Presentations

Presentations

* Baldwin, D. (2005).  Making sense of action.  Invited address to be presented at a meeting of the John Merck Scholars called to celebrate the first Merck Scholar Nobel laureate, New York, New York.

* Pederson, E., Loucks, J., & Baldwin, D. (2004).  Action processing and the linguistic representation of events.  Talk presented at the Events Conference hosted by Eric Pederson and Russell Tomlin, University of Oregon.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2003).  Socio-cognitive foundations of language acquisition, and how they may be acquired.  Symposium talk presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in a symposium entitled “New perspectives on language acquisition,” chaired by Susan Goldin-Meadow, Park City, Utah.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2003).  Action on action.  Invited address at the University of California, Berkeley.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2003). Action on action.  Invited address at the University of California, San Diego.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2003).  Action on action.  Invited address at the University of Pittsburgh.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2002).  What infants understand of names and their uses.  Invited paper presented as part of a conference entitled “The Relation between Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation” organized by Dr. Laura Namy and sponsored by the Emory Cognition Project, Atlanta, Georgia, October.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (2002).  Consciousness at play in human knowledge acquisition.  Invited address in a symposium entitled “The origins of consciousness” chaired by Roger Mellgren at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, August.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (2002).  Language learning capitalizes on social skill.  Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled “What do children need to learn language?” chaired by Dr. Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe at the International Congress for the Study of Child Language Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin, July.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2002).  Infants’ ability to recover the structure that actors produce.  Paper presented at a conference on Cognition, Development, and Evolution, organized by Dario Mastripieri, Susan Goldin-Meadow, and Amanda Woodward, University of Chicago, May.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2002).  Processing action to recover intention-relevant structure.  Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled “From action to intention” chaired by Dr. Bennett Bertenthal at the International Conference on Infant Studies in Toronto, Ontario, April.

* Baldwin, D. A., & Brand, R. A.  (2002).  The ease of re-enacting motionese.  Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled “Nonverbal aspects of parental input to young children” chaired by Dr. Jana Iverson at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, April.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2002).  Discussant for symposium chaired by Dr. Renee Baillargeon at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, April.

* Saylor, M., & Baldwin, D.  (2002).  Infants’ emerging comprehension of absent reference.  Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies in Toronto, Ontario, April.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (2001).  Language learning and the emergence of interpersonal understanding.  Invited address at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2001).  Discerning intentions:  Characterizing the cognitive system at play, Invited address at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (2001).  Language learning: A window on emerging intentional understanding.  Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled “Intentionality,” chaired by Robyn Fivush & Phillip Zelazo at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Virginia Beach, VA, October.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (2001).  Language, communication, and intentional understanding in infants.  Paper presented at a conference at New York University organized by Bruce Homer & Catherine Tamis-Lemonda, October.

* Baldwin, D. A., & Brand, R. (2001). Modifications in mothers’ infant-directed action.  Paper presented as part of a symposium chaired by Dr. Angeline Lillard, entitled "Motionese:  How parents' actions may "speak" to infants" at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2001).  Early interpersonal understanding:  Its value, Its genesis.  Paper presented as part of a symposium chaired by Dr. Merrill Garret, entitled "Evaluating precursor systems for human language in apes and children", at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (2001).  Parsing dynamic action.  Paper presented as part of an invited symposium chaired by Dr. Richard Aslin at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2001).  The rise of intentional understanding in human development:  Analogies to the ontogenesis of language.  Invited address presented at a conference entitled “The Rise of Language out of Pre-language” organized by Drs. Tom Givon and Joan Bybee at the University of Oregon.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2001).  Infants’ action processing skills and the emergence of communicative understanding. Invited address at a conference entitled “Communication and cognitive development in the first 3 years” hosted by Bruce Holmes and Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, New York University, October.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2001).  Language learning: A window on emerging intentional understanding.  Paper presented in an invited symposium on Intentionality, chaired by Phillip David Zelazo and Robyn Fivush at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Virginia Beach, VA, October.

* Saylor, M., & Baldwin, D. A.  (2001).  Understanding talk about absent things from 12 to 31 months.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Virginia Beach, VA, October.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (2000).  The development of early interpersonal understanding.  Invited address at the University of Warwick, Warwick, England.

* Sabbagh, M., McCandliss, B., Carlson, S., Scherf, S., Girardi, G., Ontai, L., Ashburn, L., & Baldwin, D. (2000).  Neural correlates of rapid word learning in 19- to 24-month-olds.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2000).  Probing the origins of early pragmatic understanding.  Paper presented at a conference entitled "Finding the Words…", organized by Drs. Eve Clark & Anne Fernald, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

* Baldwin, D. A. (2000).  Charaterizing early interpersonal understanding.  Invited address, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 

* Saylor, M. M., Baird, J. A., & Baldwin, D. A. (2000).  Infants' parsing of dynamic human behavior.  Poster presented as part of a poster symposium chaired by Drs. Amanda Woodward and Beate Sodian, International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1999).  The emergence of interpersonal understanding.  Invited address at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1999).  The emergence of interpersonal understanding.  Invited address at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1998).  Early-emerging interpersonal skills power knowledge acquisition. Distinguished Scientific Early Career Award Address delivered at the 106th Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 14, 1998.

* Saylor, M.., Sabbagh, M., & Baldwin, D. A. (1998).  Young children recruit multiple sources of information to learn words.  Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on  Language Development, Boston, MA.

* Moses, L. J., & Baldwin, D. A. (1998).  Social referencing in children and chimpanzees.  Invited address presented at the Cognitive Specializations Conference, New Iberia Research Center, New Iberia, LA.

* Baird, J. A., Saylor, M., & Baldwin, D. A. (1998).  Action parsing in infancy and the origins of intentional understanding.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1998).  Probing the origins of early pragmatic skill.  Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled “The Pragmatics of Word Learning” chaired by Lori Markson ad Gil Diesendruck at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

* Sabbagh, M., & Baldwin, D. A. (1997).  Low-cost constraints:  What social understanding means for semantic development.  Talk presented in a symposium chaired by Roberta Golinkoff at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

* Sabbagh, M., & Baldwin, D. A. (1997). Infants’ ability to distinguish objects on the basis of feature information and form-function correspondences.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

* Baldwin, D. A., Baird, J. A., & Hoerger, M. L. (1997).  The development of intentional understanding.  Paper presented at the Conference on Developmental Processes in Early Social Understanding, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1997).  Early pragmatic understanding.  Invited address presented in a panel discussion chaired by Michael Tomasello at the Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1996).  Interpersonal inference and the discovery of meaning.  Invited address at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

* Baldwin, D. A., Bill, B., & Ontai, L. L.  (1996).  Infants’ tendency to monitor others’ gaze:  Is it rooted in intentional understanding or a result of simple orienting?  Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Providence, Rhode Island.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1996).  What is fixed and what is flexible in early referential understanding?  Invited address at the Second Annual West Coast Conference on Theory of Mind, University of California at Berkeley.

* Baldwin, D. A., & Moses, L. J.  (1996).  Distinguishing social referencing from social responsiveness.  Talk presented at the XIVth Biennial International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development in a symposium entitled “Infants’ Social Understanding” chaired by Diane Poulin-Dubois and Gergely Csibra, Quebec City, Canada.

* Moses, L. J., & Baldwin, D. A. (1995).  Social referencing and understanding of mind in infancy.  Paper presented in a symposium chaired by L. Moses & C. Moore at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, Indiana.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1995).  Understanding relations between constraints and a socio-pragmatic account of meaning acquisition.  Paper presented in a symposium chaired by D. Baldwin & M. Callanan at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, Indiana.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1995).  Interpersonal inference and the discovery of meaning.  Boyd McCandless Address presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York City.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1994).  Implications of early referential understanding for language and conceptual development.  Invited address given to the workshop on “The Transition from Infancy to Early Childhood” at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1994).  Implications of early referential understanding for language and conceptual development.  Invited address to the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

* Baldwin, D. A., & Moses, L. J. (1993).  Infants' ability to consult others' attentional focus to help in interpreting emotional displays.  Poster presented at the West Coast Attention Conference, Eugene, Oregon.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1993).  Infants' ability to recognize when speech is referential and when it's not.  Paper presented in a symposium chaired by D. Baldwin & C. Echols at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, Louisiana.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1993).  Interpersonal inference as a route to reducing the indeterminacy of meaning.  Invited address given at the conference on "Early Cognition and the Transition to Language" sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin Center for Cognitive Science, Austin, Texas.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1992).  Early referential understanding.  Paper presented at the UBC Interdisciplinary conference on language.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1992).  Infants' understanding of cues to word reference.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies, Miami, Florida.

* Desjardins, R., & Baldwin, D. A. (1992).  Infants' use of language to guide reasoning about the object world.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies, Miami, Florida.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1992).  Early referential understanding.  Paper presented in a symposium chaired by C. Pratt at the 7th Australian Developmental Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1991).  Early referential understanding: The linguistic relevance of nonverbal cues.  Paper presented at the Eleventh Biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

* Werker, J. F., & Baldwin, D. A.  (1991).  Speech perception and lexical comprehension.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1991).  Infants' contribution to the achievement of joint reference.  Paper presented in a symposium chaired by G. Butterworth at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1990).  Infants' contribution to joint reference.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies, Montreal, Quebec.

* Baldwin, D. A., Markman, E. M., & Melartin, R.  (1989).  Infants' inferential abilities: Evidence from exploratory play.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1988).  Linguistic changes during the single-word period:  Using language for mental impact.  Paper presented at the 5th Australian Developmental Conference, Sydney, Australia.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1988).  Priorities in children's expectations about object label reference:  Form over color.  Paper presented at the 5th Australian Developmental Conference, Sydney, Australia.

* Baldwin, D. A., Markman, E. M., & Melartin, R.  (1988).  Exploratory play as evidence of inductive reasoning in infancy.  Paper presented at the XXIVth International Congress in Psychology, Sydney, Australia.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1987).  Children's expectations about the meanings of object labels:  Color similarity vs. form similarity.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1986).  A first step:  Establishing the mappings between objects and object labels.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Stanford-Berkeley Cognitive Psychology Conference, Stanford, CA.

* Baldwin, D. A.  (1986).  Color similarity in children's classifications and extension of object labels.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA.

* Baldwin, D. A. (1985).  Exploring children's expectations about word meanings.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Toronto, Ontario.