Lab Affiliation: Comparative Communication Laboratory

Research Interests:

Language Acquisition, Statistical Learning, Comparative Cognition and Communication with Nonhuman Primates.

Research Opportunities:

Availability for motivated undergraduates and new graduate students (see lab website).

Recent Publications:

Chapman, K.M., Weiss, D.J., & Rosenbaum, D.A. (in press). Evolutionary roots of motor planning: The end-state comfort effect in lemurs. Journal of Comparative Psychology

Mitchel, A. & Weiss, D.J. (in press) What's in a face? Visual contributions to speech segmentation. Language and Cognitive Processes

Weiss, D.J. & Chapman, K. (in press) Animal Learning and Behavior. To appear in the Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology

Weiss, D.J., Gerfen, C., & Mitchel, A.(in press) Colliding cues in word segmentation: The role of cue strength and general cognitive processes. Language and Cognitive Processes

Mitchel, A. D. & Weiss, D.J. (2009) Faces in segmentation: The role of audio-visual integration. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,667-678.

Weiss, D.J., Gerfen, C. & Mitchel, A.D. (2009) Speech segmentation in a simulated bilingual environment: A challenge for statistical learning? Language Learning and Development 5, 30-49.

Weiss, D.J. & Wark, J. (2009) Hysteresis effect in a motor task in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35 (3), 135-141.

Maye J., Weiss, D.J. & Aslin R.N. (2008) Statistical phonetic learning in infants: Facilitation and feature generalization. Developmental Science, 11 (1), 122-134.

Weiss, D.J., Gerfen, C., & Mitchell, A. (2008) Colliding cues in word segmentation: The role of cue strength and individual differences. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 537-549.

Weiss, D.J. & Maye, J. (2008) The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic systems. Avery, P., Rice, K., and Dresher, B.E. (Eds.) Contrast in Phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter (Berlin/ New York), 219-230.

Rosenbaum, D.A., Cohen, R.G., Jax, S.A., Weiss, D.J. & van der Wel, R. (2007) The problem of serial order in behavior: Lashley's Legacy. Human Movement Science, 26, 525-554.

Weiss, D.J., Wark, J. & Rosenbaum, D.A. (2007) Monkey see, monkey plan, monkey do: The end-state comfort effect in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Psychological Science, 18(12), 1063-1068.

Weiss, D.J. & Newport E. (2006) Mechanisms Underlying Language Acquisition: Benefits From a Comparative Approach. Infancy9(2), 241-257.

Weiss, D.J. & Santos, L. (2006) Introduction to Thematic Collection: Why Primates?: The Importance of Non-Human Primates for Understanding Human Infancy. Infancy 9(2), 133-146.

Weiss, D.J. & Gerfen, C. (2006) Language segmentation in a bilingual environment. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

Jordan, K., Weiss, D., Hauser, M., & McMurray, B. (2004) Individual recognition and antiphonal responses to loud contact calls produced by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). International Journal of Primatology 25(2), 465-475.

Maye, J. & Weiss, D.J. (2003) Statistical cues facilitate infants’ discrimination of difficult phonetic contrasts. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

Hauser, M.D., Weiss, D.J. & Marcus, G. (2002) Rule learning by cotton-top tamarins. Cognition, 86, B15-B22.

Miller C., Weiss, D.J. & Hauser, M.D. (2002) Mechanisms of acoustic classification in primates. A. Ghazanfar (Ed.), Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology. CRC Press. 43-61.

Weiss, D.J., Ghazanfar, A.A., Miller, C.T., & Hauser, M.D. (2002). Specialized processing of primate facial and vocal expressions: Evidence for cerebral asymmetries. L. Rogers and R. Andrew (Eds.), Comparative Vertebrate Laterality. 480-531.

Weiss, D.J. & Hauser, M.D. (2002) Perception of harmonics in the combination long call of cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) Animal Behaviour 64, 415-426.

Weiss D.J., Kralik, J.D., & Hauser, M.D. (2001). Face processing in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Cognition, 3,(4)191-205.

Weiss, D.J., Garibaldi, B. T., & Hauser, M. D. (2001). The production and perception of long calls by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus): Acoustic analyses and playback experiments. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 15(3), 258-271.