Developmental Psychology
Department of Psychology
The University of Houston
126 Heyne Building
Houston, TX 77204-5022
Phone: 713-743-8500

Lab Publications

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Publications

Yoshida, H. (2012). A cross-linguistic study of sound symbolism in children’s verb learning. Journal of Cognition and Development, 13(2), 232–265.
Yoshida, H., & Burling, J. M. (2012). Highlighting: A mechanism relevant for word learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(262), 1-12.
Jones, S. S. & Yoshida, H. (2012). Imitation in infancy and the acquisition of body knowledge. In: Slaughter, V. and Brownell, C.A. (eds.) Early Development of Body Representations. Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development 13, (pp. 207-226). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Yoshida, H., & Burling, J. M. (2011). A new perspective on embodied social attention. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 15(4), 535-552.
Yoshida, H. & Hanania, R. (2011). If it's red, it's not stoof: Contribution of lexical competition in early word learning. First Language, 1-17.
Yoshida, H., Tran, D. N., Benitez, V., & Kuwabara, M. (2011). Inhibition and adjective learning in bilingual and monolingual children. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(210), 1-14.
Smith, L. B., Colunga, E., Yoshida, H. (2010). Knowledge as process: Contexually cued attention and early word learning. Cognitive Science, 34, 1287-1314.
Yoshida, H. (2008). The cognitive consequences of early bilingualism. Journal of Zero to Three, 29(2), 26-30.
Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2008). What's in view for toddlers? Using a head camera to study visual experience. Infancy, 13(3) 229-248.
Yoshida, H. (2006). Word learning mechanism: learning system, constraints, and correlational learning Japanese Psychological Review 49(1), 91-95.
Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2005). Linguistic cues enhance the learning of perceptual cues. Psychological Science, 16(2), 90-95.
Smith, L. B., Colunga, E., & Yoshida, H. (2003). Making an ontology: Cross-linguistic evidence. In Rakison, D. H. & Oakes, L. M. (Ed). Early category and concept development: Making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion., (pp. 275-302). London: Oxford University Press.
Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Shifting ontological boundaries: How Japanese- and English-speaking children generalize names for animals and artifacts. Developmental Science, 6(1), 1-36.
Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Correlation, concepts and cross-linguistic differences. Developmental Science: Response to commentaries, 6(1), 30-34.
Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Known and novel noun extensions: Attention at two levels of abstraction Child Development, 76(2), 564-577.
Smith, L. B., Jones, S. S., Yoshida, H., & Colunga, E. (2003) Whose DAM account? Attentional learning explains Booth and Waxman. Cognition, 87, 209-213.
Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2001). Early noun lexicons in English and Japanese. Cognition, 82, 63-74.

Conference Proceedings

Tran, D. N. & Yoshida, H. (2012). Honoring different ontological boundaries: The role of language in category formation. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2457-2462). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Woods, E. A. & Yoshida, H. (2012). Effects of learning order and previous language experience in novel word learning. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2546-2551). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Burling, J., & Yoshida, H. (2011). A developmental perspective on order and learning: Temporal effects on cued attention. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2937-2942). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yoshida, H., Darby, K., & Burling, J. (2011). Cued attention and learning of spatial context in children. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1741-1746). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yoshida, H. & Hanania, R. (2007). Attentional highlighting as a mechanism behind early word learning. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 719-724). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Fausey, C., Yoshida, H., Asmuth, J., & Gentner, D. (2006). The verb mutability effect: Noun and verb semantics in English and Japanese. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.) Proceeding of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 214-219). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yoshida, H., Smith, L. B., Ping, R. M., & Davis, E. L (2002). How are speech and gesture related? In W. Gray & C. Schunn (Eds.) Proceeding of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale.