Olivera Savic

Unger, L., Yim, H., Savic, O., Dennis, S., & Sloutsky, V.M. (In press). No frills: Simple regularities in language can go a long way in the development of word knowledge. Developmental Science. Doi:10.1111/desc.13373

Unger, L., Chang, T., Savic, O., Bergen, B.K., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2024). When is a word in good company for learning?. Developmental Science, 27(5). Doi:10.1111/desc.13510

Savic, O., Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2023). Experience and maturation: The contribution of co-occurrence regularities in language to the development of semantic organization. Child Development, 94(1), 142-158. Doi:10.1111/cdev.13844

Savic, O., Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2022). Exposure to Co-Occurrence Regularities in Language Drives Semantic Integration of New Words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 48(7), 1064-1081. Doi:10.1037/xlm0001122

Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. (2022). Category Exceptions Change Category Boundaries. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022, 3515-3520.

Castro, L., Yang, S., Savic, O., Sloutsky, V., & Wasserman, E. (2021). Not all exceptions are created equal: Learning of exceptions in pigeons’ categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 28(4), 1344-1353. Doi:10.3758/s13423-021-01912-1

Yim, H., Savic, O., Barkhimer, A., Sloutsky, V.M., & Dennis, S.J. (2021). The Mystery of Early Taxonomic Development. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, 3103-3108.

Castro, L., Savic, O., Navarro, V., Sloutsky, V.M., & Wasserman, E.A. (2020). Selective and distributed attention in human and pigeon category learning. Cognition, 204. Doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104350

Unger, L., Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2020). Statistical regularities shape semantic organization throughout development. Cognition, 198. Doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104190

Savic, O., Thierry, G., & Kovic, V. (2020). Conceptual relation preference: A matter of strategy or one of salience?. Acta Psychologica, 204. Doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103018

Unger, L., Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2020). Simple Mechanisms, Rich Structure: Statistical Co-Occurrence Regularities in Language Shape the Development of Semantic Knowledge. Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, 130-136.

Savic, O., Unger, L., & Sloutsky, V. (2020). Becoming Organized: How Simple Learning Mechanisms may Shape the Development of Rich Semantic Knowledge. Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, 137-143.

Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V.M. (2019). Assimilation of exceptions? Examining representations of regular and exceptional category members across development. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(6), 1071-1090. Doi:10.1037/xge0000611

Savic, O., Blanco, N., & Sloutsky, V. (2018). Developmental Differences in the Status of Category Exceptions. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, 2424-2429.

Savic, O., Savic, A.M., & Kovic, V. (2017). Comparing the temporal dynamics of thematic and taxonomic processing using event-related potentials. PLoS ONE, 12(12). Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189362

Savic, O., & Sloutsky, V. (2017). Peculiarity doesn't trump ordinarity: On recognition memory for exceptions to the category rule. CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, 3058-3063.

Ilic, O., Kovic, V., & Styles, S.J. (2013). In the absence of animacy: Superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification. PLoS ONE, 8(12). Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083282