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Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming (2013)
Journal Article
Mather, E., Estes, Z., & Jones, L. L. (2014). Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 71(1), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.10.004

Integrative priming is the facilitated recognition of a target word following a prime word with which it can be combined to produce a sub-type of the target (e.g., a lake bird is a type of bird). Such priming occurs even in the absence of lexical ass... Read More about Priming by relational integration in perceptual identification and Stroop colour naming.

Novelty, attention, and challenges for developmental psychology (2013)
Journal Article
Mather, E. (2013). Novelty, attention, and challenges for developmental psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(AUG), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00491

In this brief essay, I seek to demonstrate the significance of exploratory behavior for understanding cognitive development. Historically, organisms were thought to act solely in the service of achieving biologically significant goals, such as satisf... Read More about Novelty, attention, and challenges for developmental psychology.

Bootstrapping the early lexicon: how do children use old knowledge to create new meanings? (2013)
Journal Article
Mather, E. (2013). Bootstrapping the early lexicon: how do children use old knowledge to create new meanings?. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, Article 96. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00096

Compared to other aspects of language development, such as acquiring grammar, we perhaps take for granted the complexity of building a lexicon. More than 50 years ago the philosopher W.V.O. Quine provided a now famous example of what makes word learn... Read More about Bootstrapping the early lexicon: how do children use old knowledge to create new meanings?.