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Categorization in 3- and 4-Month-Old Infants: An Advantage of Words Over Tones by Ferry, Alissa L., Hespos, Susan J., Waxman, Sandra R.

“…Neonates prefer human speech to other nonlinguistic auditory stimuli. However, it remains an open question whether there are any conceptual consequences of…”
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Nonhuman primate vocalizations support categorization in very young human infants by Ferry, Alissa L., Hespos, Susan J., Waxman, Sandra R.

“…Language is a signature of our species and our primary conduit for conveying the contents of our minds. The power of language derives not only from the…”
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Integration of thought and action continued: Scale errors and categorization in toddlers by Arterberry, Martha E., Hespos, Susan J., Walsh, Cole A., Daniels, Carolyn I.

“…To further explore the effect of weighted arms on toddler's performance in problem solving (Arterberry et al., 2018, Infancy, 23(2), 173), the present study…”
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Five-Month-Old Infants Have General Knowledge of How Nonsolid Substances Behave and Interact by Hespos, Susan J., Ferry, Alissa L., Anderson, Erin M., Hollenbeck, Emily N., Rips, Lance J.

“…Experience puts people in touch with nonsolid substances, such as water, blood, and milk, which are crucial to survival. People must be able to understand the…”
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Infants Make Quantity Discriminations for Substances by Hespos, Susan J., Dora, Begum, Rips, Lance J., Christie, Stella

“…Infants can track small groups of solid objects, and infants can respond when these quantities change. But earlier work is equivocal about whether infants can…”
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Five-Month-Old Infants Have Different Expectations for Solids and Liquids by Hespos, Susan J., Ferry, Alissa L., Rips, Lance J.

“…Many studies have established that 2-month-old infants have knowledge of solid objects' basic physical properties. Evidence about infants' understanding of…”
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Infants' Ability to Parse Continuous Actions by Hespos, Susan J, Saylor, Megan M, Grossman, Stacy R

“…In a series of 3 experiments, the authors examined 6- and 8-month-old infants' capacities to detect target actions in a continuous action sequence. In…”
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Prelinguistic Relational Concepts: Investigating Analogical Processing in Infants by Ferry, Alissa L., Hespos, Susan J., Gentner, Dedre

“…This research asks whether analogical processing ability is present in human infants, using the simplest and most basic relation—the same–different relation…”
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Infants' Knowledge about Occlusion and Containment Events: A Surprising Discrepancy by Hespos, Susan J., Baillargeon, Renée

“…The present research examined whether infants acquire general principles or more specific rules when learning about physical events. Experiments 1 and 2…”
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Substances as a core domain by Hespos, Susan J, Rips, Lance J

“…Central to (Spelke, ) is the thesis that infants' understanding is divided into independent modules of core knowledge. As a test case, we consider adding a new…”
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Automated analysis of written narratives reveals abnormalities in referential cohesion in youth at ultra high risk for psychosis by Gupta, Tina, Hespos, Susan J, Horton, William S, Mittal, Vijay A

“…Abstract Schizophrenia and at-risk populations are suggested to exhibit referential cohesion deficits in language production (e.g., producing fewer pronouns or…”
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Divisions of the Physical World: Concepts of Objects and Substances by Rips, Lance J., Hespos, Susan J.

“…Our concepts of the physical world distinguish objects, such as chairs, from substances, such as quantities of wood, that constitute them. A particular chair…”
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Concepts of objects and substances in language by Rips, Lance J., Hespos, Susan J.

“…People distinguish objects from the substances that constitute them. Many languages also distinguish count nouns and mass nouns. What is the relation between…”
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Five-month-old infants have expectations for the accumulation of nonsolid substances by Anderson, Erin M., Hespos, Susan J., Rips, Lance J.

“…Infants fail to represent quantities of non-cohesive substances in paradigms where they succeed with solid objects. Some investigators have interpreted these…”
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Conceptual precursors to language by Hespos, Susan J, Spelke, Elizabeth S

“…Because human languages vary in sound and meaning, children must learn which distinctions their language uses. For speech perception, this learning is…”
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Young infants’ actions reveal their developing knowledge of support variables: Converging evidence for violation-of-expectation findings by Hespos, Susan J., Baillargeon, Renée

“…Violation-of-expectation (VOE) tasks have revealed substantial developments in young infants’ knowledge about support events: by 5.5 months, infants expect an…”
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How similar are objects and events? by Wellwood, Alexis, Hespos, Susan J, Rips, Lance

“…Semanticists often assume an ontology for natural language that includes not only ordinary objects, but also events, and other sorts of entities. We link this…”
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Integration of Thought and Action: Arm Weights Facilitate Search Accuracy in 24‐Month‐Old Children by Arterberry, Martha E., Hespos, Susan J., Herth, Rachel A.

“…Search errors are common in cognitive tasks with infants and toddlers, and these errors reveal important insights to the development of competence and…”
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Physics for infants: characterizing the origins of knowledge about objects, substances, and number by Hespos, Susan J., vanMarle, Kristy

“…Adults possess a great deal of knowledge about how objects behave and interact in our every day environment, yet several puzzles remain unsolved regarding how…”
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Décalage in infants' knowledge about occlusion and containment events: Converging evidence from action tasks by Hespos, Susan J., Baillargeon, Renée

“…In the present research, 6-month-old infants consistently searched for a tall toy behind a tall as opposed to a short occluder. However, when the same toy was…”
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