Journal Articles

Frank, M. C., Goodman, N. D., & Tenenbaum, J. (under review). Using speakers’ referential intentions to model early cross-situational word learning.

[materials] Frank, M. C., Vul, E., & Johnson, S. P. (under review). Development of infants' face preference during the first year.

Yoon, J., Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M. C., Everett, D. L., & Gibson, E. (under review). Cultural differences in photo-triggered perceptual reorganization

[pdf] Frank, M. C., Gibson, E., Fedorenko, E., & Everett, D. L. (in press). Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition. Cognition.

[pdf] Frank, M. C., Slemmer, J. A., Marcus, G., & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Information from multiple modalities helps five-month-olds learn abstract rules. Developmental Science.

Johnson, S. P., Davidow, J., Hall, C., & Frank, M. C., (in press). Development of perceptual completion originates in information acquisition. Developmental Psychology.

Johnson, S. P., Fernandes, K. J., Frank, M. C., Kirkham, N. Z., Marcus, G. F., Rabagliati, H., & Slemmer, J. A. (in press). Development of abstract rule learning in infancy. Infancy.

[pdf] Oppenheimer, D. & Frank, M. C. (2008). A rose in any other font wouldn't smell as sweet: Effects of perceptual fluency on categorization. Cognition, 106, 1178-1194.

[pdf] Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M. C., Wu, L., Wade, A., & Boroditsky, L. (2007). The Russian blues: Effects of language on color discrimination.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 7780-7785.

Chapters

Fernald, A. & Frank, M. C. (in prep). Finding the words: How young children develop skill in interpreting spoken language. In The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Spivey, M., Ed.

Saxe, R., Fedorenko, E., & Frank, M. C. (in prep). Language and Theory of Mind. Handbook of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Processes: Perspectives in Communication Disorders. Guendouzi, J., Loncke, F., & Williams, M., Eds.

Johnson, S. P., Amso, D., Frank, M. C., & Shuwairi, S. (2008). Development of Event Perception in Infancy. In Understanding Events: How Humans See, Represent, and Act on Events, Shipley, T. F. & Zacks, J. M., Eds. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

[pdf] Frank, M. C., Fedorenko, E., & Gibson, E. (2008). Language as a cognitive technology: English-speakers match like Pirahã when you don’t let them count. To be presented at CogSci 2008.

[pdf] Frank, M. C., Ichinco, D., & Tenenbaum, J. (2008). Principles of generalization for learning sequential structure in language. To be presented at CogSci 2008.

[pdf] [materials] Frank, M. C., Goodman, N. D., & Tenenbaum, J. (2008). A Bayesian framework for cross-situational word learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 20. 

[pdf] Frank, M. C., Goldwater, S., Mansinghka, V., Griffiths, T., & Tenenbaum, J. (2007).  Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

[pdf] Frank, M. C., Mansinghka, V., Gibson, E., & Tenenbaum, J. (2006). Word segmentation as word learning: Integrating stress and meaning with distributional cues. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

[pdf] Johnson, S. P., Davidow, J., Hall, C., & Frank, M.C. (2006). Developmental mechanisms of perceptual completion. International Conference on Development and Learning, Bloomington, IN.

[pdf] Witthoft, N., Winawer, J., Wu, L., Wade, A., Frank, M. C., & Boroditsky, L. (2003). Effects of language on color discriminability.  Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

[pdf] Boroditsky, L., Ramscar, M., and Frank, M.C. (2001). Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.