Selected Publications

Deng, W., & Sloutsky, V. M. (in press). Carrot-eaters and moving heads: Salient features provide greater support for inductive inference than category labels. Psychological Science. PDF

Sloutsky, V. M., & Fisher, A. V. (in press). Linguistic labels: Conceptual markers or object features? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. PDF

Hupp, J. M., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2011). Learning to learn: From within-modality to cross-modality transfer in infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110, 408–421. PDF

Sloutsky, V. M. (2010). From perceptual categories to concepts: What develops? Cognitive Science, 34, 1244–1286. PDF

Sloutsky, V. M. (2009). Theories about “theories”: Where is the explanation? Comment on Waxman and Gelman. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 331-332. PDF

Robinson, C. W., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2008). Effects of auditory input in individuation tasks. Developmental Science, 11, 869–881. PDF

Sloutsky, V. M., & Fisher, A. V (2008). Attentional learning and flexible induction: How mundane mechanisms give rise to smart behaviors. Child Development, 79, 639-651 PDF.

Kaminski, J. A., Sloutsky, V. M., & Heckler, A. F. (2008). The advantage of abstract examples in learning math. Science, 230, 454-455. PDF

Sloutsky, V. M., & Robinson, C. W. (2008). The role of words and sounds in visual processing: From overshadowing to attentional tuning. Cognitive Science, 32, 354–377. PDF

Kloos, H., & Sloutsky, V. M (2008). What’s behind different kinds of kinds: Effects of statistical density on learning and representation of categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 52–72. PDF

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

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 PDF

Robinson, C. W., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2004). Auditory dominance and its change in the course of development. Child Development, 75, 1387-1401. PDF

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. PDF

Sloutsky, V. M. (2003). The role of similarity in the development of categorization. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 246-251. PDF

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. PDF