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Larissa K. Samuelson publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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This scientist: 88 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Larissa K. Samuelson D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Larissa K. Samuelson is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology with a focus on developmental and educational psychology alongside cognitive neuroscience. The work incorporates aspects of artificial intelligence, statistics, probability, and pediatrics related to early child health.

Samuelson's recent publications demonstrate a focus on language development, word learning, and vocabulary acquisition in children. Notable papers include Word-Object Learning via Visual Exploration in Space (WOLVES): A neural process model of cross-situational word learning (2021, Psychological Review), Toward a Precision Science of Word Learning: Understanding Individual Vocabulary Pathways (2021, Child Development Perspectives), and Late bloomer or language disorder? Differences in toddler vocabulary composition associated with long-term language outcomes (2022, Developmental Science). Other papers addressing related themes include Learning words in space and time: Contrasting models of the suspicious coincidence effect (2021, Cognition) and Vocabulary and automatic attention: The relation between novel words and gaze dynamics in noun generalization (2023, Developmental Science).

The scientist's main topics of work, reflected in their publications, cover:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Topic Modeling
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Samuelson include:

  • John P. Spencer
  • Ajaz Ahmad Bhat
  • Lynn K. Perry
  • Sarah C. Kucker
  • Jessica S. Horst

Samuelson publishes regularly in several academic venues, with a concentration in developmental psychology and cognitive science journals. Frequently appearing publication venues include:

  • Developmental Science
  • Psychological Review
  • Child Development Perspectives
  • Developmental Review
  • Cognition

Best Publications

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

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

  • Fast Mapping but Poor Retention by 24-Month-Old Infants

    Jessica S. Horst;Larissa K. Samuelson

  • Word learning emerges from the interaction of online referent selection and slow associative learning.

    Bob McMurray;Jessica S. Horst;Larissa K. Samuelson

  • Early noun vocabularies: do ontology, category structure and syntax correspond?

    Larissa K. Samuelson;Linda B. Smith

  • Short arms and talking eggs: Why we should no longer abide the nativist-empiricist debate

    John P. Spencer;Mark S. Blumberg;Bob McMurray;Scott R. Robinson

  • Memory and Attention Make Smart Word Learning: An Alternative Account of Akhtar, Carpenter, and Tomasello

    Larissa K. Samuelson;Linda B. Smith

  • Statistical regularities in vocabulary guide language acquisition in connectionist models and 15-20-month-olds

    Larissa K. Samuelson

  • Learn Locally, Think Globally Exemplar Variability Supports Higher-Order Generalization and Word Learning

    Lynn K. Perry;Larissa K. Samuelson;Lisa M. Malloy;Ryan N. Schiffer

  • Perceiving and remembering:Category stability, variability, and development

    Linda B Smith;Larissa K Samuelson

  • Grounding word learning in space.

    Larissa K. Samuelson;Linda B. Smith;Lynn K. Perry;John P. Spencer

  • Statistical regularities in vocabulary guide language acquisition in connectionist models and 15-20-month-olds.

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  • An attentional learning account of the shape bias: reply to Cimpian and Markman (2005) and Booth, Waxman, and Huang (2005).

    Linda B. Smith;Larissa Samuelson

  • What's new?:Children prefer novelty in referent selection

    Jessica S. Horst;Larissa K. Samuelson;Sarah C. Kucker;Bob McMurray

  • Grounding Development in Cognitive Processes

    Larissa K. Samuelson;Linda B. Smith

  • Slowing down fast mapping:Redefining the dynamics of word learning

    Sarah C. Kucker;Bob McMurray;Larissa K. Samuelson

  • They Call It like They See It: Spontaneous Naming and Attention to Shape.

    Larissa K. Samuelson;Linda B. Smith

  • Children's attention to rigid and deformable shape in naming and non-naming tasks.

    Larissa K. Samuelson;Linda B. Smith

  • The First Slow Step: Differential Effects of Object and Word‐Form Familiarization on Retention of Fast‐Mapped Words

    Sarah C. Kucker;Larissa K. Samuelson

  • The shape of the vocabulary predicts the shape of the bias.

    Lynn K Perry;Larissa K Samuelson

  • What does it take to learn a word

    Larissa K. Samuelson;Larissa K. Samuelson;Bob McMurray

  • Different is good: connectionism and dynamic systems theory are complementary emergentist approaches to development

    Linda B. Smith;Larissa K. Samuelson

  • Online Processing is Essential for Learning: Understanding Fast Mapping and Word Learning in a Dynamic Connectionist Architecture

    Jessica S. Horst;Bob McMurray;Larissa K Samuelson

  • Seeing the World Through a Third Eye: Developmental Systems Theory Looks Beyond the Nativist–Empiricist Debate

    John P. Spencer;Larissa K. Samuelson;Mark S. Blumberg;Bob McMurray

  • Learning Words in Space and Time Probing the Mechanisms Behind the Suspicious-Coincidence Effect

    John P. Spencer;Sammy Perone;Linda B. Smith;Larissa K. Samuelson

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Spencer
John P. Spencer University of East Anglia
Linda B. Smith
Linda B. Smith Indiana University
Bob McMurray
Bob McMurray University of Iowa
J. Bruce Tomblin
J. Bruce Tomblin University of Iowa
Mark S. Blumberg
Mark S. Blumberg University of Iowa
Lisa M. Oakes
Lisa M. Oakes University of California, Davis
Susan Jones
Susan Jones University of Nottingham
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Rebecca L. Gómez
Rebecca L. Gómez University of Arizona

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