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Publications

Stahl, A. E., Pareja, D., & Feigenson, L. (2023). Early understanding of ownership helps infants efficiently organize objects in memory. Cognitive Development, 65, 101274.

Stahl, A. E. & Kibbe, M. M. (2022). Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation-of-expectation method for studying infant cognition. Infant and Child Development, ​e2359.

Stahl, A. E. & Woods, L. (2022). Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers. Infancy​, 27, 887-899.

Silver, A. M., Stahl, A. E., Loiotile, R., Smith, A., & Feigenson, L. (2020). When not choosing leads to not liking: Choice induced preference in infancy. Psychological Science, 31, 1422-1429. 

Stahl, A. E. & Feigenson, L. (2019). Violations of core knowledge shape early learning. Topics in Cognitive Science​, 11, 136-153.
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Stahl, A. E. & Feigenson, L. (2018). Infants use linguistic group distinctions to chunk items in memory. ​Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 172, 149-167.

Stahl, A. E. & Feigenson, L. (2017). Expectancy violations promote learning in young children. Cognition​, 163, 1-14.

Konishi, H., Stahl, A. E., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2016). Individual differences in non-linguistic event categorization predict later motion verb comprehension. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151, 18-32.

Stahl, A. E. & Feigenson, L. (2015). Observing the unexpected enhances infants' learning and exploration. Science, 348, 91-94.

Stahl, A. E. & Feigenson, L. (2014). Social knowledge facilitates chunking in infancy. Child Development, 85, 1477-1490.

​Stahl, A. E., Romberg, A. R., Roseberry, S., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2014). Infants segment continuous events using transitional probabilities. Child Development, 85, 1821-1826.

Press/Media Coverage

See below for recent news coverage of some of Dr. Stahl's research!
  • NPR Wow in the World Podcast: This or That? How Babies' Picks Become Preferences
  • TCNJ News: Making Sense of Baby Brainpower
  • Johns Hopkins University: Babies' Random Choices Become Their Preferences
  • New York Times: How Play Energizes Your Kid's Brain
  • Popular Science Magazine: Aimee Stahl, Developmental Psychologist and Baby Magician at The College of New Jersey
  • The Signal: College Welcomes Infants to Campus
  • TCNJ News: What to Expect... When You're a Baby
  • NPR’s All Things Considered: Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks
  • CNN’s Sanjay Gupta: Surprise! A New Discovery About Your Baby
  • Wall Street Journal: How 1-Year-Olds Figure Out the World
  • CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks: Surprise Leads to Learning in Babies
  • Good Morning America: Study Reveals Surprise Helps Infants Learn
  • Smithsonian: Like Tiny Scientists, Babies Learn Best by Focusing on Surprising Objects
  • PBS News Hour: Babies Resemble Tiny Scientists More Than You Might Think
  • New York Magazine: Babies Learn More When Something Surprises Them
  • LA Times: No Surprise: A Key to Infant Learning is Surprise
  • CBS Philly: Babies Learn Best When They’re Surprised
  • Scientific American: Babies Are Drawn to Objects That Defy Expectation
  • New York Times: What Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages
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