Selected Publications

Horst, J. S., Scott, E. J. & Pollard, J. A. (in press). The Role of Competition in Word Learning Via Referent Selection. Developmental Science. [email for pdf]

Horst, J. S., Ellis, A. E., Samuelson, L. K., Trejo, E., Worzalla, S., Peltan, J. & Oakes, L. M. (2009). Flexible Categorization in Toddlerhood: Same Objects, Same Session, Two Different Category Contrasts. Developmental Science, 12(1) 96-105. [email for pdf]

Oakes, L. M., Kovack-Lesh, K. A., & Horst, J. S., (2009). Two are better than one: Comparison influences infants' visual recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104(1) 124-131. [pdf]

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(3) 322-345. [pdf]

Horst, J. S. & Samuelson, L. K. (2008). Fast Mapping But Poor Retention in 24-Month-Old Infants. Infancy, 13(2), 128-157. [pdf]

Kovack-Lesh, K.A., Horst, J. S. & Oakes, L.M. (2008) The Cat is Out of the Bag: Previous Experience and Online Comparison Jointly Influence Infant Categorization. Infancy, 13(4) 285-307. [pdf]

Samuelson, L. K. & Horst, J. S. (2008). Confronting complexity: Insights from the details of behavior over multiple timescales. Developmental Science, 11(2), 209-215. [pdf]

Samuelson, L. K., Horst, J. S., Schutte, A. R. & Dobbertin, B. (2008). Rigid Thinking About Deformables. Do Children Sometimes over generalize the Shape Bias? Journal of Child Language, 35,559-589. [pdf]

Samuelson, L. K., & Horst, J. S. (2007). Dynamic noun generalization: Moment-to-moment interactions shape children's naming biases. Infancy, 11(1), 97-110. [pdf]

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. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. [pdf]

Samuelson, L. K., Horst, J. S., Dobbertin, B. N. & Schutte, A. R. (2006). Knowledge, Performance, and Task: Decalage and Dynamics in Young Children's Noun Generalizations. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. [pdf]

Horst, J. S., Oakes, L. M. & Madole, K. L. (2005). What Does It Look Like and What Can It Do? Category Structure Influences How Infants Categorize. Child Development, 76, 614-631. [pdf]