Refereed Publications

Lipinski, J., Spencer, J.P., & Samuelson, L.K. (in press). Corresponding Delay-Dependent biases in spatial Language and spatial memory. Psychological Research.

Samuelson, L.K. (2009). A core principle of studying language acquisition: It's a developmental system. Invited commentary for a special section of Developmental Science, 12 407-409.

Spencer, J.P., Blumberg, M.S., McMurray, B., Robinson, S.R., Samuelson, L.K., & Tomblin, J.B., (2009). Short arms and talking eggs: Why we should no longer abide the nativist - empiricist debate. Child Development Perspectives, 3, 79-87.

Spencer, J.P., Samuelson, L.K., Blumberg, M.S., McMurray, B., Robinson, S.R., & Tomblin, J.B., (2009). Seeing the world through a third eye: Developmental systems theory looks beyond the nativist-empiricist debate. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 103-105.

Perry, L.K., Samuelson, L.K., & Spencer, J.P. (2009) Aligning Body and World: Stable Reference Frames Improve Young Children’s Search for Hidden Objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 445-455.

Samuelson, L.K., Schutte, A.R. & Horst, J.S. (2009). The dynamic nature of knowledge: Insights from a dynamic field model of children’s novel noun generalizations. Cognition, 110, 322-345.

Horst, J.S., Ellis, A.E., Samuelson, L.K., Trejo, E., Worzalla, S., Peltan, J.& Oakes, L.M. (2009). Toddlers can adaptively change how they categorize: Same objects, same session, two different categorical distinctions. Developmental Science, 12, 96-105.

Samuelson, L.K., Horst, J.S., Schutte, A.R. & Dobbertin, B. (2008). Rigid thinking about deformables: Do children sometimes overgeneralize the shape bias? Journal of Child Language, 35, 559-589.

Samuelson, L.K. & Horst, J.S. (2008). Confronting complexity: Insights from the details of behavior over multiple timescales. Developmental Science, 11, 209-215.

Horst, J.S., & Samuelson, L.K. (2008) Fast mapping but poor retention by 24-month-old infants. Infancy, 13, 128-157.

Samuelson, L.K., Perry, L.K., & Warrington, A.R. (2007). Drawing conclusions about categorization: Perceptual and conceptual information interactively shape naming. Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 11, 695-712.

Samuelson, L.K. , & Horst, J.S. (2007). Dynamic noun generalization: Moment-to-moment interactions shape children’s naming biases. Infancy, 11, 97-110.

Smith, L.B. & Samuelson, L.K. (2006). An attentional learning account of the shape bias: Different questions, fundamentally different answers: Reply to Cimpian & Markman (2005) and Booth, Waxman & Huang (2005). Developmental Psychology, 42, 1339-1343.

Samuelson, L.K., & Smith, L.B. (2005). They call it like they see it: Spontaneous naming and attention to shape. Developmental Science, 8, 182-198.

Smith, L.B., & Samuelson, L.K. (2003). Different is good: Connectionism and dynamic systems theory are complementary emergentist approaches to development. Developmental Science, 6(4), 434-439. PDF

Samuelson, L.K. (2002). Statistical regularities in vocabulary guide language acquisition in connectionist models and 15-20-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 38, 1016-1037. PDF

Smith, L.B., Jones, S.S., Landau, B., Gershkoff-Stowe, L., & Samuelson, L.K. (2002). Object name learning provides on-the-job training for attention. Psychological Science, 13, 13-19.

Samuelson, L.K., & Smith, L.B. (2000a). Grounding development in cognitive processes. Child Development, 71, 98-106.

Samuelson, L.K., & Smith, L.B. (2000b). Children' s attention to rigid and deformable shape in naming and non-naming tasks. Child Development, 71(6), 1555-1570. PDF

Samuelson, L.K., & Smith, L.B. (1999). Early noun vocabularies: Do ontology, category organization and syntax correspond? Cognition, 73(1), 1-33. PDF

Samuelson, L.K., & Smith, L.B. (1998). Memory and attention make smart word learning: An alternative account of Akhtar, Carpenter and Tomasello. Child Development, 1, 94-104.

Refereed Book Chapters

Smith, L.B., & Samuelson, L.K. (in press). Objects in space and mind: From reaching to words. To appear in L. Smith, M. Gasser, & K. Mix (Eds.) The spatial foundations of language. Oxford University Press.

Lipinski, J., Spencer, J.P., & Samuelson, L.K. (in press). It's in the eye of the beholder: Spatial language and spatial memory use the same perceptual reference frames. To appear in L. Smith, M. Gasser, & K. Mix (Eds.) The spatial foundations of language. Oxford University Press

McMurray B.A., Horst J.S., Toscano J. & Samuelson, L.K. (2009). Connectionist learning and dynamic processing: Symbiotic developmental mechanisms. In J. Spencer, M Thomas, and J McClelland (Eds.), Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Reconsidered (218-249). Oxford University Press.

Smith, L.B., & Samuelson, L.K. (1997). Perceiving and remembering: Category stability, variability, and development. In K. Lamberts & D. Shanks (Eds.), Knowledge, concepts, and categories (pp. 161-195). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Refereed Published Conference Proceedings

Newman, R., Samuelson, L.K., & Gupta, P. (2008). Learning novel neighbors: distributed mappings help children and connectionist models. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Perry, L.K., Samuelson, L.K., & Spencer, J.P. (2008). The role of reference frame alignment in toddler’s emerging object search strategies. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Samuelson, L.K., Horst, J.S., Dobbertin, B.N., & Schutte, A.S. (2006). Knowledge, performance and task: Décalage and dynamics in young children’s noun generalizations. In R Sun (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 720-725) LEA.

Lipinski, J., Spencer, J.P., Samuelson, L.K. & Schöner, G. (2006). SPAM-Ling: A dynamical model of spatial working memory and spatial language. In R Sun (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 489-492) LEA.

Horst, J.S., McMurray B., & Samuelson, L.K. (2006). Online processing is essential for learning: Understanding fast mapping and word learning in a dynamic connectionist architecture. In R Sun (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 339-344) LEA.

Lipinski, J., Spencer, J.P., & Samuelson, L.K. (2004). Integrating spatial language and spatial memory: A dynamical systems approach. In D. Gentner & Terry Reiger (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 831-836) LEA

Samuelson, L.K. (2000). Attentional biases in artificial noun learning tasks: Generalizations across the structure of already-learned nouns. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 423-428). LEA.

Edited Volume

Samuelson, L.K. & Bloom, P. (Eds.). (2008) What counts as an explanation of development: The shape bias as a case study [Special Section]. Developmental Science.

Other Publications

Toscano, J.C., Perry, L.K., Mueller, K.L., Bean, A.F., Galle, M.E., Samuelson, L.K. (2008). Language as shaped by the brain as shaped by development. Commentary on Christiansen and Chater. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(1), 535-536.

McGregor, K.K., & Samuelson, L.K. (2008). Early milestones in the development of spoken English, Language and Literacy Encyclopedia. Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network. Available at http://literacyencyclopedia.ca/index.php?fa=items.show&topicId=241

Samuelson, L.K. & Bloom, P. (2008). The shape of controversy: What counts as an explanation of development? Introduction to the Special Section. Developmental Science.