publications

2025

  1. Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
    Kelsey Lucca, Francis Yuen, Yiyi Wang, Nicolás Alessandroni, Olivia Allison, and 89 more authors
    Developmental Science, 2025
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2024

  1. Cognitive Diversity in Context: US-China Differences in Children’s Reasoning, Visual Attention, and Social Cognition
    Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Alvin W. M. Tan, Di Liu, Yichun Liu, and 6 more authors
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
    paper
  2. The BabyView Dataset: High-resolution Egocentric Videos of Infants’ and Young Children’s Everyday Experiences
    Bria Long, Violet Xiang, Stefan Stojanov, Robert Z. Sparks, Zi Yin, and 7 more authors
    2024
    preprint
  3. The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science
    Lukas Röseler, Leonard Kaiser, Christopher Doetsch, Noah Klett, Christian Seida, and 92 more authors
    Journal of Open Psychology Data, 2024
    website paper preprint
  4. Characterizing Contextual Variation in Children’s Preschool Language Environment Using Naturalistic Egocentric Videos
    Robert Z. Sparks, Bria Long, Grace E. Keene, Malia J. Perez, Alvin W. M. Tan, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
    paper
  5. DevBench: A Multimodal Developmental Benchmark for Language Learning
    Alvin W. M. Tan, Sunny Yu, Bria Long, Wanjing Anya Ma, Tonya Murray, and 3 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
    preprint repo
  6. Predicting Ages of Acquisition for Children’s Early Vocabulary across 27 Languages and Dialects
    Alvin W. M. Tan, Georgia Loukatou, Mika Braginsky, Jess Mankewitz, and Michael C. Frank
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
    paper repo
  7. The Role of Translation Equivalents in Bilingual Word Learning
    Alvin W. M. Tan, Virginia A. Marchman, and Michael C. Frank
    Developmental Science, 2024
    paper repo

2023

  1. Effects of Target Age and Genre on Morphological Complexity in Children’s Reading Material
    Nicola Dawson, Yaling Hsiao, Alvin W. M. Tan, Nilanjana Banerji, and Kate Nation
    Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
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  2. Plurality Is a Good Start, but It’s Time for Unification: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions”
    George Kachergis, Alvin W. M. Tan, and Michael C. Frank
    Language Learning, 2023
    paper

2021

  1. Features of Lexical Richness in Children’s Books: Comparisons with Child-Directed Speech
    Nicola Dawson, Yaling Hsiao, Alvin W. M. Tan, Nilanjana Banerji, and Kate Nation
    Language Development Research, 2021
    paper repo