Martin Zettersten

Language and cognitive development, active information-seeking and curiosity, statistical learning, word learning, big data in developmental research, infant looking time and eye-tracking methods.

Kosie, J. E., Zettersten, M., & the ManyBabies5 team (2023). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ck3vd

Koranda, M., Zettersten, M., & MacDonald, M. (2022). Good-enough production: Selecting easier words instead of more accurate ones. Psychological Science, 33(9), 1440-1451. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221089603

Zettersten, M., Yurovsky, D., Xu, T. L., Uner, S., Tsui, A.S.T., Schneider, R. M., Saleh, A. N., Meylan, S. C., Marchman, V., Mankewitz, J., MacDonald, K., Long, B., Lewis, M., Kachergis, G., Handa, K., deMayo, B., Carstensen, A., Braginsky, M., Boyce, V., Bhatt, N., Bergey, C. A., & Frank, M.C. (2022). Peekbank: An open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data of children’s word recognition. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 2485-2500. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01906-4

Zettersten, M., & Saffran, J. (2021). Sampling to learn words: Adults and children sample words that reduce referential ambiguity. Developmental Science, 24(3), e13064. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13064

Lupyan, G., & Zettersten, M. (2021). Does vocabulary help structure the mind? In Sera, M., & Koenig, M. (Eds.). Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology: Human Communication: Origins, Mechanisms, and Functions, Volume 40 (pp. 160-199). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b74u9 

Zettersten, M., & Lupyan, G. (2020). Finding categories through words: More nameable features improve category learning. Cognition, 196, 104135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104135

Lewis, M., Zettersten, M., & Lupyan, G. (2019). Distributional semantics as a source of visual knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(39), 19237-19238. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910148116

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