Publications

2026

  1. Data-driven recommendations for increasing reliability and validity in measures of infant word recognition
    Veronica Boyce, Virginia A Marchman, Heidi A Baumgartner, Claire Augusta Bergey, Mika Braginsky, Federico Giovannetti, George Kachergis, Jess Mankewitz, Stephan C. Meylan, Ben Prystawski, Robert Z. Sparks, Adrian Steffan, Alvin W. M. Tan, Michael C Frank, and  others
    2026
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  2. ManyBabies 6: A Multi-Lab Investigation of Neonatal and Early Imitation
    Andrew N Meltzoff, Sumeet Farwaha, Virginia Slaughter, Elizabeth A Simpson, Rechele Brooks, Mark Nielsen, Heidi A Baumgartner, Laurie Bayet, Silvia Benavides-Varela, Veronica Boyce, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Jasmin Dönicke, Brian Patrick Flaherty, Samuel H Forbes, Michael C Frank, and  others
    2026
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  3. Preschoolers can coordinate with each other to communicate about novel referents
    Veronica Boyce, Robert Z. Sparks, and Michael C Frank
    2026
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  4. 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 C. Meylan, Ben Prystawski, Nilam Ram, Robert Z. Sparks, Adrian Steffan, Alvin W. M. Tan, and Martin Zettersten
    eLife, 2026
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2025

  1. Context informs pragmatic interpretation in vision-language models
    Alvin W. M. Tan, Ben Prystawski, Veronica Boyce, and Michael C Frank
    In CogInterp workshop NeurIPS 2025, 2025
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  2. 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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  3. Use of communication channels in 2x2 strategic games
    Veronica Boyce, Avidit Acharya, and Michael C. Frank
    2025
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  4. 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 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
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  5. Preschoolers can form conventional pacts with each other to communicate about novel referents
    Veronica Boyce, Robert Z. Sparks, Yannick Mofor, and Michael C. Frank
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
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  6. 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, Markus Paulus, Mitsuhiko Ota, Nonah M Olesen, Karli M Nave, Julien Mayor, Alia Martin, Lauren C Machon, Casey Lew-Williams, Eon-Suk Ko, Hyunji Kim, Natalia Kartushina, Marina Kammermeier, Andrew Jessop, Jessica F Hay, Naomi Havron, Erin E Hannon, J Kiley Hamlin, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Anja Gampe, Tom Fritzsche, Michael C Frank, Samantha Durrant, Catherine Davies, Cara Cashon, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Veronica Boyce, Alexis K Black, Christina Bergmann, Laura Anderson, Mohammed K Alshakhori, Ali H Al-Hoorie, and Angeline S M Tsui
    Journal of Child Language, 2025
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2024

  1. 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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  2. Interaction Structure Constrains the Emergence of Conventions in Group Communication
    Veronica Boyce, Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, and Michael C. Frank
    PNAS, 2024
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  3. 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 P. 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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    convention formation language
  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 D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, and Michael C. Frank
    In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022
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    convention formation language

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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