Assistant Professor
Director of Cognitive Development Lab
Developmental Psychology
Ph.D., Indiana University

Cognitive Development Lab

Heyne Building, Room 239C
713-743-1077
Lab: 713-743-4876
yoshida@uh.edu
cogdev@central.uh.edu

Research Interests

• Language and cognitive development

Teaching

• Developmental Psychology

Selected Publications

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2008). What's in View for Toddlers? Using a Head Camera to Study Visual Experience. Infancy, 13(3) 229-248.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2005). Linguistic cues enhance the learning of perceptual cues. Psychological Science, 16 (2) 90 – 95.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Shifting Ontological Boundaries: How Japanese- and English-speaking children generalize names for animals and artifacts. Developmental Science, 6 (1), 1-17.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Correlation, concepts and cross-linguistic differences. Developmental Science, 6 (1) 30-34.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2003). Known and novel noun extensions: Attention at two levels of abstraction. Child Development, 76 (2) 564-577

Smith, L. B., Jones, S.S., Yoshida, H., & Colunga, E. (2003). Whose DAM account? Attentional learning explains Booth and Waxman. Cognition, 87 209 – 213.

Smith, L. B., Colunga, E., & Yoshida, H. (2003). Making an Ontology: Cross-linguistic Evidence In Oakes, L. & Rakison, D. (Eds.) Early Category and Concept Development Making Sense of the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion. (pp. 275-302) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Yoshida, H. & Smith, L. B. (2001). Early noun lexicons in English and Japanese. Cognition, 82 63-74.