Publications of Makeba P. Wilbourn    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Journal Articles

1. Ruba, AL; Kalia, V; Wilbourn, MP (2022). Happy, sad, or yucky? Parental emotion talk with infants in a book-sharing task.. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 27(2), 277-290. [doi]  [abs]
2. Ruba, AL; McMurty, R; Gaither, SE; Wilbourn, MP (2022). How White American Children Develop Racial Biases in Emotion Reasoning.. Affective science, 3(1), 21-33. [doi]  [abs]
3. Ruba, AL; Harris, LT; Wilbourn, MP (2021). Examining Preverbal Infants' Ability to Map Labels to Facial Configurations.. Affective science, 2(2), 142-149. [doi]  [abs]
4. Lucca, K; Wilbourn, MP (2019). The what and the how: Information-seeking pointing gestures facilitate learning labels and functions.. Journal of experimental child psychology, 178, 417-436. [doi]  [abs]
5. Kalia, V; Daneri, MP; Wilbourn, MP (2019). Relations between vocabulary and executive functions in Spanish-english dual language learners. Bilingualism, 22(1), 1-14. [doi]  [abs]
6. Kalia, V; Lane, PD; Wilbourn, MP (2018). Cognitive control and phonological awareness in the acquisition of second language vocabulary within the Spanish-English dual immersion context. Cognitive Development, 48, 176-189. [doi]  [abs]
7. Ruba, AL; Wilbourn, MP; Ulrich, DM; Harris, LT (2018). Constructing emotion categorization: Insights from developmental psychology applied to a young adult sample.. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 18(7), 1043-1051. [doi]  [abs]
8. Lucca, K; Wilbourn, MP (2018). Communicating to Learn: Infants' Pointing Gestures Result in Optimal Learning.. Child development, 89(3), 941-960. [doi]  [abs]
9. Ruba, AL; Johnson, KM; Harris, LT; Wilbourn, MP (2017). Developmental changes in infants' categorization of anger and disgust facial expressions.. Developmental psychology, 53(10), 1826-1832. [doi]  [abs]
10. Kalia, V; Wilbourn, MP; Ghio, K (2014). Better early or late? Examining the influence of age of exposure and language proficiency on executive function in early and late bilinguals. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26(7), 699-713. [doi]  [abs]
11. Kuhn, LJ; Willoughby, MT; Wilbourn, MP; Vernon-Feagans, L; Blair, CB; Family Life Project Key Investigators, (2014). Early communicative gestures prospectively predict language development and executive function in early childhood.. Child development, 85(5), 1898-1914. [doi]  [abs]
12. Kuhn, L.J., Willoughby, M.T., Wilbourn, M.P., Vernon-Feagans, L., Blair, C.B., & the Family Life Project Investigations (in press). Early communicative gestures and language development prospectively predict executive function. Child Development.
13. Kalia, V., Wilbourn, M.P, & Mitchell, C. (2013). Cultural differences in narratives and reading achievement in African American children.. Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 37, 37.  [abs]
14. Wilbourn, MP; Sims, JP (2013). Get by with a little help from a word: Multimodal input facilitates 26-month-olds' ability to learn symbolic gestures as labels. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(2), 250-269. [doi]  [abs]
15. Wilbourn, MP; Kurtz, LE; Kalia, V (2012). The Lexical Stroop Sort (LSS) picture-word task: a computerized task for assessing the relationship between language and executive functioning in school-aged children.. Behavior research methods, 44(1), 270-286. [21853409], [doi]  [abs]
16. Kalia, V; Wilbourn, MP (2012). Changing frames of reference: Language impacts cognition and memory in Indian bilinguals. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology.  [abs]
17. Kalia, V; Wilbourn, MP; Ghio, K (2012). Age of second language acquisition and language proficiency interactively influence bilinguals’ cognition. Bilingualism: Cognition & Language.
18. Wilbourn, MP; Casasola, M (2012). Hand me a cue: Developmental changes in infants’ associative word learning abilities. Developmental Psychology.
19. Robertson, SR; Watamura, SE; Wilbourn, MP (2012). Attentional dynamics of infant visual foraging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 109(28), 11460-11464. [doi]  [abs]
20. Wilbourn, MP; Gottfried, AW; Kee, DW (2011). Consistency of hand-preference across the early years: long-term relationship to verbal intelligence and reading achievement in girls.. Developmental psychology, 47(4), 931-942. [21574699], [doi]  [abs]
21. Wilbourn, MP; Kee, DW (2010). Henry the nurse is a doctor too: Implicitly examining children's gender stereotypes for male and female occupational roles. Sex Roles, 62(9), 670-683. [doi]  [abs]
22. Wilbourn, MP; Casasola, M (2007). Discriminating signs: perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language.. Infant behavior & development, 30(1), 153-160. [doi]  [abs]
23. Casasola, M; Wilbourn, MP; Yang, S (2006). Can English-learning toddlers acquire and generalize a novel spatial word?. First Language, 26(2), 187-205. [doi]  [abs]
24. Casasola, M; Wilbourn, MP (2004). 14-Month-old infants form novel word-spatial relation associations. Infancy, 6(3), 385-396. [doi]  [abs]
25. Casasola, M; Wilbourn, MP (2004). Fourteen-month-old infants form novel word-spatial relation associations. Infancy, 6(3), 385-396.  [abs]

Chapters in Books

1. Gottfried, A.W., Gottfried, A.E., Bathurst, K., Guerin, D.W., & Parramore, M.(2003). "Socioeconomic status in children’s development and family environment: Infancy through adolescence. In M. Bornstein & R. Bradley (Eds.)." Socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2. Hersberger, S., Marcoulides, G., & Parramore, M. (2002). "Introduction to structural equation modeling techniques. In Pugesek, B., Tomer, A., von Eye, A. (Eds.)." Structural equation modeling: Applications in ecological and evolutionary research. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.