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Publications
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Wojcik, E. H., Pierce, M. C*., Stevens, G.*, & Goulding, S. J.* (2024). Referent-oriented interactions in infancy: A naturalistic, longitudinal case study from an English-speaking household. Infant Behavior and Development, 74, 101911.
Casey K.*, Potter, C.E., Lew-Williams, C., & Wojcik, E.H. (2024). Moving beyond “nouns in the lab”: Using naturalistic data to understand why infants’ first words include uh-oh and hi. Developmental Science
Hutchinson, S.*, & Wojcik, E.H. (2022). Adult Beliefs About Cognitive Development Vary Across Experience and Expertise: A Focus Group Study. PloS One.
Wojcik., E.H., Zettersten, M., Benitez, V. B. (2022). The map trap: Why and how word learning research should move beyond mapping. WIREs Cognitive Science.
Wojcik, E.H., Lassman, D.J.*, Vuvan, D.T. (2022). Using a developmental-ecological approach to understand the relation between language and music. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Special Section: Genetic and Environmental Contributions to the Construction and Development of Language and Music Networks.
Wojcik, E.H. (2022). Diversifying collaboration networks to increase equity in psychology. Nature Reviews Psychology.
Wojcik, E.H., Prasad, A., Hutchinson, S.*, Shen, K.* (2021). Children prefer to learn from smart devices, but do not trust them more than humans. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.
Wojcik, E.H. (2021). The effect of the number of labeled objects on novel referent selection across short and long time delays. Language Learning and Development. 1-14.
Sullivan, J., Mei, M., Perfors, A., Wojcik, E., Frank, M. (2021). A large, longitudinal audiovisual dataset recorded from the infant’s perspective. Open Mind. 1-10.
Benitez, V.L., Zettersten, M. Wojcik, E.H. (2020). The temporal structure of naming events differentially affects children’s and adults’ cross-situational word learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 200, 104961
Wojcik, E. H., & Kandhadai, P. (2020). Paradigmatic associations and individual variability in early lexical–semantic networks: Evidence from a free association task. Developmental Psychology, 56(1), 53–69.
Wojcik, E.H. & Odic, D. (2019). The publication gender bias in psychology. American Psychologist. Advance online publication.
Zettersten, M., Wojcik, E.H., Benitez, V. L., & Saffran, J. (2018). The company objects keep: Linking referents together during cross-situational word learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 99, 62-73.
Wojcik, E.H. (2017). The Development of Lexical–Semantic Networks in Infants and Toddlers. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 34-38.
Wojcik, E.H., de la Cruz Pavia, I, & Werker, J.F. (2017). Language acquisition. In O. Braddick (Ed). Oxford research encyclopedia of psychology. Oxford University Press.
Wojcik, E.H., (2017). 2.5-year-olds’ retention and generalization of novel words across short and long delays. Language Learning and Development. 13(3), 300-316.
Wojcik, E.H., & Saffran, J. R. (2015). Toddlers encode similarities among novel words from meaningful sentences. Cognition, 138, 10-20.
Wojcik, E.H. & Saffran, J.R. (2013). The ontogeny of lexical networks: Toddlers encode the relationships amongst referents when learning novel words. Psychological Science. 24(10), 1898-1905.doi:
Wojcik, E.H. (2013). Remembering new words: Integrating early memory development into word learning. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. 4,151.
Willits J. A., Wojcik, E.H., Seidenberg, M.S., & Saffran, J.R. (2013). Toddlers activate lexical semantic knowledge in the absence of referents. Infancy. 18(6), 1053-1075
Conference Talks
*denotes student author
Goulding, S.*, Fausey, C., & Wojcik, E.H. (2021). 100,000 words encountered unevenly over six months of everyday infancy. Talk presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Virtual.
Casey K.*, Lew-Williams, C, Wojcik, E.H., &. Potter, C.E (2021). Moving beyond “nouns in the lab”: Using naturalistic data to understand why infants’ first words include uh-oh and hi. Talk presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Virtual.
Casey K.*, Potter, C.E., Wojcik, E.H., & Lew-Williams, C. (2021). Moving beyond “nouns in the lab”: Using naturalistic data to understand why infants’ first words include uh-oh and hi. Talk presented at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Virtual.
Benitez, V., Zettersten, M., Wojcik., E.H. (2021). Developmental differences in the role of temporal structure in ambiguous word learning. Talk presented at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Virtual.
Wojcik, E.H. & Odic, Darko. (2019). The Publication Gender Gap in Developmental Psychology Talk presented at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Baltimore, Maryland.
Wojcik, E.H. & Kandhadai, P. (2019). Word associations across early childhood: An early paradigmatic shift and reduction of variability. Talk presented at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Baltimore, Maryland.
Wojcik, E.H. (2015). The flexibility of novel words across time. Talk presented at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wojcik, E.H. & Saffran, J.R. (2014). Toddlers encode the relationships between novel nouns from sentences. Talk presented at the 19th International Conference on Infant Studies. Berlin, Germany.
Wojcik, E.H., Lew-Williams, C. & Saffran, J.R. (2014). The effect of visual context on word comprehension in 17-month-olds. Talk presented at the 19th International Conference on Infant Studies. Berlin, Germany.
Wojcik E.H., Goldenberg, E., Benitez, V. (2013). The role of context in language development. Roundtable co-moderator at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Panelists: Linda B. Smith, George Hollich, Rachel Barr, Lulu Song. Seattle, Washington.
Wojcik, E.H. & Saffran, J.R. (2012). Toddlers encode similarity structure when learning novel words. Talk presented at the 37th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, Massachusetts.
Willits J. A., Wojcik, E.H., Seidenberg, M.S., & Saffran, J.R. (2012). Lexical semantic priming in 24-month-olds. Talk presented at the 18th International Conference on Infant Studies. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Invited talks
Wojcik,. E.H. (2023). Follow that baby!: Using naturalistic observation to enrich word learning research. Talk presented at Psychology Colloquium. Bard College.
Vuvan, D., & Wojcik, E.H. (2022). Using a developmental-ecological approach to understand the relation between language and music. Talk presented at the Cognitive Psychology Colloquium. University at Albany.
Wojcik,. E.H. (2021). Follow that baby!: What we can learn about language learning from naturalistic observation. Talk presented at Colloquium. Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain (Virtual).
Wojcik, E.H. (2015). Beyond word-referent mappings: The ontogeny of lexical networks. Talk presented at Developmental Colloquium. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA.
Wojcik, E.H. (2014). Beyond word-referent mappings: The ontogeny of lexical networks. Talk presented at Cognitive Colloquium. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Wojcik, E.H. (2014). Beyond word-referent mappings: The ontogeny of lexical networks. Talk presented at Center for Mind and Brain colloquium. University of California-Davis. Davis, California.
Wojcik, E.H. (2013). The ontogeny of lexical networks: Toddlers encode semantic relationships when learning novel words. Talk presented at Developmental Brownbag, Indiana University-Bloomington. Bloomington, Indiana.
Conference Posters
*denotes student author
Besthoff, M.*, Wojcik, E.H., & Vuvan, D. (2024). Language and music in the early infant auditory environment. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Bracht, E.*, Stevens, G.*, Blumberg, S.*, Zettersten, M., Benitez, V., & Wojcik, E.H. (2024). Testing variability and children and adult word knowledge. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Wierdsma, A.*, Modesti, G.*, Wojcik, E.H., Wilton, L. (2024). How do biracial parents socialize their children around race? Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Wojcik, E.H., Pierce, M.*, Steven, G.*, & Goulding, S*. (2023). Referent-oriented interactions in infancy: A naturalistic, longitudinal case study. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Vuvan, D., Padukone, S*., Pierce, M*., Stevens, G*., Burnett, G*., Fausey, C.,& Wojcik, E.H. (2022). Features of Singing in the Infant Home Environment. Poster presented at the Society for Music Peception and Cognition. Portland, OR.
Wang, S*., Werker, J.F., Wojcik, E.H. (2022). An online replication of a lexical-semantic priming task with toddlers. Poster presented at the International Conference of Infant Studies. Ottawa, Canada.
Mueller, V.*, Werker, J., Wojcik, E. (2020). The Development of Lexical-Semantic Relationships in Mono and Bilinguals: A Replication. Poster presented at the Language Science Undergraduate Research Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Ehrreich, L.*, Jones, S.*, Wojcik, E. (2019). Novel word retention in young children is affected by the number of words presented at training. Poster presented at theCognitive Development Society Biennial Meeting. Louisville, KY.
Hutchinson, S.*; Shen, K.*, Prasad. A. Wojcik, E. (2019). Young children prefer to learn from, but do not trust, smart devices. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Meeting. Louisville, KY.
Diah, R.*; Chodak, Z.*; Wojcik, E.H. (2017)., The development of semantic organization across early childhood. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference. Portland, OR, United States.
Wojcik, E.H. & Werker, J.F. (2016). The effect of vocabulary size and language exposure on the emergence of monolingual and bilingual toddlers’ lexical-semantic networks. Poster presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, Massachusetts.
Wojcik, E.H. & Saffran, J.R. (2012). Lexical semantic priming in 2-year-olds: A new approach to testing novel word representations. Poster presented at the Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. Minneapolis, Minnesota.