| 2025 | CogSci | Are Global Statistics Discarded Statistics? An Investigation of What Types of Co-Occurrence Statistics Could Support the Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge. | Molly I. Niehaus, Tijana Slepcev, Catarina Vales |
| 2025 | CogSci | Racial diversity and racial representation in U.S. children's books. | Catarina Vales, Krista M. Aronson, Molly I. Niehaus, Anna V. Fisher |
| 2020 | CogSci | Does the effect of labels on sustained attention depend on target familiarity? | Emily Keebler, Catarina Vales, Jaeah Kim, Tishya Girdhar, Anna V. Fisher |
| 2018 | CogSci | Elementary school students' ability to activate related concepts in a domain predicts domain-based inferential reading comprehension. | Catarina Vales, Anna V. Fisher |
| 2018 | CogSci | More like a bee, less like a spider, and not like a tomato: Ecologically-valid enrichment experiences promote changes in how young children differentiate biological categories. | Catarina Vales, Sarah States, Anna V. Fisher |
| 2017 | CogSci | Cake or Hat? Words Change How Young Children Process Visual Objects. | Catarina Vales, Linda B. Smith |
| 2017 | CogSci | Looking for the Cat and Seeing the Dog: Using Visual Search to Study Semantic Knowledge in Children. | Catarina Vales, Layla Unger, Anna V. Fisher |
| 2014 | CogSci | Young children's activation and inhibition processes in a visual search task. | Viridiana L. Benitez, Catarina Vales, Linda B. Smith |
| 2014 | CogSci | How precise is the visual representation of a labeled target? | Catarina Vales, Linda B. Smith |
| 2013 | CogSci | An eyetracking study of children's relational thinking: The role of labels and sustained attention. | Paulo F. Carvalho, Catarina Vales, Caitlin M. Fausey, Linda B. Smith |
| 2013 | CogSci | Linguistic cued attention in children: Words organize attention to shape in a visual search task. | Catarina Vales, Linda B. Smith |