Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D.

 

Books:

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Berk, L.  & Singer, D. (2009)  A mandate for playful learning in preschool: Presenting the evidence.  NY: Oxford University Press.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. (2007) Celebrate the scribble: Appreciating children’s art. Allentown, Crayola Press.

Singer, D., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K.  (Eds.) (2006) Play=Learning:  How play motivates and enhances children’s cognitive and social-emotional growth. New York, NY:  Oxford University Press.

Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. (Eds.) (2006). Action meets word: How children learn verbs.  New York: Oxford University Press

NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2005) Child Care and Child Development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. New York: Guildford Publications.

Hirsh-Pasek, K. , Golinkoff, R.,  (2003)  Einstein never used flashcards:  How our children really learn and why they need to play more and memorize less. Emmaus,. Rodale Press (translations in Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese)

Golinkoff, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K.,  Akhtar, N., Bloom, L., Hollich, G., (2000) Becoming word learner: A debate on lexical acquisition?  NY: Oxford University Press        

Hollich, G.  Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. (2000) Breaking the language barrier: An emergentist coalition model for the origins of word learning.   Monographs for the Society for Research in Child Development. Serial number 262

Golinkoff, R. & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1999) How babies talk:The magic and mystery of language acquisition. New York: Dutton/Penguin (translated into French, Italian, Spanish).

Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R.M., (1996) The Origins of grammar: Evidence from comprehension, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Rescorla, L., Hyson, M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K., (Eds.)  (1991) Academic instruction in early childhood:  Challenge or pressure?  In W. Damon (Gen. Editor) New Directions in Developmental Psychology, 53, New York: Jossey-Bass.

Representative peer reviewed manuscripts:

Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Parish-Morris, J. & Golinkoff, R.M. (in press) Live action: Can young children learn verbs from video? Child Development.

Ma, W., Golinkoff, R.M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., McDonough, C., & Tardiff, T. (in press) Imaginethat!: Imageability predicts verb learning in Chinese children. Journal of Child Language

Roseberry, S., Goksun, T. & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (in press) In season? A review of Katherine Nelson’s Young minds in social worlds. Journal of Child Language

Golinkoff, R. M., Pence, K., Brand, R., & Hirsh-Pasek, K.  (in press). Do actions always speak louder than words?:  Infant-directed speech as a tool for the acquisition of verbs and the parsing of action events. In T. Bowers (Ed.), Festschrift for Richard Venezky.

Parish, J., Ma, W., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M. (in press) A world of relations: relational words. In B. Malt & P. Wolf. Words and the world: How words capture the human experience. Oxford University Press.

Golinkoff, R., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2008). How toddlers learn verbs. Trends in Cognitive Science,12, 10, 397-403

Pulverman, R., Sootsman, J., Golinkoff, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., (2008)  Manners Matter: Infants’ Attention to Manner and Path in Non-Linguistic Dynamic Events. Cognition, 108, 825-830.

Imai, M., Li, L., Haryu, E., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Shigematsu, J. (2008) Novel noun and verb learning in Chinese, English, and Japanese children:  Universality and language-specificity in novel noun and verb learning. Child Development, 79, 979-1000

Maguire, M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. (2008) Focusing on the relation: Fewer exemplars facilitate children's initial verb learning and extension. Developmental Science, 11,4, 628-634. 

Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. (2008) King Solomon’s Take on Word Learning: An Integrative Account from the Radical Middle. Advances in Child Development and Behavior,  (Volume 36 pp. 2-29). Oxford, UK: Elsevier

Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. & Glick, R. (2008) Conceptual split? Parents and experts’ perception of play in the 21st century. Applied Developmental Psychology. 29, 305-316

Brandone, A. C., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2008). Feasibility of computer-administered language assessment. Perspectives on School-Based Issues, 9, 57-65.

Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2008) Language acquisition in childhood. In W. Donsbach (Ed), The Blackwell international encyclopedia of communication, Vol. VI (pp. 2636-2638). Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell..

Pruden, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Shallcross, W. L., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2008). Foundations of verb learning: Comparison helps infants abstract event components. In H. Chan, H. Jacob, & E. Kapia (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2, 402-414. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press        

Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. (2008). Brains in a box:  Do new age toys deliver on the promise? Harwood, R. Child development in a changing society, 1st ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Press.

Pruden, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. (2008) Current events: How infants parse events for language. In T. Shipley & J. Zachs (Eds.) Understanding Events. New York: Oxford University Press. 160-193

Hirsh-Pasek, K. Bruer, J. (2007) The Brain/Education Barrier. Science, 317,  1293.

Hollich, G., Golinkoff, R. M. & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007) Labels to Whole Objects Over Salient Parts. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1051-1061.

Brandone, A., Pence, K., Golinkoff, R.M., Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007) Action Speaks Louder Than Words: Young Children Differentially Weight Perceptual, Social, and Linguistic Cues to  Learn Verbs.  Child Development, 78, 1342-1343.

Brandone, A., Golinkoff, R. M., Pulverman, R., Maguire, M. J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Pruden, S. (2007).  Speaking for the wordless:  Methods for studying cognitive linguistic constructs in infants.  In M. Gonzalez-Marquez, I. Mittelberg, S. Coulson, & M. Spivey (Eds.), Methods in cognitive linguistics.  (345-366) Amsterdam:  John Benjamins

Parish-Morris, J., Hennon, E., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.,M. & Tager-Flusberg, H.  (2007) Children with Autism Illuminate the Role of Social Intention in Word Learning. Child Development, 78, 1255-1265.

Haryu, E., Imai, M., Okada, H., Li, L., Meyer, M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2007).  Noun bias in Chinese children:  Novel noun and verb learning in Chinese, Japanese, and English preschoolers.  Proceedings of the Boston Child Language meetings.

Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2007). From the lab to the living room: Stories that talk the talk and take the walk. In M. K. Welch-Ross & L. G. Fasig (Eds.), Handbook on communicating and disseminating behavioral science.  CA: Sage.     

Song, L., Golinkoff, R. M., Seston, R., Ma, W., Shallcross, W., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007). Action stations: verb learning rests on constructing categories of action. Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development

Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2007). How to choose toys for your baby. In S. Ettus (Ed.), The experts’ guide to the baby years. New York, NY: Random House.

Golinkoff, R. & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007) Language development: The view from the radical middle. Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development.