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Southern Methodist University: Dallas, Texas, US

2023-01 to present (Psychology)
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Sarah C. Kucker

Oklahoma State University: Stillwater, OK, US

2018-08 to 2022-12 | Assistant Professor (Psychology)
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Sarah C. Kucker

University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh: Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US

2016-08 to 2018-08 | Assistant Professor (Psychology)
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Sarah C. Kucker

The University of Texas at Dallas: Richardson, TX, US

2013-05 to 2016-08 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Brain and Behavior Sciences/Callier Center for Communication Disorders)
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Education and qualifications (2)

The University of Iowa: Iowa City, IA, US

2008-08 to 2013-05 | Ph.D. in Psychology (Psychology)
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Drake University: Des Moines, IA, US

2004-08 to 2008-05 | BS in Psychology & BA in Philosophy
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Funding (1)

Technological timescales: Identifying the impact of digital media on the mechanisms of word learning

2021-05-01 to 2024-04-30 | Grant
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Bethesda, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9655759
GRANT_NUMBER: R15HD101841
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Works (19)

When reading is harder than a mother kucker: The effect of orthographic neighbor taboo-ness on novel word pronunciation

Current Psychology
2023-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03820-6
Contributors: Sarah C. Kucker; Lynn K. Perry
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Late bloomer or language disorder? Differences in toddler vocabulary composition associated with long‐term language outcomes

Developmental Science
2023-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13342
Contributors: Lynn K. Perry; Sarah C. Kucker; Jessica S. Horst; Larissa K. Samuelson
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Margarita glasses and high heels: How attention to shape, age, and vocabulary impacts children's recognition of typical and atypical exemplars

Child Development
2023-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13883
Contributors: Sarah C. Kucker; Blair E. Braun; Jessica F. Markham‐Anderson
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Coding social interactions in naturalistic settings: The taxonomy of dyadic conversation

Behavior Research Methods
2022-12-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-02033-w
Contributors: Kenya W. Mulwa; Sarah C. Kucker
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Yes, but … We need reliability to advance infant work, but there's more to consider too: Important nuances of reliability and the need to include validity

Infant and Child Development
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/icd.2325
Contributors: Sarah C. Kucker; Michael Chmielewski
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Patterns of mutual exclusivity and retention: A study of monolingual and bilingual 2‐year‐olds

Infancy
2021-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12432
Contributors: Joscelin Rocha‐Hidalgo; Mary Feller; Olivia A. Blanchfield; Sarah C. Kucker; Rachel F. Barr
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Taking parent personality and child temperament into account in child language development

British Journal of Developmental Psychology
2021-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12379
Contributors: Sarah C. Kucker; Caileigh Zimmerman; Michael Chmielewski
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Vocabulary Development and the Shape Bias in Children With Hearing Loss

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
2021-09-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00003
Contributors: Lynn K. Perry; Amy L. Meltzer; Sarah C. Kucker
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Processes and pathways in development via digital media: Examples from word learning

Infant Behavior and Development
2021-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101559
Contributors: Sarah C. Kucker
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An MTurk Crisis? Shifts in Data Quality and the Impact on Study Results

Social Psychological and Personality Science
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1948550619875149
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2-s2.0-85074065383

Part of ISSN: 19485514 19485506
Contributors: Chmielewski, M.; Kucker, S.C.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

Sometimes it is better to know less: How known words influence referent selection and retention in 18- to 24-month-old children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104705
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2-s2.0-85073542431

Part of ISSN: 00220965
Contributors: Kucker, S.C.; McMurray, B.; Samuelson, L.K.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

Reproducibility and a unifying explanation: Lessons from the shape bias

Infant Behavior and Development
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.09.011
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2-s2.0-85055046598

Part of ISSN: 19348800 01636383
Contributors: Kucker, S.C.; Samuelson, L.K.; Perry, L.K.; Yoshida, H.; Colunga, E.; Lorenz, M.G.; Smith, L.B.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

The heterogeneity of word learning biases in late-talking children

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-ASTM-18-0234
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2-s2.0-85064316214

Part of ISSN: 10924388
Contributors: Perry, L.K.; Kucker, S.C.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

Too Much of a Good Thing: How Novelty Biases and Vocabulary Influence Known and Novel Referent Selection in 18-Month-Old Children and Associative Learning Models

Cognitive Science
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12610
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2-s2.0-85045044626

Part of ISSN: 15516709 03640213
Contributors: Kucker, S.C.; McMurray, B.; Samuelson, L.K.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

Moving Word Learning to a Novel Space: A Dynamic Systems View of Referent Selection and Retention

Cognitive Science
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12369
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2-s2.0-84964644998

Part of ISSN: 15516709 03640213
Contributors: Samuelson, L.K.; Kucker, S.C.; Spencer, J.P.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

Slowing Down Fast Mapping: Redefining the Dynamics of Word Learning

Child Development Perspectives
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12110
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2-s2.0-84928588286

Part of ISSN: 17508606 17508592
Contributors: Kucker, S.C.; Mcmurray, B.; Samuelson, L.K.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

Pushing the envelope of associative learning: Internal representations and dynamic competition transform association into development

Theoretical and Computational Models of Word Learning: Trends in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
2013 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2973-8.ch003
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2-s2.0-84899194918
Contributors: McMurray, B.; Zhao, L.; Kucker, S.C.; Samuelson, L.K.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

The First Slow Step: Differential Effects of Object and Word-Form Familiarization on Retention of Fast-Mapped Words

Infancy
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00081.x
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2-s2.0-84859507584

Part of ISSN: 15250008 15327078
Contributors: Kucker, S.C.; Samuelson, L.K.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier

What's new? Children prefer novelty in referent selection

Cognition
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.015
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2-s2.0-78651099800

Part of ISSN: 00100277
Contributors: Horst, J.S.; Samuelson, L.K.; Kucker, S.C.; McMurray, B.
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Sarah C. Kucker via Scopus - Elsevier
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