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Vladimir Sloutsky

My research focuses on conceptual development, and on interrelationships between cognition and language. More specifically, I have been pursuing several questions. How do infants and young children form categories of objects and events, as well as more abstract categories? How do they store this information in memory? How do they generalize acquired knowledge to novel situations? And how do all these processes change in the course of development and learning? In an attempt to answer these questions, we study pre-linguistic infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and adults using a multiple experimental methodologies.

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). Effects of auditory input in individuation tasks. Developmental Science.
Robinson, C. W., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2007). Visual processing speed: Effects of auditory input on visual processing. Developmental Science, 10, pp 734–740.
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.
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