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Overview

Kim Plunkett is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional research interests include Education and Artificial Intelligence.

The core topics addressed in their research include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Categorization, perception, and language

Their recent papers cover a range of studies exploring early cognitive and linguistic development. These include:

  • Parallel distributed processing, 2023, Psyke & Logos
  • Tracking the associative boost in infancy, 2022, Infancy
  • Bottom-up processes dominate early word recognition in toddlers, 2022, Cognition
  • Double it up: Vocabulary size comparisons between UK bilingual and monolingual toddlers, 2023, Infancy
  • Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers, 2020, Journal of Memory and Language

They have frequently published in notable venues such as Infancy, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Cognition, Psyke & Logos, and the Journal of Memory and Language.

Collaboration is a significant part of their scholarly activity, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Nadja Althaus
  • Irina Lepădatu
  • Janette Chow
  • Armando Quetzalcóatl Angulo-Chavira
  • Jelena Sučević

Best Publications

  • Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development

    M Harris;A Karmiloff-Smith;D Parisi;K Plunkett

  • U-shaped learning and frequency effects in a multi-layered perceptron: implications for child language acquisition.

    Kim Plunkett;Virginia Marchman

  • From rote learning to system building: acquiring verb morphology in children and connectionist nets

    Kim Plunkett;Virginia Marchman

  • Introduction to Connectionist Modelling of Cognitive Processes

    Peter McLeod;Kim Plunkett;Edmund T. Rolls

  • Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory.

    Antonia Hamilton;Kim Plunkett;Graham Schafer

  • Rapid Word Learning by Fifteen‐Month‐Olds under Tightly Controlled Conditions

    Graham Schafer;Kim Plunkett

  • A connectionist model of English past tense and plural morphology

    Kim Plunkett;Patrick Juola

  • Do infant vocabulary skills predict school-age language and literacy outcomes?

    Fiona J. Duff;Gurpreet Reen;Kim Plunkett;Kate Nation

  • Labels can override perceptual categories in early infancy.

    Kim Plunkett;Jon Fan Hu;Leslie B. Cohen

  • Symbol Grounding or the Emergence of Symbols? Vocabulary Growth in Children and a Connectionist Net

    Kim Plunkett;Chris Sinha;Martin F. Møller;Ole Strandsby

  • Phonological specificity in early words

    Todd M Bailey;Kim Plunkett

  • Connectionism and developmental theory

    Kim Plunkett;Chris Sinha

  • Phonological specificity of vowels and consonants in early lexical representations

    Nivedita Mani;Kim Plunkett

  • A computational and neuropsychological account of object‐oriented behaviours in infancy

    Denis Mareschal;Kim Plunkett;Paul Harris

  • In the Infant’s Mind’s Ear Evidence for Implicit Naming in 18-Month-Olds

    Nivedita Mani;Kim Plunkett

  • The shape of words in the brain

    Vanja Kovic;Kim Plunkett;Gert Westermann

  • Innateness and Emergentism

    Elizabeth Bates;Jeffrey L. Elman;Mark H. Johnson;Annette Karmiloff‐Smith

  • A Connectionist Model of the Arabic Plural System

    Kim Plunkett;Ramin Charles Nakisa

  • Phonological specificity in children at 1;2.

    Kate D. Ballem;Kim Plunkett

  • Lexical–semantic priming effects during infancy

    Natalia Arias-Trejo;Kim Plunkett

  • Exercises in Rethinking Innateness: A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations

    Kim Plunkett;Jeffrey L. Elman

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Virginia A. Marchman
Virginia A. Marchman Stanford University
Jeffrey L. Elman
Jeffrey L. Elman University of California, San Diego
Denis Mareschal
Denis Mareschal Birkbeck, University of London
Kate Nation
Kate Nation University of Oxford
Dorthe Berntsen
Dorthe Berntsen Aarhus University
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton University College London
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University

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