2022
Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?
Yousif SR, Alexandrov E, Bennette E, Aslin RN, Keil FC. Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”? Developmental Science 2022, 25: e13235. PMID: 35064624, DOI: 10.1111/desc.13235.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsQuantity perceptionArea perceptionArea judgmentsPattern of resultsAdditive areaNumber judgmentsRobust illusionInteraction of numberChildren's useIndividual childrenHuman adultsPerceptionYoung childrenBody of workChildrenSpecific strategiesJudgmentsTaskAdultsIllusionWordsDimensionsSame kindOverall effectFindings
2017
Distributional learning of subcategories in an artificial grammar: Category generalization and subcategory restrictions
Reeder PA, Newport EL, Aslin RN. Distributional learning of subcategories in an artificial grammar: Category generalization and subcategory restrictions. Journal Of Memory And Language 2017, 97: 17-29. PMID: 29456288, PMCID: PMC5810951, DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.07.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDistributional cuesCategory acquisitionComplex linguistic structuresDistributional informationDistributional learning mechanismBody of workLanguage acquisitionLinguistic structureLexical itemsDistributional learningSyntactic contextArtificial grammarLearnersAcquisitionGrammarCategory generalizationLearning mechanismContextWorkLearningCuesResearchersRecent interest