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Shteynberg, G., Halpern, J., Sadovnik, A., Garthoff, J., Perry, A., Hay, J., Montemayor, C., Olson, M.A., Hulsey, T.L., & Fairweather, A. (2024). Does it matter if empathic AI has no empathy? Nature Machine Intelligence 6, 496–497. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00841-7

Kalashnikova. M., & 24 others including *Cannistraci, R., & Hay, J. (2024). The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross-linguistic, multi-lab report. Developmental Science. 27(3):e13459. doi: 10.1111/desc.13459. 

*Karaman F., Lany J., & Hay J.F. (2024) Can Infants Retain Statistically Segmented Words and Mappings Across a Delay? Cognitive Science. 48(3):e13433. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13433

Lany, J., *Karaman, F., & Hay, J. (2024). A Changing Role for Transitional Probabilities in Word Learning During the Transition to Toddlerhood? Developmental Psychology. 60(3), 567-581. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001641

Steffan, A., Zimmer, L., Arias-Trejo, N., Bohn, M., Dal Ben, R., Flores-Coronado, M. A., including Hay., J. … Schuwerk, T. (2024). Validation of an Open Source, Remote Web-based Eye-tracking Method (WebGazer) for Research in Early Childhood. Infancy. 29(1):31-55. doi: 10.1111/infa.12564.

*Dal Ben, R., Prequero, I. T., Souza, D. de H., & Hay, J. F. (2023). Speech segmentation and cross-situational word learning in parallel. Open Mind, 510–533. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00095

*Dal Ben, R., Souza, D. de H., & Hay, J. F. (2023). Combining statistics: The role of phonotactics on cross-situational word learning. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica. 35, 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41155-022-00234-y

Kartushina et al., including Hay, J.F. (2022). COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition:associations between caregiver child activities and vocabulary gains.Language Development Research 2(1) :1-36. doi: 10.34842/abym-xv34

Dal Ben, R., Souza, D. & Hay, J.F.  (2021). When statistics collide: The use of transitional and phonotactic probability cues to word boundaries. Memory & Cognition, 1-11. PDF

Byers-Heinlein, K., & 15 others including Hay, J.F. (2021). The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-lab study. Infancy. 26, 4-38. PDF

The ManyBabies Consortium. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3, 24-52. PDF

Wagley, N., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Hay, J., Ugolini, M., Bowyer, S. M., Kovelman, I., & Brennan, J.R. (2020). Predictive Processing during a Naturalistic Statistical Learning Task in ASD. eNeuro, 7(6), ENEURO.0069–19. PDF

Cannistraci, R. A., *Dal Ben, R., *Karaman, F., *Parvanezadeh Esfahani, S., & Hay J. F. (2019). Statistical learning approaches to studying language development. In J. von Koss Torkildsen & J. Horst (Editors). International Handbook of Language Acquisition. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. PDF

Singh, L., Burnham, D., Hay, J., Liu, L., & Mattock, K. (2019). Editorial: Lexical Tone Perception in Infants and Young Children: Empirical Studies and Theoretical Perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1195. PDF

Hay, J. F., Cannistraci, R. A., & Zhao, Q. (2019). Mapping non-native pitch contours to meaning: Perceptual and experiential factors. Journal of Memory and Language, 105.,131-140. PDF
Shoaib, A., Wang, T., Hay, J. F., & Lany, J. (2018). Do Infants Learn Words From Statistics? Evidence From English-Learning Infants Hearing Italian. Cogn Sci, 42(8), 3083-3099. PDF
Karaman, F., & Hay, J. F. (2018). The longevity of statistical learning: When infant memory decays, isolated words come to the rescue. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 44(2), 221-232. PDF
Graf Estes, K., Antovich, D. M., & Hay, J. F. (2018). Intersecting Constraints on Label Learning: Effects of Age, Label Properties, and Referential Context AU. Journal of Cognition and Development, 19(5), 532-551. PDF
Robertson, V. S., von Hapsburg, D., & Hay, J. S. (2017). The Effect of Hearing Loss on Novel Word Learning in Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech. Ear Hear, 38(6), 701-713. PDF
Coppinger, B., Cannistraci, R. A., Karaman, F., Kyle, S. C., Hobson, E. A., Freeberg, T. M., & Hay, J. F. (2017). Studying audience effects in animals: what we can learn from human language research. Animal Behaviour, 124, 161-165. PDF
Graf Estes, K., & Hay, J. F. (2015). Flexibility in bilingual infants’ word learning. Child Development, 86(5), 1371-1385. PDF
Hay, J.F., Graf Estes, K., Wang, T. & Saffran, J.R. (2015). From flexibility to constraint: The contrastive use of lexical tone in early word learning. Child Development, 86(1), 10-22. PDF
Kovelman, I., Wagley, N., Hay, J.F., Ugolini, M., Bowyer, S.M., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., & Brennan, J. (2015). Multimodal imaging of temporal processing in typical and atypical language development. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1337, 7-15. PDF
Robertson, S., von Hapsburg, D., & Hay, J.F. (2013). The effect of hearing loss on the perception of infant- and adult-directed speech. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 56, 1108-1121. PDF
Hay, J.F. & Saffran, J.R. (2012). Rhythmic grouping biases constrain infant statistical learning. Infancy, 1-32. PDF
Hay, J.F. & Lany, J. (2012). Sensitivity to statistical information begets learning in early language development. In: P. Rebuschat & J.N. Williams (Eds). Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition. 91-118. PDF
Hay, J.F., Pelucchi, B., Graf Estes, K., & Saffran, J.R. (2011). Linking sounds to meanings: Infant statistical learning in a natural language. Cognitive Psychology, 63, 93-106. PDF
Pelucchi, B., Hay, J.F., & Saffran, J.R. (2009). Statistical learning in a natural language by 8-month-old infants. Child Development, 80 (3), 674-685. PDF
Pelucchi, B., Hay, J.F., & Saffran, J.R. (2009). Learning in reverse: 8-month-old infants track backward transitional probabilities. Cognition, 213, 244-247. PDF
Hay, J.F. & Diehl, R.L. (2007). Perception of rhythmic grouping: Testing the iambic/trochaic law. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(1), 113-122. PDF
Hay, J.F., Sato, M., Coren, A.E., Moran, C.L., & Diehl, R.L. (2006) Enhanced contrast for vowels in utterance focus: A cross-language study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 3022-3033. PDF