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Vladimir M. Sloutsky is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a significant focus on developmental and educational psychology. Their work also extends into cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and statistics and probability.

The scientist's main research topics include child and animal learning development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, neural and behavioral psychology studies, categorization, perception, and language, memory processes and influences, language development and disorders, as well as reading and literacy development.

Frequent publication venues where Sloutsky's research appears include Developmental Science, Child Development, Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, and Psychological Science.

Among recent publications are:

  • "Systematic exploration and uncertainty dominate young children's choices" (2020, Developmental Science)
  • "Attentional mechanisms drive systematic exploration in young children" (2020, Cognition)
  • "Statistical regularities shape semantic organization throughout development" (2020, Cognition)
  • "The benefits of immature cognitive control: How distributed attention guards against learning traps" (2022, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • "The use and effectiveness of colorful, contextualized, student-made material for elementary mathematics instruction" (2020, International Journal of STEM Education)

Sloutsky has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Layla Unger, Brandon M. Turner, Olivera Savic, Hyungwook Yim, and Mengcun Gao.

Best Publications

  • Conditionals: A Theory of Meaning, Pragmatics, and Inference

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • Induction and categorization in young children: a similarity-based model.

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky;Anna V. Fisher

  • The Advantage of Abstract Examples in Learning Math

    Jennifer A. Kaminski;Vladimir M. Sloutsky;Andrew F. Heckler

  • The role of similarity in the development of categorization

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky

  • Auditory Dominance and Its Change in the Course of Development

    Christopher W. Robinson;Vladimir M. Sloutsky

  • From Perceptual Categories to Concepts: What Develops?

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky

  • Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Preference for Auditory Modality in Young Children

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky;and Amanda C. Napolitano

  • How much does a shared name make things similar? Linguistic labels, similarity, and the development of inductive inference.

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky;Ya-Fen Lo;Anna V. Fisher

  • fMRI Evidence for a Three-Stage Model of Deductive Reasoning

    Thomas Fangmeier;Markus Knauff;Christian C. Ruff;Vladimir Sloutsky

  • The advantage of simple symbols for learning and transfer.

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky;Jennifer A. Kaminski;Andrew F. Heckler

  • When Development and Learning Decrease Memory Evidence Against Category-Based Induction in Children

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky;Anna V. Fisher

  • Institutional Care and Developmental Outcomes of 6- and 7-year-old Children: A Contextualist Perspective

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky

  • When Looks Are Everything Appearance Similarity Versus Kind Information in Early Induction

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky;Heidi Kloos;Anna V. Fisher

  • When Induction Meets Memory: Evidence for Gradual Transition From Similarity-Based to Category-Based Induction

    Anna V. Fisher;Vladimir M. Sloutsky

  • Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? The Flexible Nature of Modality Dominance in Young Children

    Amanda C. Napolitano;Vladimir M. Sloutsky

  • What's behind different kinds of kinds: effects of statistical density on learning and representation of categories.

    Heidi Kloos;Vladimir M. Sloutsky

  • Transfer of Mathematical Knowledge: The Portability of Generic Instantiations

    Jennifer A. Kaminski;Vladimir M. Sloutsky;Andrew Heckler

  • Costs of Selective Attention: When Children Notice What Adults Miss.

    Daniel J Plebanek;Vladimir M Sloutsky

  • How much does a shared name make things similar? Part 1. Linguistic labels and the development of similarity judgment.

    Vladimir M. Sloutsky;Ya-Fen Lo

  • Selective attention, diffused attention, and the development of categorization.

    Wei Sophia Deng;Vladimir M Sloutsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa
Timothy T. Rogers
Timothy T. Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
David H. Uttal
David H. Uttal Northwestern University
Bethany Rittle-Johnson
Bethany Rittle-Johnson Vanderbilt University
Charles W. Kalish
Charles W. Kalish University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sarah T. Boysen
Sarah T. Boysen The Ohio State University
Jon R. Star
Jon R. Star Harvard University
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Philip J. Kellman
Philip J. Kellman University of California, Los Angeles
Ken McRae
Ken McRae University of Western Ontario

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