Jeffrey J. Lockman, Ph.D.

My research interests center on perception-action and cognitive development. In my recent work, I have been studying the development of tool use in children and how it might be related to the object manipulation skills of infants. Additionally, I have been conducting work on spatial cognition in children, focusing on how children code the location of objects and object features. Dr. Lockman’s research program can be found at https://childdevelopment.tulane.edu. Dr. Lockman is currently accepting graduate students.

Selected Publications

Lockman, J. J., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., (Eds.) (in press).  The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development.  New York:  Cambridge University Press. 

Rachwani, J., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S, Lockman, J. J., Karasik, L. B., Adolph, K E. (2020).  Learning the designed actions of everyday objects.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General, 149, 67-78.

Chinn, L. K., Hoffmann, M., Leed, J. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2019).  Reaching with one arm to the other:  Coordinating touch, proprioception, and action during infancy.    Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 183, 19-32.

Chinn, L. K., Noonan, C. F., Hoffmann, M., & Lockman, J. J. (2019).  Development of infant reaching strategies to tactile targets on the face.   Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00009

Fears, N. E., Bailey, B., Youmans, B., & Lockman, J. J.  (2019).  An eye-tracking method for directly assessing children’s visual-motor integration.   Physical Therapy, 99, 797-806.

Heathcock, J. C., & Lockman, J. J. (2019).  Infant and child development:  Innovations and foundations for rehabilitation.  Physical Therapy, 99, 643-646, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzz067

Leed, J. E., Chinn, L. K., & Lockman, J. J. (2019).  Reaching to the self:  The development of infants’ ability to reach to targets on the body.  Psychological Science, 30, 1063-1073.

Jung, W. P., Kahrs, B. A., & Lockman, J.J.  (2018). Fitting handled objects into apertures by 17-  to 36-month-old children: The dynamics of spatial coordination. Developmental Psychology, 54, 228-239.

Lockman, J. J., Fears, N. E., & Jung, W. P. (2018).  The development of object fitting:  The dynamics of spatial coordination.  In J. Plumert (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 55, 31-72.

Lockman, J. J., Fears, N. E., & Lewis, E. A. (2018). Spatial development.   In C. von Hofsten (Ed.). Oxford Research Encyclopedia:  Psychology, pp. 1-50. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Fears, N. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2018). How beginning handwriting is influenced by letter knowledge: Visual-motor coordination during children’s form copying. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 171, 55-70.

Lockman, J. J., & Kahrs, B. A.  (2017).  New insights into the development of human tool use. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 330-334.