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SILC Publications

  • Boyer, T., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher (in preparation). Development of proportional reasoning: Where young children go wrong.
  • 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). Early play with jigsaw puzzles predicts preschoolers' spatial skill: A longitudinal investigation. Manuscript in preparation.
  • 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 Reseaerch on Child Development. Boston, Masachusetts.
  • 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.
  • Edelson, D. C., Smith, D. A., & Brown, M. (in press). 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., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006). The importance of gesture in children's spatial reasoning. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1259-1268.
  • 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. (in press). Conceptual split? Parents' and experts' perceptions of play in the 21st century. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
  • Gentner, D. (2007). Spatial cognition in apes and humans. TRENDS in Cognitive Science, 11, 192-194.
  • Gentner, D., & Bowerman, M. (in press). 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., & 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. (2006). Using numbers to structure space. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., & Hung, B. (2007). Comparison facilitates children’s learning of names for parts. Journal of Cognition and Development, 8, 285-307.
  • Göksun, T., Küntay, A., & Naigles, L. (2008, in press). Turkish children use morphosyntactic bootstrapping in interpreting verb meaning. Journal of Child Language.
  • 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, 20, 502.
  • Huttenlocher, J., Lourenco, S. (2007). Coding location in enclosed spaces: Is geometry the principle? Developmental Science, 10, 741.
  • 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.
  • Huttenlocher, J., Vasilyeva, M., Newcombe, N.S. & Duffy, S. (2007, in press). Developing symbolic capacity one step at a time. Cognition.
  • 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.
  • 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, 237-256.
  • Learmonth, A.E., Newcombe, N.S., Sheridan, N. & Jones, M. (in press). Why size counts: Children's spatial reorientation in large and small enclosures. Developmental Science.
  • 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., & 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. 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.
  • Newcombe, N.S. (2007, November). Psychology's role in math and science. Monitor on Psychology, 8.
  • 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. (in press). The role of cognitive modularity in evolution and development. In L. Tommasi, L. Nadel & M.A. Peterson (Eds.), Assembling Brains: Cognition, Development and Evolution, Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Reilly, J. Levine, S., Nass, R. and Stiles, J. (in press). 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. (submitted). A review of Katherine Nelson’s Young minds in social worlds. Journal of Child Language.
  • 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.
  • 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. (in press). Durable and generalized effects of spatial experience on mental rotation: Gender differences in growth patterns. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
  • Uttal, D. H, Chiong, C., & Bruce, C. (revise and resubmit). Communicating space in more than one way: The development of flexibility in using spatial structures. Child Development.
  • 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. (in press). Comprehending and learning from visual representations: A developmental approach. In J. Gilbert, M. Reiner, & M. Nakhleh (Eds.), Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education. New York: Springer.
  • Ware, E. A., Uttal, D. H., & DeLoache, J. S. (revise and resubmit). Everyday Scale Errors. Developmental Science.
  • Wright, R., Thompson, W. L., Ganis, G., Newcombe, N.S. & Kosslyn, S.M. (in press). Training generalized spatial skills. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
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SILC Presentations

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. (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., 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. (2008). Languages' Representation of Spatial Relations. Poster presented at the 2008 inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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., 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. & 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. (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.
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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.
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SILC NEWS/UPDATES

10/07/2008
Call for Papers/Participation (deadline is soon!: October 14, 2008).

10/03/2008
There are now 197 members in our Spatial Network!

10/02/2008
Our NSF Award number is now listed in our footer...a useful reference for our SILC members who need this info for publications.

10/02/2008
Many links are being added to our Network Members page. Check it out.

09/24/2008
SILC and University of Pennsylvania are co-hosting two talks at IRCS.

09/19/2008
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