University of HoustonDepartment of Psychology
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Hanako Yoshida, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Hanako Yoshida, Ph.D.
Hanako Yoshida, Ph.D.
Doctorate: Indiana University
Undergraduate: Indiana University


Research Interests
  • Cognitive development lab
  • Language development: monolingual and bilingual children
  • Word learning process: attentional learning
  • Categorization development: cross-linguistic comparisons
  • Gesture use and speech: the relation to thought

Teaching

  • Developmental Psychology
 
E-mail:  yoshida@uh.edu
 
Selected Publications
 
Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2008). What's in View for Toddlers? Using a Head Camera to Study Visual Experience. Infancy, 13(3) 229-248.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2005). Linguistic cues enhance the learning of perceptual cues. Psychological Science, 16 (2) 90 – 95.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Shifting Ontological Boundaries: How Japanese- and English-speaking children generalize names for animals and artifacts. Developmental Science, 6 (1), 1-17.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Correlation, concepts and cross-linguistic differences. Developmental Science, 6 (1) 30-34.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Known and novel noun extensions: Attention at two levels of abstraction. Child Development, 76 (2) 564-577

Smith, L. B., Jones, S.S., Yoshida, H., & Colunga, E. (2003). Whose DAM account? Attentional learning explains Booth and Waxman. Cognition, 87 209 – 213.

Smith, L. B., Colunga, E., & Yoshida, H. (2003). Making an Ontology: Cross-linguistic Evidence In Oakes, L. & Rakison, D. (Eds.) Early Category and Concept Development Making Sense of the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion. (pp. 275-302) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2001). Early noun lexicons in English and Japanese. Cognition, 82 63-74.