In Press
*Hurley, K.B., & Oakes, L.M. (in press). Experience and distribution of attention: Pet exposure and infants’ scanning of animal images. Journal of Cognition and Development.
*Kwon, M., Luck, S. J., & Oakes, L. M. (in press). Visual short-term memory for complex objects in 6- and 8-month-old infants, Child Development. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12161
2014
*Kovack-Lesh, K.A., McMurray, B., & Oakes, L.M. (2014). Four-month-old infants’ visual
investigation of cats and dogs: Relations with pet experience and attentional
strategy, Developmental Psychology, 50, 402-413. doi: 10.1037/a0033195 PMID: 2373128
Oakes, L.M. & Luck, S.J., (in press). Short-term memory in infancy. In P.J. Bauer & R. Fivush, Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on the Development of Children’s Memory. (pp. 75-102). New York: Oxford University Press.
2013
*Baumgartner, H.A., & Oakes, L.M. (2013). Investigating the relation between infants’ manual activity with objects and their perception of dynamic events, Infancy, 18, 983-1006. 10.1111/infa.12009
Oakes, L.M., *Baumgartner, H.A., *Barrett, F.S., *Messenger, I.M., & Luck, S.J. (2013). Developmental changes in visual short-term memory in infancy: Evidence from eye-tracking. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 697. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00697
Oakes, L. M. & Ellis, A. E. (2013). An eye-tracking investigation of developmental changes in infants’ exploration of upright and inverted human faces, Infancy, 18, 134-148. DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00107.x PMID:23525142
Oakes, L. M., & *Kovack-Lesh, K. A. (2013). Infants’ visual recognition memory for a series of categorically related items, Journal of Cognition and Development, 14, 63-86. PMID:23495291
2012
*Kovack-Lesh, K.A., Oakes, L.M., & McMurray, B. (2012). Contributions of attentional style and previous experience to 4-month-old infants’ categorization, Infancy, 3, 324-338. DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00073.x PMID: 22523478
Oakes, L. M. (2012). Advances in eye tracking in infancy research, Infancy, 17, 1-8, DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00101.x
2011
*Baumgartner, H. A., & Oakes, L. M. (2011). Infants’ developing sensitivity to object function: Attention to features and feature correlations, Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 275-298.
Oakes, L. M., *Hurley, K. B., *Ross-Sheehy, S., & Luck, S. J. (2011). Developmental changes in infants’ visual short-term memory for location, Cognition, 11, 293-305. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.007 PMID: 2116883
*Perone, S., Madole, K. L., & Oakes, L. M. (2011). Learning how actions function: The role of outcomes in infants’ representation of event. Infant Behavior and Development, 34, 351-362. PMID: 21429585
*Ross-Sheehy, S., Oakes, L. M., & Luck, S. M. (2011). Exogenous attention influences visual short-term memory in infants. Developmental Science, 14, 490-501. PMID: 21477189
2010
*Hurley, K.B., *Kovack-Lesh, K. A., & Oakes, L. M. (2010). The influence of pets on infants’ processing of cat and dog images. Infant Behavior and Development, 33, 619-628. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.07.015 PMID: 2072822
Oakes, L.M. (2010). Infancy guidelines for publishing eyetracking data. Infancy, 15, 1-5.
Oakes, L. M. (2010). Using habituation of looking time to assess mental processes in infancy. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11, 255-268. PMID: 20730029
2009
*Horst, J. S., Ellis, A. E., Samuelson, L. K., *Trejo, E., *Worzalla, S. L., *Peltan, J. R., & Oakes, L. M. (2009). Toddlers can adaptively change how they categorize: Same objects, same session, two different categorical distinctions. Developmental Science, 12, 96-105. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00737.x PMID:19120417
Oakes, L. M. (2009). The “Humpty Dumpty” problem in the study of early cognitive development: Putting the infant back together again. Current Perspectives in Psychological Science, 4, 352-358. PMID: 20161394
Oakes, L. M., *Kovack-Lesh, K. A., & *Horst, J. S. (2009). Two are better than one: Comparison influences infants’ visual recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 124-131. PMID:18951555
Oakes, L.M., *Messenger, I.M., *Ross-Sheehy, S., & Luck, S.J. (2009). New evidence for rapid development of color-location binding in infants’ visual short-term memory. Visual Cognition, 17, 67-72. DOI: 10.1080/13506280802151480. PMID: 20046220
Oakes, L.M., Newcombe, N.S., & Plummert, J.M. (2009). Are dynamic systems and connectionist approaches as an alternative to “Good Old Fashioned Cognitive development?” In J.P. Spencer, M.S.C. Thomas, & J.L. McClelland (Eds.). Toward a unified theory of development: Connectionism and dynamic systems theory re-considered. New York: Oxford University Press.
2008
*Kannass, K. N., & Oakes, L. M. (2008). The development of attention and its relations to language in infancy and toddlerhood. Journal of Cognition and Development, 9, 222-246.
*Kovack-Lesh, K. A., *Horst, J. H., & Oakes, L. M. (2008). The cat is out of the bag: The joint influence of previous experience and looking behavior on infant categorization. Infancy, 13, 285-307.
Oakes, L.M. (2008). Associationist learning as a basis of knowledge in infancy. Monographs of the infant and early childhood development, 73, 111-119.
Oakes, L.M. (2008). Concepts and categorization skills. M. Haith & J. Benson (Eds.) Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development, vol 1 (pp. 249-259). San Diego, Academic Press.
Oakes, L.M., Horst, J.S., Kovack-Lesh, K.A., Perone, S. (2008). How infants learn categories. In A. Woodward & A. Needham (Eds.) Learning and the infant mind (pp. 144-171). New York: Oxford University Press.
Oakes, L.M., & Madole, K.L. (2008). Function revisited: How infants construe functional features in their representation of objects. In R. Kail (Ed.). Advances in child development and behavior, vol 36 (pp. 135-185). San Diego: Elsevier.
*Perone, S., Madole, K. L., *Ross-Sheehy, S., *Carey, M., & Oakes, L. M. (2008). The relation between infants’ activity with objects and attention to object appearance. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1242-1248. PMID: 18793058
2007
*Kovack-Lesh, K. A., & Oakes, L. M. (2007). Hold your horses: How exposure to different items influences infant categorization. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 98, 69-93. PMID: 17604048
Oakes, L. M., & *Kovack-Lesh, K. A. (2007). Memory processes and categorization in infancy. Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (special issue on Cognitive Development and Categorization), 11, 661-677.
Oakes, L.M., Ross-Sheehy, S., & Luck, S.J. (2007). The Development of Visual Short-Term Memory in Infancy. In L.M. Oakes & P.J. Bauer (Eds.) Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering (pp. 75-102). New York: Oxford University Press.
2006
Ellis, A. E., & Oakes, L. M. (2006). Infants’ flexibly use different dimensions to categorize objects. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1000-1011. PMID: 17087536
*Kannass, K. N., Oakes, L. M., & *Shaddy, D. J. (2006). A longitudinal investigation of the development of attention and distractibility. Journal of Cognition and Development. 7, 381-409.
Oakes, L. M., *Ross-Sheehy, S., & Luck, S. J. (2006). Rapid development of feature binding in visual short-term memory. Psychological Science, 17, 781-787. PMID: 16984295
*Perone, S. & Oakes, L.M. (2006). It clicks when it is rolled and squeaks when it is squeezed: What 10-month-old infants learn about function. Child Development, 77, 1608-1622. PMID: 17107449
2005
*Horst, J. S., Oakes, L. M., & Madole, K. L. (2005). What does is look like and what can it do? Category structure influences how infants categorize. Child Development, 76, 614-631. PMID: 15892782
Oakes, L. M., & *Ribar, R. J. (2005). A comparison of infants’ categorization in paired and successive presentation familiarization tasks. Infancy, 7, 85-98.
2004
*Ribar, R. J., Oakes, L. M., & Spalding, T. L. (2004). Infants can rapidly form new categorical representations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 536-541. PMID:15376807
Oakes, L. M., *Ross-Sheehy, S., & *Kannass, K. N. (2004). Attentional engagement in infancy: The interactive influence of attentional inertia and attentional state. Infancy, 5, 239-252.
2003
Oakes, L.M. (2003). Development of causal perception. In L. Nadel, D. Chalmer, P. Culicover, R.L. Goldstone, & R. French (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, vol 1 (pp. 456-460). London: Macmillian Reference Ltd.
Oakes, L. M. & Madole, K. L. (2003). Principles of developmental change in infants’ category formation. In D.H. Rakison. & L.M. Oakes (Eds.) Early concept and category development: Making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion (pp. 132-158). New York: Oxford University Press.
Oakes, L.M., & Rakinson, D.H. (2003). Issues in the study of categories and cocnepts in early development: An introduction. In D.H. Rakison & L.M. Oakes (Eds.) Early concept and category development: Making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion (pp. 3-23). New York: Oxford University Press.
*Ross-Sheehy, S., Oakes, L. M., & Luck, S. J. (2003). The development of visual short-term memory capacity in infants. Child Development, 74, 1807-1822. PMID: 14669897
2002
Oakes, L. M., *Kannass, K. N., & *Shaddy, D. J., (2002). Developmental changes in endogenous control of attention: The role of target familiarity on infants’ distraction latency. Child Development, 73, 1644-1655. PMID:12487484
Oakes, L. M., & Plumert, J. P. (2002). Variability in thirteen-month-old infants’ touching patterns in the sequential-touching task. Infant Behavior and Development, 25, 529-549. (special issue on variability)
2000
Oakes, L. M., & Madole, K. L., (2000). The future of infant categorization research: A process-oriented approach. Child Development, 71, 119-126.
Oakes, L. M., *Tellinghuisen, D. J., & *Tjbkes, T. L., (2000) Competition for infants’ attention: The interactive influence of attentional state and stimulus characteristics. Infancy, 1, 347-361.
1999
*Kannass, K. N., Oakes, L. M., & *Wiese, D. (1999). The development of infants’ perception of object movement along inclines. Cognitive Development, 14, 215-240.
Madole, K. L., & Oakes, L. M. (1999). Making sense of infant categorization: Stable processes and changing representations. Developmental Review, 19, 263-296.
Oakes, L. M., & *Kannass, K. N. (1999). That’s the way the ball bounces: Infants’ and adults’ perception of spatial and temporal contiguity in collisions involving bouncing balls. Developmental Science, 2, 86-101.
Oakes, L. M., & Madole, K. L. (1999). From seeing to thinking: A response to Mandler. Developmental Review, 19, 307-318.
*Tellinghuisen, D. J., Oakes, L. M., & *Tjebkes, T. L. (1999). The Influence of attentional state and stimulus characteristics on infant distractibility. Cognitive Development, 14, 199-213.
1997
Oakes, L. M., *Coppage, D. J., & *Dingel, A. (1997). By land and by sea: The role of perceptual similarity in infants’ categorization of animals. Developmental Psychology, 33, 396-407.
Oakes, L. M., & Spalding, T. S., (1997). The role of exemplar distribution in infants’ differentiation of categories. Infant Behavior and Development, 20, 457-475.
*Tellinghuisen, D. J., & Oakes, L. M. (1997). Distractibility in infancy: The role of distractor characteristics and attentional engagement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 64, 232-254.
1996
Oakes, L. M., Plumert, J. M., *Lansink, J. M. & *Merryman, J. D. (1996). Evidence for task-dependent categorization in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 425-440.
1995
Oakes, L.M., & Cohen, L.B. (1995). Infant causal perception. In C. Rovee-Collier & L.P. Lipsitt (Eds.) Advances in Infancy Research, vol 9 (pp. 1-54). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
1994
Oakes, L. M. (1994). The development of infants’ use of continuity cues in their perception of causality. Developmental Psychology, 30, 869-879.
Oakes, L. M., & *Tellinghuisen, D. J. (1994). Examining in infancy: Does it reflect active processing? Developmental Psychology, 30, 748-756.
1993
Cohen, L. B., & Oakes, L. M. (1993). How infants perceive a simple causal event. Developmental Psychology, 29, 421-433.
Madole, K. M., Oakes, L. M., & Cohen, L. B. (1993) Developmental changes in infants’ attention to function and form-function correlations. Cognitive Development, 8, 198-209.
1992
Callanan, M. A., & Oakes, L. M. (1992). Preschoolers’ questions and parents’ explanations: Causal thinking in everyday activity. Cognitive Development, 7, 213-234.
Cohen, L. B., Diehl, R. L., Oakes, L. M., & Loehlin, J. C. (1992). Infant discrimination of /aba/ versus /apa/: Building a quantitative model of infant categorical perception. Developmental Psychology, 28, 261-272.
1991
Oakes, L. M., Madole, K. L., & Cohen, L. B. (1991). Infant habituation and categorization of real objects. Cognitive Development, 6, 377-392.
1990
Oakes, L. M., & Cohen, L. B. (1990). Infant perception of a causal event. Cognitive Development, 5, 193-207.
1989
Bates, E., Thal, D., Whitesell, K., Fenson, L., & Oakes, L. (1989). Integrating language and gesture in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 25, 1004-1019.
1986
Bates, E., O’Connell, B., Vaid, J., Sledge, P., & Oakes, L. (1986). Language and handedness development in infancy. Developmental Neuropsychology, 2, 1-15.