Publications
2025
Petroff, Z. J., Jayaraman, S., Smith, L. B., Candy, T. R., & Bonnen, K. (2025). The world through infant eyes: Evidence for the early emergence of the cardinal orientation bias. PNAS, 122(16), Article e2421277122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2421277122.
2024
Franchak, J. M., Smith, L., & Yu, C. (2024). Developmental changes in how head orientation structures infants' visual attention. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(7). https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22538
Anderson, E. M., Candy, T. R., Gold, J. M., & Smith, L. B. (2024). An edge-simplicity bias in the visual input to young infants. Science Advances, 10(19). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj8571.
Borjon, J. I., Abney, D. H., Yu, C., & Smith, L. B. (2024). Infant vocal productions coincide with body movements. Developmental Science.
2023
Abney, D. H., Jerry, C. M., Smith, L. B., & Yu, C. (2023). Look before you reach: Fixation-reach latencies predict reaching kinematics in toddlers. Infancy.8
Sheybani, S., Hansaria, H., Wood, J. N., Smith, L. B., & Tiganj, Z. (2023). Curriculum Learning with Infant Egocentric Videos. Paper to be presented at NeurIPS 2023.
Mix, K. S., Bower, C. A., Yuan, L., Hancock, G. R., & Smith, L. B. (2023). Predictive relations between early place value understanding and multidigit calculation: approximate versus syntactic measures. Educational Psychology, 1-19.
Mendez, A. H., Yu, C., & Smith, L.B. (2023) Controlling the input: How one-year-old infants sustain visual attention. Developmental Science
Karmazyn-Raz, H. & Smith, L.B. (2023) Sampling statistics are like story creation: A network analysis of parent-toddler exploratory play. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Slone, L.K., Abney, D.H., Smith, L.B., & Yu, C. (2023) The temporal structure of parent talk to toddlers about objects. Supplementary material. Cognition.
2022
Smith, L.B. & Karmazyn-Raz, H. (2022) Episodes of experience and generative intelligence. Trends in Cognitive Science, 25th Anniversary Series: Looking Forward. See the full list of articles here.
Bower, C.A., Mix, Kelly S., Yuan, L., & Smith, L.B. (2022) A network analysis of children's emerging place-value concepts. Psychological Science, Vol. 33(7), 1112-1127.
Anderson, E.M., Seemiller, E.S., & Smith, L.B. (2022) Scene saliences in egocentric vision and their creation by parents and infants. Cognition. Vol 229. In print December 2022, 105256.
Karmazyn-Raz, H. & Smith, L.B. (2022) Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names. Language Acquisition..
Clerkin, E. & Smith, L.B (2022) Real-world statistics at two timescales and a mechanism for infant learning of object names. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 119, No. 18.
Mix, K., Bower, C., Hancock, G., Yuan, L, & Smith, L.B. (2022) The development of place value concepts: Approximation before principles.Child Development, 1-16.
Kuwabara, M. & Smith, L.B. (2022) Focus on One or More? Cultural Similarities and Differences in How Parents Talk About Social Events to Preschool Children. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 778960.
2021
Yu, C., Zhang, Y., Slone, L. & Smith, L.B. (2021) The infant's view redefines the problem of referential uncertainty in early word learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 118, No. 52.
Yuan, L., Prather, R., Mix, K. & Smith, L.B. (2021) The first step to learning place value: A role for physical models? Frontiers in Education, 6: 683424
Borjon, J.I., Abney, D.H., Yu, C. & Smith, L.B. (2021) Head and eyes: Looking behavior in 12 to 24 month old infants, and Supplementary Tables. Journal of Vision.
2020
Abney, D., Suanda, S., Smith, L. B. & Yu, C. (2020) What are the building blocks of parent-infant coordinated attention in free-flowing interaction? Infancy, 25(6): 871–887
Jayaraman, S. & Smith, L. B. (2020) The infant's visual world: Everyday statistics for visual learning. In Lockman, J. J. & Tamis-LeMonda, C., S (eds). The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development: Brain, Behavior, and Cultural Context, Cambridge University Press, 553-579.
Maitha, C., Goode, J.C., Maulucci, D.P., Lasassmeh, S.M.S., Yu, C., Smith, L.B. & Borjon, J.I. (2020) An open-source, wireless vest for measuring autonomic function in infants. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01394-4.
Smith, L.B., Byrge, L. & Sporns, O. (2020) Beyond Origins. Developmental pathways and the dynamics of brain networks. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Cognitive Science.
Yuan, L., Xiang, V., Crandall, D. & Smith, L.B. (2020) Learning the generative principles of a symbol system from limited examples. Cognition, 200, 104243.
