Humor, Abstraction, and Disbelief. - Elena Hoicka; Sarah Jutsum; Merideth Gattis (Cogn. Sci., 2008)

The Unusual Box Test: A Non-Verbal, Non-Representational Divergent Thinking Test for Toddlers. - Elena Hoicka; Simone Bijvoet-van den Berg; Tiffany Kerr; Megan Carberry (AAAI Spring Symposium: Creativity and (Early) Cognitive Development, 2013)

Preschoolers understand the representational and communicative nature of iconic gestures. - Simone Bijvoet-van den Berg; Ulf Liszkowski; Elena Hoicka (CogSci, 2013)

Preschoolers' Trust is Sensitive to Variable Intentions. - Elena Hoicka; Jessica Butcher; Felicity Malla; Paul Harris (CogSci, 2013)

Parents Produce Explicit Cues That Help Toddlers Distinguish Joking and Pretending. - Elena Hoicka; Jessica Butcher (Cogn. Sci., 2016)

Language Signaling High Proportions and Generics Lead to Generalizing, but Not Essentializing, for Novel Social Kinds. - Elena Hoicka; Jennifer Saul; Eloise Prouten; Laura Whitehead; Rachel Sterken (Cogn. Sci., 2021)