Cornell Infant Studies Laboratory



Marianella Casasola's Selected Publications

 
 
 
Publications

Casasola, M. (2005). When less is more: How infants learn to form an abstract categorical representation of support. Child Development, 76.

Casasola, M. (2005). Can language do the driving? The effect of linguistic input on infants' categorization of support spatial relations. Developmental Psychology, 41.

Casasola, M., Bhagwat, J., & Ferguson, K. (in press). Precursors to verb learning: Infants' understanding of motion events. In K. Hirsh-Pasek, & R. M. Golinkoff (Eds.), Action meets word: How children learn verbs. Oxford University Press.

Casasola, M., Wilbourn, M. P., & Yang, S. (in press). Can English-learning toddlers acquire and generalize a novel spatial word? First Language.

Casasola, M., & Wilbourn, M.P. (2004). Fourteen-month-old infants form novel word-spatial relation associations. Infancy, 6, 385-396.

Casasola, M., Cohen, L.B., & Chiarello, E. (2003). Six-month-old infants’ categorization of containment spatial relations. Child Development, 74, 679-693.

Casasola, M. (2002). Exploring the relationship between language-specific semantic spatial categories and infants’ nonlinguistic spatial categories. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirty-first Stanford Child Language Research Forum (p 1-10): CSLI Publications

Casasola, M., & Cohen, L. B. (2002). Infant categorization of containment, support, and tight-fit spatial relationships. Developmental Science, 5, 247-264.

Casasola, M. & Cohen, L. B. (2000). Infants' association of language labels with causal actions. Developmental Psychology, 36, 155-168.

Werker, J. F., Cohen, L. B., Lloyd, V. L, Casasola, M., & Stager, C. L. (1998). Acquisition of word-object associations by 14-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1289-1309.

Cohen, L. B., Amsel, G., Redford, M. A., & Casasola, M. (1998). The development of infant causal perception. In A. Slater (Ed.), Perceptual, visual, auditory, and speech development: Perception in infancy. England: University College London Press and Taylor and Francis.

 
Courses Taught
HD 120 - Topics in Human Development
HD 336 - Connecting Social, Cognitive, and Emotional Development
HD 382 - Research Method Course in Human Development
HD 635 - Seminar in Cognitive Development
HD 685 - Seminar in Research Methods Education