SILC Publications, etc.

SILC generated work is below:

• SILC Publications
• SILC Presentations
• SILC Generated Resources
• Non-Archival Conference Papers
• SILC planned and/or sponsored conferences/meetings

SILC Publications

• ♦Balcomb, F., Newcombe, N.S. & Ferrara, K. (2009). Convergence and divergence in representational systems: Place learning and language in toddlers. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Ed.), Cognitive Science, 2009: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 596-601). Cognitive Science Society.
• ♦Beilock, S. L., Gunderson, E. A., Ramirez, G. & Levine, S. C. (2010). Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 1060-1063.
• ♦Beilock, S. L., Gunderson, E. A., Ramirez, G. & Levine, S. C. (2010). Reply to Plante et al.: Girls' math achievements is related to their female teachers' math anxiety. PNAS, 107(20), E80.
• ♦Beilock, S. and Goldin-Meadow, S. (in press). Gesture changes thought by grounding it in action. Psychological Science.
• ♦Boyer, T., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2008). Development of proportional reasoning: Where young children go wrong. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1478-1490. [doi: 10.1037/a0013110]
• ♦Brunyé, T., Rapp, D.N. & Taylor, H.A. (2008). Representational flexibility and specificity following spatial descriptions of real world environments. Cognition, 108, 418-443.
• ♦Brunyé, T., Taylor, H.A. & Rapp, D.N. (2007). Repetition and dual coding in procedural multimedia presentations. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 877-895.
• ♦Cartmill, E. A., Pruden, S., Levine, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2010). The role of parent gesture in children's spatial language development. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• ♦Chatterjee, A. (2008). The Neural Organization of Spatial Thought and Language. Seminars in Speech & Language, 29(3), 226-238.
• ♦Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (in press). Where hypotheses come from: Learning new relations by structural alignment. Journal of Cognition and Development.
• ♦Cifuentes-Férez, P. & Gentner, D. (2006). Naming motion events in Spanish and English. Cognitive Linguistics, 17, 443-452.
• ♦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
• ♦Davies, C. & Uttal. D. H. (2007). Map use and the development of spatial cognition. In J. Plumert & J. Spencer (Eds.), The Emerging Spatial Mind (pp. 219-247). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• ♦DeCaro, M. S., Rotar, K. E., Kendra, M. S. & Beilock, S. L. (in press, 2010). Diagnosing and alleviating the impact of performance pressure on mathematical problem solving. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology.
• ♦Diamond, J., Luke, J. & Uttal, D. H. (in press). Practical Evaluation Guide: Tools for Museums and Other Informal Educational Settings (2nd Edition). Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
• ♦Edelson, D. C., Smith, D. A., & Brown, M. (2008). Beyond interactive mapping: bringing data analysis with GIS into the social studies classroom. In A. J. Millson & M. Alibrandi (Eds.), Digital Geography: Geo-spatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom. Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
• ♦Ehrlich, S. B., Levine, S. C. and Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). The importance of gesture in children's spatial reasoning. Developmental Psychology, 42(6), 1259-1268. [doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.6.1259]
• ♦Feist, M.I., & Gentner, D. (2007). Spatial language influences memory for spatial scenes. Memory and Cognition, 35, 283-296.
• ♦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.
• ♦Forbus, K., Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Wetzel, J., Matuk, C., Jee, B., & Usher, J. (2008). CogSketch. Proceedings of AAAI 2008.
• ♦Forbus, K., Usher, J., Lovett, A., Lockwood, K. & Wetzel, J. (2008). CogSketch: Open-domain sketch understanding for cognitive science research and for education. Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling. Annecy, France.
• ♦Frick, A., Daum, M. M., Walser, S. & Mast, F. W. (2009). Motor processes in children's mental rotation. Journal of Cognition and Development, 10(1), 18-40.
• ♦Frick, A., Daum, M. M., Wilson, M. & Wilkening, F. (2009). Effects of action on children's and adults' mental imagery. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 34-51.
• ♦Gentner, D. (in press). Bootstrapping children’s learning: Analogical processes and symbol systems. To appear in Cognitive Science.
• ♦Gentner, D., Anggoro, F. K. & Klibanoff, R. S. (in press). Structure-mapping and relational language support children's learning of relational categories. Child Development.
• ♦Gentner, D., & Christie, S. (in press). Language and cognition in development. To appear in M. M. Spivey, K. McRae, & M. Joanisse (Eds.) The Cambridge handbook of psycholinguistics.
• ♦Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (in press) No symbols, no dice. To appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• ♦Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2008). Relational language supports relational cognition in humans and apes: A response to Penn, Holyoak & Povinelli. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 137-183. [Penn, Holyoak, Povinelli paper: doi: 10.1017/S0140525X08003543 ]
• ♦Gentner, D. (2007). Spatial cognition in apes and humans. TRENDS in Cognitive Science, 11, 192-194.
• ♦Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2006). Using numbers to structure space. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 267-272).
• ♦Gentner, D., & Bowerman, M. (2009). Why some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others: The typological prevalence hypothesis. In J. Guo, E. Lieven, S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig, S. Özçaliskan, & K. Nakamura (Eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin. NJ, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• ♦Gentner, D., Levine, S., Dhillon, S. & Poltermann, A. (2009). Using structural alignment to facilitate learning of spatial concepts in an informal setting. In B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak & D. Gentner (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Analogy. Sofia, Bulgaria: NBU Press.
• ♦Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., & Hung, B. (2007). Comparison facilitates children's learning of names for parts. Journal of Cognition and Development, 8(3), 285-307.
• ♦Gentner, D., Simms, N. & Flusberg, S. (2009). Relational language helps children reason analogically. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
• ♦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.
• ♦Goldin-Meadow, S. (in press). When gesture does and does not promote learning. Language and Cognition.
• ♦Goldin-Meadow, S. and Beilock, S. (in press). Action's influence on thought: The case of gesture. Perspectives in Psychological Science.
• ♦Goldin-Meadow, S., Cook, S. W. &p; Mitchell, Z. A. (2009). Gesturing gives children new ideas about math. Psychological Science, 20, 267-272.
• ♦Harris, J. & Newcombe, N. (2010, May). Measuring spatial visualization through folding. Poster session presented at the Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-doc Conference, Boston, MA.
• ♦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. & Shipley, T.F. (2010). Spatial Memory: Hierarchical encoding of location in natural scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition, 36(3), 590-604.
• ♦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.
• ♦Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S.C. & Ratliff, K.R. (in press). Emerging ability to determine size: Use of measurement. Chapter to appear in N. Stein (Ed.), Developmental Science Goes to School: Implications for Education and Public Policy Research. New York: Taylor and Francis.
• ♦Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S.C. & Ratliff, K.R. (in press). The development of measurement: From holistic perceptual comparison to unit understanding. Chapter to appear in N.L. Stein & S. Raudenbush (Eds.), Developmental Science Goes to School: Implications for Education and Public Policy Research. New York: Taylor and Francis.
• ♦Huttenlocher, J. (2008). Coding location: The view from toddler studies. American Psychologist, 63, 641-648.
• ♦Huttenlocher, J., Vasilyeva, M., Newcombe, N.S. & Duffy, S. (2008). Developing symbolic capacity one step at a time. Cognition.
• ♦Huttenlocher, J., Lourenco, S. (2007). Coding location in enclosed spaces: Is geometry the principle? Developmental Science, 10, 741.
• ♦Huttenlocher, J., Hedges, L.V., Lourenco, S., Crawford, L., & Corrigan, B. (2007). Estimating stimuli from contrasting categories: Truncation due to boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 136(3), 502-519.
• ♦Huttenlocher, J., & Lourenco, S. (2007). Using spatial categories to reason about location in J. Plumert and J. Spencer (Eds.), Emerging landscapes of mind: Mapping the nature of change in spatial cognitive development. Oxford University Press.
• ♦Jameson, J. & Gentner, D. (2008). Causal status and explanatory goodness in categorization. In B. C. Love, K. McRae & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 291-296). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• ♦Jameson, J. & Gentner, D. (2006, July). Systematicity as a processing constraint on feature centrality. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancover, Canada.
• ♦Jee, B. D., Uttal, D. H., Gentner, D., Manduca, C., Shipley, T., Sageman, B., Ormand, C. J. & Tikoff, B. (2010). Analogical thinking in geoscience education. Journal of Geoscience Education, 58(1), 2-13. [abstract & extended abstract]
• ♦Jee, B. D., Gentner, D., Forbus, K., Sageman, B. & Uttal, D. H. (2009). Drawing on Experience: Use of sketching to evaluate knowledge of spatial scientific concepts. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 2499-2504). Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ♦Jeong, Y., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). The development of proportional reasoning: Effect of continuous versus discrete quantities. Journal of Cognition and Development, 8(2), 237-256.
• ♦Jordan, N.C. & Levine, S.C. (2009). Socio-economic variation, number competence, and mathematics learning difficulties in young children. Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 15, 60-68.
• ♦Khetarpal, N., Majid, A., Malt, B., Sloman, S. & Regier T. (in press). Similarity judgments reflect both language and cross-language tendencies: Evidence from two semantic domains. To appear in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• ♦Khetarpal, N., Majid, A. & Regier, T. (2009). Spatial terms reflect near-optimal spatial categories. In N. Taatgen, et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• ♦Kolvoord, R., Charles, M. and Purcell, S. (in press). What Happens After the Professional Development: Case Studies on Implementing GIS in the Classroom. M. Barnett, J. MaKinster, N. Trautmann, (Eds.), Learning Science Through the Innovative Use of Geospatial Technologies Designing Effective Learning Tools and Programs for K-16 Settings. Springer-Verlag.
• ♦Krakowski, M., Ratliff, K., Gomez, L. & Levine, S. (in press). Spatial Intelligence and the Research –Practice Challenge. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Chicago, IL (June 2010).
• ♦Learmonth, A.E., Newcombe, N.S., Sheridan, N. & Jones, M. (2008). Why size counts: Children's spatial reorientation in large and small enclosures. Developmental Science, 11, 414-426.
• ♦Levine, S.C. (2009). Individual variation in preschooler's mathematical and spatial knowledge: Parent talk matters. Cognitive Development Society. San Antonio, TX (October, 2009).
• ♦Levine, S. C., Gunderson, E. A. & Huttenlocher, J. (In press). Mathematical development during the preschool years in context: Home and school input variations. In N. L. Stein & S. Raudenbush (Eds.), Developmental Science Goes to School: Implications for Education and Public Policy Research. New York: Taylor and Francis.
• ♦Levine, S.C., Kwon, M., Huttenlocher, J., Ratliff, K.R. & Dietz, K. (July, 2009). Children's understanding of ruler measurement and units of measure: A training study. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Cognitive Science Society.
• ♦Levine, S.C., Suriyakham, L., Rowe, M., Huttenlocher, J. & Gunderson, E. A. (in press). What counts in the development of young children's number knowledge? Developmental Psychology.
• ♦Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Dehghani, M. and Usher, J. (2008). A Theory of Depiction for Sketches of Physical Systems. In the Proceedings of QR 2008.
• ♦Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Dehghani, M. and Usher, J. (2008). Automatic Interpretation of Depiction Conventions in Sketched Diagrams. In the Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling.
• ♦Lockwood, K., Lovett, A. and Forbus, K. (2008). Automatic Classification of Containment and Support Spatial Relations in English and Dutch. In the Proceedings of Spatial Cognition.
• ♦Lourenco, S. F. & Huttenlocher, J. (2008). The representation of geometric cues in infancy. Infancy, 13(2), 103-127.
• ♦Lourenco, S. and Huttenlocher, J. (2007). Using geometry to specify location: Implications for spatial coding in children and nonhuman animals. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung, 71, 252.
• ♦Lovett, A., Forbus, K., and Usher, J. (2010) A structure-mapping model of Raven's Progressive Matrices. Proceedings of CogSci-10.
• ♦Lovett, A. & Forbus, K. (2010). Shape is like space: Modeling shape representation as a set of qualitative spatial relations. AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive Shape Processing.
• ♦Lovett, A. & Forbus, K. (2009). Computing human-like qualitative topological relations via visual routines. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ♦Lovett, A. & Forbus, K. (2009). Using a visual routine to model the computational of positional relations. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ♦Lovett, A., Gentner, D., Forbus, K. & Sagi, E. (2009). Using analogical mapping to simulate time-course phenomena in perceptual similarity. Cognitive Systems Research 10: Special Issue on Analogies - Integrating Cognitive Abilities, 216-228.
• ♦Lovett, A., Sagi, E., Gentner, D. & Forbus, K. (2009). Modeling perceptual similarity as analogy resolves the paradox of difference detection. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference. Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ♦Lovett, A., Tomai, E., Forbus, K. & Usher, J. (2009). Solving geometric analogy problems through two-stage analogical mapping. Cognitive Science, 33(7), 1192-1231.
• ♦Lovett, A., Dehghani, M. & Forbus, K. (2008). Building and comparing qualitative descriptions of three-dimensional design sketches. Proceedings of the 22nd International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Boulder, CO.
• ♦Lovett, A., Lockwood, K. & Forbus, K. (2008). A computational model of the visual oddity task. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C.
• ♦Lovett, A., Lockwood, K. & Forbus, K. (2008). Modeling cross-cultural performance on the visual oddity task. Proceedings of Spatial Cognition 2008. Freiburg, Germany.
• ♦Lovett, A. Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2007). Analogy with qualitative spatial representations can simulate solving Raven's Progressive Matrices. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.
• ♦Lovett, A., Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2007). Using qualitative representations and analogical mapping to solve problems from a spatial intelligence test. Proceedings of the 21st International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Aberystwyth, U.K.
• ♦Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Dehghani, M. & Forbus, K. (2007). Modeling human-like rates of learning via analogical generalization. Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, Tennessee.
• ♦Lovett, A., Sagi, E. & Gentner, D. (2007). Analogy as a mechanism for comparison. Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, Tennessee.
• ♦Maddox, K., Rapp, D. N., Brion, S. & Taylor, H. A. (2008). Social influences on spatial memory. Memory & Cognition, 36(3), 479-494.
• ♦Mattarella-Micke, A. & Beilock, S. L. (2010). Situating math problems: The story matters. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 106-111.
• ♦Matuk, C. & Uttal, D. H. (in press). Minding the gaps: Creating narrative spaces in the representation and understanding of evolution. In K. Rosegren, M. Evans, S. Brem & G. Sinatra (Eds.), Evolution challenges. New York: Oxford University Press.
• ♦Matuk, C.F. (2008). Animated cladograms: Interpreting evolution from diagrams. In G. Stapleton, J. Howse & J. Lee (Eds.), Diagrams 2008: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, 5th International Conference, September 19-21, Herrsching, Germany (pp. 395-397).
• ♦Matuk, C.F. (2008). Animated cladograms: The perception and conception of evolution. In Proceedings of the EARLI Special Interest Group Text and Graphics Bi-annual conference: Exploiting the Opportunities: Learning with Textual, Graphical and Multimodal Representations, Tilburg, the Netherlands (pp. 100-103). Rotterdam: EARLI.
• ♦Matuk, C. & Uttal, D. (2008). Entertaining evolution: Understanding evolution from animations. In ICLS'08: Proceedings of the 8th international conference for the learning sciences, Utrecht, the Netherlands (pp. 93-94). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
• ♦Nardi, D., Funk, A., Newcombe, N. & Shipley, T. (2009). Reorientation by Slope Cues in Humans. Cognitive Progessing, 10(2), 260-262. doi: 10.1007/s10339-009-0279-6.
• ♦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.
• ♦Newcombe, N.S. (2007, November). Psychology's role in math and science. Monitor on Psychology, 8.
• ♦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. & Chiang, N. (2007). Learning geographical information from hypothetical maps. Memory and Cognition, 35, 895-909.
• ♦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.
• ♦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.
• ♦Özçaliskan, S. & Nakamura, K. (Eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin. NJ, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• ♦Parish, J., Pruden, S.M., Ma, W., Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R.M. (in press). A world of relations: Relational words. In B. Malt & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the world: How words capture human experience. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• ♦Ping, R. and Goldin-Meadow, S. (2010). Gesturing saves cognitive resources when talking about nonpresent objects. Cognitive Science, 34, 602-619. [doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01102.x]
• ♦Pruden, S.M., Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R.M. (2008). Current events: How infants parse the world and events for language. In T.F. Shipley & J.M. Zacks (Eds.), Understanding events: How humans see, represent, and act on events. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• ♦Pruden, S.M., Shallcross, W.L., Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R.M. (2008). Foundations of verb learning: Comparison helps infants abstract event components. In H. Chan, H. Jacob & E. Kapia (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp.402-414). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• ♦Rapp, D.N. & Kurby, C.A. (2008). The 'ins' and 'outs' of learning: Internal representations and external visualizations. In J.K. Gilbert, M. Reiner & M. Nakhleh (Eds.), Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education (pp. 29-52). New York: Springer.
• ♦Ratliff, K.R., McGinnis, C.R. & Levine, S.C. (2010). The development and assessment of cross-sectioning ability in young children. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR (August, 2010).
• ♦Ratliff, K.R. & Newcombe, N.S. (2008). Is language necessary for human spatial reorientation? Reconsidering evidence from dual task paradigms. Cognitive Psychology, 56, 142-163.
• ♦Ratliff, K.R. & Newcombe, N.S. (2008). Reorienting when cues conflict: Evidence for an adaptive-combination view. Psychological Science, 19(12), 1301-1307.
• ♦Regier, T. (in press). Computational approaches to language and thought. In M. Spivey, M. Joanisse & K. McRae (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• ♦Reilly, J. Levine, S., Nass, R. and Stiles, J. (2008). Brain Plasticity: Evidence from children with prenatal brain injury. In Reed, J and J Warner (Eds.), Child Neuropsychology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
• ♦Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2009). In season? A review of Katherine Nelson’s Young minds in social worlds. Journal of Child Language, 36, 225-233.
• ♦Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Parish-Morris, J. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009). Live action: Can young children learn verbs from video? Child Development, 80(5), 1360-1375.
• ♦Rowe, M.L. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2009). Differences in early gesture explain SES disparities in child vocabulary size at school entry. Science, 323, 951-953.
• ♦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. (2009). Spatial Visualization and the Role of Working Memory. Proceeding of GSA Annual Meeting. October 18-21. Portland, Oregon.
• ♦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.
• ♦Simms, N. & Gentner, D. (2008). Spatial language and landmark use: Can 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds find the middle? In V. Sloutsky, B. Love & K. McRae (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
• ♦Simms, N. & Gentner, D. (2009). Relational language and inhibitory control in the development of analogical ability. In B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak & D. Gentner (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Analogy. NBU Press, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ♦Stiles, J., Nass, R.D., Levine, S.C., Moses, P. & Reilly, J.S. (in press) Perinatal stroke: Effects and outcomes. In K.O. Yeates, M.D. Ris, H.G. Taylor, and B. Pennington (Eds.), Pediatric Neuropsychology Research, Theory, and Practice (2nd edition). New York: The Guildford Press.
• ♦Terlecki, M.S. & Newcombe, N.S. (2008). Durable and generalized effects of spatial experience on mental rotation: Gender differences in growth patterns. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 996-1013.
• ♦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.
• ♦Uttal, D. H., Friedman, A., Warren, C. & Hand, L. L. (in press). Learning Fine-Grained and Category Information in Navigable Real-World Space. Memory and Cognition.
• ♦Uttal, D. H., Liu, Linda L., Lewis, A., & Gentner, D. (2008). Developmental changes in children's understanding of the similarity between photographs and their referents. Developmental Science, 11(1) 156-170.
• ♦Uttal, D. H., & O'Doherty, K. (2008). Comprehending and learning from visual representations: A developmental approach. In J. Gilbert, M. Reiner, & M. Nakhleh (Eds.), Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education (pp. 53-72). New York: Springer.
• ♦Ware, E. A., Uttal, D. H., & DeLoache, J. S. (2010). Everyday Scale Errors. Developmental Science, 13(1), 28-36.
• ♦Wetzel, J. and Forbus, K. (2009). Automated Critique of Sketched Designs in Engineering. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ♦Wetzel, J. and Forbus, K. (2009). Automated Critique of Sketched Mechanisms. In the Proceedings of Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2009.
• ♦Wetzel, J. and Forbus, K. (2008). Integrating Open-Domain Sketch Understanding with Qualitative Two-Dimensional Rigid-Body Mechanics. Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Boulder, CO.
• ♦Wright, R., Thompson, W. L., Ganis, G., Newcombe, N.S. & Kosslyn, S.M. (2008). Training generalized spatial skills. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15(4), 763-771.
• ♦Yin, P., Forbus, K., Usher, J., Sageman, B., Jee, B. (2010). Sketch Worksheets: A Sketch-based Educational Software System. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

SILC Presentations

• ♦Boyer, T.W. & Levine, S.C. (2009, April). Child proportional scaling: Are all equivalent proportions equally equal? Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
• ♦Boyer, T., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March) Proportional reasoning: Intuition, problem representation and problem-solving success. Presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Chld Development, Boston.
• ♦Cannon, J., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March) Are young children part-whole thinkers? Children's strategies for solving proportional equivalence problems. Presented at Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston.
• ♦Cannon, J., Levine, S. C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). Sex differences in the relation between puzzle play and mental transformation skill. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
• ♦Christie, S., & Gentner, S. (2007). Comparison Highlights Novel Relations. Poster presented at the 5th Conference of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.
• ♦Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2007, May). Relational similarity and the identity relation. European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece.
• ♦Christie, S., & Gentner, D. Anggoro, F., Namy, L. (2007). Comparison in Relational Learning. Talk presented at the 5th Conference of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.
• ♦Cromley, J., Fitzhugh. S. L., Bergey, B. B., Shipley, T. F. & Wills, T. W. (2010). Teaching reasoning with diagrams: Intervention results from eye tracking and questionnaire measures. Invited paper presented as part of a symposium entitled Perceptual Characteristics and Concept Mastery: What Makes a Difference? at the 22nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA, May 27-30, 2010.
• ♦Cromley, J. G., Perez, A. C., Fitzhugh, S., Tanaka, J., Newcombe, N. & Wills, T. W. (2010). Teaching effective use of diagrammatic reasoning in biology. Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, April 30-May 4, 2010. [Proposal No. aera10_proceeding_380146.doc].
• ♦Cromley, J. G., Wills, T. W., Stephens, C. R., Dumas, D., Herring, M. H., Luciw-Dubas, U. A., Snyder-Hogan, L. E., Burton, D. & Mendelsohn, T. (2010). A content analysis of images in biology and geoscience textbooks. Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Philadelphia, PA, March 20-24, 2010.
• ♦Cromley, J. G., Newcombe, N., Shipley, T. F., Tanaka, J., Perez, A. C. & Fitzhugh, S. (2009). Reasoning with visual representations in science: from basic processes to interventions. Paper presented at a symposium entitled The New Learning Sciences at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, March 5-8, 2009.
• ♦Edelson, D. (2007, March). Investigations in environmental science: A case-study of research-driven curriculum design. Invited talk, School of Education and Woods Environmental Institute. Stanford University.
• ♦Edelson, D. (2007, March). Teaching science that matters. Featured Speaker, WNET/Thirteen Celebration of Teaching and Learning. New York, NY.
• ♦Edelson, D. (2007, April). My World GIS: A geographic information system for students, novices, and occasional users. Colloquium Presentation, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy. Loyola University Chicago.
• ♦Edelson, D. (2007, May). Designing software to support inquiry learning; Designing activities to support learning through inquiry. Keynote Address, Technology-integrated Science and Engineering Education II Workshop, National Taiwan Normal University. Taipei, Taiwan.
• ♦Edelson, D. (2007, May). Learning-for-use in Earth Science: Fostering knowledge students will use. Keynote Address, First Earth Science Education Conference, Taiwan Geosciences Assembly. Taipei, Taiwan.
• ♦Ehrlich, S.B., Tran, K., Levine, S.C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2009, April). Gesture training leads to improvement in children's mental rotation skill. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
• ♦Ehrlich, S.B., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March). Mathematical knowledge in low and middle-SES Preschoolers: The effect of teacher "math talk." Talk presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston.
• ♦Ehrlich, S.B. & Levine, S.C. (2007, March) What low-SES children DO know about number: A comparison of hear start and tuition-based preschool children's number knowledge. Presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston.
• ♦Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, & Glick-Gryfe, S. (2007, June). Not just child's play anymore: Parental perceptions of play in the 21st century. Poster presented at the annual Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ♦Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R.M. (2007, October). Mother versus expert beliefs: Disagreement in the nature and value of play. Symposium presented at the annual Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• ♦Fitzhugh, S., Cromley, J. G., Newcombe, N., Perez, A. C. & Wills, T. W. (2010). High school students' comprehension of text and diagrams: Testing a model with eye tracking data. Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, April 30-May 4, 2010.
• ♦Fitzhugh, S. (2008). Mental Rotation of Real World Shepard-Metzler Figures. Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Forbus,K. (2007, Februaury). SILC overview. Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research Meeting, Evanston, IL.
• ♦Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2007, May). Learning new relations via structural alignment. Invited symposium on Analogical Processes, European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece.
• ♦Gentner, D., Christie, S., Anggoro, F., & Namy, L. (2007, October). Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society.
• ♦Gentner, D., Ozurek, A., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Gurcanli, O. (2006). Does lack of conventional language hamper children's spatial cognition? Presented at the Symposium on Thinking with and without language, European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece.
• ♦Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2008, July). Figure and Ground: Conceptual primitives for processing events. Paper presented in T. Göksun & S. Pruden (chairs), Foundations for learning relational terms: what is in an event? Symposium at the 11th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• ♦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, & Pruden, S. (2008, July). Foundations for processing events and learning relational terms. 11th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• ♦Gunderson, E. A. & Levine, S. C. (April 2009). SES-related variations in early parent number input. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
• ♦Gunderson, E., Ramirez, G., Levine, S. C. & Beilock, S. L. (2008) Learning math and spatial skills: Working memory, performance stereotypes, and anxiety. Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Hirsh-Pasek, K., Newcombe, N. S., Fisher, K., Parish-Morris, J., Shallcross, W. L., Roseberry, S. & Geist, C. (2007, August). Play power! Invited talk for the research and education staff at the Philadelphia Please Touch Museum.
• ♦Hirsh-Pasek, K., Fisher, K., Shallcross, W. L., Roseberry, S., Misitzis, Y. & Goksun, T.(2008, February). Play power! Invited talk for the Central Agency for Jewish Education.
• ♦Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. (2008). Foundations for verb learning. SILC Conference on Spatial Language. Chicago, June 11-12.
• ♦Jee, B. D., Uttal, D. H., & Gentner, D. (2008). Finding fault: The role of comparison in learning a geological structure. Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Kellogg, L. (2008). Children's Use of Continuous vs. Categorical Cues for Reorientation. Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Kern, E., Uttal, D., Murashev, N., & Lui Hand, L. (2007, May). Helping hands: The role of gesture in spatial learning. Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.
• ♦Khetarpal, N., Majid, A. & Regier, T. (2009, August). Spatial terms reflect near-optimal spatial categories. Talk presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ♦Khetarpal. N. (2008). Languages' Representation of Spatial Relations. Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Krakowski, M., Ratliff, K.R., Levine, S.C. & Gomez, L. (April 2010). Fostering spatial learning in the classroom: Integrating psychological research with educational practice. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.
• ♦Kwon, M. K., & Levine, S. C. (September, 2007). Nonverbal number matching in young children: Effects of gesture and conventional number knowledge. Poster presentation at the Fifth Biennial Meeting of Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.
• ♦Levine, S.C. (2009, September). Action and Cognition: The role of gesture in symbolic spatial reasoning. Presented at International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome.
• ♦Levine, S.C. (2009, May). Improving children's understanding of units of measure: A training study. Paper presented at Spatial Training Conference, Northwestern University.
• ♦Levine, S.C., (2009, April). Mathematics in early childhood education: A time for a new beginning. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
• ♦Levine, S.C. (2009, September). Spatial language and spatial cognition. Presented at International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome.
• ♦Levine, S.C. (2008, March). Challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary research. Invited talk presented at at Northwestern University, Department of Learning Sciences.
• ♦Levine, S.C., Huttenlocher, J., Gunderson, E.A., Rowe, M.L. & Pruden, S. (2009, April). Preschoolers' number and spatial knowledge: Relation to early parent-child interactions. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
• ♦Levine, S.C., Kwon, M., Huttenlocher, J., Ratliff, K. & Dietz, K. (2009, August). Children's understanding of ruler measurement: A training study. Presented at Cogntiive Science Society Meeting, Amsterdam.
• ♦Levine, S. C. (2008, June). Learning to think spatially: Role of early spatial language and activites. Presented at The Ins and Outs of Spatial Language: From Theory to Practice, Chicago, IL.
• ♦Levine, S.C. , Goldin-Meadow, S., Ehrlich, S. & Tran, Kimloan (2008, June). Can gesture improve children's mental rotation?: A training study. Presented at Conference on Research and Training in Spatial Intelligence, Evanston, Illinois.
• ♦Levine, S.C. (2007, February). Math in the Early Years: Starting points and the importance of experience. Presented at Chicago Metropolitan Association for the Education of Young Children.
• ♦Levine, S.C. (2007, March) Mathematics and spatial development: The role of input. Chair, Paper Symposium. Presented at Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston.
• ♦Levine, S.C. (2007, March). Preschoolers mathematical and spatial skills: Effects of input. Invited Talk presented at University of Illinois, Departament of Psychology.
• ♦Lourenco, S.F. & Levine, S.C. (2009, April). Location Representation Following Early Unilateral Brain injury: Evidence of Distinct Deficits and Degrees of Plasticity. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
• ♦Lovett, A., & Forbus, K. (2008). A computational model of spatial cognition: Qualitative representation and analogical comparison. Poster presented at the First Annual iSLC Student/Postdoc Conference. Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2007). Modeling human-like rates of learning via analogical generalization. Workshop on Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, TN.
• ♦Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2007). Constructing spatial representations of variable detail for sketch recognition. AAAI Spring Symposium on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems. Palo Alto, CA.
• ♦Matuk, C.F. & Uttal, D.H. (October 6-9, 2009). When form contradicts content: The cognitive and communicative functions of cartoons for teaching evolution. Paper presented at the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA2009). Chicago, IL.
• ♦Matuk, C.F. & Uttal, D.H. (August, 2009). Interpretation, invention, and interaction: How students (mis)understand cladograms. Paper presented at the Understanding the Tree of Life Harvard Conference. Cambridge, MA.
• ♦Matuk, C.F. & Uttal, D.H. (May 4, 2009). Animating narratives of evolution: A case of diagrammatic interpretation with cladograms. Paper presented at the Conference on Research and Training in Spatial Intelligence. Evanston, IL.
• ♦Matuk, C. F. & Uttal, D. H. (2009, April 13-17). Countering diagrammatic narratives: The effects of animation on the interpretation of evolution, Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Meeting (AERA). San Diego, CA.
• ♦Matuk, C.F. & Uttal, D.H. (2009, February 5-7). Countering narratives of evolution: How animation influences the spatial temporal metaphors interpreted from cladograms. Paper presented at the International Spatial Learning Center (iSLC) conference. Seattle, WA.
• ♦Marulis, L. M., Hand, L. L., Warren, C. M., & Uttal, D. H. (2007, April). Effects of training or experience on spatial cognition in children and adults: A Metaanalysis. Presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development. Boston, MA.
• ♦Newcombe, N.S. (2007). How minds develop: Cutting the nativist knot. G. Stanley Hall Award Talk, American Psychological Association, San Francisco, August.
• ♦Newcombe, N.S. (2007). Uses and abuses of evolutionary psychology. G. Stanley Hall Lecture, New England Psychological Association, Danbury, CT, October.
• ♦Newcombe, N.S. (2007). Spatial adaptation: Origins and development. In Invited Symposium: Mechanisms of cognitive development: Domain-general learning or domain-specific constraints? Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November.
• ♦Perez, A. C., Cromley, J. G. & Newcombe, N. (2010). Relationships between visuospatial skills, knowledge, and reasoning with science diagrams. Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, April 30-May 4, 2010.
• ♦Pruden, S.M. (2008, March). Listen up baby! Two views are better than one: Factors that aid infants’ abstraction of spatial relations. Paper presented at the 79th annual Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
• ♦Pruden, S., & Göksun, T. (2008, March). Conceptual primitives for processing events and learning relational terms. XVIth International Society on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
• ♦Pruden, S.M., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2010). Individual differences in children's spatial language use predicts later spatial cognition. Paper presented in S. Roseberry & T. Göksun, (Chairs), When representational systems collide: Aligning space and language. International Society on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD (March, 2010).
• ♦Pruden, S.M., Shallcross, W.L., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007, November). Foundations of verb learning: Comparison helps infants abstract event components. Paper presented at the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
• ♦Ratliff, K.R., Levine, S.C. & Saunders, J. (November, 2009). Explaning the sex difference in children's mental rotaiton performance. Abstract presented at the 50th annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ♦Ratliff, K.R. & Newcombe, N.S. (2007). A matter of trust: When landmarks and geometry are used during reorientation. Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN, August.
• ♦Ratliff, K.R. & Newcombe, N.S. (2007). Reorienting when cues conflict: Using geometry and features following landmark displacement. Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November.
• ♦Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Göksun, T. (2008, March). Distance categorization: Do relations matter? Paper presented at the 79th Annual Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
• ♦Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M., & Parish-Morris, J. (2008, March). Educational television? Children’s potential to learn verbs from television. Poster presented at the 16th International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
• ♦Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M., & Pruden, S.M. (2008, July). The role of experience in relational categorization. Paper presented in T. Goksun & S.M. Pruden (Chairs), Foundations for processing events and learning relational terms. 11th International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• ♦Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Shallcross, W.L., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2008, March). Where you’re going trumps what you’re doing: Infants prefer paths over manners in dynamic displays. Poster to be presented at the XVIth International Society on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
• ♦Sauter, M., Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007, October). Lending a Hand: The Role of Gesture in Spatial Communication and Representation. Poster presented at Cognitive Development Society Fifth Biennial Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.
• ♦Sauter, M., Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007). Lending a Hand: The Role of Gesture in Spatial Communication and Representation. Poster presented at the 2007 Science of Learning Centers Awardees' Meeting, Washington, DC.
• ♦Sauter, M., & Uttal, D. (2008). Sharing Space: The Role of Communication in Spatial Representation. Paper presented at the first annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Sagi, E., Lovett, A., & Gentner, D. (2007). Analogy as a mechanism of comparison. Workshop on Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities (AnICA 07). Nashville, TN.
• ♦Schaal, A., Murashev, N., Sauter, M. Kern, M. & Uttal, D. (2007, March) Words and hands: How children and adults communicate spatial information. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference. Boston, MA.
• ♦Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (April, 2006). Words, gestures and maps: Developmental changes in the integration of spatial information. Paper presented at Conference on Human Development. Louisville, Kentucky.
• ♦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 XVIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
• ♦Shipley, T.F., Holden, M.P., Latecki, L.J., Newcombe, N.S. & Fitzhugh, S.L. (2007). Spatial memory: Categorical and metric encoding of location in complex scenes. Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November.
• ♦Simms, N. & Gentner, D. (2008). Finding the middle ground: Does language help children reason about spatial relations? Paper presented at the first annual inter-Science of Learning Centers Student and Post-Doc Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Simms, N. & Gentner, D. (2007, November). Finding the middle ground: Does language help children reason about spatial relations? Poster presented at the fifth biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.
• ♦Simms, N. & Gentner, D. (2008). Finding the middle ground: Does language help children reason about spatial relations? Paper presented at the first annual inter-Science of Learning Centers Student and Post-Doc Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Twyman, A. (2008, February). Penetrating the Geometric Module: Catalyzing Children's Use of Landmarks. Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Twyman, A. (2008, March). Reorientation in the Absence of Geometric Information: Evidence Against a Geometric Module. International Conference on Comparative Cognition.
• ♦Uttal, D.H. (2007). Discussant in What conditions support transfer of knowledge? Symposium presented at the Annual Meetings of AERA, Chicago, IL.
• ♦Uttal, D. (2007, June). What we know about using GIS to enhance spatial thinking. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the ESRI Education Users' Group. San Diego, CA.
• ♦Uttal, D., Sauter, M., Shaal, Alman, A., Yang, S-J., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007, June). The hands show the way: Gesture and the development of spatial communication. Paper Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Chicago, IL.
• ♦Uttal, D., Sauter, M., Schaal, A., Yang, S., Levine, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007). The Hands Show the Way: Gesture and the Development of Spatial Communication. Presented at the International Society for Gesture Studies Third International Conference, Chicago, IL.
• ♦Uttal, D., Shaal Alman, A., Yang, S-J., Levine, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (June 2007). The hands show the way: Gesture and the development of spatial communication. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Chicago, Illinois.
• ♦Warren, C. M., Uttal, D. H., Hand, L. L., & Friedman, A. () Home is where you make it: Students' mental representations of their college campus. Presented at the annual meeting of the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium. Chicago, Illinois.
• ♦Wetzel, J. & Forbus, K. (2009, February). Automated Critique of Engineering Design Explanations. Poster presented at the Second Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Conference, Seattle, WA.
• ♦Wetzel, J. (2008). Design Buddy: Sketch-Understanding Software as a Tool for Engineering Design Education. Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ♦Yang, S-J., Levine, S., & Beilock. S. (2008). An investigation on space representation – The existence of action space? Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

SILC Generated Resources

• ♦Cannon, J., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). Spatial language coding system: Parent-child interactions in structured-activities.
• ♦Cannon, J., Levine, S., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). A system for analyzing children and caregivers' language about space in structured and unstructured contexts. Technical report.
• ♦SILC Teacher Work Circle. Report on the learning of measurement in the early years: Key difficulties and recommendations for curricular enhancements.

Non-Archival Conference Papers

• ♦Boyer, T. Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March). Proportional reasoning: Intuition, problem representation and problem-solving success. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Devleopment. Boston, Massachusetts.
• ♦Cannon, J., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March). Are young children part-whole thinkers? Children's strategies for solving proportional equivalence problems. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. Boston, Masachusetts.
• ♦Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (April, 2006). A developmental perspective on the influence of gesture on spatial representation. Conference on Human Development. Louisville, Kentucky.

SILC planned and/or sponsored conferences/meetings

• ♦Spring 2009, SILC Co Sponsoring the Spatial Training Conference in Evanston, IL.
• ♦Summer 2009, Gentner co organized the 2nd International Analogy conference.
• ♦Summer 2009, follow-up to the International Workshop of Spatial Cognition and Learning, held in New York City.
• ♦Fall 2009, SILC was represented on the organizing committee of the 4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2009) Rome, Italy.
• ♦Fall 2009, Forbus presented colloquium on CogSketch at Temple University, PA.
• ♦May 2010, Sources of Individual Differences in Spatial Skills: The Interaction between the Learner and the Learning Environment, Cambridge, MA.
• ♦August 2010, Co-Sponsor of the International Workshop of Spatial Cognition and Learning, will be held in Mt. Hood, Oregon.