| 2024 | CogSci | Differential Metacognitive Activation in Intuitive versus Reflective Thinking in Classroom Assessment Test. | Tomohito Yamazaki, Mutsumi Imai |
| 2023 | CogSci | High Similarity Comparison Experience Helps Japanese- and English-speaking Children Learn New Verbs. | Jane B. Childers, Mutsumi Imai |
| 2022 | CogSci | The contingency symmetry bias as a foundation of word learning: Evidence from 8-mont-olds in a matching-to-sample task. | Mutsumi Imai, Chizuko Murai, Masato Ohba, Shohei Hidaka, Hiroyuki Okada, Kazuhide Hashiya |
| 2020 | CogSci | General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition: Insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children. | Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Gerlind Grosse, Cornelia Schulze, Michiko Asano, Henrik Saalbach |
| 2018 | CogSci | Symbol grounding and system construction in the color lexicon. | Mutsumi Imai, Shohei Hidaka, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba |
| 2016 | CogSci | Beyond the language explosion: What gradual word learning tells us about conceptual development. | Katharine Tillman, Katie Wagner, Junyi Chu, Mutsumi Imai, Barbara Malt, Sherri Widen, Marilyn Shatz |
| 2015 | CogSci | How do children construct the color lexicon? : Restructuring the domain as a connected system. | Noburo Saji, Michiko Asano, Midori Oishi, Mutsumi Imai |
| 2013 | CogSci | The facilitatory role of sound symbolism in infant word learning. | Michiko Miyazaki, Shohei Hidaka, Mutsumi Imai, H. Henny Yeung, Katerina Kantartzis, Hiroyuki Okada, Sotaro Kita |
| 2013 | CogSci | Cross-Linguistically Shared and Language-Specific Sound Symbolism for Motion: An Exploratory Data Mining Approach. | Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita |
| 2013 | CogSci | How to rectify the confirmation bias in Wason(1960)'s 2-4-6 task. | Tomohito Yamazaki, Mutsumi Imai |
| 2012 | CogSci | The role of comparison in structure learning: Developmental, learning science, and computational perspectives. | Stella Christie, Dedre Gentner, Mutsumi Imai, Etsuko Haryu, Hiroyuki Okada, Ji Y. Son, James W. Stigler, Leonidas A. A. Doumas, Robert G. Morrison, Lindsey E. Richland |
| 2012 | CogSci | Developmental Adjustment of Iconic Language in Care-Takers' Input. | Masato Ohba, Noburo Saji, Mutsumi Imai, Tomoko Matsui |
| 2012 | CogSci | The Internal Structures of Sound-Symbolic Systems: the Universal and Language-Specific Portions of Sound Symbolism. | Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita |
| 2011 | CogSci | Do words reveal concepts? | Barbara Malt, Eef Ameel, Silvia P. Gennari, Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Asifa Majid |
| 1999 | DIS | A Model of Children's Vocabulary Acquisition Using Inductive Logic Programming. | Koichi Furukawa, Ikuo Kobayashi, Tomonobu Ozaki, Mutsumi Imai |