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Forthcoming

*Bulgarelli, F. & Weiss, D.J. (in press) Desirable difficulties in statistical learning?  How talker variability impacts artificial grammar learning.  Language                                Learning

2020
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Benitez, V. L., *Bulgarelli, F., Byers‐Heinlein, K., Saffran, J. R., & Weiss, D. J. (2020). Statistical learning of multiple speech streams: A challenge for monolingual infants. Developmental science, 23(2), e12896.

Bulgarelli, F., Weiss, D. J., & Dennis, N. A. (2020). Cross-situational statistical learning in younger and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 1-21.

Koranda, M. J., Bulgarelli, F., Weiss, D. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (2020). Is Language Production Planning Emergent From Action Planning? A Preliminary Investigation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1193.

Park, J. S., Miller, C. A., Sanjeevan, T., van Hell, J. G., Weiss, D. J., & Mainela-Arnold, E. (2020). Bilingualism and Processing Speed in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(5), 1479-1493.

Weiss, D. J. (2020). Introduction: The use of artificial languages in bilingualism research. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(1), 72-73.
 
Weiss, D. J., Schwob, N., & Lebkuecher, A. L. (2020). Bilingualism and statistical learning: Lessons from studies using artificial languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(1), 92-97.

2019

*Bulgarelli, F., Bosch, L., & Weiss, D.J. (2019) Multi-pattern visual statistical learning in monolinguals and bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 240, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00204
 
*Bulgarelli, F., Weiss, D.J., (2019) The more the merrier? The impact of talker variability on artificial grammar learning in preschoolers and adults.
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

*Heimbauer, L.A., *Johns, T. & Weiss, D.J. (2019) Inferential reasoning in the visual and auditory modalities by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) Journal of Comparative Psychology
 
*George, N. R., *Bulgarelli, F., Roe, M., & Weiss, D. J. (2019) Stacking the evidence: Parents’ use of acoustic packaging with preschoolers. Cognition, 191, 103956.

Lange, K.V., Miller, C.A., Weiss, D.J., & Karuza, K.A. (2019) Sensitivity to temporal community structure in the language domain. Proceedings of the 41st Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 

Park, J.S., Miller, C., Sanjeevan, T., van Hell, J., Weiss, D.J., Minela- Arnold, E. (2019) Bilingualism and Attention in Typically Developing Children and Children with Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(11), 4105-4118.

2018

*Bulgarelli, F., *Lebkuecher, A.L., & Weiss, D.J. (2018). Bilingualism and statistical  learning.Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49, 740-753. doi:10.1044/2018_LSHSS-STLT1-17-0139

Park, J.S., Miller, C., Rosenbaum, D.A., Sanjeevan, T., van Hell, J., Weiss, D.J., Minela-Arnold, E. (2018). Bilingualism and Procedural Learning In Typically Developing Children And Children With Language Impairments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-11. doi:10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-16-0409

Prétôt, L., Weiss, D.J., & Brosnan, S.F. (2018) Do non-human primates ascribe intentional action to the choices of conspecifics? Animal Behavior and Cognition, 5 (1), 41-54.


2017

*Bulgarelli, F., Benitez, V., Saffran, J., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Weiss, D.J. (2017) Statistical learning of multiple structures by 8-month-old infants. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

MacDonald, M.C., & Weiss, D.J. (2017). Structural priming, action planning, and grammar. A commentary on Branigan & Pickering: An experimental approach to linguistic representation. Brain & Behavioral Science 40. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000498

Weiss, D.J., *Bulgarelli, F., Navarro-Torres, C., & Morales, J. (2017). Translating research to practice in the language sciences. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3 (1), 1-4.


2016

*Bulgarelli, F., & Weiss, D.J. (2016) Anchors aweigh: The impact of overlearning on entrenchment effects in statistical learning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

*George, N.R., Kanero, J., Chwilla, D.J. & Weiss, D.J. (2016) Are we ON the same page? Monolingual and bilingual acquisition of familiar and novel relational language Proceedings of 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 111-116.

Karuza, E., Li, P., Weiss, D.J., *Bulgarelli, F., Zinszer, B. & Aslin, R.N. (2016) Neural substrates underlying the primacy effect in statistical learning Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10):1484-500. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00990.​

*Mitchel, A. D., Gerfen, C., & Weiss, D. J. (2016). Audiovisual perceptual learning with multiple speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 56, 66-74.

*Poepsel, T. J., & Weiss, D. J. (2016). The influence of bilingualism on statistical word learning. Cognition, 152, 9-19.

Puts, D. A., Hill, A. K., Bailey, D. H., Walker, R. S., Rendall, D., Wheatley, J. R., Welling, L.L.M., Dawood, K., Cárdenas, R., Burriss, R.P., Jablonski, N. G., Shriver, M.D., Weiss, D., Lameira, A.R., Apicella, C.L., Owren, M.J., Barelli, C., Glenn, M.E., & Ramos-Fernandez, G. (2016). Sexual selection on male vocal fundamental frequency in humans and other anthropoids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283, 1829, 20152830). The Royal Society.
2015

Weiss, D.J., *Poepsel, T., & Gerfen, C. (2015) Tracking multiple inputs: The challenge of bilingual statistical learning. Rebuschat, P. (Ed.) Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages. p167-190. John Benjamins Press.

Sanjeevan, T., Rosenbaum, D. A., Miller, C., van Hell, J. G., Weiss, D. J., & Mainela-Arnold, E. (2015). Motor Issues in Specific Language Impairment: a Window into the Underlying Impairment. Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 1-9.

Polka, L., Bohn, O., & Weiss, D.J. (2015) Learning about vowel perception from cross-species comparisons: task demands matter. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00941     

*Linck, J. & Weiss, D.J. (2015) Working memory predicts second language classroom learning.  Sage Open, 5 (4), DOI: 10.1177/ 2158244015607352
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Hotchkin, C.F., Parks, S.E., Weiss, D.J. (2015) Noise-Induced Frequency Modifications of Tamarin Vocalizations: Implications for Noise Compensation in Nonhuman Primates, PLoS One,10(6), DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130211

Wunsch, K., Weiss, D. J., Schack, T., & Weigelt, M. (2015). Second-order motor planning in children: insights from a cup-manipulation-task. Psychological Research,9(4):669-77. doi: 10.1007/s00426-014-0596-y

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2014

Rosenbaum, D.A., Herbort, O., Van der Wel, R., & Weiss, D.J. (2014) What’s in a Grasp? American Scientist, 102(5), 366-371. DOI: 10.1511/2014.110.366

Weiss, D.J., Hotchkin, C.F., Parks, S.E. (2014) Modification of spectral features in nonhuman primates. A commentary on Ackerman, Hage, & Ziegler: Brain mechanisms of acoustic communication in humans and nonhuman primates: An evolutionary perspective. Brain & Behavioral Science 37(6):574-576.

Weiss, D.J. (2014) Statistical Learning in Infancy. For Brooks, P, Kempe, V., & Golson, J.G. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Language Development. SAGE.

*Poepsel, T.J. & Weiss, D.J. (2014) Context influences conscious appraisal of cross-situational learning.  Frontiers in Psychology, 5:691. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00691

*Mitchel, A. D., & Weiss, D. J. (2014). Visual speech segmentation: using facial cues to locate word boundaries in continuous speech. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 29:7, 771-780, DOI:10.1080/01690965.2013.791703

*Mitchel, A.D., Christiansen, M.H. & Weiss, D.J. (2014). Multimodal integration in statistical learning: Evidence from the McGurk illusion. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 407. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00407.
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2013

Zander, S., Weiss, D.J., & Judge, P.G., (2013) The interface between morphology and action planning: A comparison of two species of New World monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 86, 1251-1258.

Chapman, K.M. & Weiss, D.J. (2013) Pulling to Scale: Motor planning for sequences of repeated actions by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Vol 39(2), 180-186. doi: 10.1037/a0031775

Hotchkin, C.F., Parks, S.E., & Weiss, D.J. (2013) Vocal modifications in primates: Interactions of noise and behavioral context on the acoustic structure of vocalizations. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, (19).
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Zinszer, B. & Weiss, D.J. (2013) When to hold and when to fold: Detecting structural changes in statistical learning. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
 3858-3863.
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2012

Weiss, D.J., Chapman, K.M., Wark, J., & Rosenbaum, D.A. (2012) Motor planning in primates. A commentary on Vaesen, K., The cognitive basis of human tool use, Brain & Behavioral Science, 35(4),1-60.

*Mitchel, A. & Weiss, D.J. (2012) The use of facial cues for speech segmentation. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 2, 361-373.

*Poepsel, T., Gerfen, C. & Weiss, D.J. (2012) Context, mutual exclusivity, and the challenge of multiple mappings in word learning. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 2, 474-486.

Rosenbaum, D.A., Chapman, K.M., Weigelt, M., Weiss, D.J., & Van der Wel, R., (2012) Cognition action and object manipulation: The end-state comfort effect. Psychological Bulletin, 138(5), 924-946. doi: 10.1037/a0027839

Rosenbaum, D.A., Chapman, K.M., Weigelt, M., Weiss, D.J., & Van der Wel, R., (2012) Cognition, action, and object manipulation. Psychological Bulletin, 138(5), 924-946. 
doi: 10.1037/a0027839
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2011

*Linck, J. & Weiss, D.J. (2011) Working memory predicts the acquisition of explicit L2 knowledge. In Sanz, C. & Leow, R.P. (Eds.) Implicit and Explicit Language Learning:  Conditions Processes and Knowledge in SLA and Bilingualism. Georgetown University Press. 

*Mitchel, A. & Weiss, D.J. (2011) Simultaneous statistical learning in two modalities: Evidence for modality-general accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(5), 1081-1091.

*Mitchel, A. & Weiss, D.J. (2011) Learning across senses: Cross-Modal effects in multisensory statistical learning. 
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,37(5), 1081-1091.
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2010

*Chapman, K.M., Weiss, D.J., & Rosenbaum, D.A. (2010). Evolutionary roots of motor planning: The end-state comfort effect in lemurs. Journal of Comparative Psychology¸124(2), 229-232.

Weiss, D.J. & *Chapman, K. (2010) Animal Learning and Behavior.  In Weiner, I.B. & Craighead, W.E.(eds.) The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology 4th Edition, (1), 107-110, Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, N.J.

*Mitchel, A. & Weiss, D.J. (2010) What's in a face?  Visual contributions to speech segmentation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25(4), 456-482.

Weiss, D.J., Gerfen, C., & *Mitchel, A.(2010) Colliding cues in word segmentation: The role of cue strength and general cognitive processes. Language and Cognitive Processes
, 25(3), 402-422.
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2009

Weiss, D.J. & *Wark, J. (2009). Hysteresis effect in a motor task in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35 (3), 135-141.

*Mitchel, A. D. & Weiss, D.J. (2009) Faces in segmentation: The role of audio-visual integration. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,667-678.

Weiss, D.J., Gerfen, C. & *Mitchel, A.D. (2009) Speech segmentation in a simulated bilingual environment: A challenge for statistical learning? Language Learning and Development 
5, 30-49.
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2008

Maye J., Weiss, D.J. & Aslin R.N. (2008) Statistical phonetic learning in infants: Facilitation and feature generalization. Developmental Science, 11(1), 122-134.

Weiss, D.J., Gerfen, C., & *Mitchel, A. (2008) Colliding cues in word segmentation: The role of cue strength and individual differences. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 537-549.

Weiss, D.J. & Maye, J. (2008) The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic systems. Avery, P., Rice, K., and Dresher, B.E. (Eds.) Contrast in Phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter (Berlin/ New York), 219-230.


2007

Weiss, D.J., *Wark, J. & Rosenbaum, D.A. (2007) Monkey see, monkey plan, monkey do: The end-state comfort effect in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus).  Psychological Science, 18(12), 1063-1068.

Rosenbaum, D.A., Cohen, R.G., Jax, S.A., Weiss, D.J. & van der Wel, R. (2007) The problem of serial order in behavior: Lashley's Legacy.  Human Movement Science, 
26, 525-554.
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2006

Weiss, D.J. & Newport E. (2006) Mechanisms underlying language acquisition: Benefits from a comparative approach.  Infancy 9(2), 241-257.

Weiss, D.J. & Santos, L. (2006) Introduction to Thematic Collection:  Why Primates?: The Importance of Non-Human Primates for Understanding Human Infancy. Infancy 9(2), 133-146.
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Weiss, D.J. & Gerfen, C. (2006) Speech segmentation in a bilingual environment.  Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

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2004

Jordan, K., Weiss, D., Hauser, M., & McMurray, B. (2004) Individual recognition and antiphonal responses to loud contact calls produced by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). International Journal of Primatology 25(2), 465-475. 

2003

Maye, J. & Weiss, D.J. (2003) Statistical cues facilitate infants’ discrimination of difficult phonetic contrasts. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
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2002

Miller C., Weiss, D.J. & Hauser, M.D. (2002) Mechanisms of acoustic classification in primates.   In A. Ghazanfar (Ed.), Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology.  CRC Press.  43-61. 

Weiss, D.J., Ghazanfar, A.A., Miller, C.T., & Hauser, M.D. (2002). Specialized processing of primate facial and vocal expressions: Evidence for cerebral asymmetries. In L. Rogers and R. Andrew (Eds.), Comparative Vertebrate Laterality.  480-531.
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Weiss, D.J. & Hauser, M.D. (2002) Perception of harmonics in the combination long call of cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) Animal Behaviour
 64, 415-426. 
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2001

Weiss D.J., Kralik, J.D., & Hauser, M.D. (2001). Face processing in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Cognition, 3,(4)191-205. 
        
Weiss, D.J., Garibaldi, B. T., & Hauser, M. D. (2001). The production and perception of long calls by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus): Acoustic analyses and playback experiments. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 15(3), 258-271. 
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