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Publications
 

Journal Publications


Son, J.Y., Smith, L.B., Goldstone, R.L., & Leslie, M. (2012). The importance of being interpreted: Grounded words and children's relational reasoning. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 3, 45. [download pdf]


Son, J.Y., Smith, L.B., & Goldstone, R.L. (2011). Connecting instances to promote children's relational reasoning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 260-277. [download pdf]


Kuwabara, M., Son, J.Y., & Smith, L.B. (2011). Attention to context: U.S. and Japanese children's emotional judgments. Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 502-517. [download pdf]


Goldstone, R. L., Son, J. Y, & Byrge, L. (2011).  Early perceptual learning.  Infancy, 16, 45-51. [download pdf]


Son, J.Y., Doumas, L.A.A., & Goldstone, R.L. (2010). When do words promote analogical transfer? Journal of Problem Solving, 3, 52-92. [download pdf]


Goldstone, R.L., Landy, D.H., & Son, J.Y. (2010). The education of perception. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1-20. [download pdf]


Kellman, P.J., Massey, C.M., & Son, J.Y. (2010). Perceptual learning modules in mathematics: Enhancing students' pattern recognition, structure extraction, and fluency. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1-21. [download pdf]

In 2011, this work received coverage in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/health/07learn.html).


Son, J.Y., & Goldstone, R.L. (2009). Contextualization in perspective. Cognition and Instruction, 27, 1-39. [download pdf]


Son, J.Y., & Goldstone, R.L. (2009). Fostering general transfer with specific simulations. Pragmatics & Cognition, 17, 1-42. [download pdf]


Son, J.Y., Smith, L.B., & Goldstone, R.L. (2008). Simplicity and generalization: Short-cutting abstraction in children’s object categorizations. Cognition, 108, 626-638. [download pdf]


Goldstone, R.L., & Son, J.Y. (2005). The transfer of scientific principles using concrete and idealized simulations. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14, 69-114. [download pdf]


Book Chapters


Goldstone, R. L., Day, S., & Son, J. Y. (2010). Comparison. In B. Glatzeder, V. Goel, & A. von Muller (Eds.) On thinking: Volume II, towards a theory of thinking. The Parmenides Foundation. [download pdf]


Goldstone, R. L., Landy, D., & Son, J. Y. (2008). A well grounded education: The role of perception in science and mathematics. In M. de Vega, A. Glenberg, & A. Graesser (Eds.), Symbols, embodiment, and meaning. Oxford Press (pp. 327-355). [download pdf]


Goldstone, R.L., & Son, J.Y. (2005). Similarity. In K.J. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 13-36). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [download pdf]


BookS


Son, J. Y. (in press). Abstracting the Concrete: How Symbols, Experiences, and Language Act as Forces of Contextualization. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing. [order from https://www.morebooks.de]


Conference Proceedings


Son, J.Y., Smith, L.B., & Goldstone, R.L. (2007). Words that evoke schemas: The need for optimal vagueness. In A. Schwering, U. Krumnack, K.-U. Kuhnberger, & H. Gust (Eds.), Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities (vol. 5). Osnabruck, Germany: Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabruck. [download pdf]


Son, J.Y., Smith, L.B., & Goldstone, R.L. (2007). Re-representation using labels: Comparison or replacement? Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN: Cognitive Science Society. [download pdf]


Son, J.Y., Smith, L.B., & Goldstone, R.L. (2006). Generalizing from simple instances: An uncomplicated lesson from kids learning object categories. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [download pdf]


Son, J.Y., & Smith, L.B. (2006). Post-it power: Using non-linguistic labels to help children notice relations. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Development and Learning. Bloomington, IN. [download pdf]


Son, J.Y., & Goldstone, R.L. (2005). Relational words as handles: They come along with baggage. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.[download pdf]