papers
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS & CHAPTERS
IN PREP AND UNDER REVIEW
Alessandroni, N., Altschul, D., Bazhydai, M., Brosnan, S. F., Byers-Heinlein, K., Call, J., Chittka, L., Elsherif, M., Espinosa, J., Freeman, M., Gjoneska, B., Güntürkün, O., Huber, L., Krasheninnikova, A., Mazza, V., Miller, R., Moreau, D., Nawroth, C., Pronizius, E., Ruiz-Fernández, S., Schwing, R., Šlipogor, V., Visser, I., Vonk, J., Yeager, J., Zettersten, M., & Prétôt, L. (under review). Bringing Big Team Science to comparative cognition research: Challenges and ways forward. [preprint]
Schreiner, M., Zettersten, M., Bergmann, C., Frank, Michael C., Fritzsche, T., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hamlin, K., Kartushina, N., Kellier, D.J., Mani, N., Mayor, J., Saffran, J., Shukla, M., Silverstein, P., Soderstrom, M., & Lippold, M. (under review). Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large pre-registered infant sample. [preprint]
Zettersten, M., Choi, K., Kirkorian, H., & Saffran, J. (in prep). Children actively select words that support learning.
ACCEPTED
Kosie, J.*, Zettersten, M.*, & the ManyBabies5 team. (Stage 1 registered report, in-principle acceptance). ManyBabies5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. *equal authorship [preprint]
2024
Weaver, H.*, Zettersten, M.*, & Saffran, J. (2024). Becoming word meaning experts: Infants’ processing of familiar words in the context of typical and atypical exemplars. Child Development. *equal authorship [preprint]
Zettersten, M.*, Cox, C.M.M.*, Bergmann, C.*, Tsui, A.S.M., Soderstrom, M., Mayor, J., Lundwall, R.A., Lewis, M., Kosie, J.E., Kartushina, N., Fusaroli, R., Frank, M.C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Black, A.K., & Mathur, M.B. (2024). Evidence for infant-directed speech preference is consistent across large-scale, multi-site replication and meta-analysis. Open Mind, 8, 439-461. *equal authorship [preprint]
Alessandroni, N., Altschul, D., Bazhydai, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., Elsherif, M., Gjoneska, B., Huber, L., Mazza, V., Miller, R., Nawroth, C., Pronizius, E., Qadri, M.A.J., Šlipogor, V., Soderstrom, M., Stevens, J.R., Visser, I., Williams, M., Zettersten, M., & Prétôt, L. (2024). Comparative cognition needs Big Team Science: How large-scale collaborations will unlock the future of the field. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 19, 67–72. [preprint]
Zettersten, M., Bredemann, C., Kaul, M., Vlach, H., Kirkorian, H., & Lupyan, G. (2024). Nameability supports rule-based category learning in children and adults. Child Development, 95(2), 497-514. [preprint]
2023
Zettersten, M., Yurovsky, D., Xu, T. L., Uner, S., Tsui, A.S.T., Schneider, R. M., Saleh, A. N., Meylan, S. C., Marchman, V., Mankewitz, J., MacDonald, K., Long, B., Lewis, M., Kachergis, G., Handa, K., deMayo, B., Carstensen, A., Braginsky, M., Boyce, V., Bhatt, N., Bergey, C. A., & Frank, M.C. (2023). Peekbank: An open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data of children’s word recognition. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 2485-2500. [preprint]
2022
Koranda, M., Zettersten, M., & MacDonald, M. (2022). Good-enough production: Selecting easier words instead of more accurate ones. Psychological Science, 33(9), 1440–1451. [preprint]
Zettersten, M., Pomper, R., & Saffran, J. (2022). Valid points and looks: Reliability and validity go hand-in-hand when improving infant methods. Infant and Child Development, e2326.
Wojcik, E., Zettersten, M., & Benitez, V. (2022). The map trap: Why and how word learning research should move beyond mapping. WIREs Cognitive Science, 13(4), e1596.
Visser, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., Franchin, L., Frank, M. C., Geraci, A., Hamlin, J. K., Kaldy, Z., Kulke, L., Laverty, C., Lew-Williams, C., Mateu, V., Mayor, J., Moreau, D., Nomikou, I., Schuwerk, T., Simpson, E. A., Singh, L., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., van den Heuvel, M. I., Westermann, G., Yamada, Y., Zaadnoordijk, L., Zettersten, M. (in press). Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E35. [commentary on The generalizability crisis, by Tal Yarkoni] [preprint]
Woodard, K., Zettersten, M., & Pollak, S.D. (2022). The representation of emotion knowledge across development. Child Development, 93(3), e237-e250.
2021
Lupyan, G., & Zettersten, M. (2021). Does vocabulary help structure the mind? In Sera, M., & Koenig, M. (Eds.). Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology: Human Communication: Origins, Mechanisms, and Functions, Volume 40 (pp. 160-199). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. [preprint]
Santolin, C., Garcia-Castro, G., Zettersten, M., Sebastian-Galles, N., & Saffran, J. (2021). Experience with research paradigms relates to infants’ direction of preference. Infancy, 26(1), 39-46. [preprint]
Zettersten, M., & Saffran, J. (2021). Sampling to learn words: Adults and children sample words that reduce referential ambiguity. Developmental Science, 24(3), e13064.
2020
Benitez, V., Zettersten, M., & Wojcik, E. (2020). The temporal structure of naming events differentially affects children’s and adults’ statistical word-referent learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 200, 104961. [preprint]
Byers-Heinlein, K., Bergmann, C., Davies, C., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, K., Kline, M., …, Zettersten, M., & Soderstrom, M. (2020). Building a collaborative Psychological Science: Lessons from ManyBabies 1. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 61(4), 349-363. [preprint]
Zettersten, M., Potter, C., & Saffran, J. (2020). Tuning in to non-adjacencies: Exposure to learnable patterns supports discovering otherwise difficult structures. Cognition, 202, 104283.
The ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24–52.
Zettersten, M., Schonberg, C., & Lupyan, G. (2020). What does a radical exemplar view not predict? A commentary on Ambridge (2020). First Language, 40, 636-639.
Zettersten, M., & Lupyan, G. (2020). Finding categories through words: More nameable features improve category learning. Cognition, 196, 104135. [preprint]
2019
Lewis, M., Zettersten, M., & Lupyan, G. (2019). Distributional semantics as a source of visual knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(39), 19237-19238. [preprint][SI]
Zettersten, M. (2019). Learning by predicting: How predictive processing informs language development. In Busse, B., & Moehlig-Falke, R. (Eds.). Patterns in Language and Linguistics: New Perspectives on a Ubiquitous Concept (pp. 255-288). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2018
Zettersten, M., Wojcik, E. W., Benitez, V., & Saffran, J. R. (2018). The company objects keep: Linking referents together during cross-situational word learning. Journal of Memory & Language, 99, 62-73.
2014
Hoehl, S., Zettersten, M., Schleihauf, H., Graetz, S., & Pauen, S. (2014). The role of social interaction and pedagogical cues for eliciting and reducing overimitation in preschoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 122, 122-133.
PEER-REVIEWED PROCEEDINGS PAPERS
Plate, R, Perkins, E. R., Waller, R., & Zettersten, M. (2024). Learning and generalizing associations between social cues and outcomes. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [preprint]
Zettersten, M., Cutler, M., & Lew-Williams, C. (2023). Active information-seeking in support of learning extensions of novel words. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [preprint]
Zettersten, M., Bergey, C. A., Bhatt, N., Boyce, V., Braginsky, M., Carstensen, A., deMayo, B., Kachergis, G., Lewis, M., Long, B., MacDonald, K., Mankewitz, J., Meylan, S. C., Saleh, A. N., Schneider, R. M., Tsui, A.S.T., Uner, S., Xu, T. L., Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M.C. (2021). Peekbank: Exploring children’s word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [preprint]
Zettersten, M., Suffill, E., & Lupyan, G. (2020). Nameability predicts subjective and objective measures of visual similarity. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Woodard, K., Zettersten, M., & Pollak, S.D. (2020). Developmental changes in children’s knowledge of facial configurations. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [accepted as a paper but published as an abstract]
Zettersten, M., & Saffran, J. (2019). Sampling to learn words: Adults and children sample words that reduce referential ambiguity. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1261-1267). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society.
Koranda, M.*, Zettersten, M.*, & McDonald, M. (2018). Word frequency can affect what you choose to say. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. *equal authorship
Zettersten, M., Potter, C., & Saffran, J. (2018). Tuning in to non-adjacent dependencies: How experience with learnable patterns supports learning novel regularities. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Zettersten, M., & Lupyan, G. (2018). Using language to discover categories: more nameable features improve category learning. In C. Cuskley, M. Flaherty, H. Little, Luke McCrohon, A. Ravignani, & T. Verhoef (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference (EVOLANGXII). NCU Press.
DISSERTATION
Zettersten, M. (2020). Seeking new words: Active word learning in infants and children. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2020. 27994650.