Publications

Nencheva, M. L., Van Dusen, H., Watson, E., Lew-Williams, C. (2026). Dynamic interaction of affect and language in children's home environments. Developmental Science, 29(1), e70083.

Nencheva, M. L., Peng, R., Tamir, D. I., Lew-Williams, C. (2026). Infants track patterns of emotion transitions in the home. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 52(2), 251-261.

Lucca, K., Capelier-Mourguy, A., Cirelli, L., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Frank, M. C., …, Nencheva, M. L., …, Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Infants' social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13581.

Kosie, J. E., Nencheva, M. L., Jungé, J., Lew-Williams, C. (2025). Models of human learning should capture the natural complexity of communication. Language Development Research.

In press.

Nencheva, M. L., Schwab, J. F., Lew-Williams, C., Fausey, C. M. (2024). Word repetition and isolation are intertwined in children's early language experiences. Open Mind, 8, 1330-1347.

Nencheva, M. L., Nook, E. C., Thornton, M. A., Lew-Williams, C., Tamir, D. I. (2024). The emergence of organized emotion dynamics in childhood. Affective Science, 5(3), 246-258.

Nencheva, M. L., Tamir, D. I., Lew-Williams, C. (2023). Caregiver speech predicts the emergence of children's emotion vocabulary. Child Development, 94(3), 585-602.

Nencheva, M. L., Lew-Williams, C. (2022). Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective. Developmental Review, 66, 101047.

Piazza, E. A., Nencheva, M. L., Lew-Williams, C. (2021). The development of communication across timescales. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(6), 459-467.

Mon, S. K., Nencheva, M. L., Citron, F. M., Lew-Williams, C., Goldberg, A. E. (2021). Conventional metaphors elicit greater real-time engagement than literal paraphrases or concrete sentences. Journal of Memory and Language, 121, 104285.

Nencheva, M. L., Piazza, E. A., Lew-Williams, C. (2021). The moment-to-moment pitch dynamics of child-directed speech shape toddlers' attention and learning. Developmental Science, 24(1), e12997.

Nencheva, M. L., Frank, M. C. (2025). Exploring the affective structure of children's early language environment through egocentric video. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47.

Rane, S., Nencheva, M. L., Wang, Z., Lew-Williams, C., Russakovsky, O., Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Predicting word learning in children from the performance of computer vision systems. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45.