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Ellefson, M.R., Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (in press). Learning to label letters by sounds or names: A comparison of England and the United States. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. pdf or SRCD 2007 presentation

Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R., Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (in press). Connectionist models of developmental disorders: A critical appraisal. In D.L Molfese & V.J. Molfese (Eds.), Handbook of developmental neuropsychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pdf

Ellefson, M.R., Brinker, R.A., Vernacchio, V.J., & Schunn, C.D. (2008). Design-based learning for biology: Genetic engineering experience improves understanding of gene expression. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 36, 292-298. pdf

Young, M.E., Wasserman, E.A. & Ellefson, M. R. (2007). A theory of variability discrimination: Finding differences. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 805-822. pdf

Ellefson, M.R., Shapiro, L.R., & Chater, N. (2006). Asymmetrical switch costs in children. Cognitive Development, 21, 108-130. pdf

Johnstone, E.L., Ellefson, M.R., & Chater, N. (2005). Young Children’s Attribution of Causality under Uncertainty. In B. G. Bara, L. W. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1060-1065). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pdf

Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M., & Ellefson, M.R. (2003). Raising the bar for connectionist modeling of developmental disorders. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 752-753.

Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R., & Christiansen, M.H. (2003). When less is less and when less is more: Starting small with staged input. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.670-675). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pdf

Young, M.E., & Ellefson, M.R. (2003). The joint contributions of shape and color to variability discrimination. Learning and Motivation, 34, 52-67. pdf

Young, M.E., Ellefson, M.R., & Wasserman, E.A. (2003). Toward a theory of variability discrimination: Finding differences. Behavioural Processes, 62, 145-155. pdf

Christiansen, M.H., Dale, R.A.C., Ellefson, M.R., & Conway, C.M. (2002). The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computation and experimental studies. In A. Cangelosi and D. Parisi (Eds.), Computational approaches to the evolution of language. Springer Verlag: New York. pdf

Christiansen, M.H., & Ellefson, M.R., (2002). Linguistic adaptation without linguistic constraints: The role of sequential learning in language evolution. In A. Wray (Ed.), The transition to language: Studies in the evolution of language (pp. 335-358). Oxford University Press: Oxford UK. pdf

Molfese, D.L., Narter, D.B., Van Matre, A.J., Ellefson, M.R., & Modglin, A.A. (2001). Language development during infancy and early childhood: Electrophysiological correlates. In J. Weissenborn and B. Hoehle (Eds.), Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language development, (Volume XX, pp. 181-229). John Benjamins: Amsterdam-Philadelphia.