Maria Sera

Scott, N.M. & Sera, M.D. (2018) Language unifies relational coding: The roles of label acquisition and accessibility in making flexible relational judgments. Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 101, pp 136-152.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2017). Report of the Committee on Fostering School Success for English Learners: Toward New Directions in Policy, Practice, and Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press (committee member/co-author).

Sera, M.D., Maratsos, M. & Carlson, S. M. (2017) Culture and Developmental Systems. Co-Editor of Volume 38 of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, Wiley.

Scott, N., Leuthod, A., Sera, M., & Georgopolous,  A.P. (2016) Differential Neural Activity Patterns for Spatial Relations in Humans: A MEG Study. Experimental Brain Research, 234 (2) 429-441.

Kurinski, E., Jambor, E., & Sera, M.D. (2016). Spanish grammatical gender: Its effects on categorization in native Hungarian speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism, Vol. 20, (1), 76-93.

Prager, E. O., Sera, M.D. & Carlson, S. M. (2016) Executive function and magnitude skills in preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 147, 126-139.

Mazzocco, M., Chan, J. Y. & Sera, M.D. (2016) Contextual sensitivity and the large number word bias: When is bigger really more? In A. Henik (Ed.) Continuous issues in numerical cognition: How many or how much? Pp. 82-105, Elsevier.

Scott, N. Sera, M.D. & Georgopoulos, A. (2015). An information theory analysis of spatial decisions in cognitive development, Frontiers in Neuroscience, DOI: 0.3389/fnins.2015.00014.

Scott, N., Leuthod, A., Sera, M. D., and Georgopoulos, A. P. (2015) Differential Neural Activity Patterns for Spatial Relations in Humans: A MEG Study. Experimental Brain Research, DOI 10007/s0021-015-44676.

Kurisnki, E., Jambor, E. & Sera, M.D. (2015) Spanish grammatical gender: its effect on native Hungarian speakers, International Journal of Bilingualism, pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1177/1367006915576833

Sera, M. D., Cole, C., Oromendia, M. & Koenig, M. (2014). Object familiarity facilitates foreign word learning in preschoolers.  Language Learning and Development, Vol. 10, Issue 2. 129-148.

Sera, M.D., Johnson, K., & Kuo, J. (2013) Classifiers augment and maintain shape-based categorization in Mandarin speakers. Language and Cognition, 5 (1) 1-23.

Sera, M. D. & Scott, N. (2013) Development of cognitive control: Where are we and what’s next? In Zelazo, P. & Sera, M.D. (editors) The Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, Volume 37: Developing Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications, and Interventions, Wiley, pp 233-245.

Zelazo, P. & Sera, M. D. (2013) Developing Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications and Interventions. Co-Editor of Volume 37 of the Minnesota Symposiam on Child Psychology, Wiley.

Sera, M. D. & Millet, K. G. (2011) Developmental differences in shape processing. Cognitive Development, 26 (1), 40-56.

Kurisnki, E. & Sera, M. D. (2011) Does learning Spanish grammatical gender change English adults’ concepts of inanimate objects? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14 (2), 203-220.

Sera, M., & Goodrich, W. (2010) Who thinks that a piece of furniture refers to a broken couch? Count-mass constructions and individuation in English and Spanish. Journal of Cognitive Linguistics, 21 (3), 419-442.

Kuo, Y., & Sera, M. (2009) Classifier effects on human categorization: the role of shape classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Volume 18, Number 1, pp. 1-19.,

Sera, M., & Millett, K. (2008). The acquisition of English by Spanish-Speaking preschoolers. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference of English Teaching and Learning: 2008 International Conference on English Instruction and Assessment.

Martin, A. J. & Sera, M. D. (2006) The acquisition of spatial constructions in ASL and English. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volume 11, Number 4, pp 391-402.

Sera, M., Elieff, C., Forbes, J., Burch, M. Rodríguez, W., Poulin-Dubois, D. (2002) When language affects cognition and when it does not: An analysis of grammatical gender and classification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(3), 377-397.

Manning, C., Sera, M., & Pick, H.(2002). Understanding how we talk about space: An examination of the meaning of English spatial prepositions. In K.R. Coventry and P. Oliver (Ed.) Spatial Language: Cognitive and Computational Perspectives, pp. 147-164. Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Abecassis, M., Sera, M., Yonas, A., & Schwade, J. (2001) What’s in a shape? Children represent shape variability differently than adults when naming objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 78, pp. 213–239.