2021 – Present
Hespos, S., & Shivaram, A. (2022). Can a computer think like a baby? Nature Human Behaviour. pdf
Anderson, E. M., Chang, Y. J., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2022). No evidence for language benefits in infant relational learning. Infant Behavior and Development, 66, 101666. pdf
Shivaram, A., Chavez, Y., Anderson, E., Fritz, A., Jackson, R., Edwards, L., Powers, S., Libertus, M., & Hespos, S. (2021). Brief Interventions Influence the Quantity and Quality of Caregiver-Child Conversations in an Everyday Context. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 2228. pdf
Hespos, S., Gentner, D., Anderson, E., & Shivaram, A. (2021). The origins of same/different discrimination in human infants. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, 69 – 74. pdf
Gentner, D., Shao, R., Simms, N., & Hespos, S. (2021). Learning Same and Different Relations: Cross-Species Comparisons. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, 84 – 89. pdf
2016 – 2020
Chen, K., Forbus, K., Gentner, D., & Hespos, S.J., & Anderson, E.M. (2020). Simulating infant visual learning by comparison: an initial model. Manuscript in press at Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf
Hespos, S. J., & Anderson, E. (2020). Infant Physical Reasoning. In J. Lockman & C. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development (pp. 365 – 382). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. pdf
Arterberry, M.E., Hespos, S.J., Walsh, C.A., & Daniels, C.I. (2020). Integration of thought and action continued: Scale errors and categorization in toddlers. Infancy. Early view:1 – 20. pdf
Hespos, S. J., Anderson, E., Gentner, D. (2020). Structure-mapping processes enable infants’ learning across domains, including language. In J. Childers (Ed.) Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood: Learning from Multiple Exemplars (pp.79 – 104). Springer International Publishing: Cham, Switzerland. pdf
Rips, L., & Hespos, S.J. (2019). Concepts of Objects and Substances in Language. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 26(4), 1238-1256. pdf
Wellwood, A., Hespos, S. J., & Rips, L. (2018). How similar are objects and events? Acta Linguistica, 15 (2-3), 473 – 501. pdf
Chang, Y-J., Wang, S-W, & Way, B. (2018). BLT: Experimental program for online coding babies’ looking time. Evanston, IL., USA. BLT program.
Wellwood, A., Hespos, S. J., & Rips, L. (2018). The object : substance :: event : process analogy. In T. Lombrozo, S. Nichols, & J. Knobe (Eds.) Oxford Studies on Experimental Philosophy, Volume 2 (pp.181 – 211). New York, NY: Oxford. pdf
Hespos, S. J., (2018). Core Knowledge. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp.470 – 471). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage. pdf
Anderson, E., Chang, Y-J., Hespos, S. J., & Gentner, D. (2018). Comparison within pairs promotes analogical abstraction in 3-month-olds. Cognition, 176, 74 – 86. pdf
Anderson, E., Hespos, S. J., & Rips, L. (2018). Five-month-old infants have expectations for the accumulation of nonsolid substances. Cognition, 175, 1- 10. pdf
Arterberry, M. E., Hespos, S. J. & Herth, R. (2018). Integration of thought and action: Arm weights facilitate search accuracy in 24-month-old children. Infancy, 23(2), 173-193.DOI: 10.1111/infa.12208. pdf
Gupta, T., Hespos, S. J., Horton, W. S., & Mittal, V. A. (2018). Automated analysis of written narratives reveals abnormalities in referential cohesion in youth at ultra-high risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 192, 82-88. pdf
Anderson, E. M., Chang, Y-J., Hespos, S.J., & Gentner, D. (2018). Analogical Abstraction in Three-Month-Olds. D. Grodner, D. Mirman, A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, J. Novick, S. Arunachalam, S. Christie, & C. Norris (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 692-697. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. pdf
Hespos, S. J., Ferry, A., Anderson, E., Hollenbeck, E., & Rips, L. (2016). Five-month-old infants have expectations about how substances behave and interact. Psychological Science, 27(2), 244 – 256. pdf
2011- 2015
Ferry, A., Hespos, S.J., & Gentner, D.(2015). Prelinguistic relational concepts: Investigating analogical processing in infants. Child Development, 86 (5), 1386 – 1405 pdf
Rips, L. J., & Hespos, S. J. (2015). Divisions of the physical world: Concepts of objects and substances. Psychological Bulletin, 141(4), 786 – 811. pdf
Ferry, A., Hespos, S.J., Waxman, S. (2013). Non-human primate vocalizations support categorization in very young human infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 110(38), 15231 – 15235. pdf
Hespos, S.J., Dora, B., Rips, L., & Christie, S. (2012) Infants make quantity discriminations for substances. Child Development, 83 (2), 554-567. pdf
Hespos, S.J., & vanMarle, S. J. (2012) Physics for infants: Characterizing the origins of knowledge about objects, substances, and number. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 3 (1), 19-27. pdf
Hespos, S.J., Grossman, S., Saylor, M.M. (2011) Infants’ ability to parse continuous action series: further evidence. Neural Networks, 23, 1026-1032. pdf
Rips, L. & Hespos, S. J. (2011) Rebooting the bootstrap argument: Two puzzles for bootstrap theories of concept development. Behavioral Brain Sciences, 34(3), 145-146. pdf
2006-2010
Ferry, A., Hespos, S.J., & Waxman, S. (2010). Categorization in 3- and 4-Month-Old Infants: An Advantage of Words Over Tones. Child Development, 81 (2), 472-479.pdf
Hespos, S. J. (2010) What is optical imaging? Journal of Cognition and Development,11 (1), 3-15. pdf
Hespos, S.J., Ferry, A., Rips, L. (2009). Five-month-old infants have different expectations for solids and substances. Psychological Science, 20, (5), 603-611. pdf
Hespos, S. J., & Piccin, T. (2009). To generalize or not to generalize: Spatial categories are influenced by physical attributes and language. Developmental Science, 12 (1), 88 – 95. pdf
Hespos, S. J., Saylor, M., & Grossman, S. (2009). Infants’ ability to parse continuous actions series. Developmental Psychology, 45, (2), 575-585. pdf
Hespos, S.J., Gredebeck, G., von Hofsten, C., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). Occlusion is hard: Comparing predictive reaching for visible and hidden objects in infants and adults.Cognitive Science, 33, 1483-1502. pdf
Hespos, S.J., Ferry, A. L., Cannistraci, C., Gore, J., Park, S. (2009) Optical imaging on human infants. In A.W. Roe (Ed.) Imaging the brain with optical methods (pp. 159-176).Springer: New York. pdf
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2008). Young infants’ actions reveal their developing knowledge of support variables: Converging evidence for violation-of-expectation findings.Cognition, 107(1), 304 – 316. pdf
Hespos, S.J. & Spelke, E.S. (2007). Precursors to spatial language: The case of containment. In M. Aurnague, M. Hickman & L. Vieu (Eds.), The categorization of spatial entities in language and cognition (pp. 233 – 245). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins Publishers. pdf
Hespos, S. J. (2007). Language Acquisition: When does the learning begin? Current Biology, 17(16), R628 – R630. pdf
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2006). Decalage in infants’ reasoning about occlusion and containment events: Converging evidence from action tasks. Cognition, 99,B31-B41.pdf
2001-2005
Hespos, S. J. & Spelke, E. S. (2004). Conceptual precursors to spatial language. Nature, 430, 453 – 456. pdf
Hespos, S. J. (2004). Language: Life without numbers, Current Biology, 14, R927 – R928. pdf
Spelke, E.S. & Hespos, S.J. (2002). Conceptual Development in Infancy: The Case of Containment. (pp. 223 – 246) In N. Stein, P. Bauer, & M. Rabinowitch (Eds.), Representation, memory, and development: Essays in honor of Jean Mandler, (pp. 223-246). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. pdf
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2001). Infants’ knowledge about occlusion and containment: A surprising discrepancy. Psychological Science, 12(2), 141 – 147. pdf
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2001). Reasoning about containment events in very young infants. Cognition, 78, 207 – 245. pdf
Spelke, E.S. & Hespos, S.J. (2001). Continuity, competence, and the object concept. In E. Dupoux (Ed.), Language, brain and cognitive development: Essays in honor of Jacques Mehler. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (pp. 325 – 340). pdf
1995-2000
Rochat, P. & Hespos, S. J. (1997). Differential rooting response by neonates: Evidence for an early sense of self. Early Development and Parenting, 6(3 & 4), 105–112. pdf
Hespos, S. J. & Rochat, P. (1997). Dynamic representation in infancy. Cognition, 64, 153–188. pdf
Rochat, P. & Hespos, S. J. (1996). Tracking and anticipation of invisible spatial transformations by 4- to 8-month-old infants. Cognitive Development, 11(1), 3–17. pdf
Simon, T., Hespos, S. J., & Rochat, P. (1995). Do infants understand simple arithmetic? A replication of Wynn (1992). Cognitive Development, 10(2), 253–269. pdf