Publications
2024
Unger, L., Chang, T., Savic,O., Bergen, B. K., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2024). When is a word in good company for learning?. Developmental Science, e13510.
2023
Unger, L., Yim, H., Savic, O., Dennis, S.J., & Sloutsky, V. (2023). No Frills: Simple Regularities in Language can go a Long Way in the Development of Word Knowledge, Developmental Science. e13373.
Savic, O., Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2022). Experience and maturation: The contribution of co-occurrence regularities in language to the development of semantic organization. Child Development, 94(1), 142–158.
2022
Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. (2022). Category Exceptions Change Category Boundaries, Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Savic, O., Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2022). Exposure to co-occurrence regularities in language drives semantic integration of new words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 48(7), 1064–1081.
2021
Yim, H., Savic, O., Barkhimer, A., Sloutsky, V., & Dennis, S. J. (2021). The Mystery of Early Taxonomic Development. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Castro, L., Yang, S., Savic, O., Sloutsky V., & Wasserman, E. (2021) Not all exceptions are created equal: Learning of exceptions in pigeons’ categorization, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(4), 1344-1353 .
2020
Savic, O., Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V. (2020). Becoming Organized: How Simple Learning Mechanisms may Shape the Development of Rich Semantic Knowledge, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Unger, L., Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. (2020). Simple Mechanisms, Rich Structure: Statistical Co-Occurrence Regularities in Language Shape the Development of Semantic Knowledge, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Castro, L., Savic, O., Navarro, V., Wasserman, E., & Sloutsky V. (2020). Selective and distributed attention in human and pigeon category learning, Cognition, 204, 104350.
Savic, O., Thierry, G., & Kovic, V. (2020). Conceptual relation preference: A matter of strategy or one of salience? Acta Psychologica, 204, 103018.
Unger, L., Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. (2020). Statistical regularities shape semantic organization throughout development, Cognition, 198, 104190.
2019
Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2019). Assimilation of exceptions? Examining representations of regular and exceptional category members across development. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148 (6), 1071-1090.
Savic, O., Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V. (2019). Rapid semantic integration of novel words following exposure to distributional regularities, Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Savic, O., Blanco, N., & Sloutsky, V. (2019). Not all exceptions are the same: Different memory demands for differentiation, isolation and odd-ball exceptions, Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Yim, H., Savic, O., Unger, L., Sloutsky, V. M., & Dennis, S. (2019). Can Paradigmatic Relations be Learned Implicitly?. Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
2018
Savic, O., Blanco, N., & Sloutsky, V. (2018). Developmental differences in the status of category exceptions, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
2017
Savic, O., Savic, A., & Kovic, V. (2017). Comparing the temporal dynamics of thematic and taxonomic processing using event-related potentials. PloS ONE, 12(12): e0189362. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189362.
Savic, O., & Sample, H. (2017). What makes for conceptual similarity?, Theoria, 60, 77-90.
Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. (2017). Peculiarity doesn't trump ordinarity: On recognition memory for exceptions to the category rule, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3058-3063.
Živanović, T., Ković, V., Krstić, K., & Ilić, O. (2017). Conceptual development: A case of thematic preference in 7-year-old Serbian children, XXIII naučni skup Empirijska istraživanja u psihologiji. Beograd: Filozofski fakultet u Beogradu, Institut za psihologiju i Laboratorija za eksperimentalnu psihologiju.
Earlier
Savić, O., & Sučević. J. (2016) Razvoj koncepata. U V. Gvozdenović (Ur.), Različiti aspekti problema mentalnih reprezentacija (103-123), Filozofski fakultet, Beograd.
Ković, V., & Savić, O. (2016) Gde se u mozgu nalaze znanja o pojmovima? Neuralni korelati semantičke memorije. U V. Gvozdenović (Ur.), Različiti aspekti problema mentalnih reprezentacija (83-102), Filozofski fakultet, Beograd.
Ilić, O., & Ković, V. (2015). What makes an elephant similar to a peanut?, XXI naučni skup Empirijska istraživanja u psihologiji. Beograd: Filozofski fakultet u Beogradu, Institut za psihologiju i Laboratorija za eksperimentalnu psihologiju.
Ilic, O., Kovic, V., & Styles, S.J. (2013). In the absence of animacy: Superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification. PLoS ONE, 8(12): e83282. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083282.