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[62] Hartshorne, J. K. (preprint). Just give them childcare: The COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment in parenting practices. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r64hf.

[61] Iris Oved, Krishnaswamy, N., Pustejovsky, J., & Hartshorne, J. (2024). Computational Thought Experiments for a More Rigorous Philosophy and Science of the Mind. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08304. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08304 [PDF]

[60] Allen, K., Brändle, F., Botvinick, M., Fan, J. E., Gershman, S. J., Gopnik, A., Griffiths, T. L., Hartshorne, J. K., Hauser, T. U., Ho, M. K., de Leeuw, J. R., Ma, W. J., Murayama, K., Rutledge, R. B., Sherson, J., Simsek, Ö., Spiers, H., Summerfield, C., Thalmann, M., Vélez, N., Watrous, A. J., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, E (2024). Nature Human Behaviour 8, 1035–1043. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01878-9.

[59] Li, W., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2024). Commentary: Don’t let perfect be the enemy of better: In defense of unparameterized megastudies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e53. doi:10.1017/S0140525X23002121 [PDF]

[58] Li, W., Germine, L. T., Mehr, S. A., Srinivasan, M., & Hartshorne, J. (2024). Developmental psychologists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility. Infant and Child Development, 33(1), e2348. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2348 [PDF]

[57] Hartshorne, J. (2022). Editorial: Politics is not a spectator sport: On the role of psycholinguists in a global crisis. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 9(2), 8-10. [online]

[56] Oved, Iris, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2023). Neither neural networks nor the language-of-thought alone make a complete game. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E285. [online]

[55] Oved, Iris, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2023). Commentary: Neither Neural Networks nor the Language of Thought alone Make a Complete Game. Brain and Behavioral Sciences

[54] Yun, Heesu, Wei Li, Zonggui Li, & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2023). Will children learn English faster if their native language is similar to English? Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] [poster]

[53] Erb, C. D., Germine, L., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2023). Cognitive Control Across the Lifespan: Congruency Effects Reveal Divergent Developmental Trajectories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(11), 3285-3291. doi.org/10.1037/xge0001429. [PDF]

[52] Hartshorne, J., Huang, Y., & Skorb, L. (2023). Some puzzling findings regarding the acquisition of verbs. Language Development Research. doi: 10.34842/2023.535 [online]

[51] Li, W., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2022). Even simultaneous bilinguals do not reach monolingual levels of proficiency in syntax. Languages, 7(4), 293. [PDF]

[50] Hartshorne, Joshua K and Wesley Ricketts. (2022). Evaluating unsupervised word segmentation in adults: a meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[49] Erb, Christopher D., Laura T. Germine, and Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2022). Revisting the inverted-U: Congruency tasks reveal divergent developmental trajectories. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[48] Liu, Zoey, Tiwa Eisape, Emily Prud'hommeaux, and Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2022) Data-driven crosslinguistic syntactic transfer in second language learning. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

[47] Aglinskas, Aidas, Joshua K. Hartshorne, & Stefano Anzellotti. (2022). Contrastive machine learning reveals the structure of neuroanatomical variation within autism. Science, 376(6597), 1070-1074. [PDF]

[46] Chan, Jocelyn & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2021). Is it easier for children to learn English if their native language is similar to English? Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 103-114. Cascadilla Press. [PDF]

[45] Hartshorne, J. K. (2022). When do children lose the language instinct? A critical review of the critical periods literature. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8, 143-151. [PDF]

[44] Almaatouq, Abdullah, Joshua A Becker, Michael S Bernstein, Robert Botto, Eric Bradlow, Ekaterina Damer, Angela L Duckworth, Tom Griffiths, Joshua K Hartshorne, David Lazer, Edith Law, Min Liu, J. N Matias, David G Rand, Matthew J Salganik, Emma Satlof-Bedrick, Maurice Schweitzer, Hirokazu Shirado, Jordan W Suchow, Siddharth Suri, Milena Tsvetkova, Duncan J Watts, Mark E Whiting, and Ming Yin. (2021). Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science. [preprint]

[43] Chen, T., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2021). More evidence from over 1.1 million subjects that the critical period for syntax closes in late adolescence. Cognition, 214, 104706. [PDF]

[42] Hartshorne, J. K., Huang, Y. T., Lucio Paredes, P. M., Oppenheimer, K., Robbins, P. T., & Velasco, M. D. (2021). Screen time as an index of family distress. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 2, 100023. [online] [OSF]

[41] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2020). How massive online experiments (MOEs) can illuminate critical and sensitive periods in development. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. [online]

[40] Ebersole, C. R., Mathur, M. B., Baranski, E., Bart-Plange, D.-J., Buttrick, N. R., Chartier, C. R., Corker, K. S., Corley. M., Hartshorne, J. K., Ijzerman, H., Lazarevic, L. B., Rabagliati, H., Ropvik, I., et al. (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing pre-data collection peer review as an intervention to increase replicability. [online]

[39] Skorb, L., Aczel, B., Bakos, B., Christ, O., Fedor, A., Feinberg, L., Halasa, E., Jiménez-Leal, W., Kauff, M., Kovacs, M., Krasuska, K. K., Kuchno, K., Manfredi, D., Muda, R., Nave, G., Pękala, E., Pieńkosz, D., Ravid, J., Rentzsch , Katrin, Salamon, J., Schultze, T., Sioma, B., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2020). Many Labs 5: Replication Report for Van Dijk, Van Kleef, Steinel, & Van Beest (2008). A social functional approach to emotions in bargaining: When communicating anger pays and when it backfires. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(4), 600-614. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. [online]

[38] Niemi, L., Hartshorne, J. K., Gerstenberg, T., Stanley, M. and Young, L. (2020), Moral Values Reveal the Causality Implicit in Verb Meaning. Cogn Sci, 44: e12838. [online]

[37] Hartshorne, J. K. (2020). The many blessings of abstraction: A commentary on Ambridge (2020). First Language, 40(5–6), 581–584. [online]

[36] Mehr, S. A., Singh, M., Knox, D., Ketter, D. M., Pickens-Jones, D., Atwood, S., Lucas, C., Egner, A., Jacoby, N., Hopkins, E. J., Howard, R. M., Hartshorne, J. K., *Jennings, M. V., Simson, J., Bainbridge, C. M., Pinker, S., O’Donnell, T. J., Krasnow, M. M., & Glowacki, L. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science366,eaax0868(2019).DOI:10.1126/science.aax0868 [online] [repo] [NHS Discography Full Audio Recordings] [Analysis Scripts]

[35] Hartshorne, J. K., & Makovski, T. (2019). The effect of working memory maintenance on long-term memory. Memory & Cognition, 47(4), 749-763. [online]

[34] Hartshorne, J. K., Leeuw, J. R., Goodman, N. D., Jennings, M., & O’Donnell, T. J. (2019). A thousand studies for the price of one: Accelerating psychological science with Pushkin. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1782-1803. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1155-z. [online] .

[33] Hartshorne, Joshua K., Lauren Skorb, Sven L. Dietz, Caitlin R. Garcia, Gina L. Iozzo, Katie E. Lamirato, James R. Ledoux, Jesse Mu, Kara N. Murdock, Jon Ravid, Alyssa A. Savery, James E. Spizzirro, Kelsey A. Trimm, Kendall D. van Horne, & Juliani Vidal. (2019). The meta-science of adult statistical word segmentation: Part 1. Collabra. [online] [repos].

[32] Feiman, R., Hartshorne, J.K., & Barner, D. (2018). Contrast and entailment: Abstract logical relations constrain how 2- and 3-year-old children interpret unknown numbers. Cognition.

[31] Hartshorne, J. K., & Wittenberg, E. (2018). Gabriel Radvansky and Jeff Zacks, Event Cognition. Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 288. ISBN: 978-0-1998-9813-8 (hardback). Language and Cognition. [pdf]

[30] Hartshorne, J. K., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Pinker, S. (2018). A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers. Cognition, 177, 263-277. [pdf] [supplementary materials] [repos].

   Commentary and responses on article:
    van der Slik, F., Schepens, J., Bongaerts, T. and van Hout, R. (2021), Critical Period Claim Revisited:
      Reanalysis of Hartshorne, Tenenbaum, and Pinker (2018) Suggests Steady Decline and Learner-Type Differences. Language Learning. [site].
    Hernandez, A. E., Bodet, J. P., Gehm, K., & Shen, S. (2021). What does a critical period for second language acquisition mean?:
     Reflections on Hartshorne et al. (2018). Cognition. [site].
    Frank, M.C. (2018). With great data comes great (theoretical) opportunity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, ISSN 1364-6613. [site].

[29] Mu, Jesse, Joshua K. Hartshorne, & Timothy O’Donnell. (2017). Evaluating hierarchies of verb argument structure with hierarchical clustering. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), in Copenhagen, Denmark, September 9-11. [poster] [pdf]

[28] Goodman, Noah D., Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & The ProbMods Contributors (2016). Probabilistic Models of Cognition (2nd ed.).

[27] Hartshorne, J. K., O’Donnell, T. J., Sudo, Y., Uruwashi, M., Lee, M., & Snedeker, J. (2016). Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language. Cognition. [pdf] [repos].

[26] Hartshorne, J. K. (2016). Comment: Acquiring metaphors. Emotion Review, 8(3):280-282. [pdf].

[25] C. Anderson, S. Bahnik, M. Barnett-Cowan, F. Bosco, J. Chandler, C. Chartier, Cheung, C. Christopherson, A. Cordes, E. J. Cremata, N. Penna, V. Estel, A. Fedor, S. Fitneva, M. Frank, J. Grange, J. Hartshorne, F. Hasselman, F. Henninger, M. Van Der Hulst, K. Jonas, C. Lai, C. Levitan, J. Miller, Moore, J. Meixner, M. Munafo, K. Neijenhuijs, G. Nilsonne, B. Nosek, Plessow, J. Prenoveau, A. Ricker, K. Schmidt, J. Spies, S. Stieger, Strohminger, G. Sullivan, R. Van Aert, M. Van Assen, W. Vanpaemel, Vianello, M. Voracek, & K. Zuni. (2016). Response to comment on estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 351(6277). [pdf].

[24] Niemi, Laura, Joshua Hartshorne, Tobias Gerstenberg, & Liane Young. (2016). Implicit measurement of motivated causal attribution. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

[23] Wittenberg, E., Kline, M., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2016). Learning to talk about events: Grounding language acquisition in intuitive theories and event cognition. In CogSCi. [abstract]

[22] Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349.
See media coverage in
New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Economist, Scientific American, Slate, 538, and XKCD.

[21] Hartshorne, J. K., Pogue, A., & Snedeker, J. (2015) Love is hard to understand: the relationship between transitivity and caused events in the acquisition of emotion verbs. Journal of child language, 42(3): 467–504. [pdf] [repos].

[20] Hartshorne, J. K., O’Donnell, T. J., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2015). The causes and consequences explicit in verbs. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(6):716–734. [pdf].

[19] Hartshorne, J. K., Nappa, R., & Snedeker, J. (2015). Development of first-mention bias. Journal of Child Language, 42(2):423–446. [pdf] [repos].

[18] Hartshorne, J. K., & Germine, L. T. (2015). When does cognitive functioning peak? The asynchronous rise and fall of different cognitive abilities across the life span. Psychological Science, 26(4):433–443. [pdf]

See media coverage in Boston Globe, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, Yahoo News, Medical Daily, WBUR, and Health.

Named number 1 Brain Science and Psychology study of 2015 by Forbes .
One of the 5 most-viewed articles in Psychological Science in 2015.

[17] Hartshorne, J. K., Azar, S. Y. L., Snedeker, J., & Kim, A. (2015). The neural computation of scalar implicature. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 30:620– 634. [pdf] [repos].

[16] Open Science Collaboration (2014). The Reproducibility Project: A model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, & R. Peng (Eds.), Implementing Reproducible Computational Research (A Volume in the R Series). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

[15] Hartshorne, J. K., Bonial, C., & Palmer, M. (2014). The verbcorner project: Findings from phase 1 of crowd-sourcing a semantic decomposition of verbs. In Proceedings of the the Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore, Maryland. [pdf].

[14] Hartshorne, J. K. (2014). What is implicit causality? Language and Cognitive Processes, 29(7):804–824. [pdf].

[13] Hartshorne, J. K., Sudo, Y., & Uruwashi, M. (2013). Are implicit causality pronoun resolution biases consistent across languages and cultures? Experimental psychology, 60(3):179–196. [pdf].

[12] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2013). Verb argument structure predicts implicit causality: The advantages of finer-grained semantics. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(10):1474–1508. [website] [repos].

[11] Hartshorne, J. K., Snedeker, J., & Kim, A. (2013). The neural computation of scalar implicature. In Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany. [pdf] [slides].

[10] Hartshorne, J. K., Bonial, C., & Palmer M. (2013). The verbcorner project: Toward an empirically-based semantic decomposition of verbs. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1438–1442, Seattle, WA. [pdf] [poster].

[9] Open Science Collaboration. (2012). An Open, Large-Scale, Collaborative Effort to Estimate the Reproducibility of Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(6):657–660.

[8] Hartshorne, J. K., & Schachner, A. (2012). Tracking replicability as a method of post- publication open evaluation. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 6(8). [link].

[7] Hartshorne, J. K., & Schachner, A. (2012). Where’s the data? The Psychologist, 25(5): 355.

[6] Hartshorne, J. K., O’Donnell, T. J., Sudo, Y., Uruwashi, M., & Snedeker, J. (2010). Linking meaning to language: Linguistic universals and variation. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf].

[5] Hartshorne, J. K., Nappa, R., & Snedeker, J. (2010). Ambiguous Pronoun Processing Development: Probably Not U-Shaped. In Proceedings of BUCLD 35, Boston, MA. [pdf].

[4] Hartshorne, N. S., Blake, K., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2010). Changes during the life cycle: Teenage. In T. S. Hartshorne, M. A. Hefner, S. L. H. Davenport, and J. W. Thelin, editors, CHARGE Syndrome, pages 223–249. Plural Publishing, San Diego, CA.

[3] Hartshorne, J. K., Salem-Hartshorne, N., & Hartshorne, T. S. (2009). Birth order effects in the formation of long-term relationships. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 65(2):156–176. [pdf].

[2] Hartshorne, J. K. (2008). Visual working memory capacity and proactive interference. PLoS ONE, 3(7):e2716. [link][repos].

[1] Hartshorne, J. K., & Ullman, M. T. (2006). Why girls say ’holded’ more than boys. Developmental Science, 9(1):21–32. [pdf].

Conference Talks

[48] Oved, Iris, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky, & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2024). Computational thought experiments for a more rigorous philosophy and science of the mind. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

[47] Li, Wei, Aidas Aglinskas, & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2024). Contrastive neural networks reveal the structure of neuroanatomical variation within bilingualism. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston.

[46] Li, Wei, Aidas Aglinskas, & Joshua K. Hartshorne(2024). Contrastive neural networks reveal the structure of neuroanatomical variation within bilingualism. Poster presented at Many Paths to Language, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

[45] Li, Tianyi, Mengguo Jing, Zakir Makhani, Iris Oved, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2024). Modeling the development of intuitive mechanics. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands. [Poster]

[44] Li, Wei & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2024). Latent Structure of Intuitive Physics. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

[43] Wei Li, Yun, Heesu, & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2024). Why do older children learn second languages faster than younger children? Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena. [Poster]

[42] Joshua K. Hartshorne (2024). Robust heterogeneity in cognitive development: A large-scale investigation. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena. [Poster]

[41] Liu, Zoey, Emily Prud’hommeaux, & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2023). Uncovering cross-linguistic morphosyntactic transfer in second language learning. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston. [Abstract][Slides]

[40] Liu, Zoey, Emily Prud’hommeaux, & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2023). Uncovering cross-linguistic morphosyntactic transfer in second language learning. Many Paths to Language, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

[39] Li, Wei, Aidas Aglinskas, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2023). Contrastive neural network reveals the structure of neuroanatomical variation within bilingualism. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain.

[38] Li, Wei, Heesu Yun, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2023). Why do older children learn second languages faster than younger children? Many Paths to Language Conference, Nijmegen, Netherlands. [slides]

[37] Oved, Iris, Carlos Montemayor, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2023). The view from outside the Matrix: Doing philosophy of mind and cognitive science with virtual worlds. The Science of Consciousness Conference. [abstract]

[36] Krishnaswamy, Nikhil, Iris Oved, Joshua K. Hartshorne, & James Pustejovsky. (2023). Meaning to mean: A precondition for sentience and understanding in large language models. The Science of Consciousness Conference. [abstract]

[35] James, Ariel, Rachel A. Ryskin, Joshua K. Hartshorne, Haylee Backs, Nandeeta Bala, Laila Barcenas-Meade, Samata Bhattarai, Tessa Charles, Gerasimos Copoulos, Claire Coss, Alexander Eisert, Elena Furuhashi, Keara Ginel, Anna Guttman-McCabe, Chaz Harrison, Laura Hoba, William Hwang, Claire Iannetta, Kristen Koenig, Chauncey Lo, Victoria Palone, Gina Pepitone, Margaret Ritzau, Yi Hua Sung, Orcun Tasdemir, Lauren Thompson, Joshua R. de Leeuw. (2022). What paradigms can webcam eye-tracking be used for? Attempted replications of 5 “classic” cognitive science experiments. Cognitive Development Society, Madison, WI.

[34] Özge, Duygu, Ebru Evcen, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2022). Implicit causality biases in Turkish psychological state events. In 3rd International Conference ‘Prominence in Language,' Cologne, Germany. [abstract]

[33] Li, Wei & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2022). Even simultaneous bilinguals do not quite reach monolingual levels of proficiency in syntax. American Association for Applied Linguistics, Pittsburgh, PA. [abstract]

[32] Huang, Yujing & Joshua K Hartshorne. (2021). Limitations of linking rules: Why are some verbs learned earlier than others? Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation (ABC) Conference, Hong Kong. [abstract] [slides]

[31] Hua, Yining & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2021). Quantifying the bilingual (dis)advantage in vocabulary acquisition. Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation (ABC) Conference, Hong Kong. [abstract] [slides]

[30] Li, Wei & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2021). Even simultaneous bilinguals do not quite reach monolingual levels of proficiency in syntax. Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation (ABC) Conference, Hong Kong. [abstract]

[29] Hartshorne, J. K. & J. R. de Leeuw. (2021). Experiments subjects want. Workshop on Using Games to Understand Intelligence. CogSci 2021.

[28] Chen, Tianhu, Timothy J. O’Donnell, & Joshua Hartshorne. (2021). Verb-argument structure and semantics in contextual word embeddings. DUCOG: Annual meeting of the Central European Cognitive Science Association, Dubrovnik. [abstract] [slides]

[27] Robbins, P. T., Huang, Y. T., Lucio Paredes Aulestia, P. M., Oppenheimer, K., Velasco Molina, M. D., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2020). Metrics and causes of family distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. University of Southern California Center for Economic and Social Research COVID-19 Work in Progress Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

[26] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2019). 'Niemi, L., Hartshorne, J. K., Gerstenberg, T., & Young, L. (2016). The moral dimension of implicit verb causality. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainsville, FL.

[25] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2019). Teaching science by doing science. Workshop on using replication studies to teach research methods in cognitive science, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, CA.

[24] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2019). Automaticity of reading continues to develop into adulthood. Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, KY.

[23] Chen, Tianhu & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2019). Revisiting a critical period for syntax in a second language: New analyses provide the same results. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO.

[22] Hartshorne, J. K. (2017). Inferring meanings: Pronouns and a case study in discourse and communication. In Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental and Computational (DETEC) perspectives at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [slides].

[21] Niemi, L., Hartshorne, J. K., Gerstenberg, T., & Young, L. (2015). Implicit causality and moral inference. In Workshop on expressive language: Semantics, pragmatics, and origins, Mansfield, CT.

[20] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2015). Achieving human-level performance on (some) Winograd Schema via a model of common sense. Language & Common Sense Workshop, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

[19] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2014). Taking research out into the wild (panel). SXSWedu, Austin, TX.

[18] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2014). Learning non-causal transitive verbs. In International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, Netherlands. [pdf].

[17] Hartshorne, J. K. (2014). Implicit causality for novel verbs. In International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, Netherlands. [pdf].

[16] Hartshorne, J. K., Gerstenberg, T., O’Donnell, T., & Tenenbaum, J. (2014). Language understanding & common sense reasoning. In Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK. [abstract].

[15] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2013). Emotion verbs and the problem of overgeneralization. In BUCLD 38, Boston, MA. * Lunchtime symposium with Ben Ambridge, Adele Goldberg, & Steven Pinker.

[14] Hartshorne, J. K. (2013). Three puzzles about quantifiers and their acquisition. In Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA. [slides].

[13] Hartshorne, J. K. (2013). Three myths about re-mention biases. In Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental & Computational Perspectives, Tubingen, Germany. [slides] [abstract].

[12] Germine, L., Hartshorne, J. K., Wilmer, J., Chabris, C., Chatterjee, G., & Nakayama, K. (2013). Heterogeneity in cognitive maturation and aging: Why there is no such thing as an adult control. In Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.

[11] Wilmer, J. B., Germine, L., Ly, R., Hartshorne, J. K., Kwok, H., Williams, M. A., & Halberda, J. (2012). The heritability and specificity of change detection abilities. In Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.

[10] Hartshorne, O’Donnell, T., Sudo, Y., Uruwashi, M., & Snedeker, J. (2012). Linking event structure to language: Linguistic universals and variation. In Annual Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on Events. [slides].

[9] Nappa, Rebecca, Joshua K. Hartshorne & Jesse Snedeker (2011). Him or him: Pronoun comprehension in ASD. International Association for the Study of Child Language, Montreal, Canada.

[8] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2011). Implicit causality and pronouns: Lexically-encoded meaning, not world knowledge. 24th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Palo Alto, CA.

[7] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2011). Cues to pronoun resolution. In International Association for the Study of Child Language 2011, Montreal, Canada. [abstract].

[6] Hartshorne, J. K., & Barner, D. (2011). How do children interpret number words before learning their exact meanigns? In BUCLD 36, Boston, MA. [abstract] [slides]

Jean Berko Gleason Award for Top-Ranked Student presentation.

[5] Hartshorne, J. K., Khan, M., & Snedeker, J. (2010). Predictability in the visual world. In Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), York, UK. [abstract].

[4] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Integration of discourse and semantic structure in children’s resolution of ambiguous pronouns. In BUCLD 34, Boston, MA. [abstract].

[3] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Grammatical context affects online scalar implicature computation. In Architectures and Mechanisms in Langauge Processing (AMLaP), Barcelona, Spain. [abstract].

[2] Vickery, T. J., Hartshorne, J. K., & Jian, Y. V. (2007). Learning to form new perceptual groups. In Proceedings of the Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Conference.

[1] Monahan, J. S., & Hartshorne, J. K. (1998). Search task, not field size, affects popout search speed. In 90th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans.

Conference Posters

[51] Yun, Heesu, Wei Li, Zonggui Li, & Joshua K. Hartshorne (2023). Will children learn English faster if their native language is similar to English? Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia. [poster]

[50] Li, Wei, Aidas Aglinskas, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2023). Contrastive neural network reveals the structure of neuroanatomical variation within bilingualism. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia. [abstract] [poster]

[49] Yun, Heesu, Wei Li, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2023). Why do older children learn second languages faster than younger children? Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. [poster]

[48] Li, Wei, Aidas Aglinskas, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2023). Contrastive Neural Network Reveals the Structure of Neuroanatomical Variation within Bilingualism. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. [poster]

[47] Levari, Tanya, Stefano Anzellotti, *Aidas Aglinskas, Albert Kim, Emily Prud’hommeaux, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2022). Developmental continuity in neural semantic representations, Poster pre- sented at Architectures & Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), York, UK. [abstract]

[46] Hartshorne, J. K. & Ricketts, W (2022). Evaluating unsupervised word segmentation in adults: a meta-analysis. Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. [abstract] [poster]

[45] Li, Wei & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2021). Even simultaneous bilinguals do not quite reach monolingual levels of proficiency in syntax. Boston University Conference on Language Development. [abstract] [video]

[44] Chan, Jocelyn & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2021). Is it easier for children to learn English if their native language is similar to English? Boston University Conference on Language Development. [video] [PDF]

[43] Aglinskas, Aidas, Joshua K. Hartshorne, & Stefano Anzellotti. (2021). Contrastive AI reveals the structure of individual variation in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, Nov. 13-16.

[42] Eisape, Tiwalayo, William Merrill, Sven Dietz, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2020). Computationally investigating L1 influence on L2 production. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, MA. [poster].

[41] Özge, Duygu, Ebru Evcen and Joshua K. Hartshorne (2020). Referential form, word order, and emotional valence in Turkish pronoun resolution. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, MA. [poster].

[40] Chen, Tianhu and Joshua K. Hartshorne (2019). More evidence that the critical period for syntax ends at 17. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. [poster].

[39] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2019). Birth-order effects on vocabulary persist throughout the lifespan. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. [poster].

[38] Hartshorne, Joshua K. (2019). Birth-order effects on vocabulary persist throughout the lifespan. Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, KY. [poster].

[37] Hartshorne, Joshua K., Mariela V. Jennings, Tobias Gerstenberg, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2019). When circumstances change, update your pronouns. Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, CA.

[36] Hartshorne, Joshua K., Mariela V. Jennings, Tobias Gerstenberg, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2019). When circumstances change, update your pronouns. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO. [poster].

[35] Jennings, Mariela V., Martha Palmer, & Joshua K. Hartshorne. (2019). How much does verb semantics determine verb syntax? Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO. [poster].

[34] Eisape, T., Merrill, W., Dietz, S., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2018). Grammatical accents: Using machine learning to quantify language transfer. Poster presented at CogSci 2018 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. [poster].

[33] Jennings, M. V., Palmer, M., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2018). How much does verb semantics determine verb syntax? Poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2018 Conference, Berlin, Germany. [poster].

[32] Jennings, M. V., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2018). Pushkin: An open-source engine for social science at scale. Poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2018 Conference, Berlin, Germany. [poster].

[31] Mu, J. Hartshorne, J. K., O'Donnell, T. (2018). Learning and evaluating hierarchies of verb argument structure. Abstract presented at the Learning Language in Humans and Machines 2018 Conference, Paris, France. [abstract][poster].

[30] Skorb, L., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2018). Meta-Science of Adults Statistical Word Segmentation: Part 1. In 31st Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. [poster] [repo].

[29] Özge, D., Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2017). Salience of experiencer versus stimulus in Turkish psych verbs: A pronoun resolution study. In 30th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA. [poster].

[28] Hartshorne, J.K., Tenenbaum, J.A., and Pinker, S. (2016). A critical period for acquisition of second language syntax. In BUCLD 41, Boston, MA. [poster].

[27] Hartshorne, J.K., Mu, J., O'Donnell, T., and Palmer, M. (2016). The relationship between semantics and verb argument structure is highly regular. In AMLaP, Bilbao, Spain. [poster].

[26] Mu, J., O’Donnell, T. J., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2016). Unsupervised learning of verbnet argument structure. In Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [poster].

[25] Hartshorne, J. K., & Palmer, M. (2016). Verbcorner: Testing theories of argument structure through crowdsourcing. In Events in Language, Gainesville, FL. [poster].

[24] Shetreet E., Hartshorne J., & Kuperberg G. (2014). Fearing and loving: verb category matters in processing implicit causality. 6th Society for Neurobiology of Language Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [poster].

[23] Hartshorne, J. K., Gerstenberg, T., O’Donnell, T. J., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2014). Language understanding & common sense reasoning. In Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. [poster].

[22] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2013). Not all pronouns are resolved rapidly online. In Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives, Tubingen, Germany. [poster].

[21] Hartshorne, J. K., & Pinker, S. (2013). Evidence for common mechanisms in pragmatics & social cognition. In AMLaP, Marseille, France. [poster].

[20] Hartshorne, J. K., Snedeker, J., & Kim, A. (2012). The neural computation of scalar implicature. In Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP), Riva del Garda, Italy. [poster].

[19] Nappa, R., Hartshorne,J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2011). 'they’re both she!': Pronoun comprehension in children with asd. In 24th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Palo Alto, CA. [poster].

[18] Nappa, R., Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2011). She and her: Online and offline pronoun comprehension in children with asd. In BUCLD 36, Boston, MA.

[17] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2011). Not all pronouns are resolved rapidly online. In 24th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Palo Alto, CA. [poster] [abstract].

[16] Hartshorne, J. K., Nappa, R., & Snedeker, J. (2011). Steady- not u-shaped - development in ambiguous pronoun processing. In 24th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Palo Alto, CA. [poster].

[15] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2010). Pronoun resolution, cue frequency, and cue reliability. In Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP) 2010, York, UK. [poster] [abstract].

[14] Pogue, A., Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Evidence for a distinction between canonical and non-canonical syntax-semantics mappings. In Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [poster].

[13] Khan, M., Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Can listeners modulate rapid pragmatic inferences based on knowledge about the speaker? In Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP) conference, Barcelona, Spain. [poster].

[12] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Rapid online effects of verb argument structure on pronoun resolution. In 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. [poster] [abstract].

[11] Hartshorne, J. K., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Grammatical context affects online scalar implicature computation. In 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. [poster].

[10] Hartshorne, J. K., Pogue, A., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Who is she and why is she so scary? psych verbs and the mapping from semantics to syntax. In Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO. [poster].

[9] Hartshorne, J. K., Pogue, A., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Fear and loathing in discourse coherence: Children use argument structure in pronoun interpretation. In Experimental Pragmatics, Lyon, France. [poster].

[8] Hartshorne, J. K., Khan, M. & Snedeker, J. (2009). Do listeners model speakers in on-line sentence comprehension? In Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing (AMLaP) conference, Barcelona, Spain. [poster].

[7] Hartshorne, N. S., & Hartshorne, J. K. (2007). Adaptive behavior and development in charge syndrome: Results of a longitudinal study. In 8th International CHARGE Syndrome Foundation Conference for Families, Anaheim, CA. [poster].

[6] Hartshorne, J. K., Vickery, T., & Jiang, Y. (2007). Word superiority in visual search for multiple possible targets. In Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL. [poster] [abstract].

[5] Hartshorne, J. K., Salem-Hartshorne, N., & Hartshorne, T. S. (2007). Birth order effects revealed in group organization. In 55th Annual Meeting of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, Vancouver. [poster].

[4] Hartshorne, J. K., Bonin, C. J., & Ullman M. T. (2007). The procedural deficit hypothesis of dyslexia. In 14th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York. [poster].

[3] Bonin, C. J., Hartshorne, J. K., & Ullman, M. T. (2006). The procedural deficit hypothesis of dyslexia. In 25th Rodin Remediation Academy Conference, Washington, D.C..

[2] Ullman, M. T., Estabrooke, I. A., Steinhauer, K., Walenski, M., Brovetto, C., Pancheva, R., Ozawa, K., Hartshorne, J. K., Mordecia, K., & Maki, P. (2003). Sex differences and the role of estrogen in the neurocognition of language. In 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.

[1] Hartshorne, J. K., Walenski, M., & Ullman, M. T. (2003). An investigation of the role of the declarative and procedural memory systems in language using a dualtask paradigm. In 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.