Cognitive Development Society 2024

  • Neff, M. B., Ganea, P. A. & Falkum I.L. (2024, March). What happens when children’s ‘literal’ and ‘reality’ biases clash? Poster presented at the Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA. [poster]
  • Nyhout, A. & Ganea, P.A. (2024, March). Which counterfactuals are difficult? Paper presented at the Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA.

Experimental Psychology Society Meeting 2024

  • Nyhout, A., Veall, E., & Ganea, P.A. (2024, January). The Co-Construction of Counterfactual Worlds in Parent-Child Conversations. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London.

Conference of the Jean Piaget Society 2023

  • Nyhout, A. & Ganea, P.A. (2023, June). Children’s counterfactual thinking about deterministic and probabilistic causal relations. Paper presented at the Conference of the Jean Piaget Society, Madrid, Spain.

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2023

  • Nyhout, A., Veall, E., & Ganea, P.A. (2023, March). The Co-Construction of Counterfactual Worlds in Parent-Child Conversations. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.

Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2023

  • Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, P. A. (2023). Revisiting the acquisition of conditionals in early language production. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2023, Budapest, Hungary. [poster]

Canadian Development Psychology Conference 2022

  • Veall, E., Nyhout, A., & Ganea, P.A. (2022, June). The Co-Construction of Counterfactual Worlds in Parent-Child Reminiscing. Poster presented at Development 2022: A Canadian Conference on Developmental Psychology, Calgary, Alberta. [poster]
  • Venkadasalam, V. P., Larsen, N.E., & Ganea, P.A. (June 2022). Science misconceptions in kindergarten: The role of conceptual explanations and guidance in conceptual change. In Hilton, B. (Chair), Evidence and Exploration: Children’s evaluation of information when making inferences and revising beliefs. Symposium presented at Development 2022 Conference, Calgary, Alberta.

Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2022

  • Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, A. P. (2022, January). The development of conditional meaning. [Oral presentation]. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2022, Budapest, Hungary.

Boston University Conference on Language Development 2021

  • Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, A. P. (2021, November). The early meaning of conditionals. Poster presented at the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, USA. [poster]

Cognitive Science Society 2021

  • Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, A. P. (2021, July).  Acquiring the meaning of conditionals. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vienna, Austria. [poster]
  • Nyhout, A., Sweatman, H., & Ganea, P.A. (2021, July). Children’s reasoning about hypothetical interventions to complex and dynamic causal systems. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vienna, Austria. [poster]

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2021

  • Strouse, G., Hackeek, S., & Ganea, P. (2021, April). Learning to learn words from video: 2.5-year-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding [Oral presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development.
  • Venkadasalam, V. P., Larsen, N. E., & Ganea, P.A. (2021, April). Does Genre Matter when Teaching Kindergarteners Physical Science Concepts?. In Haber, A. & Kumar, S. (Chairs), Learning by Reading: Fostering Children’s Science Learning Through Storybooks. Virtual Symposium at the Society for Research in Child Development.

International Society for Developmental Psychobiology 2020

  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Blanchfield, O., Rusnak, S., Motta, A., Greenwood, H., Strautman, N.,  Lozano, G., Ganea, P., & Barr. R. (2020, October). Monolingual and Bilingual 2-year-olds’ Learning and Transfer of Words from Books to Real Objects. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) virtual meeting. [poster]

Cognitive Science Society 2020

  • Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, A. P. (2020, July). Children’s expectations of reciprocity in referential communication. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON, Canada. [poster]
  • Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, A. P. (2020, July). Children’s use of linguistic and non-linguistic negation in reasoning by the disjunctive syllogism. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON, Canada. [poster]
  • Nyhout, A., Larsen, N.E., & Ganea, P.A. (2020, July). Children’s understanding of the communicative intentions of storytelling. Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Society 2020 pre-conference workshop, How stories shape us and how we shape stories, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Venkadasalam, V. P., Nguyen, L. G., Nyhout, A., Larsen, N. E., & Ganea, P.A. (2020, July). Science & engineering goals: Learning about the control-of-variable strategy from picture books. Poster presented virtually at the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON. [poster]
  • Venkadasalam, V. P., Larsen, N. E., & Ganea, P.A. (July 2020). Does Genre Matter when Teaching Kindergarteners Science Concepts? In Nyhout, A., Venkadasalam, V. P.,Keith Oatley K., & Mar, R. (Organizers), How stories shape us, and how we shape stories. Virtually presented at the Cognitive Science Society 2020 Pre-conference Workshop, Toronto, ON.

Cognitive Development Society 2019

  • Ganea, P. A. (2019, October). How cognitive development research can inform digital media research. Invited paper presented at the Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Pre-Conference Workshop on Digital Media and Cognitive Development. Louisville, KY.
  • Larsen, N.E., Venkadasalam, V.P., & Ganea, P.A. (2019, October). Science in the classroom: Addressing science misconceptions in the early years through books and play. Paper presented at the Cognitive Development Society (CDS). Louisville, KY.
  • Nyhout, A., Sweatman, H., & Ganea, P. A. (2019, October). Children’s counterfactual and future hypothetical inferences about different causal structures. Paper presented at the Cognitive Development Society (CDS). Louisville, KY.
  • Nyhout, A., Sweatman, H., & Ganea, P. A. (2019, October). Children’s reasoning about hypothetical interventions to complex biological systems. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society (CDS). Louisville, KY. [poster]
  • Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, P. A. (2019, October). Is children’s referential communication affected by a conversational partner’s helpfulness? Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society (CDS). Louisville, KY. [poster]
  • Venkadasalam, V.P., Larsen, N.E., & Ganea, P.A. (2019, October). Promoting conceptual change using picture books and guided play in science. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society (CDS). Louisville, KY. [poster]

Cognitive Science Society 2019

  • Grigoroglou, M., Chan, S., & Ganea, P. A. (2019, July). Language facilitates 2.5-year-olds’ reasoning by the disjunctive syllogism. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, CA. [poster] [paper]
  • Larsen, N.E., Venkadasalam, V.P., & Ganea, P.A. (2019). Without Conceptual Information Children Miss the Boat: Examining the role of Explanations and Anomalous Evidence in Scientific Belief Revision. In A. Goel, C. Seifert, & C. Freska (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, CA: Cognitive Science Society. [proceedings]
  • Larsen, N.E., Venkadasalam, V.P., & Ganea, P.A. (2019, July). A Well-Balanced Approach: Using Guided Play to Teach Children Science Concepts. Poster presented at the Guided Playful Learning Workshop at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, CA. [poster]
  • Nguyen, L., Nyhout, A., Venkadasalam, V.P., Larsen, N.E., & Ganea, P.A. (2019, July). Using picture books to support children’s use and understanding of the control of variables strategy. Poster presented at the Guided Playful Learning Workshop at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, CA. [poster]
  • Nyhout, A., Iannuzziello, A., Walker, C.M., & Ganea, P.A. (2019). Thinking counterfactually supports children’s ability to conduct  a controlled test of a hypothesis. In A. Goel, C. Seifert, & C. Freska (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, CA: Cognitive Science Society. [poster] [proceedings]
  • Venkadasalam, V.P., Larsen, N.E., & Ganea, P.A. (2019, July). Predicting the Fall: How Children Make Predictions During Guided Play. Poster presented at the Guided Playful Learning Workshop at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, CA. [poster]
  • Venkadasalam, V.P., Larsen, N.E., & Ganea, P.A. (2019, July). The importance of explanations in guided activities. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, CA. [poster]

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2019

  • Venkadasalam, V.P., Larsen, N.E., & Ganea, P.A. (2019, March). The role of explanations and guided play in young children’s revision of physical science misconceptions. In Danovitch, J. (Chair), Explanation and Exploration in Children’s Intuitive and Scientific Theories. Paper Symposium conducted at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Baltimore, MD.
  • Walker, C.M., Goel, D., Nyhout, A., & Ganea, P.A. (2019, March). Evidence for early recognition of inconclusive data in children’s evaluation of evidence. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Baltimore, MD.