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Name: David Rakison

Address: Department of Psychology, Telephone (w): (412) 268 3477

Baker Hall 354N, Telephone (h): (412) 363 8759

5000 Forbes Avenue, Fax: (412) 268 2798

Pittsburgh, PA

15232, USA E-mail: rakison@andrew.cmu.edu

Web: Nationality: British

Education and Qualifications

1988-1991 B.Sc. Psychology. University of Warwick

1992-1997 D.Phil. Awarded 1997, University of Sussex

Professional Experience

1992-1996 Graduate student, Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex

1993-1994 Teaching assistant, Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex

1994-1996 Part-time lecturer, Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex

1996-1998 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

1996-1998 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

1998-2000 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University

2000. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University

2005. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

2005-present Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Professional Service

Academic Awards and Administrative Experience

• ISIS Young Investigator Award 2004

• APS Fellow

• APA Program Chair, Division 7 2007, APA Program Co-Chair, Division 7 2006

• ICIS 2016 Panel 6 (Perception and cognition) co-chair

• Carnegie Mellon Psychology Graduate Program Director (2007-present)

• Executive Committee, Division 7 (2006-2008)

• Berkman Faculty Development Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002, 2003

• Co-organizer of 32nd Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition: Building object categories in developmental time

• Co-organizer of Festschrift for Leslie B. Cohen, Vancouver, 2008.

• Psychology Graduate committee (2003-present)

• Carnegie Mellon University IRB expedited review committee (2004-present)

• Developmental hiring committee (2002, 2003, 2004)

• Psychology faculty senate representative (2001-2003)

• H&SS Advising Task Force (2006-2010)

• European Science Foundation Award 1994; European Science Foundation Award 1996

Extracurricular service

• Associate Editor, Journal of Cognition and Development, August 2012-present

• Editorial Board, Infancy, 2005-2012; Journal of Cognition and Development, 2008-present; Developmental Science, 2014-present

• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology, 2010-2012

• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 2010-2012

• Editor Special Section in Developmental Psychology 2008

• Outside reviewer of grant proposals for NSF and NIH.

• Review panelist for submissions to the meetings the International Society for Infant Studies, the Cognitive Science Society, and APA.

Association Memberships:

• American Psychological Association, Division 7, Society for Research in Child Development, Cognitive Development Society, International Society of Infant Studies, European Society for Developmental Psychology

Ad-hoc Journal Reviewer:

|Brain and Behavioral Sciences, |Infancy |

|British Journal of Developmental Psychology |International Journal of Behavioral Development |

|Child Development |Journal of Cognition and Development |

|Cognition |Journal of Consciousness Studies |

|Cognitive Psychology |Journal of Experimental Child Psychology |

|Cognitive Development |Journal of Experiment Psychology: General |

|Cognitive Science |Neuropsychologia |

|Developmental Psychology |Psychological Bulletin |

|Developmental Science |Psychological Review |

|Developmental Review |Psychological Science |

|Evolution & Human Behavior |Review of General Psychology |

Funding

Ongoing Research Support

NSF BCS-1228322 Rakison (PI) 8/15/12-8/15/14

Second-order correlation learning in infancy

Completed Research Support

R03HD054507-01 Rakison (PI) 6/1/08-6/1/10

Precursors of Theory of Mind in Young Children with Autism

R03HD049511-01 Rakison (PI) 4/1/05-4/1/07

Predator Detection in Infancy

Other funding

Oakes, LM., Casasola, M., Cashon, C., & Rakison, D. H. (co-PI), funded, National Institute of Health, 8/8/2010-8/8/2011, Festschrift in Honor of Leslie B. Cohen ($25,000)

Gershkoff-Stowe, L. (co-PI) & Rakison, D.H. (co-PI), funded, National Science Foundation, 2/1/02-1/31/03, Building object categories in developmental time ($24,812)

Gershkoff-Stowe, L. (co-PI) & Rakison, D.H. (co-PI), funded, National Institute of Health, 7/1/02-6/30/03, Building object categories in developmental time ($26,862)

Book and Journal Publications

Books

Oakes, L.M., & Rakison, D.H. (forthcoming). Developmental Cascades. Oxford University Press.

Edited Books:

Oakes, L.M., Cashon, C.H., Casasola, M., & Rakison, D. H. (Eds.) (2011). Infant perception and cognition: Recent advances, emerging theories, and future directions. New York: Oxford University Press.

Contributors: Richard N. Aslin, Marianella Casasola, Cara H. Cashon, Leslie B. Cohen, John Colombo, Judy DeLoache, Scott P. Johnson, Rachel Keen, Kelly L. Madole, Lisa M. Oakes, Kim Plunkett, David H. Rakison, John Richards, Thomas Schultz , Alan Slater, Mark S. Strauss, Janet Werker, Barbara A. Younger.

Gershkoff-Stowe, L., & D. H. Rakison, (Eds.), (2005). Building object categories in developmental time. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum

Contributors: Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Lawrence Barsalou, Melissa Bowerman, Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, Dedre Gentner, Frank Keil, David Klahr, Scott Johnson, Charles Nelson, Brian MacWhinney, Jay McClelland, Paul Quinn, David H. Rakison, Philippe Schyns, Robert Siegler, Linda Smith, Fei Xu.

Rakison, D.H., & Oakes, L.M. (Eds.), (2003). Early category and concept development: Making sense of the blooming buzzing confusion. New York: Oxford University Press.

Contributors: Leslie B. Cohen, Eliana Colunga, Susan Gelman, Robert Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Peter Jusczyk, Vikram Jaswal, Mark Johansen, Frank Keil, Melissa Koenig, Ellen Markman, Kelly Madole, Denis Mareschal, Carolyn Mervis, Thierry Nazzi, Lisa Oakes, Paul Quinn, David H. Rakison, Linda B. Smith, Sandra Waxman, Hanako Yoshida, Barbara Younger,

Monographs

Rakison, D. H., & Lupyan, G. (2008). Developing object concepts in infancy: An associative learning perspective. Monographs of SRCD, 73(1): 1-110.

Publications

1. Lawson, C., Fisher, A. & Rakison, D. H. (2015). The ins and outs of early categorization: A microgenetic study of 2-year-olds’ categorization of living kinds. Journal of Cognition and Development, 16 (2), 236-251.

2. Yermolayeva, Y., & Rakison, D. H. (2014). Connectionist modeling of developmental changes in infancy: Approaches, challenges, and contributions. Psychological Bulletin, 140 (1), 224.

3. Lawson, C., & Rakison, D. H. (2013). Expectations about single event probabilities in the first year of life. Infancy, 18 (6), 961-982

4. LoBue, V. & Rakison. D. H. (2013). What we fear most: A developmental advantage for threat-relevant stimuli. Developmental Review. 33, 285–303.

5. Rakison, D. H. & Lawson, C. (2013). Categorization. In P. Zelazo (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology. Oxford University Press.

6. Rakison, D. H. & Krogh, L. (2012). Does causal action facilitate causal perception in infants younger than 6 months of age? Developmental Science, 15, 43-54

7. Carter, E. J., Rakison, D. H., Hodgins, J. K. (2011). Exploring the neural correlates of goal-directed action and intention understanding. NeuroImage, 54, 1634–1642

8. Cicchino, J. B., Aslin, R. N., & Rakison, D. H. (2011). Correspondences between what infants see and know about causal and self-propelled motion. Cognition, 118, 171–192.

9. Rakison, D. H., & Yermolayeva, Y. (2011). How to identify a domain-general learning mechanism when you see one. Journal of Cognition and Development. (Target article with commentaries)

10. Wu, R., Mareschal, D., & Rakison, D. H. (2011). Attention to multiple cues during spontaneous object labeling. Infancy, 16, 545–55

11. LoBue, V, Rakison. D. H., & DeLoache, J. S. (2010).Threat perception across the life span: Evidence for multiple converging pathways. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 375-379

12. Rakison, D. H., & Yermolayeva, Y. (2010). Infant categorization. Wiley Interdisciplinary reviews: Cognitive Science. 6, 894–905.

13. Rakison, D. H. (2010). Perceptual categorisation and concepts. In G. Bremner, & T. D. Wachs (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development: 2nd Edition, pp 243-270. Blackwell Publishing, Hove, UK.

14. Yermolayeva, Y., & Rakison, D. H. (2010). Developing without concepts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 229-230.

15. Madole, K.M., Oakes, L.M., & Rakison, D. H. (2010). Mechanisms of categorization in infancy: The role of features and function. In L.M Oakes, C.H. Cashon, M. Casasola, & D. H. Rakison (Eds.), Infant perception and cognition: Recent advances, emerging theories, and future directions. New York: Oxford University Press.

16. Rakison, D. H., & Cicchino, J. B. (2009). Induction in infancy. In S. Johnson (Ed.) A neo-constructivist approach to early development. New York: Oxford University Press.

17. Rakison, D. H. (2009). Does women’s greater fear of snakes and spiders originate in infancy? Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 438-444.

18. Rakison, D. H., & Derringer, J. L. (2008). Do infants possess an evolved spider-detection mechanism? Cognition, 107, 381-393.

19. Rakison, D.H. & Lupyan, G. (2008). Developing object concepts in infancy: An associative learning perspective. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 73(1): 1-110

20. Rakison, D. H., & Woodward, A. L. (2008). New perspectives on the effects of action on perceptual and cognitive development. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1209-1213.

21. Cicchino, J. B., & Rakison, D. H. (2008). Producing and processing self-propelled motion in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1232-1241.

22. Rakison, D. H., & Lupyan, G. (2008). The development of modeling or the modeling of development? Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 31, 726-726.

23. Rakison, D. H. (2007). Fast Tracking: Infants learn rapidly about object trajectories. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 140-142.

24. Rakison, D. H., & Simard, C. (2007). Evolution, development, and the magic of Harry Potter. In N. McHolland (Ed.), The Psychology of Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived. Benbella Books.

25. Rakison, D. H. (2007). Is consciousness in its infancy in infancy? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14, 66-89.

26. Rakison, D. H., Cicchino, J. B, & Hahn, E. R. (2007). Infants’ knowledge of the identity of rational goal-directed entities. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25, 461–470

27. Lupyan, G., Rakison, D. H., & McClelland, J. L. (2007). Language is not just for talking: redundant labels facilitate learning of novel categories. Psychological Science, 18, 1077–1083.

28. Rakison, D. H. (2007). Inductive categorization: A new methodology to examine the contents of concepts in infancy. Cognition, Brain, and Behavior, 4, 773-790.

29. Rakison, D. H. (2006). Make the first move: How infants learn the identity of self-propelled objects. Developmental Psychology, 42, 900-912.

30. Lupyan, G. & Rakison, D.H. (2006). What Moves in a Mysterious Way? A domain-general account of learning about animacy and causality. In Proceedings of The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 525-530) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

31. Johnson, C., & Rakison, D. H. (2006). Early categorization of animate/inanimate concepts in young children with autism. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 18, 73-89.

32. Rakison, D.H. (2005). The perceptual to conceptual shift in infancy and early childhood: A surface or deep distinction? In L. Gershkoff-Stowe, & D. H. Rakison, (Eds.), (forthcoming). Building object categories in developmental time. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

33. Rakison, D.H. (2005). Developing knowledge of motion properties in infancy. Cognition, 96, 183-214.

34. Rakison, D. H. (2005). A secret agent? How infants learn about the identity of objects in a causal scene. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 91, 271-296

35. Rogers, T. T., Rakison, D. H., & McClelland, J.M. (2004). U-shaped curves in development: A PDP approach. Journal of Cognition and Development, 5, 137-145.

36. Rakison, D. H. (2004). Infants’ sensitivity to correlations among static and dynamic features in a category context. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 89, 1-30.

37. Rakison, D. H., & Cicchino, J. B. (2004). Is an infant a people person? Cognition, 94, 105-107.

38. Rakison, D.H.. & Hahn, E. (2004). The mechanisms of early categorization and induction: Smart or Dumb Infants? In R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior. Vol. 32. New York: Academic Press.

39. Rakison, D.H. (2004). Infant Perception and Cognition: An Evolutionary Perspective on Early Learning. In D. Bjorkland, & B. Ellis (Eds.), Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development. New York: Wiley.

40. Rakison, D.H. (2003). Parts, categorization, and the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy. In D. Rakison, & L.M. Oakes, (Eds.), Early concept and category development: Making sense of the blooming buzzing confusion. New York: Oxford University Press.

41. Oakes, L.M., & Rakison, D.H. (2003). Issues in infant categorization: An introduction. In D. Rakison, & L. Oakes, (Eds.), Early concept and category development: Making sense of the blooming buzzing confusion. New York: Oxford University Press.

42. Rakison, D.H. (2003). Free association? Why the development of ontological categories require more. Developmental Science, 6, 20-22.

43. Rakison, D.H., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2002). You go this way and I’ll go that way: Developmental changes in infants’ detection of correlations among static and dynamic features in motion events. Child Development, 73, 682-699.

44. Rakison, D.H., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2001). The developmental origin of the animate-inanimate distinction. Psychological Bulletin, 2, 209-228.

45. Rakison, D.H. (2000). When a Rose is just a Rose: The illusion of taxonomies in infant categorization. Infancy, 1, 77-90.

46. Quinn, P.C., Johnson, M., Mareschal, D., Rakison, D.H., & Younger, B. (2000). Response to Mandler and Smith: A dual process framework for understanding early categorization?

47. Rakison, D.H., & Cohen, L. B., (1999). Infants’ use of functional parts in basic-like categorization. Developmental Science, 2, 423-432.

48. Poulin-Dubois, D.H., & Rakison, D.H. (1999). A developmental theory of implicit and explicit knowledge? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (5).

49. Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1998a). Infants’ use of parts in early categorization. Developmental Psychology, 34, 49-62.

50. Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1998b). Infant attention to object structure in early categorization. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1310–1325.

Manuscripts under review

51. Rakison, D. H., & Yermolayeva, Y. (under review). Second-order correlation learning in infancy.

52. Yermolayeva, Y. & Rakison, D. H. (under review). Deductive-like inference in the first year of life.

53. Rakison, D. H., Ali, A., & Smith, G. (revision under review). How infants learn about the identity of objects in a causal chain.

54. Rakison, D. H., & Cicchino, J. B., & (under review). Infants’ generalization of goal-directed action to non-human animals.

55. Benton, D, & Rakison, D. H. (under review). Bridging the Gap: The emergence of causal perception and causal reasoning

Conference Papers and Symposia, and Invited talks:

Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1995, April). Superordinate-level categorisation from 14- to 22-months: The use of partonomies. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Conference, Warwick.

Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1995, July). The role of function in categorisation by infants. Paper presented at the IV European Congress of Psychology, Athens, Greece.

Rakison, D.H. (1996, September). Infant categorization: Look at those legs! Paper presented at the Year of the Child Colloquia Series, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

Rakison, D.H. (1998, April). Infants’ categorization at the superordinate and basic level: the taxonomic fallacy. In P. Quinn (Chair), Perceptually Based Approaches to Understanding Early Categorization. Paper presented at the 11th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Rakison, D.H. (1999, April). More than one way to touch a cat: Confound tasks and the basis for infants’ categorization In H. Thomas (Chair), Advances in Infant Touching and Categorization Research. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference, Albuquerque, NM.

Poulin-Dubois, D., Rakison, D.H., Vyncke, J., & Baker, R. (1999, June). Infants’ categorization of animate and inanimate motion. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science, Edmonton, Alberta.

Baker, R.K., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Rakison, D.H. (2000, June). The development of knowledge about animate and inanimate motion during the second year. In D. Poulin-Dubois (Chair), The development of the object concept in infancy. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of The Jean Piaget Society

Rakison, D.H. (2000, July). Components of the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy. Symposium presented at the 12th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.

Rakison, D.H., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2000, July). Infants’ understanding of animate and inanimate motion events. In D.H. Rakison (Chair), Components of the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.

Rakison, D. H. (2000, November). The development of infants' knowledge about animate and inanimate entities: From object parts to motion. Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA.

Rakison, D.H. (2001, April). Why some correlations are more equal than others: The role of motion on infants’ attention to causally relevant attribute. Department of Psychology, Emory University, GA.

Rakison, D.H., & Oakes, L. M. (2001, April). Mechanisms of change in early concept and category formation. Symposium at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference, Minnesota.

Rakison, D.H. (2001, April). The Role of Correlations Among Static and Dynamic Attributes as a Mechanism for Conceptual Change in Infancy. In D. H. Rakison, & L. M. Oakes. Mechanisms of change in early concept and category formation. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference, Minnesota.

Slemmer, J. A., Kirkham, N. Z., Johnson, S. P., & Rakison, D. H. (2002, April).  Statistical learning and rule abstraction in infancy.  Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, CA.

Rakison, D. H. (2003, July). The acquisition of the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy: Are domain general mechanism sufficient? Paper presented at the British Experimental Psychology Conference, Reading, UK.

Rakison, D. H., & Johnson, C. (2003, October). Early Concept Development in Autism. Paper presented at the Society for Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Pittsburgh, PA.

Rakison, D. H. (2004, May). Why did you do that? Delineating the bases for categorization and induction in infancy. In Johnson, S. The Big Questions of Infant Cognition: Trenchant Debate, Tentative Answers. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, Il.

Rakison, D. H. (2005, April). Mechanisms for predator detection and response in infancy. In Lobue, V., & Rakison, D. H. Adaptive mechanisms in early development. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Rakison, D. H. (2005, October). The basis for inductive inference in infancy and beyond. In Fisher, A., & Sloutsky. V. Similarity and theory in inductive reasoning. Paper presented at the Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, CA.

Rakison, D.H. (2006). In form and moving how express and admirable: How infants learn about the motion properties of objects and entities. Invited talk, Cognitive Science, Ohio State University.

Rakison. D.H., & Cicchino, J. B (2006). What’s good for the goose: The development of induction inference in infancy. Invited talk at symposium on neo-constructivist perspectives on early perception and cognition. New York, NY.

Cicchino, J. B., & Rakison, D. H. (2007, October). The function of action in cognitive and perceptual development. Symposium submitted to the Cognitive Developmental Society meeting, Santé Fe, NM.

 Cicchino, J. B., & Rakison, D. H. (2007, October). Producing and processing self-propelled motion in infancy. Paper presented at the Cognitive Developmental Society meeting, Santé Fe, NM.

Rakison, D. H. (2009, June). The role of nature and nurture in infant cognition. Invited talk at the Eastern Psychological Association conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Rakison, D. H. (2010, April). How infants' action facilitates learning about animacy cues. In Sommerville, J. The Impact of Self-Produced Action on Cognitive and Perceptual Development. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MA.

Rakison, D. H. (2010, April). Discussant for Infants' Processing of Variation in Speech. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MA.

Rakison, D. H. (2010, April). Do Humans Possess a Specialized Fear Mechanism? In Lobue, V., & Rakison, D. H. Adaptive Mechanisms in the Developing Infant. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MA.

Rakison, D. H. & Yermolayeva, Y (2012, March). Deductive-like learning in infancy. Invited talk at the Eastern Psychological Association conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Rakison, D. H. & Yermolayeva, Y (2012, June). Second-order correlation learning in infancy. In In Yermolayeva, Y. & Rakison, D. H. Domain-general mechanism of generalization. Paper to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis.

Rakison, D. H. & Yermolayeva, Y (2012, June). Domain-general mechanism of generalization. Symposium organized for International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis.

Rakison, D. H. (2012, March). Domain-general and domain-specific mechanisms of learning. Invited talk, Brown University.

Rakison, D. H. (2012, April). Mechanisms of learning in infancy. Invited talk, University of Pittsburgh.

Rakison, D. H (2012, September). Mechanisms of infant learning: Evolution’s solution to adaptive problems. Invited talk, Emory University.

Conference Posters:

Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1994, September). How infants classify animals and vehicles: Categorisation without categories. Poster presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Conference, Portsmouth, England.

Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1994, October). The development of categorisation from 10- to 22-months: Perceptual rather than conceptual? Poster presented at ESF Conference on Development of Sensory, Motor and Cognitive Capabilities in Early Infancy, Maratea, Italy.

Rakison, D.H. (1995, August). A leg to stand on? How infants attend to parts in categorisation Poster presented at the VIIth European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Krakow, Poland.

Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1995, September). The role of perceptual features in categorisation by young children. Poster presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Conference, Strathclyde, Scotland.

Rakison, D.H. (1996, April). The role of parts and structure in categorization by young children. Poster presented at the 10th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Rhode Island, USA.

Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1996, April). Partonomies or taxonomies? How infants classify at the superordinate level. Poster presented at ESF conference on the Development of Sensory Motor and Cognitive Abilities in Early Infancy, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain.

Rakison, D.H., & Cohen, L. B. (1998, April). You've got to roll with it, baby: The effect of functional parts on infants’ categorization. Poster presented at the 11th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Koenig, M., & Rakison, D.H. (1999, April). Cows of a feather flock together: Preschoolers’ and adults’ basic- and superordinate-level categorization. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference, Albuquerque, NM.

Poulin-Dubois, D., Rakison, D.H., & Vyncke, J. (1999, October). Infants’ knowledge of animate and inanimate motion events. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference, Chapel Hill, VA.

Rakison, D.H., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2000, July). You go this way and I’ll go that way: Infants’ attention to correlations among object parts and motion path. Poster presented at the 12th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.

Baker, R.K., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Rakison, D.H. (2000, July). Leaping Lotuses and bouncing Beagles: What infants know about animate and inanimate motion events. Poster presented at the 12th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.

Poulin-Dubois, D., & Rakison, D.H., (2001, April). Infants’ generalization of motion events and activities to animals and people. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference, Minnesota.

Rakison, D.H., (2001, October). A snake in the grass? Categorization of dangerous animals by 10-month-old infants. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference, Virginia Beach, VA.

Rakison, D.H., (2002, April). In the air or on the ground: Infant knowledge of the motion properties of animals and vehicles. Poster presented at the 13th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Canada.

Rakison, D.H. (2003, April). A secret agent? How infants learn about animates’ causal role and onset of motion. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference, Tampa, FL.

Hahn, E., & Rakison, D. H. (2003). Perceptual versus nonobvious features in category membership decisions: A statistical learning account. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference, Park City, UT.

Cicchino, J. & Rakison, D. H. (2004). Infants’ knowledge of rational goal-directed action. Poster presented at the 14th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL.

Hahn, E. R., & Rakison, D. H. (2004). Learning labels and functions: An advantage for actions in three age groups. Poster presented at the 14th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL.

Cicchino, J.B., & Rakison, D. H. (2005). When do infants know that nonhuman animates are goal-directed entities? Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, CA.

Cicchino, J. B., & Rakison, D. H. (2007, October). Robots, people, and tables: The role of appearance in infants' generalizations of goal-directed action. Poster presented at the Cognitive Developmental Society meeting, Santé Fe, NM.

Yermolayeva, Y., & Rakison, D.H. (2009). Infants' learning about motion events with multiple dynamic correlations: behavioral and simulation findings. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society, San Antonio, TX.  

Yermolayeva, Y., & Rakison, D.H. (2010, April). The Role of Part Saliency in Infant Categorization by Parts or Structure? Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MA.

Lawson, C., & Rakison, D.H. (2010, April). Do All Objects Go "Wee"? The Influence of Exemplar Differentiation on Inductive Generalization in 22- and 26-Month-Olds. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MA.

Yermolayeva, Y., & Rakison, D.H. (2010, April). The Role of Part Saliency in Infant Categorization by Parts or Structure? Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MA.

Erickson L., Thiessen, E. D., & Rakison, D. H. (2011, October). Tones as invitation to categories? The role of experience with tones and words on infants' category formation. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society, Philadelphia, PA.  

Yermolayeva, Y., & Rakison, D.H. (2011, October). Infants' perception of objects with an ambiguous start of motion. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society, Philadelphia, PA.  

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