| 2025 | CogSci | Language production is harder than comprehension for children and language models. | Jennifer Hu, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Steven Y. Feng, Michael C. Frank |
| 2025 | CogSci | Idiosyncratic but not opaque: Linguistic conventions formed in reference games are interpretable by nave humans and vision-language models. | Veronica Boyce, Ben Prystawski, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2025 | CogSci | Preschoolers can form conventional pacts with each other to communicate about novel referents. | Veronica Boyce, Robert Z. Sparks, Yannick Jenga Mofor, Michael C. Frank |
| 2025 | CogSci | Individual differences in habituation predict dishabituation magnitude in adults and infants. | Anjie Cao, Qiong Cao, Michael C. Frank, Shari Liu |
| 2025 | CogSci | The origins of syntactic category biases: Evidence from early vocabularies of bilingual children. | Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2025 | CogSci | The Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE) Battery - A scalable assessment of cognitive development in infancy. | Elena Tenenbaum, Miranda Harris, My Vu, Ashleigh Waterman, Caitlin Stone, Casey Lew-Williams, Kiley Hamlin, Sudha Arunachalam, Melissa Kline, Elika Bergelson, Michael C. Frank, Melissa E. Libertus, Jordan Grapel, Stephen J. Sheinkopf, Jennifer Wagner |
| 2025 | CogSci | Simulating variation in infant-caregiver attachment using reinforcement learning. | Xijia Zhou, Chris Doyle, Logan Matthew Cross, Michael C. Frank, Nick Haber |
| 2025 | CogSci | Investigating children's performance on object- and picture-based vocabulary assessments in global contexts: Evidence from Kisumu, Kenya. | Rebecca Zhu, Tabitha Nduku, Joab Ochieng Arieda, Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Examining the robustness and generalizability of the shape bias: a meta-analysis. | Samah Abdelrahim, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Predicting graded dishabituation in a rational learning model using perceptual stimulus embeddings. | Anjie Cao, Gal Raz, Rebecca Saxe, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Cognitive diversity in context: US-China differences in children's reasoning, visual attention, and social cognition. | Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Di Liu, Yichun Liu, Minh Khong Bui, Jiayi Wang-Zhao, Ai Nghi Diep, Qi Han, Michael C. Frank, Caren M. Walker |
| 2024 | CogSci | Show or Tell? Preschool-aged children adapt their communication to their partner's auditory access. | Aaron Chuey, Catherine Qing, Rondeline M. Williams, Michael C. Frank, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2024 | CogSci | A large-scale comparison of cross-situational word learning models. | George Kachergis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Modeling Social Learning Through Demonstration in Multi-Armed Bandits. | Julio Martinez, Michael C. Frank, Nick Haber |
| 2024 | CogSci | Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners. | Katherine Adams Shannon, Aneesa Conine-Nakano, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Michael C. Frank, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2024 | CogSci | Characterizing Contextual Variation in Children's Preschool Language Environment Using Naturalistic Egocentric Videos. | Robert Z. Sparks, Bria Long, Grace E. Keene, Malia J. Perez, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Virginia A. Marchman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Using Psychometrics to Improve Cognitive Models-and Theory. | Alvin Wei Ming Tan, George Kachergis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Predicting ages of acquisition for children's early vocabulary across 27 languages and dialects. | Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Georgia-Rengina Loukatou, Mika Braginsky, Jessica Mankewitz, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Simulating Infants' Attachment: Behavioral Patterns of Caregiver Proximity Seeking and Environment Exploration Using Reinforcement Learning Models. | Xijia Zhou, Chris Doyle, Michael C. Frank, Nick Haber |
| 2023 | CogSci | Communicative reduction in referring expressions within a multi-player negotiation game. | Veronica Boyce, Michael C. Frank |
| 2023 | CogSci | A synthesis of early cognitive and language development using (meta-)meta-analysis. | Anjie Cao, Molly Lewis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2023 | CogSci | Cognitive diversity in context: US-China developmental trajectories on 4 tasks in 3-12yos. | Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Di Liu, Yichun Liu, Minh Khong Bui, Jiayi Wang-Zhao, Qi Han, Caren M. Walker, Michael C. Frank |
| 2023 | CogSci | Re-examining cross-cultural similarity judgments using language statistics. | Khuyen Nha Le, Shan Gao, Michael C. Frank, Alexandra Carstensen |
| 2023 | CogSci | No evidence for familiarity preferences after limited exposure to visual concepts in preschoolers and infants. | Gal Raz, Anjie Cao, Minh Khong Bui, Michael C. Frank, Rebecca Saxe |
| 2023 | CogSci | Measuring Children's Early Vocabulary in Low-Resource Languages Using a Swadesh-style Word List. | Alvin Wei Ming Tan, George Kachergis, Virginia A. Marchman, Philip S. Dale, Michael C. Frank |
| 2023 | CogSci | Preschool children reason about third-party goals when evaluating acoustic environments. | Rondeline M. Williams, Michael C. Frank |
| 2023 | CogSci | Adults tailor their emotional expressions to infants through "emotionese". | Yang Wu, Isobel Taylor, Hanqi Chen, Michael C. Frank |
| 2022 | CogSci | Two's company but six is a crowd: emergence of conventions in multiparty communication games. | Veronica Boyce, Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2022 | CogSci | Habituation reflects optimal exploration over noisy perceptual samples. | Anjie Cao, Gal Raz, Rebecca Saxe, Michael C. Frank |
| 2022 | CogSci | Bridging cultural and cognitive perspectives on similarity reasoning. | Alexandra Carstensen, Chiara Saponaro, Michael C. Frank, Caren M. Walker |
| 2022 | CogSci | Young children's reasoning about the epistemic consequences of auditory noise. | Aaron Chuey, Rondeline M. Williams, Michael C. Frank, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2022 | CogSci | Estimating demographic bias on tests of children's early vocabulary. | George Kachergis, Nathan Francis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2022 | CogSci | Identifying the distributional sources of children's early vocabulary. | George Kachergis, Georgia-Rengina Loukatou, Michael C. Frank |
| 2022 | CogSci | Measuring social curiosity-driven attentional differences in children with autism using an augmented reality-based phone app. | Samaher Radwan, Aaron Kline, Alejandro Galindo, Michael C. Frank, Dennis P. Wall, Nick Haber |
| 2022 | CogSci | Selection of goal-consistent acoustic environments by adults and preschool-aged children. | Rondeline M. Williams, Michael C. Frank |
| 2022 | CogSci | Angry, sad, or scared? Within-valence mapping of emotion words to facial and body cues in 2- to 4-year old children. | Yang Wu, Hannah Matteson, Claire M. Baker, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CogSci | Investigating cross-cultural differences in reasoning, vision, and social cognition through replication. | Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Shan Gao, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CogSci | Characterizing the development of relational reasoning in India. | Alexandra Carstensen, Tania Dhaliwal, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CogSci | Measuring and predicting variation in the interestingness of physical structures. | Cameron Holdaway, Daniel M. Bear, Samaher Radwan, Michael C. Frank, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan |
| 2021 | CogSci | A large-scale comparison of cross-situational word learning models. | George Kachergis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CogSci | Predicting children's and adults' preferences in physical interactions via physics simulation. | George Kachergis, Samaher Radwan, Bria Long, Judith E. Fan, Michael Lingelbach, Daniel M. Bear, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CogSci | Re-examining cross-cultural similarity judgements using lexical co-occurrence. | Khuyen Nha Le, Alexandra Carstensen, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CogSci | Characterizing the object categories two children see and interact with in a dense dataset of naturalistic visual experience. | Bria Long, George Kachergis, Naiti S. Bhatt, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CogSci | Syntactic adaptation and word learning in French and English. | Elizabeth Swanson, Michael C. Frank, Judith Degen |
| 2021 | CogSci | Integrating emotional expressions with utterances in pragmatic inference. | Yang Wu, Michael Henry Tessler, Mika Asaba, Peter Zhu, Hyowon Gweon, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CogSci | Peekbank: Exploring children's word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data. | Martin Zettersten, Claire Augusta Bergey, Naiti S. Bhatt, Veronica Boyce, Mika Braginsky, Alexandra Carstensen, Benjamin deMayo, George Kachergis, Molly Lewis, Bria Long, Kyle MacDonald, Jessica Mankewitz, Stephan C. Meylan, Annissa Noor Saleh, Rose M. Schneider, Angeline Sin Mei Tsui, Sarp Uner, Tian (Linger) Xu, Dan Yurovsky, Michael C. Frank |
| 2021 | CoNLL | The Emergence of the Shape Bias Results from Communicative Efficiency. | Eva Portelance, Michael C. Frank, Dan Jurafsky, Alessandro Sordoni, Romain Laroche |
| 2020 | CogSci | Characterizing the relationship between lexical and morphological development. | Mika Braginsky, Virginia A. Marchman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2020 | CogSci | Discovering Conceptual Hierarchy Through Explicit and Implicit Cues in Child-Directed Speech. | Abdellah Fourtassi, Kyra Wilson, Michael C. Frank |
| 2020 | CogSci | Relational reasoning and generalization using non-symbolic neural networks. | Atticus Geiger, Alexandra Carstensen, Michael C. Frank, Christopher Potts |
| 2020 | CogSci | Detecting social information in a dense database of infants' natural visual experience. | Bria Long, George Kachergis, Ketan Agrawal, Michael C. Frank |
| 2020 | CogSci | Predicting Age of Acquisition in Early Word Learning Using Recurrent Neural Networks. | Eva Portelance, Judith Degen, Michael C. Frank |
| 2020 | CogSci | Semantic Adaptation in Quantifier Meanings in Preschool Aged Children. | Sophie Regan, Sebastian Schuster, Judith Degen, Michael C. Frank |
| 2020 | CogSci | The latent factor structure of developmental change in early childhood. | Ben Stenhaug, Michael C. Frank |
| 2020 | CogSci | Should we always log-transform looking time data in infancy research? | Angeline Sin Mei Tsui, Michael C. Frank, Patricia . Brosseau-Liard |
| 2019 | CogSci | Integrating Common Ground and Informativeness in Pragmatic Word Learning. | Manuel Bohn, Michael Henry Tessler, Michael C. Frank |
| 2019 | CogSci | Continuous developmental change can explain discontinuities in word learning. | Abdellah Fourtassi, Sophie Regan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2019 | CogSci | Developmental changes in the ability to draw distinctive features of object categories. | Bria Long, Judith W. Fan, Zixian Chai, Michael C. Frank |
| 2019 | CogSci | Integration of gaze information during online language comprehension and learning. | Kyle MacDonald, Elizabeth Swanson, Michael C. Frank |
| 2019 | CogSci | The interactions of rational, pragmatic agents lead to efficient language structure and use. | Benjamin N. Peloquin, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2019 | CogSci | Preschool children's understanding of polite requests. | Erica J. Yoon, Michael C. Frank |
| 2018 | CogSci | Young children use statistical evidence to infer the informativeness of praise. | Mika Asaba, Emily Hembacher, Helen Qiu, Brett Anderson, Michael C. Frank, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2018 | CogSci | Word Learning as Network Growth: A Cross-linguistic Analysis. | Abdellah Fourtassi, Yuan Bian, Michael C. Frank |
| 2018 | CogSci | Conceptual and prosodic cues in child-directed speech can help children learn the meaning of disjunction. | Masoud Jasbi, Akshay Jaggi, Michael C. Frank |
| 2018 | CogSci | Drawings as a window into developmental changes in object representations. | Bria Long, Judith E. Fan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2018 | CogSci | Adults and preschoolers seek visual information to support language comprehension in noisy environments. | Kyle MacDonald, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, Michael C. Frank |
| 2018 | CogSci | Individual variation in children's early production of negation. | Ann Nordmeyer, Michael C. Frank |
| 2018 | CogSci | Deriving uniform information density behavior in pragmatic agents. | Benjamin N. Peloquin, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2018 | CogSci | Postural developments modulate children's visual access to social information. | Alessandro Snchez, Bria Long, Allison M. Kraus, Michael C. Frank |
| 2018 | CogSci | Balancing informational and social goals in active learning. | Erica J. Yoon, Kyle MacDonald, Mika Asaba, Hyowon Gweon, Michael C. Frank |
| 2017 | ACL | Alignment at Work: Using Language to Distinguish the Internalization and Self-Regulation Components of Cultural Fit in Organizations. | Gabriel Doyle, Amir Goldberg, Sameer Srivastava, Michael C. Frank |
| 2017 | CogSci | Word Identification Under Multimodal Uncertainty. | Abdellah Fourtassi, Michael C. Frank |
| 2017 | CogSci | Children's social referencing reflects sensitivity to graded uncertainty. | Emily Hembacher, Benjamin deMayo, Michael C. Frank |
| 2017 | CogSci | The Semantics and Pragmatics of Logical Connectives: Adults' and Children's Interpretations of And and Or in a Guessing Game. | Masoud Jasbi, Michael C. Frank |
| 2017 | CogSci | An information-seeking account of eye movements during spoken and signed language comprehension. | Kyle MacDonald, Aviva Blonder, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, Michael C. Frank |
| 2017 | CogSci | "I won't lie, it wasn't amazing": Modeling polite indirect speech. | Erica J. Yoon, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2017 | Interspeech | MetaLab: A Repository for Meta-Analyses on Language Development, and More. | Sho Tsuji, Christina Bergmann, Molly Lewis, Mika Braginsky, Page Piccinini, Michael C. Frank, Alejandrina Cristi |
| 2016 | ACL | Investigating the Sources of Linguistic Alignment in Conversation. | Gabriel Doyle, Michael C. Frank |
| 2016 | CogSci | A performance model for early word learning. | Michael C. Frank, Molly Lewis, Kyle MacDonald |
| 2016 | CogSci | Measuring lay theories of parenting and child development. | Emily Hembacher, Michael C. Frank |
| 2016 | CogSci | Linguistic niches emerge from pressures at multiple timescales. | Molly Lewis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2016 | CogSci | A speed-accuracy trade-off in children's processing of scalar implicatures. | Rose M. Schneider, Michael C. Frank |
| 2016 | CogSci | Talking with tact: Polite language as a balance between informativity and kindness. | Erica J. Yoon, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2016 | CogSci | Linguistic input is tuned to children's developmental level. | Daniel Yurovsky, Gabriel Doyle, Michael C. Frank |
| 2016 | MICCAI | Vision-Based Classification of Developmental Disorders Using Eye-Movements. | Guido Pusiol, Andre Esteva, Scott S. Hall, Michael C. Frank, Arnold Milstein, Li Fei-Fei |
| 2016 | WWW | A Robust Framework for Estimating Linguistic Alignment in Twitter Conversations. | Gabriel Doyle, Daniel Yurovsky, Michael C. Frank |
| 2015 | CogSci | Developmental Changes in the Relationship Between Grammar and the Lexicon. | Mika Braginsky, Daniel Yurovsky, Virginia A. Marchman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2015 | CogSci | Sources of developmental change in pragmatic inferences about scalar terms. | Alexandra Horowitz, Michael C. Frank |
| 2015 | CogSci | Referential cues modulate attention and memory during cross-situational word learning. | Kyle MacDonald, Daniel Yurovsky, Michael C. Frank |
| 2015 | CogSci | The pragmatics of negation across contexts. | Ann Nordmeyer, Michael C. Frank |
| 2015 | CogSci | Children's Online Processing of Ad-Hoc Implicatures. | Erica J. Yoon, Yunan Charles Wu, Michael C. Frank |
| 2015 | CogSci | Signatures of Domain-General Categorization Mechanisms in Color Word Learning. | Daniel Yurovsky, Katie Wagner, David Barner, Michael C. Frank |
| 2015 | Interspeech | Unsupervised word discovery from speech using automatic segmentation into syllable-like units. | Okko Rsnen, Gabriel Doyle, Michael C. Frank |
| 2015 | NAACL | Shared common ground influences information density in microblog texts. | Gabriel Doyle, Michael C. Frank |
| 2014 | CogSci | Multi-modal Symbolic Representations of Number: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mental Abacus, but Were Afraid to Ask. | David Barner, George A. Alvarez, Mahesh Srinivasan, Neon Brooks, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Jessica Sullivan, Katie Wagner, Michael C. Frank |
| 2014 | CogSci | Modeling the dynamics of classroom education using teaching games. | Michael C. Frank |
| 2014 | CogSci | Preschoolers infer contrast from adjectives if they can access lexical alternatives. | Alexandra Horowitz, Michael C. Frank |
| 2014 | CogSci | The structure of the lexicon reflects principles of communication. | Molly Lewis, Elise Sugarman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2014 | CogSci | A pragmatic account of the processing of negative sentences. | Ann Nordmeyer, Michael C. Frank |
| 2014 | CogSci | Discovering the Signatures of Joint Attention in Child-Caregiver Interaction. | Guido Pusiol, Laura Soriano, Michael C. Frank, Li Fei-Fei |
| 2014 | CogSci | Learning to Reason Pragmatically with Cognitive Limitations. | Adam Vogel, Andrs Gomz Emilsson, Michael C. Frank, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher Potts |
| 2014 | CogSci | Beyond Naive Cue Combination: Salience and Social Cues in Early Word Learning. | Daniel Yurovsky, Michael C. Frank |
| 2013 | CogSci | The development of predictive processes in children's discourse understanding. | Marisa Casillas, Michael C. Frank |
| 2013 | CogSci | Developmental and postural changes in children's visual access to faces. | Michael C. Frank, Kaia Simmons, Daniel Yurovsky, Guido Pusiol |
| 2013 | CogSci | Young children's developing sensitivity to discourse continuity as a cue to reference. | Alexandra Horowitz, Michael C. Frank |
| 2013 | CogSci | Modeling disambiguation in word learning via multiple probabilistic constraints. | Molly Lewis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2013 | CogSci | An integrated model of concept learning and word-concept mapping. | Molly Lewis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2013 | CogSci | Modeling the Development of Determiner Productivity in Children's Early Speech. | Stephan C. Meylan, Michael C. Frank, Roger Levy |
| 2013 | CogSci | Measuring the comprehension of negation in 2- to 4-year-old children. | Ann Nordmeyer, Michael C. Frank |
| 2013 | CogSci | Online Processing of Speech and Social Information in Early Word Learning. | Daniel Yurovsky, Anna Wade, Michael C. Frank |
| 2012 | ACL | Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reduction. | Mark Johnson, Katherine Demuth, Michael C. Frank |
| 2012 | CogSci | Measuring children's visual access to social information using face detection. | Michael C. Frank |
| 2012 | CogSci | Learning from speaker word choice by assuming adjectives are informative. | Alexandra Horowitz, Michael C. Frank |
| 2012 | CogSci | Semantic Coherence Facilitates Distributional Learning of Word Meanings. | Long Ouyang, Lera Boroditsky, Michael C. Frank |
| 2012 | CogSci | Relating Activity Contexts to Early Word Learning in Dense Longitudinal Data. | Brandon Roy, Michael C. Frank, Deb Roy |
| 2012 | CogSci | Zero anaphora and object reference in Japanese child-directed speech. | Cybelle Smith, Michael C. Frank |
| 2011 | CogSci | Placeholder structure and numerical computation. | David Barner, Neon Brooks, Michael C. Frank, Elizabet Spaepen |
| 2011 | CogSci | Zipfian word frequencies support statistical word segmentation. | Chigusa Kurumada, Stephan C. Meylan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2011 | CogSci | Markers of Discourse Structure in Child-Directed Speech. | Hannah Rohde, Michael C. Frank |
| 2011 | CogSci | Ad-hoc scalar implicature in adults and children. | Alex Stiller, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2011 | CogSci | The learnability of constructed languages reflects typological patterns. | Harry J. Tily, Michael C. Frank, T. Florian Jaeger |
| 2011 | CogSci | Thinking for Seeing: Enculturation of Visual-Referential Expertise as Demonstrated by Photo-Triggered Perceptual Reorganization of Two-Tone "Mooney" Images. | Jennifer M. D. Yoon, Nathan Witthoft, Jonathan Winawer, Michael C. Frank, Edward Gibson, Ellen M. Markman |
| 2010 | NAACL | Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech. | Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson, Michael C. Frank |
| 2009 | CoNLL | Modeling Word Learning As Communicative Inference. | Michael C. Frank |