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List of works by Larissa Samuelson

A core principle of studying language acquisition: it's a developmental system

scientific article published on April 2009

Abstract Thinking in Space and Time: Using The Environment to Learn Words

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Aligning body and world: stable reference frames improve young children's search for hidden objects.

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An attentional learning account of the shape bias: reply to Cimpian and Markman (2005) and Booth, Waxman, and Huang (2005).

scientific article published in November 2006

Biased feedback in spatial recall yields a violation of delta rule learning

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Confronting complexity: insights from the details of behavior over multiple timescales

scientific article published on March 2008

Corresponding delay-dependent biases in spatial language and spatial memory

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Early noun vocabularies: do ontology, category structure and syntax correspond?

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Empirical Tests of a Brain-Based Model of Executive Function Development

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Enhancing the executive functions of 3-year-olds in the Dimensional Change Card Sort task

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Grounding cognitive-level processes in behavior: the view from dynamic systems theory

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

Grounding word learning in space.

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Highchair philosophers: the impact of seating context-dependent exploration on children's naming biases.

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Introduction to the Special Issue Honoring the 2013 David E. Rumelhart Prize Recipient Linda B. Smith

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Learn locally, think globally. Exemplar variability supports higher-order generalization and word learning

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Learning words in space and time: probing the mechanisms behind the suspicious-coincidence effect

scientific article published on 24 June 2011

Moving Word Learning to a Novel Space: A Dynamic Systems View of Referent Selection and Retention

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Non-Bayesian noun generalization in 3- to 5-year-old children: probing the role of prior knowledge in the suspicious coincidence effect

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Object name learning provides on-the-job training for attention

scientific article published in January 2002

Preschool Children's Memory for Word Forms Remains Stable Over Several Days, but Gradually Decreases after 6 Months

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Reproducibility and a unifying explanation: Lessons from the shape bias

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Rethinking Conceptually-Based Inference: Commentary on "Fifteen-month-old infants attend to shape over other perceptual properties in an induction task," by S. Graham and G. Diesendruck, and "Form follows function: Learning about function helps chil

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Rigid thinking about deformables: do children sometimes overgeneralize the shape bias?

scientific article published in August 2008

Seeing the world through a third eye: Developmental systems theory looks beyond the nativist-empiricist debate

scientific article published on August 2009

Short arms and talking eggs: Why we should no longer abide the nativist-empiricist debate

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Slowing Down Fast Mapping: Redefining the Dynamics of Word Learning

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The First Slow Step: Differential Effects of Object and Word-Form Familiarization on Retention of Fast-Mapped Words

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The dynamic nature of knowledge: insights from a dynamic field model of children's novel noun generalization

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The shape of controversy: what counts as an explanation of development? Introduction to the special section

scientific article published in March 2008

The shape of the vocabulary predicts the shape of the bias.

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

They call it like they see it: spontaneous naming and attention to shape.

scientific article published in March 2005

Toddlers can adaptively change how they categorize: same objects, same session, two different categorical distinctions

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What does it take to learn a word?

scientific article published on December 2016

What's new? Children prefer novelty in referent selection

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Word learning emerges from the interaction of online referent selection and slow associative learning

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Word-Object Learning via Visual Exploration in Space (WOLVES): A neural process model of cross-situational word learning.

scientific article published in 2022