Publications

2026

1. Preschoolers can coordinate with each other to communicate about novel referents

   Veronica Boyce, Robert Z Sparks, and Michael C Frank

   PsyArxiv preprint, 2026

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2025

1. Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood

   Michael C Frank, Virginia A Marchman, Claire Augusta Bergey, Veronica Boyce, Mika Braginsky, George Kachergis, Jess Mankewitz, Stephan Meyland, Ben Prystawski, Nilam Ram, Robert Sparks, Adrian Steffan, Alvin Tan, and Martin Zettersten

   eLife, 2025

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2. Context informs pragmatic interpretation in vision-language models

   Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Ben Prystawski, Veronica Boyce, and Michael C Frank

   In CogInterp workshop NeurIPS 2025, 2025

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3. Handbook on Conducting Reproduction and Replication Studies

   Lukas Röseler, Lukas Wallrich, Helena Hartmann, Luisa Altegoer, Veronica Boyce, Sarahanne M Field, Janik Goltermann, Joachim Hüffmeier, Charlotte R Pennington, Merle-Marie Pittelkow, Priya Silverstein, Don van Ravenzwaaij, and Flavio Azevedo

   2025

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4. Use of communication channels in 2x2 strategic games

   Veronica Boyce, Avidit Acharya, and Michael C. Frank

   unpublished white paper, 2025

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5. Idiosyncratic but not opaque: Linguistic conventions formed in reference games are interpretable by naïve humans and vision–language models

   Veronica Boyce, Ben Prystawski, Alvin W.M. Tan, and Michael C. Frank

   In , 2025

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6. Preschoolers can form conventional pacts with each other to communicate about novel referents

   Veronica Boyce, Robert Sparks, Yannick Mofor, and Michael C. Frank

   In , 2025

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2024

1. Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study

   Melanie Soderstrom, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Luis E Muñoz, Agata Bochynska, Janet F Werker, Barbora Skarabela, Amanda Seidl, Yana Ryjova, Jennifer L Rennels, Christine E Potter, and  others

   Journal of child language, 2024

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2. Estimating the replicability of psychology experiments after an initial failure to replicate

   Veronica Boyce, Ben Prystawski, Adani B Abutto, Emily M Chen, Ziwen Chen, Howard Chiu, Irmak Ergin, Anmol Gupta, Chuqi Hu, Bendix Kemmann, Nastasia Klevak, Verity Y Q Lua, Mateus Mazzaferro, Khaing Mon, Daniel Ogunbamowo, Alexander Pereira, Jordan Troutman, Sarah Tung, Raphael Uricher, and Michael C. Frank

   Collabra: Psychology, 2024

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3. Interaction Structure Constrains the Emergence of Conventions in Group Communication

   Veronica Boyce, Robert Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, and Michael C. Frank

   PNAS, 2024

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4. Conducting Developmental Research Online vs. in-Person: A Meta-Analysis

   Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce, Cao Anjie, and Michael C. Frank

   Open Mind, 2024

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2023

1. Eleven Years of Student Replication Projects Provide Evidence on the Correlates of Replicability in Psychology

   Veronica Boyce, Maya Mathur, and Michael C. Frank

   Royal Society Open Science, 2023

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2. A-Maze of Natural Stories: Comprehension and Surprisal in the Maze Task

   Veronica Boyce, and Roger Levy

   Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2023

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3. Communicative Reduction in Referring Expressions within a Multi-Player Negotiation Game

   Veronica Boyce, and Michael C. Frank

   In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

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4. Peekbank: An Open, Large-Scale Repository for Developmental Eye-Tracking Data of Children’s Word Recognition

   Martin Zettersten, Daniel Yurovsky, Tian Linger Xu, Sarp Uner, Angeline Sin Mei Tsui, Rose M. Schneider, Annissa N. Saleh, Stephan C. Meylan, Virginia A. Marchman, Jessica Mankewitz, Kyle MacDonald, Bria Long, Molly Lewis, George Kachergis, Kunal Handa, Benjamin deMayo, Alexandra Carstensen, Mika Braginsky, Veronica Boyce, Naiti S. Bhatt, Claire Augusta Bergey, and Michael C. Frank

   Behavior Research Methods, 2023

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2022

1. Two’s Company but Six Is a Crowd: Emergence of Conventions in Multiparty Communication Games

   Veronica Boyce, Robert Hawkins, Noah Goodman, and Michael C. Frank

   In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

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2021

1. Multi-Party Referential Communication in Complex Strategic Games

   Jessica Mankewitz, Veronica Boyce, Brandon Waldon, Georgia Loukatou, Dhara Yu, Jesse Mu, Noah D. Goodman, and Michael C. Frank

   In Meaning in Context: Pragmantic Communication in Humans and Machines workshop. NeurIPS., 2021

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2. Peekbank: Exploring Children’s Word Recognition through an Open, Large-Scale Repository for Developmental Eye-Tracking Data

   Martin Zettersten, Claire Augusta Bergey, Naiti S. Bhatt, Veronica Boyce, Mika Braginsky, Alexandra Carstensen, Benjamin deMayo, George Kachergis, Molly Lewis, Bria Long, Kyle MacDonald, Jessica Mankewitz, Stephan C. Meylan, Annissa Noor Saleh, Rose M. Schneider, Angeline Sin Mei Tsui, Sarp Uner, Tian Linger Xu, Dan Yurovsky, and Michael C. Frank

   In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

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2020

1. Maze Made Easy: Better and Easier Measurement of Incremental Processing Difficulty

   Veronica Boyce, Richard Futrell, and Roger P. Levy

   Journal of Memory and Language, 2020

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2017

1. Lexical and Syntactic Effects on Auxiliary Selection: Evidence from Child French

   Veronica Boyce, Athulya Aravind, and Martin Hackl

   In Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2017

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