Publications

Bunce, J. P., & Scott, R. M. (2017). Finding meaning in a noisy world: Exploring the effects of referential ambiguity and competition on 2.5-year-olds’ cross-situational word learning. Journal of Child Language, 44, 650-676.

Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2017). Early false-belief understanding. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 237-249.

Smith, M., & Scott, R. M. (2017). 20-month-olds use social-group membership to make inductive inferences. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, E. J. Davelaar, G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3203-3208). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Scott, R. M., Setoh, P., & Baillargeon, R. (2017). Reply to Rubio-Fernández et al.: Different traditional false-belief tasks impose different processing demands for toddlers.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 114, E3751–E3752.

Scott, R. M., Roby, E., & Smith, M. (2017). False-belief understanding in the first years of life. In J. Kiverstein & J. Kiverstein (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of the Social Mind (pp. 152-171). New York, NY: Routledge.

Baillargeon, R., Scott, R., & Bian, L. (2016). Psychological reasoning in infancy.. Annual Review of Psychology, 67, 159-186.

Bunce, J. P., Gordon, C., Abney, D. H., Fleming, M. M., Greenwood, M., Chiu, E., Spivey, M. J., & Scott, R. (2016). Mouse tracking reveals knowledge of multiple competing referents during cross-situational word learning.. Supplemental Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Bunce, J. P., Abney, D. H., Gordon, C. L., Spivey, M. J., & Scott, R. M. (2016). Using motor dynamics to explore real-time competition in cross-situational word learning: Evidence from two novel paradigms.. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, J. C. Trueswell, A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1439-1444). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Roby, E., & Scott, R. M. (2016). Think fast! Mental-state language is related to the speed of false-belief reasoning in adulthood.. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, J. C. Trueswell, A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Roby, E., & Scott, R. M. (2016). Rethinking the relationship between social experience and false-belief understanding: A mentalistic account. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1721.