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Patricia A. Ganea

Patricia A. Ganea

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Psychology

D-Index
32
Citations
3731
World Ranking
10980
National Ranking
765

Overview

Patricia A. Ganea is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and social sciences. Their work primarily focuses on developmental and educational psychology, education, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's publications cover a range of topics including child and animal learning development, child development and digital technology, educational strategies and epistemologies, science education and pedagogy, language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, and cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Frequent publication venues for Patricia A. Ganea include the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Child Development, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Developmental Psychology, and Infant Behavior and Development.

Notable papers include:

  • The effect of object similarity and alignment of examples on children's learning and transfer from picture books, 2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • The Role of Alternative Theories and Anomalous Evidence in Children's Scientific Belief Revision, 2020, Child Development
  • Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • What is and what never should have been: Children's causal and counterfactual judgments about the same events, 2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Angela Nyhout, Vaunam P. Venkadasalam, Gabrielle A. Strouse, Nicole E. Larsen, and Begüm Özdemir.

Best Publications

  • Transfer between Picture Books and the Real World by Very Young Children

    Patricia A. Ganea;Megan Bloom Pickard;Judy S. DeLoache

  • Young Children Can Be Taught Basic Natural Selection Using a Picture-Storybook Intervention:

    Deborah Kelemen;Natalie A. Emmons;Rebecca Seston Schillaci;Patricia A. Ganea

  • Less is More: How manipulative features affect children's learning from picture books.

    Medha Tare;Cynthia Chiong;Patricia Ganea;Judy DeLoache

  • The Role of Book Features in Young Children's Transfer of Information from Picture Books to Real-World Contexts.

    Gabrielle A. Strouse;Angela Nyhout;Patricia A. Ganea

  • Young Children’s Learning and Transfer of Biological Information From Picture Books to Real Animals

    Patricia A. Ganea;Lili Ma;Judy S. DeLoache

  • Do cavies talk? The effect of anthropomorphic picture books on children's knowledge about animals

    Patricia A. Ganea;Caitlin F. Canfield;Kadria Simons-Ghafari;Tommy Chou

  • Toddlers' referential understanding of pictures.

    Patricia A. Ganea;Melissa L. Allen;Lucas Butler;Susan Carey

  • Learning to learn from stories: children's developing sensitivity to the causal structure of fictional worlds.

    Caren M. Walker;Alison Gopnik;Patricia A. Ganea

  • Mature counterfactual reasoning in 4- and 5-year-olds

    Angela Nyhout;Patricia A. Ganea

  • Thinking of Things Unseen: Infants' Use of Language to Update Mental Representations

    Patricia A. Ganea;Kristin Shutts;Elizabeth S. Spelke;Judy S. DeLoache

  • Infants interpret ambiguous requests for absent objects.

    Megan M. Saylor;Patricia Ganea

  • Dealing with conflicting information: young children's reliance on what they see versus what they are told.

    Lili Ma;Patricia A. Ganea

  • Infants' Use of Shared Linguistic Information to Clarify Ambiguous Requests

    Patricia A. Ganea;Megan M. Saylor

  • Contextual factors affect absent reference comprehension in 14-month-olds.

    Patricia A. Ganea

  • Do storybooks with anthropomorphized animal characters promote prosocial behaviors in young children

    Nicole E. Larsen;Kang Lee;Patricia A. Ganea

  • Parent–Toddler Behavior and Language Differ When Reading Electronic and Print Picture Books

    Gabrielle A. Strouse;Patricia A. Ganea

  • Possession is not always the law: With age, preschoolers increasingly use verbal information to identify who owns what

    Peter R. Blake;Patricia A. Ganea;Paul L. Harris

  • Toddlers' word learning and transfer from electronic and print books.

    Gabrielle A. Strouse;Patricia A. Ganea

  • What's mine is mine: twelve-month-olds use possessive pronouns to identify referents

    Megan M. Saylor;Patricia A. Ganea;Maria D. Vázquez

  • A print book preference: Caregivers report higher child enjoyment and more adult–child interactions when reading print than electronic books

    Gabrielle A. Strouse;Patricia A. Ganea

Frequent Co-Authors

Judy S. DeLoache
Judy S. DeLoache University of Virginia
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Susan A. Graham
Susan A. Graham University of Calgary
Alice S. Carter
Alice S. Carter University of Massachusetts Boston
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Susan Carey
Susan Carey Harvard University
Jennifer Jenkins
Jennifer Jenkins University of Toronto
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University

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