Publications

In Press

  • Ralston, R., & Sloutsky, V. M. (in press). From features to categories: The development of inductive generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

2023

  • Sloutsky, V. M. & Turner, B. M. (2023). Cognition: The power of simple associative learning. Current Biology33, R223-R225.
  • Unger, L. Yim, H., Savic, O., Dennis, S. J., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2023). No frills: Simple regularities in language can go a long way in the development of word knowledge. Developmental Science, e13373.
  • Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2023). Category learning is shaped by the multifaceted development of selective attention. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology226, 105549. PMID: 36116317, DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105549.
  • Blanco, N. J., Turner, B. M., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2023). The benefits of immature cognitive control: How distributed attention guards against learning traps. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 226, 105548.   PMID: 36126587  DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105548.

2022

  • Galdo, M., Weichart, E. R., Sloutsky, V. M., & Turner, B. M. (2022). The quest for simplicity in human learning: Identifying the constraints on attention. Cognitive Psychology, 138, Epub 2022 Sep 21. PMID: 36152354  DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101508.
  • Savic, O., Unger, L. & Sloutsky, V.M. (2022). Experience and maturation: The contribution of co-occurrence regularities in language to the development of semantic organization. Child Development48, 1064-1081. PMID: 35962586  DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13844
  • Weichart, E. R., Galdo, M., Sloutsky, V. M., & Turner, B. M. (2022). As within, so without, as above, so below: Common mechanisms can support between- and within-trial category learning dynamics. Psychological Review129, 1104-1143. PMID: 35849355, DOI: 10.1037/rev0000381
  • Yim, H., Osth, A., Slousky, V. M., & Dennis, S. J. (2022). Sources of interference in memory across development. Psychological Science, 33, 1154-1171. PMID: 35723971, PMCID: PMC9343861, DOI: 10.1177/09567976211073131.
  • Darby, K. P., Sederberg, P. B., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2022). Intraobject and extraobject memory binding across early development. Developmental Psychology58, 1237-1253. PMID: 35311310, PMCID: PMC9302034, DOI: 10.1037/dev0001355
  • Savic, O., Unger, L. & Sloutsky, V.M. (2022). Exposure to co-occurrence regularities in language drives semantic integration of new words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition48, 1064-1081. PMID: 35389699  DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001122.
  • Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2022). Ready to learn: incidental exposure fosters novel category learning. Psychological Science, 33, 999-1019. PMID: 35617541, PMCID: PMC9343890, DOI: 10.1177/09567976211061470.
  • Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2022). Category exceptions change category boundaries. In Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., Ramenzoni, V. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3515-3521). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Ralston, R., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2022). Query-based memory approximates rational induction: Application to infant statistical learning. In Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., Ramenzoni, V. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3579-3586). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

2021

  • Castro, L., Yang, S., Savic, O., Sloutsky, V. M., & Wasserman, E. A. (2021). Not all exceptions are created equal: Learning of exceptions in pigeons’ categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 1344–1353.
  • Yim, H., Dennis, S., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2021). Examining three-way binding as a constraint on statistical learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition47, 75-86.
  • Blanco, N. J., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2021). Systematic exploration and uncertainty dominate young children’s choices. Developmental Science, 24, e13026DOI: 10.1111/desc.13026.
  • Ralston, R., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2021). Arc length has a geometric constraint for psychological spaces. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1299-1305). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2021).  Category learning is shaped by the multifaceted development of selective attention. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2052-2058). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Yim, H., Savic, O., Barkhimer, A., Sloutsky, V.M., & Dennis, S. J. (2021). The mystery of early taxonomic development. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3103-3109). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

2020

  • Darby, K. P., Deng, W., Walther, D.B., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2020). The development of attention to objects and scenes: From object-biased to unbiased. Child Development. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13469
  • Castro, L., Savic, O., Navarro, V., Sloutsky, V.M., & Wasserman, E. A. (2020). Selective and distributed attention in human and pigeon category learning. Cognition204, 104350.
  • Blanco, N. J., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2020). Attentional mechanisms drive systematic exploration in young children. Cognition. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104327
  • Kaminski, J. A., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2020). The use and effectiveness of colorful, contextualized, student-made material for elementary mathematics instruction. International Journal of STEM Education. doi.org/10.1186/s40594-019-0199-7
  • Unger, L. Savic, O. & Sloutsky, V.M. (2020). Statistical regularities shape semantic organization throughout development Cognition. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104190
  • Unger, L., Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2020).  Simple mechanisms, rich structure: Statistical co-occurrence regularities in language shape the development of semantic knowledge. In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 130-136). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Unger, L., Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2020).  Becoming organized: how simple learning mechanisms may shape the development of rich semantic knowledge. In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 137-143). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

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