PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Balcomb, F., Newcombe, N.S., & Ferrara, K.(2011). Finding where and saying where: Developmental relationships between place learning and language in the second year. Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 315-331.

Cromley, J. G., Perez, A. C, Fitzhugh, S., Tanaka, J., Newcombe, N., Shipley, T. F. & Wills, T. W. (2010). Improving students' diagrammatic reasoning: A classroom intervention study with eye tracking data. Revision requested by Journal of Educational Psychology, April, 2010.

Cromley, J. G., Snyder-Hogan, L. E. & Luciw-Dubas, U. A. (2010). Cognitive activities in complex science text and diagrams. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 35, 59–74. [doi: /10.1016/j.cedpsych.2009.10.002

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

Fisher, K., Marshall, M. & Nanayakkara, A. (2009). Motivational orientation, error monitoring, and academic performance in middle childhood: A behavioral and electrophysiological investigation. Mind, Brain, and Education.

Göksun, T., Küntay, A., & Naigles, L. (2008). Turkish children use morphosyntactic bootstrapping in interpreting verb meaning. Journal of Child Language, 35, 291-323.

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009). Processing figures and grounds in dynamic and static events. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord & G. Rheiner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 199-210). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010). Trading Spaces: Carving up events for learning language. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 33.

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010). How do preschoolers express cause in gesture and speech? Cognitive Development, 25, 56-68.

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, Golinkoff, R. M., Imai, M., Konishi, H., & Okada, H. (2011). Who iscrossing where?: Infants discrimination of figures and grounds in events. Cogniton, 121, 176-195.

Hegarty, M., Crookes, R.D., Dara-Abrams, D. & Shipley, T.F., (in press). Do all science disciplines rely on spatial abilities? Preliminary evidence from self-report questionnaires. To appear in C. Hölscher, T. F. Shipley, M. Olivetti, J. Bateman, & N. Newcombe (Eds.), Spatial Cognition VII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer.

Holden, M., Curby, K., Newcombe, N. S. & Shipley, T. F. (2010). A category adjustment approach to memory for spatial location in natural scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 36(3), 590-604.[doi: 10.1037/a0019293]

Holden, M., Curby, K., Newcombe, N. & Shipley, T.F. (2010). Spatial Memory: Hierarchical encoding of location in natural scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition, 36(3), 590-604.

Holden, M. P. & Newcombe, N. S. (in press). The development of adaptive spatial processing. In Nadel, L. & Waller, D. (Eds.), Handbook of spatial cognition. APA Books.

C. Hölscher, T. F. Shipley, M. Olivetti, J. Bateman & N. S. Newcombe, (Eds.) (2010). Spatial Cognition VII: Learning, reasoning and talking about space. Berlin: Spinger-Verlag.

Nardi, D., Funk, A., Newcombe, N. & Shipley, T. (2009). Reorientation by Slope Cues in Humans. Cognitive Processing, 10(2), 260-262. doi: 10.1007/s10339-009-0279-6.

Nardi, D., Newcombe, N. S. & Shipley, T. F. (2010). The world is not flat: Can people reorient using slope? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(2), 354-67. doi: 10.1037/a0021614.

Newcombe, N.S. (2007, November). Psychology's role in math and science. Monitor on Psychology, 8.

Newcombe, N.S. & Chiang, N. (2007). Learning geographical information from hypothetical maps. Memory and Cognition, 35, 895-909.

Newcombe, N. S. & Ratliff, K. R. (2007). Explaining the development of spatial reorientation: Modularity-plus-language versus the emergence of adaptive combination. In J. Plumert & J. Spencer (Eds.), The emerging spatial mind (pp. 53-76). Oxford University Press.

Newcombe, N. S., Ambady, N., Eccles, J., Gomez, L., Klahr, D., Linn, M., Miller, K. & Mix, K. (2009). Psychology's role in mathematics and science education. American Psychologist, 64, 538-550.

Newcombe, N.S., Ratliff, K.R., Shallcross, W. & Twyman, A.D. (2009). Young children's use of features to reorient is more than just associative: Further evidence against a modular view of spatial processing. Developmental Science, 12, 1-8. (first on-line version) [doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00877.x].

Newcombe, N. S. (2010). Picture this: Increasing math and science learning by improving spatial thinking. American Educator, Summer 2010, 29-43.

Newcombe, N. S., Ratliff, K. R., Shallcross, W. & Twyman, A. D. (2010). Young children's use of features to reorient is more than just associative: Further evidence against a modular view of spatial processing. Developmental Science, 13(1), 213-220.

Newcombe, N. S. & Shipley, T. F. (in press). Thinking about Spatial Thinking: New Typology, New Assessments. In J. S. Gero (Ed.), Studying visual and spatial reasoning for design creativity. Springer.

Newcombe, N.S. & Frick, A. (2010). Early education for spatial intelligence: Why, what and how. Mind, Brain and Education, 4, 102-111.

Newcombe, N. S., Uttal, D. H. & Sauter, M. (in press). Spatial Development [DRAFT]. In P. Zelazo (Ed)., Oxford handbook of developmental psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Resnick, I., Atit, K., & Shipley, T. F. (2010). Teaching geologic events to understand geologic time. Geological Society for America Special Volume. In Review.

Resnick, I., Atit, K., and Shipley, T.F., 2012, Teaching geologic events to understand
geologic time, in Kastens, K.A., and Manduca, C.A., eds., Earth and Mind II: A Synthesis of Research on Thinking and Learning in the Geosciences: Geological Society of America Special Paper 486,doi:10.1130/2012.2486(08).

Schinazi, V., Epstein, R., Nardi, D., Newcombe, N.S. & Shipley, T.F. (2009, November). The acquisition of spatial knowledge in an unfamiliar campus environment. Proceeding of50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. November 19–22, 2009. Boston, Massachusetts.

Shipley, T. F. (2008). An invitation to an event. In Shipley, T.F. & Zacks, J. M. (Eds.), Understanding Events: From Perception to Action. Oxford University Press.

Shipley, T. F. & Maguire, M. (2008). A geometrical approach to event segmentation. In Shipley, T.F. & Zacks, J. M. (Eds.), Understanding Events: From Perception to Action. Oxford University Press.

Shipley, T. F. & Zacks, J. (2008). Understanding Events: From Perception to Action. Edited book. Oxford University Press.

Shipley, T. & Roseberry, S., Holden, M. (in prep). Visual search for complex motion patterns: Finding human actions.

Twyman, A.D., Newcombe, N.S. & Gould, T.G. (2009). Of mice (Mus musculus) and toddlers (Homo sapiens): Evidence for species-general spatial reorientation. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 123, 342-345.

Twyman, A. D. & Newcombe, N. S. (2010). Five reasons to doubt the existence of a geometric module. Cognitive Science, 34(7), 1315-1356. [doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01081.x].

Weisberg, S.M. & Newcombe, N. S. The Role of Slope as a Navigational Cue. Poster presented at the 4^th annual inter-Science of Learning Center Conference (iSLC), Washington, D.C., 3/2011

Weisberg, S.M. & Newcombe, N.S. The Role of Slope in Learning a Virtual Environment. Poster presented at the SILC NSF Site Visit, Northwestern University, 5/2011

Weisberg, S.M., Schinazi, V., Newcombe, N.S., Epstein, R. A virtual environment assessment of navigation ability. Manuscript in preparation.

Weisberg, S.M., Nardi, D., Newcombe, N.S., Shipley, T. Gender differences in using slope to reorient: The effect of sensory modality. Manuscript in preparation.

Talks and Presentations

Atit, K., Tikoff, B., Shipley, T. F. (2010). Task development for reasoning about non-rigid transformations. Poster presented at Psi Chi Research Day 2010, Philadelphia, PA, April 2010.

Atit, K., Tikoff, B., Shipley, T. F. (2010). Task development for reasoning about non-rigid transformations. Poster presented at Third Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference, Boston, MA, May 2010.

Atit, K., Manduca, C. A., Ormand, C. J., Resnick, I., Shipley, T. F., & Tikoff, B. (2010). Reasoning about sequences of spatial events: How do geologists know what happened first? Poster presented at The Geological Society of America’s Annual Meeting 2010, Denver, CO, November 3, 2010.

Atit, K., Tikoff, B., & Shipley, T. F. (2010). Task development for reasoning about non-rigid transformations. Poster presented at The Psychonomics Society’s Annual Meeting 2010, St. Louis, MO, November 19, 2010.

Atit, K., Manduca, C. A., Ormand, C. J., Resnick, I., Shipley, T. F. & Tikoff, B. (2011). Reasoning about sequences of spatial events: How do geologists know what happened first? Poster presented at Fourth Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference, Washington DC, March 2011.

Atit, K. (2011). Spatial intelligence and learning center: Center overview iSLC 2011. Center introduction presentation at The Fourth Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference, Washington DC, March 25, 2011. .

Atit, K. (2011). Are geologists’ gestures codified? Presentation at the University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 14, 2011.

Fitzhugh, S.L., Göksun, T., Goldin-Meadow, S., Newcombe, N., & Shipley, T.F. (2009). Insights into mental transformations: Combining gesture, speech, and eye movements to understand mental rotation. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of Psychonomics, Boston, MA.

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Roseberry, S., Golinkoff, R. M. (2008, March). Processing events and learning relational terms: Figures are more prominent than Grounds. Paper presented in S. Pruden, & T. Göksun (chairs), Conceptual primitives for processing events and learning relational terms. Symposium at the XVIth International Society on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.

Göksun, T., Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. (2009, April). When is a path not a path? Spatial relationships account for infants' processing of path and manner. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Goksun, T., Roseberry, S., Pulverman, R., Pruden, S. (2008, April). Foundations of verb learning: How infants view motion events. Paper presented in A.Goldberg (organizer), Princeton University Mini-Conference on Language Acquisition.

Newcombe, N.S., Ratliff, K.R., Shallcross, W. & Twyman, A. (2009). Is cognitive modularity necessary in an evolutionary account of development? In L. Tommasi, L. Nadel & M.A. Peterson (Eds.), Cognitive biology: Evolutionary and developmental perspectives on mind, brain and behavior, Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology (pp. 105-126). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Resnick, I., Atit, K., Goksun, T., & Shipley, T. (2011). Experts’ and novices’ use of gesture in explaining geologic maps. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2011, Boston, MA, July 21, 2011.

Resnick, I., Shipley, T.F., Newcombe, N., Massey, C., Wills, T. (2011, October). Progressive Alignment of Geologic Time. Talk presented at 2011 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Resnick, I., Shipley, T. F., Manduca, C., Newcombe, N., Schilling, C. (2010, May). Spatial Cognition: Can Geologists Reverse Time? Third Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference, Boston, MA.

Resnick, I., Shipley, T. F., Manduca, C. Facilitation of Spatial Skills Necessary in Performing Geologic Transformations. Northeastern Section (45th Annual) and Southern Section (59th Annual) Joint Meeting. March 13-16, 2010, Baltimore, MD.

Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Shallcross, W., & Golinkoff, R.M. (2008, March). Where you're going trumps what you're doing: Infants prefer paths over manners in dynamic displays. Poster presented at the 16th International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.

Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M., Göksun, T. (2008, March). Distance categorization: Do relations matter? Paper presented in M. Lloyd (chair) Bringing language and memory development research together. Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Boston, MA.

Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M., Pruden, S.M. (2008, July). Finding the path: Infants notice path not distance in dynamic displays. Paper presented in T. Göksun and S. Pruden (chairs) Foundations for processing events and learning relational terms. International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh.

Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2009, February). When is a path not a path? Infant path categorization disappears in the absence of a ground object. Poster to be presented at the 2nd Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference, Seattle, WA.

Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Newcombe, N., Golinkoff, R., Novack, M., & Brayfield, R. (2009, April). Individual differences in early event perception predict later verb learning. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Shallcross, W.L., Göksun, T., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Lloyd, M., Newcombe, N., & Roseberry, S. (2008, March). Building talk: Parental utterances during construction play. Poster presented at the 16th International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.

Shipley, T. (2009). Spatial Visualization and the Role of Working Memory. Proceeding of GSA Annual Meeting. October 18-21. Portland, Oregon.

Weisberg, S.M. Reading in 3D: Training Contour Map Interpretation. Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, Temple University, 7/2011.

Weisberg, S.M. & Newcombe, N. S. Slope and Navigation: All Downhill? Third Annual Graduate Fellows Research Symposium, Temple University, 9/2011.