B.A.B.Y. Lab

Goldstein, M. H., Schwade, J. A., Briesch, J., & Syal, S. (in press). Learning while babbling: Prelinguistic object-directed vocalizations signal a readiness to learn. Infancy.

Goldstein, M. H., & Schwade, J. A. (2009). From birds to words: Perception of structure in social interactions guides vocal development and language learning. In M. S. Blumberg, J. H. Freeman, & S.R. Robinson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Comparative Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.

Goldstein, M. H., Schwade, J. A., & Bornstein, M. H. (2009). The value of vocalizing: Five-month-old infants associate their own noncry vocalizations with responses from adults. Child Development, 80 (3), 636 – 644.

Owren, M. J., & Goldstein, M. H. (2008). Scaffolds for babbling: Innateness and learning in the emergence of contextually flexible vocal production in human infants. In D. K. Oller and U. Griebel (Eds.), The Evolution of Communicative Flexibility: Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Goldstein, M. H., & Schwade, J. A. (2008). Social feedback to infants’ babbling facilitates rapid phonological learning. Psychological Science, 19, 515-522.

Cargill, S.A., Farmer, T.A., Schwade, J.A., Goldstein, M.H., & Spivey, M.J. (2007). Children’s online processing of complex sentences: New evidence from a new technique. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 143-148), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Gros-Louis, J. G., West, M. J., Goldstein, M. H., & King, A. P. (2006). Mothers provide differential feedback to infants’ prelinguistic sounds. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30 (6), 509 - 516.

King, A. P., West, M. J., & Goldstein, M. H. (2005). Nonvocal shaping of avian song development: Parallels to human speech development. Ethology, 111, 101- 117.

Goldstein, M. H., King, A. P., & West, M. J. (2003). Social interaction shapes babbling: Testing parallels between birdsong and speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(13), 8030 - 8035.

Goldstein, M. H., & West, M. J. (1999). Consistent responses of human mothers to prelinguistic infants: The effect of prelinguistic repertoire size. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113(1), 52 - 58.

Kaplan, P. S., Goldstein, M. H., Huckeby, E. R., Owren, M. J., & Cooper, R. P. (1995). Dishabituation of visual attention by infant- versus adult-directed speech: Effects of frequency modulation and spectral composition. Infant Behavior and Development, 18, 209-223.

Kaplan, P. S., Goldstein, M. H., Huckeby, E. R., & Cooper, R. P. (1995). Habituation, sensitization, and infants’ responses to motherese speech. Developmental Psychobiology, 28, 45-47.

Recent Conference Presentations

Ackerman-Yost, J. & Goldstein, M. H. (2009). Adult responsiveness to unfamiliar infants is influenced by caregiving experience and acoustic features of babbling. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Syal, S., & Goldstein, M. H. (2009). Do the walk, learn the talk: Locomotion facilitates prelinguistic vocal development. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Goldstein, M. H., Bornstein, M. H., Schwade, J. A., Baldwin, F., & Brandstadter, R. (2007).Five-month-old infants have learned the value of babbling. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.