Professor
Director of
Cognitive Development Lab
Developmental, Cognitive, & Behavioral Neuroscience
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

• Early attention and language development

Teaching

• Foundation of Cognition and Developmental Science
• Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
• Emergence of Intelligence
• Language and Thought

Selected Publications

Perkovich, E., Mire, S., Laakman, A., & Yoshida, H. (2024). Conducting head-mounted eye-tracking research with young children with autism and children with increased likelihood of later autism diagnosis. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 16(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-024-09524-1

Sun, L., Francis, D., Nagai, Y., & Yoshida, H. (2024). Early development of saliency-driven attention through object manipulation. Acta Psychologica, 243, 104124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104124

Perkovich, E., Sun, L., Mire, S., Laakman, A., Sakhuja, U., & Yoshida, H. (2022). What children with and without ASD see: Similar visual experiences with different pathways through parental attention strategies. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 7. https://doi.org/10.1177/23969415221108637

Sun, L., & Yoshida, H. (2022). The role of parental scaffolding in infants’ gaze and sustained attention during play. Infancy, 27(4), 780-808. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12485

Sun, L., Griep, C., & Yoshida, H. (2022). Shared multimodal input through social coordination: Infants with monolingual and bilingual learning experiences. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 1608. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.816829

Yoshida, H., Cirino, P., Mire, S., Burling, J., & Lee, S. (2020). Parents’ gesture adaptations to children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Language, 47(1), 205-224. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000194

Yoshida, H., Patel, A., & Burling, J. (2019). Gaze as a window to the process of novel adjective mapping. Languages, 4(2), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4020033

Yoshida, H., Cirino, P., Mire, S., & Burling, J. (2019). Parents’ gesture adaptations to children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Language, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000194

Burling, J., & Yoshida, H. (2019). Visual constancies amidst changes in handled objects for 5- to 24-month-old infants. Child Development, 90(2), 452-461. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12918

Yoshida, H., & Fausey, C. M. (2019). Visual objects as they are encountered by young language learners. In J. Horst & J. Torkildsen (Eds.), International handbook of language development (pp. 115-127). Routledge.

Tran, C. D., Arredondo, M. M., & Yoshida, H. (2018). Early executive function: The influence of culture and bilingualism. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(4), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000358

Burling, J., & Yoshida, H. (2017). Highlighting in early childhood: Learning biases through attentional shifting. Cognitive Science, 41(S1), 96-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12332