Publications
Can names shape facial appearance?
Zwebner, Y., Miller, M., Grobgeld, N., Goldenberg, J., & Mayo, R. (2024). Can names shape facial appearance?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(30), e2405334121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2405334121
Children who recovered from blindness experience difficulties in gaze following
Zohary, E., Harari, D., Ullman, S., Ben-Zion, I., Doron, R., Attias, S., Porat, Y., Sklar, A. Y., & Mckyton, A. (2022). Gaze following requires early visual experience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(20), e2117184119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117184119
Zipfian distributions facilitate word learning
Wolters, L., Lavi-Rotbain, O. & Arnon, I. (in press). Zipfian distributions facilitate word learning, Cognition.
Empathy development throughout the lifespan
Uzefovsky, Florina & Knafo-Noam, Ariel. (2019). Empathy development throughout the lifespan.
Redundancy in language can benefit learning
Tal, S., Arnon, I. (2022). Redundancy can benefit learning: Evidence from word order and case marking. Cognition
Statistical Learning performance improves with age
Shufaniya A., & Arnon, I. (2018). Statistical learning is not age-invariant during childhood: performance improves with age across modality. Cognitive Science, 42(8), 3100-3115.
Understanding when (and why) people give others the bigger piece of the pie
Shaw, A., Choshen-Hillel, S., & Caruso, E. M. (2016). The development of inequity aversion: Understanding when (and why) people give others the bigger piece of the pie. Psychological Science, 27(10), 1352–1359. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616660548
emergence of linguistic structure in children and adults
Raviv, Limor & Arnon, Inbal. (2018). Systematicity, but not compositionality: Examining the emergence of linguistic structure in children and adults using iterated learning. Cognition. 181. 160-173. 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.011.
The developmental trajectory of children's auditory and visual statistical learning abilities
Raviv, L., & Arnon, I. (2018). The developmental trajectory of children's auditory and visual statistical learning abilities: modality-based differences in the effect of age. Developmental science, 21(4), e12593. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12593
How do children who recovered from blindness learn to recognize shapes?
Orlov, T., Raveh, M., McKyton, A., Ben-Zion, I., & Zohary, E. (2021). Learning to perceive shape from temporal integration following late emergence from blindness. Current biology : CB, 31(14), 3162–3167.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.059
Children's narrow learning bottleneck accelerates the emergence of
Lucie Wolters, Simon Kirby, Inbal Arnon
Differences Between Children and Adults in the Use of Visual Cues for Word Segmentation
Lavi-Rotbain, O., & Arnon, I. (2018). Developmental Differences Between Children and Adults in the Use of Visual Cues for Segmentation. Cognitive science, 42 Suppl 2, 606–620. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12528
Enhancing second language learning through orthographical changes
Inbal Kimchi, Noga Reshef, Anna Vasileva & Inbal Arnon (28 Apr 2026): Enhancing second language learning through orthographical changes, Language Learning and Development, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2026.2662295
Differences in language learning between readers and pre-readers.
Havron, Naomi & Raviv, Limor & Arnon, Inbal. (2018). Literate and preliterate children show different learning patterns in an artificial language learning task. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. 2. 10.1007/s41809-018-0015-9.
Agency increases children's satisfaction with disadvantageous inequity
Gordon-Hecker, T., Shaw, A., & Choshen-Hillel, S. (2022). One for me, two for you: Agency increases children's satisfaction with disadvantageous inequity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 100, 104286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104286
How do values guide resource allocation in children?
Choshen-Hillel, S., Lin, Z., & Shaw, A. (2020). Children weigh equity and efficiency in making allocation decisions: Evidence from the US, Israel, and China. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 179, 702–714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.04.006
How does risk-taking propensity affect the way children share resources?
Benozio, A., Cohenian, R., & Hepach, R. (2023). Approach-avoidance orientations can predict young children’s decision-making. Plos one, 18(7), e0288799.
Genetically diverse groups are smarter.
Barneron, M., Yaniv, I., Abramson, L., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2024). Genetically-diverse crowds are wiser. Personality and Individual
How do values guide resource allocation in children?
Abramson, L., Daniel, E., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2018). The role of personal values in children's costly sharing and non-costly giving. Journal of experimental child psychology, 165, 117–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.03.007
statistical properties of language