Publications

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
    Preprint Psyarxiv, 2025
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  2. 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
    Cogsci Proceedings, 2025
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  3. Preschoolers can form conventional pacts with each other to communicate about novel referents
    Veronica Boyce, Robert Sparks, Yannick Mofor, and Michael C. Frank
    Poster at CogSci, preprint psyarxiv, 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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