Publications

Scott, R. M. (2017). The developmental origins of false-belief understanding. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 68-74.

Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2017). Early false-belief understanding. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 237-249.

Bunce, J. P., Gordon, C., Abney, D. H., Fleming, M. M., Greenwood, M., Chiu, E., Spivey, M. J., & Scott, R. (2016). Mouse tracking reveals knowledge of multiple competing referents during cross-situational word learning.. Supplemental Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Bunce, J. P., Abney, D. H., Gordon, C. L., Spivey, M. J., & Scott, R. M. (2016). Using motor dynamics to explore real-time competition in cross-situational word learning: Evidence from two novel paradigms.. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, J. C. Trueswell, A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1439-1444). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Baillargeon, R., Scott, R., & Bian, L. (2016). Psychological reasoning in infancy.. Annual Review of Psychology, 67, 159-186.

Roby, E., & Scott, R. M. (2016). Think fast! Mental-state language is related to the speed of false-belief reasoning in adulthood.. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, J. C. Trueswell, A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Roby, E., & Scott, R. M. (2016). Rethinking the relationship between social experience and false-belief understanding: A mentalistic account. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1721.

Setoh, P., Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2016). 2.5-year-olds succeed at traditional false-belief tasks with reduced executive demands.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 13360-13365.

Scott, R. M. (2016). A question of pragmatics, or the pragmatics of questions? Invited commentary on Helming, Strickland, & Jacob “Solving the puzzle about early belief-ascription”. Mind & Language, 31, 438-469.

Baillargeon, R., Scott, R. M., He, Z., Sloane, S., Setoh, P., Jin, K., & Bian, L. (2015). Psychological and sociomoral reasoning in infancy.. In M. Mikulincer, P. R. Shaver, M. Mikulincer, & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology: Vol. 1. Attitudes and social cognition (pp. 79-150). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.