Selected Publications
Sloutsky, V. M., & Robinson, C. W. (in press). The role of words and sounds in visual processing: From overshadowing to attentional tuning. Cognitive Science.
Sloutsky, V. M., & Fisher, A. V (in press). Attentional learning and flexible induction: How mundane mechanisms give rise to smart behaviors. Child Development.
Kloos, H., & Sloutsky, V. M (in press). What’s behind different kinds of kinds: Effects of statistical density on learning and representation of categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Robinson, C. W., & Sloutsky, V. M. (in press). Visual processing speed: Effects of auditory input on visual processing. Developmental Science
Sloutsky, V. M., Kloos. H., & Fisher, A. V. (2007). What’s beyond looks? Reply to Gelman and Waxman. Psychological Science, 18, 556-557.
Sloutsky, V. M., Kloos. H., & Fisher, A. V. (2007). When looks are everything: Appearance similarity versus kind information in early induction. Psychological Science, 18, 179-185
Robinson, C. W., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2007). Linguistic labels and categorization in infancy: Do labels facilitate or hinder? Infancy, 11, 233-253.
Fangmeier, T., Knauff, M., Ruff, C. C., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2006). fMRI evidence for a three-stage model of deductive reasoning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 320-334.
Kaminski, J., Sloutsky, V. M., & Heckler, A. F. (2006). Effects of concreteness on representation: an explanation for differential transfer. In R. Sun and N. Miyake (Eds.). Proceedings of the XXVIII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1581-1586).
Sloutsky, V. M.., & Fisher, A. V. (2005). Similarity, Induction, Naming, and Categorization (SINC): Generalization or verbal inductive reasoning? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134, 606-611.
Sloutsky, V. M., Kaminski, J., & Heckler, A. F. (2005). The advantage of simple symbols for learning and transfer. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 508-513.
Fisher, A. V., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2005). When induction meets memory: Evidence for gradual transition from similarity-based to category-based induction. Child Development, 76, 583-597.
Napolitano, A. C., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2004). Is a picture worth a thousand words? The flexible nature of modality dominance in young children. Child Development, 75, 1850-1870.
Sloutsky, V. M., & Spino, M. A. (2004). Naïve theory and transfer of learning: When less is more and more is less. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 536–541.
Robinson, C. W., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2004). Auditory dominance and its change in the course of development. Child Development, 75, 1387-1401.
Sloutsky, V. M., & Fisher, A. V. (2004). When learning and development decrease memory: Evidence against category-based induction. Psychological Science, 15, 553-558.
Sloutsky, V. M., & Fisher, A. V. (2004). Induction and categorization in young children: A similarity-based model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 166-188.
Sloutsky, V. M. (2003). The role of similarity in the development of categorization. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 246-251.
Sloutsky, V. M., & Napolitano, A. (2003). Is a picture worth a thousand words? Preference for auditory modality in young children. Child Development, 74, 822-833.
Sloutsky, V. M., Lo, Y.-F., & Fisher, A. (2001). How much does a shared name make things similar? Part 2: Linguistic labels and the development of inductive inference. Child Development, 72, 1695-1709.
Sloutsky, V. M., & Lo, Y.-F. (1999). How much does a shared name make things similar? Part 1: Linguistic labels and the development of similarity judgment. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1478-1492.
