Books
Oakes, L.M., & Rakison, D.H. (in press). Developmental Cascades. Oxford University Press.
Edited Books
Oakes, L.M., Cashon, C.H., Casasola, M., & Rakison, D. H. (Eds.) (2011). Infant perception and cognition: Recent advances, emerging theories, and future directions. New York: Oxford University Press. Contributors: Richard N. Aslin, Marianella Casasola, Cara H. Cashon, Leslie B. Cohen, John Colombo, Judy DeLoache, Scott P. Johnson, Rachel Keen, Kelly L. Madole, Lisa M. Oakes, Kim Plunkett, David H. Rakison, John Richards, Thomas Schultz , Alan Slater, Mark S. Strauss, Janet Werker, Barbara A. Younger.
Gershkoff-Stowe, L., & D. H. Rakison, (Eds.), (2005). Building object categories in developmental time. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Contributors: Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Lawrence Barsalou, Melissa Bowerman, Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, Dedre Gentner, Frank Keil, David Klahr, Scott Johnson, Charles Nelson, Brian MacWhinney, Jay McClelland, Paul Quinn, David H. Rakison, Philippe Schyns, Robert Siegler, Linda Smith, Fei Xu.
Rakison, D.H., & Oakes, L.M. (Eds.), (2003). Early category and concept development: Making sense of the blooming buzzing confusion. New York: Oxford University Press. Contributors: Leslie B. Cohen, Eliana Colunga, Susan Gelman, Robert Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Peter Jusczyk, Vikram Jaswal, Mark Johansen, Frank Keil, Melissa Koenig, Ellen Markman, Kelly Madole, Denis Mareschal, Carolyn Mervis, Thierry Nazzi, Lisa Oakes, Paul Quinn, David H. Rakison, Linda B. Smith, Sandra Waxman, Hanako Yoshida, Barbara Younger, Monographs
Monographs
Rakison, D. H., & Lupyan, G. (2008). Developing object concepts in infancy: An associative learning perspective. Monographs of SRCD, 73(1): 1-110.
Publications
2016 ~ 2018
Rakison, D. H., & Benton, D. T. (in press). Second-order correlation learning of dynamic stimuli: evidence from infants and computational modeling. Infancy.
Rakison, D. H. (2018). Do 5-month-old infants possess an evolved detection mechanism for snakes, sharks, and rodents? Journal of Cognition and Development, 19, 456-476. PDF
Benton, D. T.,& Rakison, D.H. (2018). Computational modeling and what it can tell you about behavior. Sage research methods cases, 1, 2-18.PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Benton, D. T. (2018)Developmental Timetables. The SAGE encyclopedia of lifespan human development, 2, 604-607.
Benton. D.T., & Rakison, D.H. (2016) Causal Reasoning in Infants and Adults: Revisiting backwards-blocking. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Society, 38, pp. 830-835. PDF
Powers, R. J., Rakison, D. H., & Plaut, D. C. (2016). Learning about actions in infancy without a rationality principle. Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 21-22. PDF
Yermolayeva, Y. & Rakison, D. H (2016). Seeing the unseen: Second-order correlation learning in 7- to 11-month-olds. Cognition, 153, 87-100. PDF
Rakison, D. H., Smith, G. T., & Ali, A. (2016). Who is the dynamic duo? How infants learn about the identity of objects in a causal chain. Developmental Psychology, 52, 355-363. PDF
2011 ~ 2015
Lawson, C., Fisher, A. & Rakison, D. H. (2015). The ins and outs of early categorization: A microgenetic study of 2-year-olds’ categorization of living kinds. Journal of Cognition and Development, 16 (2), 236-251.
Yermolayeva, Y., & Rakison, D. H. (2014). Connectionist modeling of developmental changes in infancy: Approaches, challenges, and contributions. Psychological Bulletin, 140 (1), 224. PDF
Lawson, C., & Rakison, D. H. (2013). Expectations about single event probabilities in the first year of life. Infancy, 18 (6), 961-982. PDF
LoBue, V. & Rakison. D. H. (2013). What we fear most: A developmental advantage for threat-relevant stimuli. Developmental Review. 33, 285–303. PDF
Rakison, D. H. & Lawson, C. (2013). Categorization. In P. Zelazo (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology. Oxford University Press.
Rakison, D. H. & Krogh, L. (2012). Does causal action facilitate causal perception in infants younger than 6 months of age? Developmental Science, 15, 43-54.
Carter, E. J., Rakison, D. H., Hodgins, J. K. (2011). Exploring the neural correlates of goal-directed action and intention understanding. NeuroImage, 54, 1634–1642. PDF
Cicchino, J. B., Aslin, R. N., & Rakison, D. H. (2011). Correspondences between what infants see and know about causal and self-propelled motion. Cognition, 118, 171–192. PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Yermolayeva, Y. (2011). How to identify a domain-general learning mechanism when you see one. Journal of Cognition and Development. (Target article with commentaries), 12 (2), 134-153. PDF
Wu, R., Mareschal, D., & Rakison, D. H. (2011). Attention to multiple cues during spontaneous object labeling. Infancy, 16, 545–55. PDF
2006 ~ 2010
LoBue, V, Rakison. D. H., & DeLoache, J. S. (2010).Threat perception across the life span: Evidence for multiple converging pathways. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 375-379. PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Yermolayeva, Y. (2010). Infant categorization. Wiley Interdisciplinary reviews: Cognitive Science. 6, 894–905. PDF
Rakison, D. H. (2010). Perceptual categorisation and concepts. In G. Bremner, & T. D. Wachs (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development: 2nd Edition, pp 243-270. Blackwell Publishing, Hove, UK.
Yermolayeva, Y., & Rakison, D. H. (2010). Developing without concepts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 229-230. PDF
Madole, K.M., Oakes, L.M., & Rakison, D. H. (2010). Mechanisms of categorization in infancy: The role of features and function. In L.M Oakes, C.H. Cashon, M. Casasola, & D. H. Rakison (Eds.), Infant perception and cognition: Recent advances, emerging theories, and future directions. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rakison, D. H., & Cicchino, J. B. (2009). Induction in infancy. In S. Johnson (Ed.) A neo-constructivist approach to early development. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rakison, D. H. (2009). Does women’s greater fear of snakes and spiders originate in infancy? Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 438-444. PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Derringer, J. L. (2008). Do infants possess an evolved spider-detection mechanism? Cognition, 107, 381-393. PDF
Rakison, D.H. & Lupyan, G. (2008). Developing object concepts in infancy: An associative learning perspective. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 73(1): 1-110. PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Woodward, A. L. (2008). New perspectives on the effects of action on perceptual and cognitive development. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1209-1213. PDF
Cicchino, J. B., & Rakison, D. H. (2008). Producing and processing self-propelled motion in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1232-1241.
Rakison, D. H., & Lupyan, G. (2008). The development of modeling or the modeling of development? Brain and Behavioral Sciences. 31, 726-726. PDF
Rakison, D. H. (2007). Fast Tracking: Infants learn rapidly about object trajectories. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 140-142. PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Simard, C. (2007). Evolution, development, and the magic of Harry Potter. In N. McHolland (Ed.), The Psychology of Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived. Benbella Books.
Rakison, D. H. (2007). Is consciousness in its infancy in infancy? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14, 66-89.
Rakison, D. H., Cicchino, J. B, & Hahn, E. R. (2007). Infants’ knowledge of the identity of rational goal-directed entities. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25, 461–470.
Lupyan, G., Rakison, D. H., & McClelland, J. L. (2007). Language is not just for talking: redundant labels facilitate learning of novel categories. Psychological Science, 18, 1077–1083. PDF
Rakison, D. H. (2007). Inductive categorization: A new methodology to examine the contents of concepts in infancy. Cognition, Brain, and Behavior, 4, 773-790. PDF
Rakison, D. H. (2006). Make the first move: How infants learn the identity of self-propelled objects. Developmental Psychology, 42, 900-912. PDF
Lupyan, G. & Rakison, D.H. (2006). What Moves in a Mysterious Way? A domain-general account of learning about animacy and causality. In Proceedings of The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 525-530) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF
Johnson, C., & Rakison, D. H. (2006). Early categorization of animate/inanimate concepts in young children with autism. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 18, 73-89. PDF
2001 ~ 2005
Rakison, D.H. (2005). The perceptual to conceptual shift in infancy and early childhood: A surface or deep distinction? In L. Gershkoff-Stowe, & D. H. Rakison, (Eds.), (forthcoming). Building object categories in developmental time. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Rakison, D.H. (2005). Developing knowledge of motion properties in infancy. Cognition, 96, 183-214. PDF
Rakison, D. H. (2005). A secret agent? How infants learn about the identity of objects in a causal scene. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 91, 271-296. PDF
Rogers, T. T., Rakison, D. H., & McClelland, J.M. (2004). U-shaped curves in development: A PDP approach. Journal of Cognition and Development, 5, 137-145. PDF
Rakison, D. H. (2004). Infants’ sensitivity to correlations among static and dynamic features in a category context. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 89, 1-30. PDF
Rakison, D. H., & Cicchino, J. B. (2004). Is an infant a people person? Cognition, 94, 105-107.
Rakison, D.H.. & Hahn, E. (2004). The mechanisms of early categorization and induction: Smart or Dumb Infants? In R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior. Vol. 32. New York: Academic Press.
Rakison, D.H. (2004). Infant Perception and Cognition: An Evolutionary Perspective on Early Learning. In D. Bjorkland, & B. Ellis (Eds.), Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development. New York: Wiley.
Rakison, D.H. (2003). Parts, categorization, and the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy. In D. Rakison, & L.M. Oakes, (Eds.), Early concept and category development: Making sense of the blooming buzzing confusion. New York: Oxford University Press.
Oakes, L.M., & Rakison, D.H. (2003). Issues in infant categorization: An introduction. In D. Rakison, & L. Oakes, (Eds.), Early concept and category development: Making sense of the blooming buzzing confusion. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rakison, D.H. (2003). Free association? Why the development of ontological categories require more. Developmental Science, 6, 20-22.
Rakison, D.H., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2002). You go this way and I’ll go that way: Developmental changes in infants’ detection of correlations among static and dynamic features in motion events. Child Development, 73, 682-699. PDF
Rakison, D.H., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2001). The developmental origin of the animate-inanimate distinction. Psychological Bulletin, 2, 209-228. PDF
~ 2000
Rakison, D.H. (2000). When a Rose is just a Rose: The illusion of taxonomies in infant categorization. Infancy, 1, 77-90. PDF
Quinn, P.C., Johnson, M., Mareschal, D., Rakison, D.H., & Younger, B. (2000). Response to Mandler and Smith: A dual process framework for understanding early categorization? Infancy, 1, 111-122. PDF
Rakison, D.H., & Cohen, L. B., (1999). Infants’ use of functional parts in basic-like categorization. Developmental Science, 2, 423-432.
Poulin-Dubois, D.H., & Rakison, D.H. (1999). A developmental theory of implicit and explicit knowledge? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (5), 782. PDF
Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1998a). Infants’ use of parts in early categorization. Developmental Psychology, 34, 49-62. PDF
Rakison, D.H., & Butterworth, G. (1998b). Infant attention to object structure in early categorization. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1310–1325. PDF