Michael C. Frank

Orcid: 0000-0002-7551-4378

Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Department of Psychology, Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA


According to our database1, Michael C. Frank authored at least 127 papers between 2007 and 2023.

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2023
Predicting Age of Acquisition for Children's Early Vocabulary in Five Languages Using Language Model Surprisal.
Cogn. Sci., September, 2023

Estimating Demographic Bias on Tests of Children's Early Vocabulary.
Top. Cogn. Sci., April, 2023

Habituation Reflects Optimal Exploration Over Noisy Perceptual Samples.
Top. Cogn. Sci., April, 2023

Learning the meanings of function words from grounded language using a visual question answering model.
CoRR, 2023

Adults tailor their emotional expressions to infants through "emotionese".
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Preschool children reason about third-party goals when evaluating acoustic environments.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Measuring Children's Early Vocabulary in Low-Resource Languages Using a Swadesh-style Word List.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

No evidence for familiarity preferences after limited exposure to visual concepts in preschoolers and infants.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Re-examining cross-cultural similarity judgments using language statistics.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Cognitive diversity in context: US-China developmental trajectories on 4 tasks in 3-12yos.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

A synthesis of early cognitive and language development using (meta-)meta-analysis.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Communicative reduction in referring expressions within a multi-player negotiation game.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022
Acoustically-Driven Phoneme Removal That Preserves Vocal Affect Cues.
CoRR, 2022

Exploring Patterns of Stability and Change in Caregivers' Word Usage Across Early Childhood.
Cogn. Sci., 2022

Angry, sad, or scared? Within-valence mapping of emotion words to facial and body cues in 2- to 4-year old children.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Selection of goal-consistent acoustic environments by adults and preschool-aged children.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Measuring social curiosity-driven attentional differences in children with autism using an augmented reality-based phone app.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Identifying the distributional sources of children's early vocabulary.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Young children's reasoning about the epistemic consequences of auditory noise.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Bridging cultural and cognitive perspectives on similarity reasoning.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Two's company but six is a crowd: emergence of conventions in multiparty communication games.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021
Unsupervised neural network models of the ventral visual stream.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2021

From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention.
CoRR, 2021

The Emergence of the Shape Bias Results from Communicative Efficiency.
Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2021

Peekbank: Exploring children's word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Integrating emotional expressions with utterances in pragmatic inference.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Syntactic adaptation and word learning in French and English.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Characterizing the object categories two children see and interact with in a dense dataset of naturalistic visual experience.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Re-examining cross-cultural similarity judgements using lexical co-occurrence.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Predicting children's and adults' preferences in physical interactions via physics simulation.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

A large-scale comparison of cross-situational word learning models.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Measuring and predicting variation in the interestingness of physical structures.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Characterizing the development of relational reasoning in India.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Investigating cross-cultural differences in reasoning, vision, and social cognition through replication.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020
The Interactions of Rational, Pragmatic Agents Lead to Efficient Language Structure and Use.
Top. Cogn. Sci., 2020

Characterizing the Dynamics of Learning in Repeated Reference Games.
Cogn. Sci., 2020

The Growth of Children's Semantic and Phonological Networks: Insight From 10 Languages.
Cogn. Sci., 2020

Should we always log-transform looking time data in infancy research?
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

The latent factor structure of developmental change in early childhood.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Semantic Adaptation in Quantifier Meanings in Preschool Aged Children.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Predicting Age of Acquisition in Early Word Learning Using Recurrent Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Detecting social information in a dense database of infants' natural visual experience.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Relational reasoning and generalization using non-symbolic neural networks.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Discovering Conceptual Hierarchy Through Explicit and Implicit Cues in Child-Directed Speech.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Characterizing the relationship between lexical and morphological development.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019
Preschool children's understanding of polite requests.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Integration of gaze information during online language comprehension and learning.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Developmental changes in the ability to draw distinctive features of object categories.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Continuous developmental change can explain discontinuities in word learning.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Integrating Common Ground and Informativeness in Pragmatic Word Learning.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018
The Role of Gesture in Supporting Mental Representations: The Case of Mental Abacus Arithmetic.
Cogn. Sci., 2018

Balancing informational and social goals in active learning.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Postural developments modulate children's visual access to social information.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Deriving uniform information density behavior in pragmatic agents.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Individual variation in children's early production of negation.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Adults and preschoolers seek visual information to support language comprehension in noisy environments.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Drawings as a window into developmental changes in object representations.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Conceptual and prosodic cues in child-directed speech can help children learn the meaning of disjunction.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Word Learning as Network Growth: A Cross-linguistic Analysis.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Young children use statistical evidence to infer the informativeness of praise.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017
A One-Year Classroom-Randomized Trial of Mental Abacus Instruction for First- and Second-Grade Students.
J. Numer. Cogn., 2017

Pedagogical Learning.
CoRR, 2017

Prosodic Features from Large Corpora of Child-Directed Speech as Predictors of the Age of Acquisition of Words.
CoRR, 2017

MetaLab: A Repository for Meta-Analyses on Language Development, and More.
Proceedings of the Interspeech 2017, 2017

"I won't lie, it wasn't amazing": Modeling polite indirect speech.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

An information-seeking account of eye movements during spoken and signed language comprehension.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Logical Connectives: Adults' and Children's Interpretations of And and Or in a Guessing Game.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Children's social referencing reflects sensitivity to graded uncertainty.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Word Identification Under Multimodal Uncertainty.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Alignment at Work: Using Language to Distinguish the Internalization and Self-Regulation Components of Cultural Fit in Organizations.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

2016
Embedded Implicatures as Pragmatic Inferences under Compositional Lexical Uncertainty.
J. Semant., 2016

Intensive Math Training Does not Affect Approximate Number Acuity: Evidence From a Three-Year Longitudinal Curriculum Intervention.
J. Numer. Cogn., 2016

A Robust Framework for Estimating Linguistic Alignment in Twitter Conversations.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

Vision-Based Classification of Developmental Disorders Using Eye-Movements.
Proceedings of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2016, 2016

Linguistic input is tuned to children's developmental level.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Talking with tact: Polite language as a balance between informativity and kindness.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

A speed-accuracy trade-off in children's processing of scalar implicatures.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Linguistic niches emerge from pressures at multiple timescales.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Measuring lay theories of parenting and child development.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

A performance model for early word learning.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Investigating the Sources of Linguistic Alignment in Conversation.
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016

2015
Shared common ground influences information density in microblog texts.
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2015, The 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 31, 2015

Unsupervised word discovery from speech using automatic segmentation into syllable-like units.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2015, 2015

Signatures of Domain-General Categorization Mechanisms in Color Word Learning.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Children's Online Processing of Ad-Hoc Implicatures.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

The pragmatics of negation across contexts.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Referential cues modulate attention and memory during cross-situational word learning.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Sources of developmental change in pragmatic inferences about scalar terms.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Developmental Changes in the Relationship Between Grammar and the Lexicon.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Audience size and contextual effects on information density in Twitter conversations.
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 2015

2014
Markers of Topical Discourse in Child-Directed Speech.
Cogn. Sci., 2014

Speaker-independent detection of child-directed speech.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Beyond Naive Cue Combination: Salience and Social Cues in Early Word Learning.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Learning to Reason Pragmatically with Cognitive Limitations.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Discovering the Signatures of Joint Attention in Child-Caregiver Interaction.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

A pragmatic account of the processing of negative sentences.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

The structure of the lexicon reflects principles of communication.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Preschoolers infer contrast from adjectives if they can access lexical alternatives.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Modeling the dynamics of classroom education using teaching games.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Multi-modal Symbolic Representations of Number: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mental Abacus, but Were Afraid to Ask.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2013
Parsing entire discourses as very long strings: Capturing topic continuity in grounded language learning.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2013

Learning and using language via recursive pragmatic reasoning about other agents.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26: 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2013. Proceedings of a meeting held December 5-8, 2013

Online Processing of Speech and Social Information in Early Word Learning.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Measuring the comprehension of negation in 2- to 4-year-old children.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Modeling the Development of Determiner Productivity in Children's Early Speech.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

An integrated model of concept learning and word-concept mapping.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Modeling disambiguation in word learning via multiple probabilistic constraints.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Young children's developing sensitivity to discourse continuity as a cue to reference.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Developmental and postural changes in children's visual access to faces.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

The development of predictive processes in children's discourse understanding.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2012
Zero anaphora and object reference in Japanese child-directed speech.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Relating Activity Contexts to Early Word Learning in Dense Longitudinal Data.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Semantic Coherence Facilitates Distributional Learning of Word Meanings.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Learning from speaker word choice by assuming adjectives are informative.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Measuring children's visual access to social information using face detection.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reduction.
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, July 8-14, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, 2012

2011
Thinking for Seeing: Enculturation of Visual-Referential Expertise as Demonstrated by Photo-Triggered Perceptual Reorganization of Two-Tone "Mooney" Images.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

The learnability of constructed languages reflects typological patterns.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Ad-hoc scalar implicature in adults and children.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Markers of Discourse Structure in Child-Directed Speech.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Zipfian word frequencies support statistical word segmentation.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Placeholder structure and numerical computation.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

2010
Synergies in learning words and their referents.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010. Proceedings of a meeting held 6-9 December 2010, 2010

Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2010

2009
Explaining human multiple object tracking as resource-constrained approximate inference in a dynamic probabilistic model.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009. Proceedings of a meeting held 7-10 December 2009, 2009

Modeling Word Learning As Communicative Inference.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2009

2007
A Bayesian Framework for Cross-Situational Word-Learning.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, 2007


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