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Publications and Presentations

Publications (*student co-authors)

  • Chapman, M. S.*, May, K. E.*, Scofield, J., DeCoster, J., & Bui, C. (2020). Does Group Membership Affect Children’s Judgments of Social Transgressions? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 189. PDF
  • Burns-Nader, S. Scofield, J., & Jones, C.* (2019). The Role of Shape and Specificity in Young Children’s Object Substitution. Infant and Child Development, 28, e2124. PDF
  • Scofield, J., Merriman, W. E., & Wall, J. L.* (2018). The Effect of a Tactile-to-Visual Shift on Young Children’s Tendency to Map Novel Labels Onto Novel Objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 172, 1-12. PDF
  • Buhr, A. P., Scofield, J., Eyer, J. C., & Walden, T. (2017). Cued Self Awareness And Behavioral Performance. Speech, Language, and Hearing, 20, 187-195.
  • Graham, E. G.*, Leslie, A. D.*, & Scofield, J. (2015). The effects of source unreliability on prior and future word learning. First Language, 35, 431-445.
  • Wall, J.*, Merriman, W. E., & Scofield, J. (2015). Young Children’s Disambiguation Across the Senses. Cognitive Development, 35, 163-177.
  • Scofield, J., Gilpin, A. T., Pierucci, J.*, & Morgan, E. R.* (2013). Matters of Accuracy and Conventionality:  Prior Accuracy Guides Children’s Evaluations of Others’ Actions. Developmental Psychology, 49, 432-438.
  • Scofield, J. & Behrend, D. A. (2011). Clarifying the role of joint attention in children's word learning. First Language, 31, 326-341.
  • Scofield, J., Miller, A.*, & Hartin, T.* (2011). Object movement in preschool children's word learning. Journal of Child Language, 38, 181-200.
  • Allen, R.* & Scofield, J. (2010). Word Learning from Videos: More evidence from 2-year-olds. Infant and Child Development, 19, 649-661.
  • Scofield, J., Hernandez-Reif, M., & Keith, A. B.* (2009). Preschool children’s multimodal word learning. Journal of Cognition and Development, 10, 306-333.
  • Scofield, J. & Williams, A.* (2009). Do 2-year-olds Disambiguate and Extend Words Learned from Video? First Language, 29, 228-240.
  • Scofield, J. & Behrend, D. A. (2008). Learning words from reliable and unreliable speakers. Cognitive Development, 23, 278-290.
  • Scofield, J. & Behrend, D. A. (2007). Two-year-olds differentially disambiguate words and facts. Journal of Child Language, 34, 875-889.
  • Scofield, J., Williams, A.*, & Behrend, D. A. (2007). Word learning in the absence of a speaker. First Language, 27, 297-311.
  • Behrend, D. A. & Scofield, J. (2006). Verbs, actions, and intentions. In K. Hirsh-Pasek & R. Golinkoff (Eds.) Early verb learning: Action meets words. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Behrend, D. A., Scofield, J., & Kleinknecht, E. E. (2001). Beyond fast mapping: Young children’s extensions of novel labels and novel facts. Developmental Psychology, 37, 698-705.

Recent Presentations  (*student co-authors)

  • May, K. E.*, Gideon, L.*, & Scofield, J. (2019). The Role of Inhibitory Control in Syntactic Ambiguity Processing. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference. Louisville, KY.
  • Linetsky, K. A.*, Feiler, J.*, & Scofield, J. (2019). Children’s Explanations of Natural Events. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference. Louisville, KY.
  • Davila, L.*, Williams, A., Danovitch, J., & Scofield, J. (2019). Children’s Selective Information Sharing. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Baltimore, MD.
  • Scofield, J., Cagle, S.*, Linetsky, K.*, Davila, L.*, Chernyak, N., Sobel, D. (2019). Children’s Beliefs about the Controllability of Thoughts, Actions, and Feelings. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Baltimore, MD.
  • Stager, C.*, Mickler, J.*, Parente, G.*, & Scofield, J. (2019). Children Do Not Always Disambiguate Contrasting Words. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Baltimore, MD.
  • Stager, C.*, Sanders, K.*, & Scofield, J. (2018). Transfer and Learning from Computers in Young Children’s Receptive Vocabulary. Poster presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. New York City, NY.
  • Scofield, J. & Sanders, K.* (2017). Family Income, Maternal Education, Receptive Vocabulary, and Word Learning in Preschool Children. Poster presented at the National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference.
  • Scofield, J., Burns-Nader, S. & Jones, C.* (2017). The Role of Shape and Specificity in Young Children’s Object Substitution. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference. Portland, OR.
  • Scofield, J. & Chapman, M.* (2017). Does Group Membership Affect Children’s Judgments of Social Transgressions? Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Conference. Portland, OR.
  • Scofield, J. & Williams, L.* (2017). Judgments of moral and conventional retaliations made by children and adults. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. Austin, TX.
  • Scofield, J. & Williams, L.* (2016). Judgments of moral and conventional retaliations made by children and adults. Paper presented at Society for Research in Human Development 20th Biennial Conference. Denver, CO.
  • Savage, S.* & Scofield, J. (2016). Learning what not to say: Children’s acquisition and use of “bad” words. Poster presented at Society for Research in Human Development 20th Biennial Conference. Denver, CO.​
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