Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Temple University
287 Papers
1.9K Citations
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is an academic researcher from Temple University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vocabulary & Verb. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 259 publications. Previous affiliations of Kathy Hirsh-Pasek include Haverford College & Brookings Institution.
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Papers
Categorization of dynamic realistic motion events: Infants form categories of path before manner.
TL;DR: Results revealed that infants categorized path only in the presence of a ground object, validating Talmy's definition of path and showed sensitivity to event components lexicalized in relational terms, supporting a primacy of path.
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Carving Categories in a Continuous World: Preverbal Infants Discriminate Categorical Changes Before Distance Changes in Dynamic Events
TL;DR: This study asks if preverbal infants notice within- category distance changes more than across-category distance changes, and suggests that categorical changes are most important, which has implications for how children carve a continuous world into categories that coincide with language.
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Translating cognitive science in the public square.
Brenna Hassinger-Das,Jennifer M. Zosh,Andres S. Bustamante,Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors detail several successful projects and the six principles of learning that underlie them that support caregiver-child engagement, interaction, and the use of content area-specific language.
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Marketing toys without playing around
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how both characteristics of toys and marketer-provided cues influence parents' perceptions of advertised toys and their ideas of what life skills are important for their children's future wellbeing and success.
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