories in the Developmental Psychobiology of Human Handedness. 227-260.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397946-9.00009-9 Web of Science: 000321624800010
Conference
- 2014
  
  HANDEDNESS INFLUENCES INTERMANUAL TRANSFER IN CHIMPANZEES (PAN TROGLODYTES) BUT NOT RHESUS MONKEYS (MACACA MULATTA). American Journal of Primatology. 51-51.
  Web of Science: 000349374300045
- 2013
  
  LATERALIZED COORDINATED TAIL-HAND SEQUENCE IN SPIDER MONKEYS (ATELES FUSCICEPS RUFIVENTRIS). American Journal of Primatology. 57-57.
  Web of Science: 000323414700086
Dataset
- 2014
  
  Role-Differentiated Bimanual Manipulation (RDBM) Handedness Assessment
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/t22653-000
Other Scholarly Work
- 2023
  
  Motor-language links in children with Down syndrome: a scoping review to revisit the literature with a developmental cascades lens. Frontiers in Psychology.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1275325 Web of Science: 001082417600001
Preprint
- 2025
  
  Manipulation Complexity in Infancy
  Full Text via DOI: 10.22541/au.173758207.74293351/v1
- 2025
  
  Fine Motor Skills, Executive Function, and School Readiness in Preschoolers with Externalizing Behavior Problems
  Full Text via DOI: 10.20944/preprints202503.2198.v1
- 2024
  
  Object Skill Advantage for Infants with a Hand Preference
  Full Text via DOI: 10.20944/preprints202407.2428.v1
Review
- 2025
  
  The translational value of platyrrhine primates in laterality research. Laterality.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2025.2520197 Web of Science: 001511135600001
- 2023
  
  Systematic Review: The Development of Behavioral Laterality Across the First Year of Life in Nonhuman Primates. Symmetry.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/sym15071335 Web of Science: 001071076100001
- 2020
  
  Measuring infant handedness reliably from reaching: A systematic review. Laterality. 430-454.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2020.1726367 Web of Science: 000514422100001
- 2019
  
  Do Gross and Fine Motor Skills Differentially Contribute to Language Outcomes? A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Psychology.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02670 Web of Science: 001031773800001
- 2016
  
  Quantifying Motor Experience in the Infant Brain: EEG Power, Coherence, and Mu Desynchronization. Frontiers in Psychology.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00216 Web of Science: 000370556900001
- 2013
  
  How the development of handedness could contribute to the development of language. Developmental Psychobiology. 608-620.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.21121 Web of Science: 000323181100005

principal investigator on

Infant motor skill trajectories and language outcomes awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2019 - 2022
Development of MacArthur-Bates Forms and Norms for Children from Varied Spanish Language Communities awarded by San Diego University 2014 - 2018

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Eliza Eccles

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