Publications

Beckner, A.G., Voss, A.T., Phillips, L., King, K., Casasola, M., Oakes, L.M. (2023). An investigation of mental rotation using change detection. Infant Behavior and Development, 71, 101834.

Bambha, V.P., Beckner, A.G., Shetty, N., Voss, A.T., Xie, J., Yiu, E., LoBue, V., Oakes, L.M., Casasola, M. (2022). Developmental changes in children’s object insertions during play. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23(3), 340-359.

Pochinki, N., Reis, D., Casasola, M., Oakes, L.M., LoBue, V. (2021). Natural variability in parent-child puzzle play at home. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 733895.

Bambha, V.P., Casasola, M. (2021). From lab to zoom: adapting training study methodologies to remote conditions. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 694728.

Casasola, M., Wei, W., Suh, D., Donskoy, P., & Ransom, A. (2020). Children’s exposure to spatial language promotes their spatial skill. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(6), 1116–1136.

Casasola, M. (2018). Above and beyond objects: The development of infants’ spatial concepts. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 54, 87-121.

Kedar, Y., Casasola, M., Lust, B., & Parmet, Y. (2017). Little words, big impact: Determiners begin to bootstrap reference by 12 months. Language Learning and Development, 13, 317-334.

Casasola, M., Bhagwat, J., Doan, S. N., & Love, H. (2017). Getting some space: Infants’ and caregivers’ containment and support spatial constructions during play. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 110-128.

Park, Y. & Casasola, M. (2017). The impact of object type on the spatial analogies in Korean preschoolers. Cognitive Psychology, 94, 53-66.

Chen, J., Tardif, T., Pulverman, R., Casasola, M., Zhu, L., Zheng, X., & Meng, X. (2015). English-and Mandarin-learnng infants’ discrimination of actions and objects in dynamic events. Developmental Psychology, 51, 1501.

Vredenburgh, C., Kushnir, T., & Casasola, M. (2015). Pedagogical cues encourage toddlers’ transmission of recently demonstrated functions to unfamiliar adults. Developmental Science, 18(4), 645-654

Ferguson, K. T., & Casasola, M. (2015). Are you an animal, too? African and US infants’ categorization of animals. Infancy, 20(2): 189-207.

Bhagwat, J. B., & Casasola, M. (2014). Infant sensitivity to speaker and language in learning a second label. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 118: 41-56.

Casasola, M., & Park, Y. (2013). Developmental changes in infant spatial categorization: When more is better and less is enough. Child Development, 84, 1004-1019.

Casasola, M., Bhagwat, J., & Burke, A. S. (2009). Learning to form a spaital category of tight-fit relations: How experience with a label can give a boost. Developmental Psychology, 45, 711-723.

Casasola, M. (2008). The development of infants’ spatial categories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 21-25.

Casasola, M. (2005). When less is more: How infants learn to form an abstract categorical representation of support. Child Development, 76(1): 279-290.

Casasola, M. (2005). Can language do the driving? The effect of linguistic input on infants’ categorization of support spatial relations. Developmental Psychology, 41(1): 183-192.

Casasola, M., Bhagwat, J., & Ferguson, K. T. (2006). Precursors to Verb Learning: Infants’ Understanding of Motion Events. In K. Hirsh-Pasek & R. M. Golinkoff (Eds.), Action meets word: How children learn verbs (pp. 160–190). Oxford University Press.

Casasola, M., Wilbourn, M. P., & Yang, S. (2006). Can English-learning toddlers acquire and generalize a novel spatial word? First Language, 26(2): 187–205

Casasola, M., & Wilbourn, M.P. (2004). Fourteen-month-old infants form novel word-spatial relation associations. Infancy, 6, 385-396.

Casasola, M., Cohen, L.B., & Chiarello, E. (2003). Six-month-old infants’ categorization of containment spatial relations. Child Development, 74, 679-693.

Casasola, M. (2002). Exploring the relationship between language-specific semantic spatial categories and infants’ nonlinguistic spatial categories. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirty-first Stanford Child Language Research Forum (p 1-10): CSLI Publications

Casasola, M., & Cohen, L. B. (2002). Infant categorization of containment, support, and tight-fit spatial relationships. Developmental Science, 5, 247-264.

Casasola, M. & Cohen, L. B. (2000). Infants’ association of language labels with causal actions. Developmental Psychology, 36, 155-168.

Werker, J. F., Cohen, L. B., Lloyd, V. L, Casasola, M., & Stager, C. L. (1998). Acquisition of word-object associations by 14-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1289-1309.

Cohen, L. B., Amsel, G., Redford, M. A., & Casasola, M. (1998). The development of infant causal perception. In A. Slater (Ed.), Perceptual, visual, auditory, and speech development: Perception in infancy. England: University College London Press and Taylor and Francis.