Selected Publications

Cashon, C. H. & Cohen, L. B. (2004). Beyond U-Shaped Development in Infants' Processing of Faces: An Information-Processing Account.Cognition and Development.5, 59-80.

Cohen, L.B., Atkinson, D.J., & Chaput, H.H. (2004). A new program for obtaining and organizing data in infant perception and cognition studies, (Version 1.0). Austin: University of Texas .

Cohen, L. B. (2003). Unresolved Issues in Infant Categorization. In D. Rakison & L. M. Oakes (Eds.), Early category and concept development. (pp 193-209). New York: Oxford University Press.

Cohen, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2003). Infant perception and cognition. In R. Lerner, A. Easterbrooks, and J. Mistry (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychology.Volume 6, Developmental Psychology. II. Infancy.(pp 65-89)   New York: Wiley and Sons.

Casasola, M., Cohen, L. B. & Chiarello, D. (2003). Six-month-old infants' categorization of containment spatial relations.. Child Development., 74, 679-693.

Cashon, C. H. & Cohen, L.B. (2003). The construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of infant face perception.. In Slater, A. & Pascalis, O. The development of face processing in infancy and early childhood. Nova Science.

Casasola,  M. & Cohen, L.B. (2002). Infant categorization of containment, support and tight-fit spatial relationships. Developmental Science, 5, 247-264.

Cohen, L. B. & Chaput, H. H. (2002). Connectionist models of infant perceptual and cognitive development. Developmental Science, 5, 173-175.

Cohen, L. B. & Marks, K. S. (2002). How infants process addition and subtractionevents. Developmental Science, 5, 186-201.

Chaput, H. H. & Cohen, L. B. (2001). A model of infant causal perception and its development.  Proceedings of the Twenth-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,(pp182-187). Mahway: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates>

Cohen, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2001). Infant object segregation implies information integration. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 78,75-83.

Cohen, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2001). Do 7-month-old infants process independent features or facial configurations? Infant and Child Development. 10, 83-92.

Bogartz, R. S., Cashon, C. H., Cohen, L. B., Schilling, T. H., & Shinskey, J. L. (2000). Reply to Baillargeon (2000), Aslin (2000), and Munakata (2000). Infancy, 1, 479-490.

Casasola, M. & Cohen, L.B. (2000). Infants' association of linguistic labels with causal actions. Developmental Psychology. 36, 155-168.

Cashon, C.H. & Cohen, L.B. (2000). Eight-month-old infants' perception of possible and impossible events.  Infancy. 1, 429-446.

Cohen, L.B., Rundell, L. J., Spellman, B. A., & Cashon, C. H. (1999). Infants' perception of causal chains.  Psychological Science.  10, 412-418

Rakison, D. H. & Cohen, L.B. (1999). Infants' use of functional parts in basic-like categorization. Developmental Science. 2, 423-431.

>Cohen, L.B. (1998). An information-processing approach to infant perception and cognition.  In F. Simion & G. Butterworth (Eds.), The Development of Sensory, Motor, and Cognitive Capacities in Early Infancy (pp.277-300). East Sussex: Psychology Press.

Cohen, L.B. & Amsel, G. (1998).  Precursors to infants' perception of causality.  Infant Behavior and Development, 21, 713-731.

Cohen, L. B., Amsel, G., Redford, M. A., & Casasola, M. (1998). The development of infant causal perception.  In A. Slater (ed.), Perceptual development: Visual, Auditory, and Speech Perception in Infancy. (pp. 167-209). East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press Ltd.

Werker, J.F., Cohen, L.B., Lloyd, V.L., Casasola, M., & Stager, C.L. (1998). Acquisition of word-object associations by 14-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1289-1309.

Selected Convention Presentations

Cohen, L.B.(2004, May). The Development of Infants' Perception of Causal Events. Symposium paper presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago.

Cohen, L.B., Cashon, C.H. & Rundell, L. (2004, May). Infants' Developing Knowledge of a Causal Agent. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago.

Cohen, L.B. & Cashon, C.H. (2003, April). An Information Processing Approach to Infant Face Perception. Symposium paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Tampa.

Cashon, C.H., Cohen, L.B. & Gora, K. (2003, April). Evidence for infants' categorical perception of face orientation. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Tampa.

Cohen, L.B. (2002, April). Can infants really add and subtract? Invited debate presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto.

Cashon, C.H. & Cohen, L.B. (2002, April). U-Shaped Development in Infants' Processing of Faces. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto. Cohen, L.B. & Chaput, H.H. (2002, April). Modeling the Development of Infant Causal Perception. Symposium paper presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto.

Chaput, H. H. & Cohen, L. B. (2001, August). A model of infant causal perception and its development.  Poster presented at Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Edinburgh.

Cashon, C.H. & Cohen, L.B. (2001, April). Developmental changes in infants' processing of faces. Symposium paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Minneapolis.

Cohen, L.B. (2001, April). Uses and Misuses of Habituation: A Theoretical and Methodological Analysis. Symposium paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Minneapolis.

Cohen, L.B. & Cashon, C.H. (2000, July). A puzzle in infant face perception. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.

Marks, K.S. & Cohen, L.B. (2000, July). Infants' reaction to addition and subtraction events.  Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.

Cashon, C.H. & Cohen, L.B. (1999, April). Infant Face Perception:  Do infants process independent features or the face as a whole? Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for  Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, N.M.

Cohen, L.B. & Cashon, C. (1998, April). Eight-month-old infants’ perception of possible and impossible events.  Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta.

Cohen, L.B., Rundell, L.J., Spellman, B.A., & Cashon, C. (1998, April). Infants’perception of causal chains.  Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta.

Rakison, D.H. & Cohen, L.B. (1998, April). You’ve got to roll with It, baby:  The effect of functional parts on infants’ categorization.  Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta.