Publications
Publications
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Under Review or Revision
Marghetis, T., Tillman, K., & Srinivasan, M. Co-speech gesture reveals that young children spontaneously use space to conceptualize time.
Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M., & Xu, F. Selective attention based on speech complexity.
tho Pesch, F., Langenhoff, A.F. & Srinivasan, M. How does scarcity impact attention? A critical examination of the tunneling hypothesis.
Skarabela, B., Srinivasan, M., & Rabagliati, H. Developing a generative lexicon: Evidence from instrument verbs.
Published or In-Press
Foushee, R., Regan, S., Baharloo, R., & Srinivasan, M. (in press). Sociolinguistic development in a diverse, multi-linguistic society: Evidence from multilingual children in Gujarat, India. Cognitive Development. [open access]
Park, Y. R., Ho, Y., Hallesz, K., Kaur, S., Srinivasan, M., & Zhao, J. (in press). The psychology of poverty: Current and future directions.Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2024). Infants who are rarely spoken to directly nevertheless understand many words.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(23), e2311425121. [open access]
Srinivasan, M. & Dahl, A. (2024). To accept or reject? Hindu and Muslim children’s views of religious, moral, and conventional norms. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1-29. [publisher version]
Langenhoff, A.F., Srinivasan, M. & Engelmann, J. (2024). Disagreement reduces overconfidence and prompts curiosity in young children. Child Development. [open access]
Vasil, N., Srinivasan, M., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney, S., Gopnik, A. & Lombrozo, T. (2024). Structural explanations lead young children and adults to rectify resource inequalities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 242, 105896. [open access]
Weisman, K. Ghossainy, M.E. ... [Srinivasan, M.] ... Corriveau, K.H., & Richert, R.A., on behalf of the Developing Belief Network (2024). The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network. PLOS ONE, 19(3): e02927553. [open access]
Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M., & Xu, F. (2023). Active learning in language development. Current Directions in Psychological Science. [open access]
Baharloo, R., Vasil, N., Ellwood-Lowe, M.E., & Srinivasan, M. (2023). Children's use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world. Developmental Science. [open access] [publisher version]
Langenhoff, A., Engelmann, J., & Srinivasan, M. (2022). Children adjust their beliefs reasonably in light of disagreement. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13838 [open access] [publisher version]
Li, W., Germine, L., Mehr, S., Srinivasan, M., & Hartshorne, J. (2022). Developmental scientists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility. doi: 10.1002/icd.2348 Infant and Child Development. [open access] [publisher version]
Dahl, A., Berner, C., Jesuthasan, J., Wehry, J., & Srinivasan, M. (2022). Crossing religious boundaries: Individual and contextual determinants of who can violate religious norms. Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105174 [open access] [publisher version]
Langenhoff, A. F., Dahl, A., & Srinivasan, M. (2022). Preschoolers learn new moral and conventional norms from direct experiences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105322 [open access] [publisher version]
Ellwood-Lowe, M.E., Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2022). What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child-directed speech. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.13151 [open access] [publisher version]
Winter, B & Srinivasan, M. (2022). Why is semantic change asymmetric? The role of concreteness and word frequency and metaphor and metonymy. Metaphor and Symbol, 39-54. doi: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1945419 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M & Rabagliati, H. (2021). The implications of polysemy for theories of word learning. Child Development Perspectives, 15(3), 148-153. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12411 [open access] [publisher version]
Starr, A. & Srinivasan, M. (2021). The future is in front, to the right, or below: Development of spatial representations of time in three dimensions. Cognition, 210, 104603. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104603 [open access] [publisher version]
Starr, A., Srinivasan, M. & Bunge, S. (2020). Semantic knowledge influences visual working memory in adults and children. PLoS ONE, 15(11), e0241110. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241110. [open access] [publisher version]
Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M. & Xu, F. (2020). Self-directed Learning by Preschoolers in a Naturalistic Overhearing Context. Cognition, 206, 104415. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104415. [open access] [publisher version]
Starr, A., Cirolia, A., Tillman, K. A., & Srinivasan, M. (2020). Spatial Metaphor Facilitates Word Learning. Child Development, 92(3), e329-e342. doi:10.31234/osf.io/fjdxg [open access] [publisher version]
Xu, Y., Duong, K., Malt, B. C., Jiang, S. & Srinivasan, M. (2020). Conceptual Relations Predict Colexification across Languages. Cognition, 201, 104280. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104280. [open access] [publisher version]
Amir, D., Valeggia, C., Srinivasan, M., Sugiyama, L. S., Dunham, Y. (2019). Measuring subjective social status in children of diverse societies. PLoS One, 14(12), e0226550. doi:10.137/journal.pone.0226550 [open access] [publisher version]
Ellwood-Lowe, M.E., Berner, C., Dunham, Y. & Srinivasan, M. (2019). Indian = Hindu? The development of nationalist attitudes in Hindu and Muslim Indian children. Child Development, (91)4, 1375-1394. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13311 [open access] [publisher version]
Shtulman, A., Foushee, R., Barner, D., Dunham, Y. & Srinivasan, M. (2019). When Allah meets Ganesha: Developing supernatural concepts in a religiously diverse society. Cognitive Development, 52, 100806. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100806 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M., Foushee, R., Bartnof, A. & Barner, D. (2019). Linguistic conventionality and the role of epistemic reasoning in mutual exclusivity inference. Cognition, 189, 193-208. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.001 [open access] [publisher version]
Williams, A., Srinivasan, M., Liu, C. & Zhou, Q (2019). Why do bilinguals code-switch when emotional? Insight from immigrant parent-child interactions. Emotion, 20(5), 830-481. doi: 10.1037/emo0000568 [open access] [publisher version]
Starr, A. & Srinivasan, M. (2018). Spatial metaphor and the development of cross-domain mappings in early childhood. Developmental Psychology, 54(10), 1822-1832. doi: 10.1037/dev0000573 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M., Kaplan, E., & Dahl, A. (2018). Reasoning about the scope of religious norms: Evidence from Hindu and Muslim children in India. Child Development, 90, e783-e802. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13102 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M., Berner, C., & Rabagliati, H. (2018). Children use polysemy to structure new word meanings. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(5), 926-942. doi: 10.1037/xge0000454 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M., Wagner, K., Frank, M.C. & Barner, D (2018). The role of design and training in abacus expertise: The case of the abacus and visual attention. Cognitive Science, 42(S3), 757-782. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12611 [open access] [publisher version]
Ramiro, C., Srinivasan, M., Malt, B. & Xu, Y (2018). Algorithms in the historical emergence of word senses. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 115(10), 2323-2328. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714730115 [open access] [publisher version]
Xu, Y., Malt, B. & Srinivasan, M (2017). Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium. Cognitive Psychology, 96, 41-53. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2017.05.005 [open access] [publisher version]
Tillman, K., Marghetis, T., Barner, D. & Srinivasan, M. (2017). Today is tomorrow’s yesterday: Children’s acquisition of deictic time words. Cognitive Psychology, 92, 87-100. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.10.003 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M., Al-Mughairy, S., Foushee, R. & Barner, D. (2017). Learning language from within: Children use semantic generalizations to infer new word meanings. Cognition, 159, 11-24. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.019 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M., & Barner, D. (2016). Encoding individuals in language using syntax, words, and pragmatic inference. WIREs Cognitive Science, 7(5), 341-353. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1396 [open access] [publisher version]
Barner, D., Alvarez, G., Sullivan, J., Brooks, N., Srinivasan, M. & Frank, M. C. (2016). Learning mathematics in a visuospatial format: A randomized, controlled trial of mental abacus instruction. Child Development, 87(4), 1146-1158. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12515 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M. & Rabagliati, H (2015). How concepts and conventions structure the lexicon: Cross-linguistic evidence from polysemy. Lingua, 157, 124-152. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.12.004 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M., Dunham, Y., Hicks, C. & Barner, D. (2015). Do attitudes toward societal structure predict beliefs about free will and achievement? Evidence from the Indian caste system. Developmental Science, 19(1), 109-125. doi: 10.1111/desc.12294 [open access] [publisher version]
Dunham, Y., Srinivasan, M., Dotsch, R. & Barner, D. (2014). Religion insulates ingroup evaluations: The development of intergroup attitudes in India. Developmental Science, 17(2), 311-319. doi: 10.1111/desc.12105 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M. & Snedeker, J. (2014). Polysemy and the taxonomic constraint: Children’s representations of words with taxonomically-different meanings. Language Learning and Development, 10(2), 97-128. doi: 10.1080/15475441.2013.820121 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M. & Barner, D. (2013). The Amelia Bedelia effect: World knowledge and the goal bias in language acquisition. Cognition, 128, 431-450. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.05.005 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M., Chestnut, E., Li, P., & Barner, D. (2013). Sortal concepts and pragmatic inference in children’s early quantification of objects. Cognitive Psychology, 66, 302-326. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.01.003 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M. & Snedeker, J. (2011). Judging a book by its cover and its contents: The representation of polysemous and homophonous meanings in four-year-old children. Cognitive Psychology, 62, 245-272. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2011.03.002 [open access] [publisher version]
Matlock, T., Holmes, K.J., Srinivasan, M., & Ramscar, M. (2011). Even abstract motion influences the understanding of time. Metaphor and Symbol,26 (4), 260-271. doi: 10.1080/10926488.2011.609065 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M. & Carey, S. (2010). The long and the short of it: On the nature and origin of functional overlap between representations of space and time. Cognition, 116, 217-241. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.05.005 [open access] [publisher version]
Srinivasan, M. (2010). Do classifiers affect cognitive processing? A study of nominal classification in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Cognition, 2(2), 177-190. doi: 10.1515/langcog.2010.007 [open access] [publisher version]