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Recent Publications

Hala, S., Rasmussen, C., & Henderson, A. M. E. (under review). Three types of source monitoring by children with and without autism: The role of executive function. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Hala, S., Hug, S., & Henderson, H. (2003). Executive functioning and false-belief understanding in preschool children: Two tasks are harder than one. Journal of Cognition and Development, 4, 275-298.

Russell, J., Hala, S. & Hill, E. (2003). The automated windows task: the performance of preschool children, children with autism and children with moderate learning difficulties. Cognitive Development, 18, 111-137.

Hala, S. & Russell, J. (2001). Executive control within strategic deception: A window on early cognitive development? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 80, 112-141.

Hala, S. (Ed.) (1997). Social Cognitive Development. London: Psychology Press.

Hala, S. (1997). Introduction to Social Cognitive Development. In S. Hala (Ed.) Social Cognitive Development (pp. 3-33). London: Psychology Press.

Hala, S. & Carpendale, J. (1997). All in the mind. Children's understanding of mental life. In S. Hala (Ed.) Social Cognitive Development (pp. 189-239). London: Psychology Press.

Hala, S. & Chandler, M.J. (1996). The role of strategic planning in accessing false-belief understanding. Child Development, 67, 2948-2966.

Chandler, M.J. & Hala, S. (1994). The role of personal involvement in the assessment of early false-belief skills. In C. Lewis & P. Mitchell (Eds.) Origins of an understanding of mind. Erlbaum.

Chandler, M. & Hala, S. (1991). Trust and children's developing theories of mind. In K. Rotenberg (Ed.), Children's interpersonal trust (pp. 135-159). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Hala, S., Chandler, M.J., & Fritz, A.S. (1991). Fledgling theories of mind: Deception as a marker of 3-year-olds' understanding of false belief. Child Development, 62, 83-97.

Chandler, M.J., Fritz, A.S., & Hala, S. (1989). Small-Scale Deceit: Deception as a marker of 2, 3- and 4-year olds' early theories of mind. Child Development, 60, 1263-1277.

Conference Presentations

Hala, S., Pexman, P., Leibel, C. & Harris, M.. (2003, April). Priming homograph interpretation in children with autism, typically developing children, and adults. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, Florida.

Hala, S., Henderson, A., Turner, J., & Schreiber, C. (2001, October). The role of inhibitory control in preschoolers' internal source monitoring. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US

Hala, S., Henderson, A., & Turner, J. (2001, July). The generation effect and preschool children's internal source monitoring. Poster presented at the International Conference on Memory, Valencia, Spain.

Hala, S., Rasmussen, C., & Henderson, H. (2001, April). Internal, external and reality monitoring by children with and without autism. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US.

Hala, S., Turner, J., & Henderson, A. (2001, April). Preschool children's discrimination of pretended and performed play. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US.

Turner, J., Hala, S. & Prete, J. (2001, October). The role of planning in preschooler's reality monitoring. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US.

Harris, M., Ivanko, S., Jungen, S., Hala, S. & Pexman, P. (2001, October). You're really nice: Children's understanding of sarcasm and personality traits. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US.

Hala, S., Pexman, P. & Leibel, C. (2000, July). Priming the meaning of homographs in children with autism. Poster presented at the joint meeting of Brain, Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences Canada and Experimental Psychology Society Britain, Cambridge, UK.

Hala, S., Hug, S., Henderson, A. & Baxter, J. (2000, May). Executive functioning and theory of mind in preschool children: Two tasks are harder than one. Poster to be presented at Development 2000, the first joint meeting of the University of Waterloo and The Canadian Psychological Association, Developmental Section, Waterloo.

Baxter, J., Hala, S. & Henderson, A. (2000, May). Reducing executive demands of working memory and inhibitory control in false-belief tasks. Poster presented at Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Sciences, Banff, AB.

Rasmussen, C. & Hala, S. (2000, May). Source monitoring in children with autism and normally developing children. Poster presented at Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Sciences, Banff, AB.

Hala, S. (1999, October). Inhibitory control and the Windows Task in children with autism. Poster presented at the first annual meetings of the Cognitive Development Society, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US.

Hug, S. & Hala S. (1999, June). The role of working memory and inhibitory control in children's performance on theory of mind tasks. Poster presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences, Edmonton, AB.

Hala, S. (1999, April). When Deception is not all it seems: executive control and the Windows Task. In K. Lee (Chair), Development of Verbal and Nonverbal Deception: From Concept to Action. Symposium conducted at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US.

Hala, S. & Russell, J. (1998, June). Executive control and strategic deception in preschool children and children with autism. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa.

Hala. S. (1996, September). The role of planning in false-belief understanding. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference, Oxford, UK.

Senior, M., Hala, S. & Lang, N. (1996, September). Flexibility of response strategies on the Windows Task. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference, Oxford, UK.

Hala, S., Russell, & Maberley, L. (1995, September). Social versus executive components in children's strategic behaviour. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK.