Publications

For a full list of my academic publications as well as links to pdfs, see below. You can also check out my Google Scholar profile.

I've also recently been writing blog posts on a variety of topics -- children's learning in distracting environments, ethics in computing and technology, and other topics. You can find links on the Blog Posts section of this site.

Reports

Wing, J.M., Janeja, V.P., Kloeforn, T., Erickson, L.C. (2018). Data Science Leadership Summit Report. pdf

Erickson, L.C., Carson, C., Aikat, J., Davis, S., & Janeja, V. (2018). Ethics Panel Report 2018 Data Science Leadership Summit. pdf

Journal Articles

Laitner, M., Erickson, L.C., Society for Women's Health Research Osteoarthritis and Chronic Pain Working Group, & Ortman, E. (in press). Understanding the Impact of Sex and Gender in Osteoarthritis: Assessing Research Gaps and Unmet Needs. Journal of Women's Health. link

Tsui, A., Erickson, L.C., Mallikarjun, A., Thiessen, E.D, & Fennell, C. (in press). Dual Language Statistical Word Segmentation in Infancy: Simulating a Language-Mixing Bilingual Environment. pdf

Gupta, J., Al-Hendy, A., As-Sanie, S., Taylor, H.S., Dominguez, S., Hilton, T., Norman, A., Osian, Nkem, Peters, L., Sieberg, C.B., Venable, S., Wallace, K., Griffith, L., Laitner, M.H, Ortman, E., Erickson, L.C.*, Missmer, S.A*. (in prep). The role of stigma and normalization of symptoms in diagnostic delays in women with common non-malignant gynecological conditions.

Duan, S., Clavin, J., Zhang, H., Erickson, L.C., Janeja, V., Joshi, K.P., Yesha, Y., Li, J. (in press). Blockchains for Government: Use Cases and Challenges. Digital Government Research & Practice.

Godwin, K.E., Erickson, L.C., & Newman, R.S. (2019). Insights from crossing research silos on visual and auditory attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(1), 47–52. pdf

Erickson, L.C., & Newman, R.S. (2017). Influences of background noise on infants and children. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(5), 451-457. pdf

Erickson, L.C., Kaschak, M.P., Thiessen, E.D., & Berry, C.A. (2016). Individual differences in statistical learning: Conceptual and measurement issues. Collabra, 2(1), p.14. pdf

Thiessen, E.D., Girard, S. & Erickson, L.C. (2016). Statistical learning and the critical period: How a continuous learning mechanism can give rise to discontinuous learning. WIREs Cognitive Science. pdf

Erickson, L.C., & Thiessen, E.D. (2015). Statistical learning of language: Theory, validity, and predictions of a statistical learning account of language acquisition. Developmental Review, 37, 66–108. pdf

Erickson, L.C., Thiessen, E.D., Godwin, K.G., Dickerson, J.P., & Fisher, A.V. (2015). Endogenously- and exogenously-driven selective sustained attention: Contributions to explicit and implicit learning in kindergarten children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 138, 126–134. pdf

Sannino, S., Gozzi, A., Cerasa, A., Piras, F., Scheggia, D., Manago, F., Damiano, M., Galbusera, A., Erickson, L.C., De Pietri Tonelli, D., Bifone, A., Tsaftaris, S.A., Caltagirone, C., Weinberger, D.R., Spalletta, G., & Papaleo, F. (2014). COMT genetic reduction produces sexually–divergent effects on cortical anatomy and working memory in mice and humans. Cerebral Cortex, bhu053. pdf

Erickson, L.C., Thiessen, E.D., & Graf Estes, K. (2014). Statistically coherent labels facilitate categorization in 8-month-olds. Journal of Memory and Language, 72, 49–58. pdf

Thiessen, E. D., & Erickson, L.C. (2013). Beyond word segmentation: A two–process account of statistical learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(3), 239–243. pdf

Thiessen, E. D., & Erickson, L.C. (2012). Discovering words in fluent speech: the contribution of two kinds of statistical information. Frontiers in Psychology, 3. pdf

Papaleo, F., Erickson, L., Liu, G., Chen, J., & Weinberger, D. R. (2012). Effects of sex and COMT genotype on environmentally modulated cognitive control in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(49), 20160–20165. pdf

Cimpian, A., Mu, Y., & Erickson, L.C. (2012). Who is good at this game? Linking an activity to a social category undermines children’s achievement. Psychological Science, 23(5), 533–541. pdf

Cimpian, A., & Erickson, L.C. (2012). The effect of generic statements on children's causal attributions: questions of mechanism. Developmental Psychology, 48(1), 159. pdf

Cimpian, A., & Erickson, L.C. (2012). Remembering kinds: New evidence that categories are privileged in children’s thinking. Cognitive Psychology, 64(3), 161–185. pdf

Conference Proceedings

Erickson, L.C., Thiessen, E.D., Godwin, K.E., Dickerson, J.P., & Fisher, A.V. (2014). Endogenously- but not exogenously-driven s selective sustained attention is related to learning in a classroom-like setting in kindergarten children. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 457– 462). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Book Chapters

Thiessen, E.D., & Erickson, L.C. (2016). Statistical learning. In E. Bavin and L. Naigles (Eds.), The cambridge handbook of child language (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Thiessen, E.D., & Erickson, L.C. Perceptual development and statistical learning. (2015). In B. MacWhinney and W. O’Grady (Eds.) The handbook of language emergence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pdf (final-ish version)

Thiessen, E.D., & Erickson, L.C. (2016). The statistical approach to word segmentation. In T. H. Mintz (Ed.), Current trends in statistical approaches to language acquisition. Hove, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Ltd.