James E Hoch

Biographic Data

ID2361158
NAMEJames E Hoch
GIVEN NAMESJames E
FAMILY NAMEHoch
SIGNATUREHOCH J E
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
ORCID0000-0002-7181-1834
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Variations in infants’ physical and social environments shape spontaneous locomotion

    Open AccessJames E Hoch, Christina M Hospodar et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024References: 5

    Independent locomotion is associated with a range of positive developmental outcomes, but unlike cognitive, linguistic, and social skills, acquiring motor skills requires infants to generate their own input for learning. We tested factors that shape infants' spontaneous locomotion by observing forty 12- to 22-month-olds (19 girls, 21 boys) during free play. Infants were recruited from the New York City area, and caregivers reported that 25 infant…

  • “Dancing” Together

    Open AccessJames E Hoch, Ori Ossmy et al.ARTICLEChild Development2021

    Pre-mobile infants and caregivers spontaneously engage in a sequence of contingent facial expressions and vocalizations that researchers have referred to as a social “dance.” Does this dance continue when both partners are free to move across the floor? Locomotor synchrony was assessed in 13- to 19-month-old infant–mother dyads (N = 30) by tracking each partner’s step-to-step location during free play. Although infants moved more than mothers, dy…

  • Where Infants Go

    Open AccessJames E Hoch, Justine E Hoch et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    Where do infants go? A longstanding assumption is that infants primarily crawl or walk to reach destinations viewed while stationary. However, many bouts of spontaneous locomotion do not end at new people, places, or things. Study 1 showed that half of 10- and 13-month-old crawlers’ (N = 29) bouts end at destinations—more than previously found with walkers. Study 2 confirmed that, although infants do not commonly go to destinations, 12-month-old …

  • Motor Development

    Karen E Adolph, James E HochARTICLEAnnual Review of Psychology2018Cited by: 14References: 2

    Motor development and psychological development are fundamentally related, but researchers typically consider them separately. In this review, we present four key features of infant motor development and show that motor skill acquisition both requires and reflects basic psychological functions. ( a) Motor development is embodied: Opportunities for action depend on the current status of the body. ( b) Motor development is embedded: Variations in t…

  • Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts

    Gary A Rendsburg, James E HochARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1996

    James E. Hoch's Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period is a work of major importance for scholars both of Semitic and Egyptian. This review essay summarizes the book's presentation of the data, discusses the analyses derived from a detailed study of the data, and suggests ways in which the work can be utilized in future research. Hoch's most important contribution is the conclusion that the phonemic inven…

  • Egyptian Hieratic Writing in the Byblos Pseudo-hieroglyphic Stele L

    James E HochARTICLEJournal of the American Research…1995

    The small group of mostly fragmentary steles in the Byblian script published by M. Dunand in 1978 has not attracted much attention. Not only are the texts in an enigmatic script, but they are for the most part badly eroded, and the photographs are insufficient to establish the readings independently. Nevertheless, the inscription labeled L (fig. 1) by Dunand can be singled out as quite remarkable for its unusual signs in lines 8-11, which do not …