Representative Publications

Edited Books: 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, Susan Gelman, Robert Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Peter Jusczyk, Frank Keil, Ellen Markman, Kelly Madole, Denis Mareschal, Carolyn Mervis, Lisa Oakes, Paul Quinn, David Rakison, Linda Smith, Sandra Waxman, Barbara Younger. Gershkoff-Stowe, L., & Rakison, D. H. (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 Rakison, Philippe Schyns, Robert Siegler, Linda Smith, Fei Xu. Oakes, L.M., Cashon, C.H., Casasola, M., & Rakison, D. H. (Eds.) (forthcoming). The information-processing infant. 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

Monographs
Rakison, D. H., & Lupyan, G. (in press). Developing object concepts in infancy: An associative learning perspective. Monographs of SRCD. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF

Publications
Rakison, D. H., & Cicchino, J. B. (under review). Induction in infancy. To appear in S. Johnson (Ed.), A neo-constructivist approach to early development. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cicchino, J. B., & Rakison, D. H. (under review). Infants’ attribution of goal-directed action to non-human animals.
Cicchino, J. B., & Rakison, D. H. (under review). Infant crawling facilitates an understanding of self-propulsion in the world.
Rakison, D. H. (under review). Inductive categorization: A new methodology to examine the contents of concepts in infancy. Invited paper for special issue of Cognition, Brain, Behavior journal on the Development of Categorization.
Lupyan, G., Rakison, D. H., & McClelland, J. L. (in press). Language is not just for talking: redundant labels facilitate learning of novel categories. Psychological Science.
Rakison, D. H. (in press). Is consciousness in its infancy in infancy? Invited paper to appear in special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies.
Rakison, D. H., Cicchino, J. B, & Hahn, E. R. (in press). Infants’ knowledge of the identity of rational goal-directed entities. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Derringer, J. L. (in press). Do infants possess an evolved spider-detection mechanism? Cognition. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Woodward, A. (forthcoming). How infant action affects perception and cognition. Developmental Psychology.
Rakison, D. H. (2007). Fast Tracking: Infants learn rapidly about object trajectories. Trends in Cognitive Science, 11, 140-142. 900-912. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
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.
Rakison, D. H. (2006). Make the first move: How infants learn the identity of self-propelled objects. Developmental Psychology, 42, 900-912.   Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
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.
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.
Rakison, D.H. (2005). 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. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
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.
Rakison, D.H. (2005). Developing knowledge of motion properties in infancy. Cognition, 96, 183-214. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
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.  Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
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.
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. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Cicchino, J. B. (2004). Is an infant a people person? Cognition, 94, 105-107.
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.
Rakison, D.H. (2003). Parts, categorization, and the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy. In D. H. Rakison, & Oakes, L. M. (Eds.), Early concept and category development: Making sense of the blooming buzzing confusion. New York: Oxford University Press. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
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.
Rakison, D.H. (2003). Free association? Why the development of ontological categories require more. Developmental Science, 6, 20-22.
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.  Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
Rakison, D.H., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2001). The developmental origin of the animate-inanimate distinction. Psychological Bulletin. 2, 209-228.  Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
Rakison, D.H. (2000). When a Rose is just a Rose: The illusion of taxonomies in infant categorization. Infancy, 1, 77-90. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF
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? Infancy, 1, 111-122.
Rakison, D.H., & Cohen, L. B., (1999). Infants’ use of functional parts in basic-like categorization. Developmental Science, 2, 423-432.    Download Adobe Acrobat PDF)
Poulin-Dubois, D.H., & Rakison, D.H. (1999). A developmental theory of implicit and explicit knowledge? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (5).
Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1998a). Infants’ use of parts in early categorization. Developmental Psychology, 34, 49-62. Download Adobe Acrobat PDF )
Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1998b). Infant attention to object structure in early categorization. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1310-1325.   Download Adobe Acrobat PDF

 

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