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Overview

Barbara Landau is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with significant contributions to subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Automotive Engineering, and Language and Linguistics.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication

Barbara Landau has published frequently in several venues, including:

  • Language Learning and Development
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Developmental Science
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Cognitive Science

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Landau are:

  • Language and developmental plasticity after perinatal stroke (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Seeing and Believing: The Relationship between Perception and Mental Verbs in Acquisition (2020), Language Learning and Development
  • Development of bilateral parietal activation for complex visual-spatial function: Evidence from a visual-spatial construction task (2020), Developmental Science
  • Where word and world meet: Language and vision share an abstract representation of symmetry (2022), Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • RETRACTED: Developmental changes in neural lateralization for visual-spatial function: Evidence from a line-bisection task (2021), Developmental Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Landau include:

  • Elissa L. Newport
  • Anna Seydell-Greenwald
  • Catherine E. Chambers
  • Laura Lakusta
  • Emma E. Davis

Best Publications

  • “What” and “where” in spatial language and spatial cognition

    Barbara Landau;Ray Jackendoff

  • The importance of shape in early lexical learning

    Barbara Landau;Linda B. Smith;Susan S. Jones

  • Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child

    Barbara Landau;Lila R. Gleitman

  • Object name Learning Provides On-the-Job Training for Attention

    Linda B. Smith;Susan S. Jones;Barbara Landau;Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe

  • When it is better to receive than to give: Syntactic and conceptual constraints on vocabulary growth

    Cynthia Fisher;D.Geoffrey Hall;Susan Rakowitz;Lila Gleitman

  • Naming in young children: a dumb attentional mechanism?

    Linda B. Smith;Susan S. Jones;Barbara Landau

  • Object Properties and Knowledge in Early Lexical Learning.

    Susan S. Jones;Linda B. Smith;Barbara Landau

  • Object Shape, Object Function, and Object Name

    Barbara Landau;Linda Smith;Susan Jones

  • Starting at the end: the importance of goals in spatial language.

    Laura Lakusta;Barbara Landau

  • Where learning begins: Initial representations for language learning.

    Lila R. Gleitman;Henry Gleitman;Barbara Landau;Eric Wanner

  • The necessity of the medial temporal lobe for statistical learning

    Anna C. Schapiro;Emma Gregory;Barbara Landau;Michael McCloskey

  • Function Morphemes in Young Children's Speech Perception and Production

    Lou Ann Gerken;Barbara Landau;Robert E. Remez

  • Spatial language and spatial representation: a cross-linguistic comparison

    Edward Munnich;Barbara Landau;Barbara Anne Dosher

  • Count nouns, adjectives, and perceptual properties in children's novel word interpretations.

    Linda B. Smith;Susan S. Jones;Barbara Landau

  • Spatial knowledge in a young blind child

    Barbara Landau;Elizabeth Spelke;Henry Gleitman

  • Spatial knowledge and geometric representation in a child blind from birth

    Barbara Landau;Henry Gleitman;Elizabeth Spelke

  • Syntactic context and the shape bias in children's and adults' lexical learning

    Barbara Landau;Linda B Smith;Susan Jones

  • Conceptual Foundations of Spatial Language: Evidence for a Goal Bias in Infants

    Laura Lakusta;Laura Wagner;Kirsten O'Hearn;Barbara Landau

  • Spatial breakdown in spatial construction: Evidence from eye fixations in children with Williams syndrome

    James E Hoffman;Barbara Landau;Barney Pagani

  • Intact Perception of Biological Motion in the Face of Profound Spatial Deficits: Williams Syndrome

    Heather Jordan;Jason E. Reiss;James E. Hoffman;Barbara Landau

  • Will the real grandmother please stand up? The psychological reality of dual meaning representations

    Barbara Landau

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. Hoffman
James E. Hoffman University of Delaware
Linda B. Smith
Linda B. Smith Indiana University
Michael McCloskey
Michael McCloskey Johns Hopkins University
Susan Jones
Susan Jones University of Nottingham
Howard E. Egeth
Howard E. Egeth Johns Hopkins University
Lila R. Gleitman
Lila R. Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
Elissa L. Newport
Elissa L. Newport Georgetown University
Melissa E. Libertus
Melissa E. Libertus University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University
Kaveri Subrahmanyam
Kaveri Subrahmanyam California State University Los Angeles

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