Publications, Presentations, Conference Talks/Posters

Isacoff, N.M. & Armstrong, R. (In prep.). Students’ Theories of College. Manuscript in prep.

Bainbridge, C.M., Isacoff, N.M., & Dale, R. (In prep.) Modality Shapes Lexical Growth in Self-Directed Language. Manuscript in prep.

Isacoff, N.M. & Bainbridge, C.M. (under review). Communication Without Interlocutors: Modeling Intrapersonal Coordination. Manuscript under review.

Bainbridge, C. M., Yoshimi, J., Isacoff, N. M., & Dale, R. (under review). Inevitability of internal communication. Manuscript under review.

Isacoff, N. M., Imanova, S., Kis-Herczegh, P., Toner, S., Urosevic, T., Varma, V., & Le Cunff, A.-L. (2026). Neurodiversity: Integrating evolutionary, philosophical, and sociocultural perspectives. Research in Autism, 131, Article 202783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2025.202783

Isacoff, N.M. (2024). Self-Communication in severed minds: Perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Isacoff, N.M. & Dawes, J. (2024). Reintegrating Severance: Interdisciplinary Insights on AppleTV’s Dystopian Thriller, Palgrave MacMillan. 

Isacoff, N.M. (2023). Companion Reference to the American Medical Association Guides 4th Edition, Chapter 14: Mental and Behavioral Disorders. [White Paper]. 

Isacoff, N.M. (2022). The psycholinguistics of propaganda: Mechanisms of subjugation and how to challenge them. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 9(2), DOI: 10.29038/eejpl.2022.9.2.isa. 

McDonald, J.P, Isacoff, N.M., & Karin D (2018). Data Use and Teaching: Moving Beyond Magical Thinking to Effective Practice. Teachers College Press, New York.

Isacoff, N.M., Karin, D., & McDonald, J.P. (2018). “Adjustment in Practice: A Critical Response to Data-Driven Instruction.” In Helenrose Five & Nicole Barnes. Teachers’ Data Use: Cases of Promising practice (pp. 162-175). Routledge, New York. 

Avenia-Tapper, B. & Isacoff, N.M. (2015), “Explicitness in Science Discourse: A Gricean Account of Income-Related Differences.” Language and Education. DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2015.1088547.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2014). “Not All Lexical Access Tasks Are Created Equal: Lexical Development between Three and Five.” First Language. 34(1), 43 – 57.

Invited Presentations 

"Narrative Identity and Justice" (2026, May). Columbia Center for Justice, New York. 

“From Transmission to Coordination: Rethinking Intrapersonal Communication” (2026, January). UCLA, Department of Communication, CoMind Lab.

“Intrapersonal Communication: Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives” (2025, April). The University Seminars at Columbia University, Language & Cognition. 

Diverse Discourse: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Perspectives” (2024, December). Columbia University, Department of Psychology Seminar.

“Can Data Drive Teaching and Learning?” (2019, May). Innovations in Teaching and Learning Symposium, Brooklyn College.

“The Nature of Thought” (2019, February). Columbia Neuroscience Society Panel, Columbia University. 

“Developments in Lexical and Conceptual Structure” (2015, April). Cognitive, Brain, and Behavior Series, Rutgers University—Newark. 

“Lexical Representation, Access, and Categorization: Implications for Translational Neuroscience” (2014, May). Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute. 

“Lexical Representation, Access, and Categorization: Implications for Translational Neuroscience” (2014, May). Language and Cognitive Dynamics Lab, University of Pennsylvania. 

“Mechanisms of Change in Categorization Development” (2014, March). Child’s Play, Learning, and Development Lab, University of Delaware. 

“Lexical and Conceptual Development” (2014, January). The Language Learning Lab, University of Pennsylvania. 

“Researching Perception and Language: Insights from Computational and Experimental Linguistics” (2012, April). Perceptual Science Symposium, Rutgers University—New Brunswick.

Conference Talks

Isacoff, N.M., Bainbridge, C., & Dale, R. (2026, June). "Beyond Transmission: A Coordinative Account of Intrapersonal Communication." Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Johns Hopkins University.

Isacoff, N.M. (2024, April). “The Ambivalent Self: Intrapersonal Communication, Community, and Positive Psychology.” Communicating within the Self workshop, University of California Los Angeles. 

Isacoff, N.M. (2023, April). “Diversifying Neurodiversity Research.” Diversifying Scholarship Research Conference, University of Virginia. 

Isacoff, N.M., Chen, E., Ditta, A.S., Robertson, C., Shigeto, A., & Freberg, L. “Evidence, validity, and the replication crisis: Introductory psychology students' beliefs.” Annual Conference on Teaching, Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Division Two of the American Psychological Association. 

Isacoff, N.M. & Hoter-Ishay, B. (2022, October). “But that's not my experience: Epistemological issues in the teaching of psychology.” Annual Conference on Teaching, Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Division Two of the American Psychological Association.

Isacoff, N.M., Le Cunff, A, & Varma, V. (2022, August). “Neurodiverse intelligences: Mapping the multidimensional construct of neurodiversity.” Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Anthis, J.R., Deane, G., Isacoff, N.M., Sweezy, S., & Zettersten M. (2022, August). “Interpreting AI language models: Lessons from human and animal methodologies.” Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Bainbridge, C., Terwilliger, J., Isacoff, N.M., & Gross, R.E. (2022, August). “A citizen science virtual laboratory for the study of self-communication.” Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Isacoff, N.M. & Karin, D. (2016, February). “Backward ‘Backward Design’: Distorted Views of Data-Driven Instruction in an Age of Accountability.” Penn Ethnography Forum, Philadelphia, PA.

Karin, D. & Isacoff, N.M. (2016, February). “The Game of Telephone: Distortions of Data-Use Theories in Schools.” Penn Ethnography Forum, Philadelphia, PA. 

Isacoff, N.M. & Avenia-Tapper, B. (2015, October). “Contextualizing Vocabulary Instruction: Insights for Basic and Translational Cognitive Development Research.” Presented in the Symposium: Vocabulary and Cognitive development: Crossing the Basic-Applied Divide. (Chair: Nora M. Isacoff). Biannual Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Columbus, Ohio. 

Isacoff, N.M., Cohen, G., Liu, D., Hou-Imerman, T., & Stromswold, K. (2013, March). “Is Lexical Organization Linguistically Relative? Evidence from English & Mandarin.”  Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2011, March). “Semantic Organization & Its Development.” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Cambridge, MA.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2010, August). “Development of Lexical Representation and Access Abilities in Preschoolers.” Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2010, March). “Lexical Access: Important Linguistic Components and How They Develop Over Time.” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Brooklyn, NY.

Conference Posters

Isacoff, N.M., Bainbridge, C., Terwilliger, J., Dobkins, K., Yoshimi, J., Allen, L., Mills, C., Brinthaupt, T., & Dale, R. Communication within the Self. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Understanding the self and the other, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 

Gore, W. & Isacoff, N.M. (2024, June). “Evidentiality and the Acquisition of Generics in Lhasa Tibetan.” International Max Planck Research School Conference on Language Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Isacoff, N.M., Stabile, M., & Stromswold, K. (2014, March). “Development of Categorization Preferences in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.” Biannual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA. 

Isacoff, N.M., Stabile, M., & Stromswold, K. (2014, June). “Categorization in Typically Developing Children and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.”  Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Neuroscience Symposium, Piscataway, NJ.

Isacoff, N.M, Stabile, M., & Stromswold, K. (2014, May). “Concept Formation in Autism Spectrum Disorders.” Annual Perceptual Science Research Forum, Piscataway, NJ.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2013, October). “Effects of Developments in Abstract Thinking, World Knowledge, Language & Metamemory on Category Development in Three-to-Eight Year Olds.” Biannual Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN.

Isacoff, N.M., Avery, T., & Froud, K. (2013, May). “An ERP Study of Taxonomic and Thematic Categorization in Preschoolers.” Annual Perceptual Science Research Forum, Piscataway, NJ.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2012, October). “A Multi-Tiered Model of Lexical Meaning.” International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, Quebec.

Isacoff, N.M., Hou-Imerman, T., & Stromswold, K. (2012, May). “Is Lexical Organization Linguistically Relative: Evidence from English & Mandarin.” Annual Perceptual Science Research Forum, Piscataway, NJ.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2011, October). “Semantic and Conceptual Organization in Preschoolers and Adults.” Biannual Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2011, May). “Semantic Clustering.” Annual Perceptual Science Research Forum, Piscataway, NJ.

Isacoff, N.M. & Stromswold, K. (2010, May). “Lexical Access: Important Linguistic Components and How They Develop Over Time.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.

Isacoff, N.M.  & Stromswold, K.  (2010, May).  “Lexical Access.” Fourth Annual Perceptual Science Research Forum, Piscataway, NJ.