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Papers

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Schreiner, M., Zettersten, M., Bergmann, C., Frank, M.C., Fritzsche, T., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hamlin, K., Kartushina, N., Kellier, D.K., Mani, N., Mayor, J., Saffran, J., Shukla, M., Silverstein, P., Soderstrom, M., & Lippold, M. (2022) Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large pre-registered infant sample. PsyArXiv. DOI:10.31234/osf.io/uwche

Shukla, M., and de Villiers, J. (2021) The role of language in building abstract, generalized conceptual representations of one- and two-place predicates in infants and adults. Cognition, 213, 104705. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104705

Shukla, M., Rasmussen, E.C., and Nestor, P. (2019) Emotion and decision-making: Induced mood influences IGT scores and deck selection strategies. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2018.1562049

Aslin, R.N., Shukla, M., and Emberson, L. (2014) Hemodynamic correlates of cognition in human infants. Annual Review of Psychology, 66: 349-379.

Shukla, M., White, K., and Aslin, R.N. (2011) Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word forms onto visual objects in 6-mo-old infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108(15): 6038-6043.

Shukla, M., Wen, J., White, K.S. and Aslin, R.N. (2011) SMART-T: A system for fully automated anticipatory eye-tracking paradigms. Behavior Research Methods 43(2): 384-398.

Gervain, J., Mehler, J., Werker, J.F., Nelson, C.A., Csibra, G., Lloyd-Fox, S., Shukla, M., and Aslin, R.N. (2011) Near Infrared Spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell Infant Methodology Consortium. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 1: 22-46.

Toro, J.M., Shukla, M., Nespor, M., and Endress, A.D. (2008) The quest for generalizations over consonants: Asymmetries between consonants and vowels are not the by-product of acoustic differences. Perception & Psychophysics 70(8): 1515-1525.

Nespor, M., Shukla, M., van de Vijver, R., Avesani, C., Schraudolf, H., and Donati, C. (2008) Different phrasal prominence realizations in VO and OV languages? Lingue e linguaggio VII.2: 1-28.

Shukla, M., Nespor, M., and Mehler, J. (2007) An interaction between prosody and statistics in the segmentation of ﬂuent speech. Cognitive Psychology 54(1): 1-32.

Shukla, M. (2005) Language from a biological perspective. J Biosciences 30(1): 119-127.

Chapters

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Shukla, M., and Ciaramitaro, V. (2016) Cognitive capacities of the infant mind: A neuroimaging perspective. In: M. Farisco & K. Evers (Eds.) Neurotechnology and direct brain communication. Taylor & Francis.

Shukla, M., Gervain, J., Mehler, J., and Nespor, M. (2012) Linguistic constraints on statistical learning in early language acquisition. In: P. Rebuschat & J.N. Williams (Eds.) Statistical learning and language acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter (pp 171 – 202).

Nespor, M., Shukla, M., and Mehler, J. (2011) Stress-timed vs. syllable-timed languages. In: M. van Oostendorp, C.J. Ewen, E. Hume & K. Rice (Eds.) The Blackwell companion to phonology. Wiley-Blackwell (pp 1147 – 1159).

Shukla, M., and Nespor, M. (2010) Rhythmic patterns cue word order. In: L. Rochman, & N. Erteschik-Shir (Eds.) The Sound Pattern of Syntax. OUP: Oxford (pp 174 - 188).

Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Shukla, M., and Peña, M. (2008) Perché solo gli esseri humani parlano? Controversie sui meccanismi di acquisizione del linguaggio. In: M. Piccolino (Ed.) Neuroscienze controverse. Bollati Boringhieri (pp 319-356).

Mehler, J., Gervain, J., Endress, A. D., and Shukla, M. (2007) Mechanisms of language acquisition: imaging and behavioral evidence. In: C. A. Nelson & M. Luciana (eds.) Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Edition). MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.

Mehler, J., Nespor, M., Shukla, M., and Peña, M. (2006) Why is language unique to humans? In: R. Romo and M. Diamond (Eds.) Percept, decision, action: bridging the gaps. Novartis Foundation: London, UK. (pp 251-280).

Posters & presentations

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(* undergraduate students; §graduate student)

*Sanchez, V.E., Shukla, M., and Carter, A.S. (2019) “Abnormal cry in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A comparative analysis of acoustic features of cry in clinical and non-clinical populations.” Poster at International Society for Autism Research, Montreal, Canada.

§Choi, M., and Shukla, M. (2019) “Can infants use multiple cues in learning phonemes?” Poster at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

§Choi, M., and Shukla, M. (2018) “Using multiple cues in phoneme learning.” Poster at XXI International Congress of Infant Studies Biennial Congress, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

§Choi, M., §Uysal, E., and Shukla, M. (2018) “Phoneme learning in a musical context.” Poster at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.

§Uysal, E., §Choi, M., and Shukla, M. (2018) “Some Complex Concepts Require Language: An eye-tracking study with 12- to 24-mo-old infants and adults.” Poster at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.

*Rasmussen, E.C., Nestor, P.G., Shukla, M., and Newell, D. (2014) “Personality, emotion, and decision-making: NEO-FFI factors and induced-mood influence IGT scores and deck selection.” Poster at the Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, USA.

*Rasmussen, E.C., Nestor, P.G., Shukla, M., and Newell, D. (2014) “Emotions and decision making in a college student sample.” Poster at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

*Paulus, D.J., Wadsworth, L.P., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., and Shukla, M. (2014) “Holding your attention: Measuring delayed disengagement from threat in social anxiety using reaction time and eye-tracking” Poster at the 47th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Nashville, TN.

§Guillory, S.B., Kaldy, Z., Shukla, M., and Pomplun, M. (2014) “Pupil dilation predicts memory strength in visual short-term memory task.” Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Shukla, M., and Aslin, R.N. (2011) “Stop-n-speak: A novel gaze-contingent paradigm for assessing auditory preferences in infancy.” Talk presented in the symposium, Gaze-contingent paradigms: A revolution in infancy research?, at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montréal, Canada.

Shukla, M., White, K.S. and Aslin, R.N. (2011) “Prosody guides statistical speech segmentation and word learning in 6-month-olds.” Talk at the symposium: The role of prosody in guiding language learning in pre-lexical infants, organized by M. Shukla, 2011 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Shukla, M., White, K.S. and Aslin, R.N. (2010) “Exploring Infants' Natural Categorization Biases with a Fully Automated Eye-tracking Methodology.” Talk at the International Conference on Infant studies, Baltimore, USA.

Shukla, M., Gebhart, A.L., and Aslin, R.N. (2009) “Optical Imaging of multimodal sensory processing in infants.” Talk at the SRCD 2009 Biennial Meeting, Denver, USA.

Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Shukla, M., Peña, M., and Gervain, J. (2007) “On different mechanisms involved in the acquisition of language.” Paper presented at the 8th ICGL Conference, University of Ioannina, Greece.

Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Gervain, J, and Shukla, M. (2005) “Differential acquisition of lexicon and grammar.” Talk presented at the 5th GLOW in Asia conference, October 2005, Delhi, India.

Invited

talks

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Shukla, M. (November 2018) “Event generalisation across visually different scenes using eye-¬‐tracking, across different populations” Invited talk at OASIS1 conference, CNRS/Paris 8, Paris, France.

Shukla, M. (May 2018) “HON 290: From neurons to thoughts” Invited talk at CBMM Education Workshop: Brains, Minds & Machines, Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, Wellesley College, MA, USA.

Shukla, M. (January 2018) “Language learning as a constrained computation” Invited colloquium, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India.

Shukla, M. (April 2016) “Do certain concepts need syntax for their development?” Workshop, Perception and Acquisition of Language, Trieste, Italy.

Shukla, M. (July 2014) “Prosodic cues and language acquisition.” XIX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, International Society on Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.

Shukla, M. (July 2014) “Contingent Eye-Tracking in Infancy Research.” Action Development: Theory and Methods, ACT Initial Training Network, Berlin, Germany.

Shukla, M. (June 2014) “Cue confluences, and a typology of learning.” CBC Seminar Series, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Shukla, M. (April 2014) “Prosodic cues to words and word order.” Smith College Psychology Department Talk, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA.

Shukla, M. (March 2014) How we complicate things for babies to make language learning easier, Nerd Nite Boston, Boston, MA, USA [public lecture].

Shukla, M. (January 2013) “Parallel processing of segmentals and suprasegmentals in speech segmentation.” Invited talk, Prosody Mini-conference, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.

Shukla, M. (July 2012) “When complex is simple: Prosody and word segmentation.” Invited talk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany.

Shukla, M. (May 2012) “Social cognition and language learning.” ICTS Workshop – Individuals and Groups, Almora, India.

Shukla, M. (February 2012) “Prosody and language acquisition.” Boston College Developmental Workshop Series, Boston, USA.

Shukla, M. (February 2012) “Timing issues in anticipatory looking paradigms in infants.” CRDH Workshop – Eye-Tracking for Developmental Researchers, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

Aslin, R.N., and Shukla, M. (October 2010) “Unimodal and multimodal sensory activations in human infant cortex.” Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Shukla, M. (May 2010) “The SMART-T system: Anticipatory eye-tracking in infancy.” EyeTracKids III: Eyetracking conference for infant and child researchers, Philadelphia, USA.

Aslin, R.N., Shukla, M., White, K.S., and Wen, J. (March 2010) “Use of a gaze-contingent eye-tracking paradigm to assess visual and auditory categories.” International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, USA.

Shukla, M. (May 2009) “Domain specificity and statistical computations in speech segmentation.” Interlocution Workshop, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Shukla, M. (July 2005) “Prosody vs stats.” NYU, New York, USA.

Shukla, M. (Dec 2003) “Language as a biological object.” Discussion Meeting on Genetic Determinism, Pelling, India.

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My Google Scholar page

Papers ✍︎ Chapters ✍︎ Posters & presentations ✍︎ Talks

Papers

Chapters

Shukla, M., and Ciaramitaro, V. (2016) Cognitive capacities of the infant mind: A neuroimaging perspective. In: M. Farisco & K. Evers (Eds.) Neurotechnology and direct brain communication. Taylor & Francis.

Shukla, M., Gervain, J., Mehler, J., and Nespor, M. (2012) Linguistic constraints on statistical learning in early language acquisition. In: P. Rebuschat & J.N. Williams (Eds.) Statistical learning and language acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter (pp 171 – 202).

Nespor, M., Shukla, M., and Mehler, J. (2011) Stress-timed vs. syllable-timed languages. In: M. van Oostendorp, C.J. Ewen, E. Hume & K. Rice (Eds.) The Blackwell companion to phonology. Wiley-Blackwell (pp 1147 – 1159).

Shukla, M., and Nespor, M. (2010) Rhythmic patterns cue word order. In: L. Rochman, & N. Erteschik-Shir (Eds.) The Sound Pattern of Syntax. OUP: Oxford (pp 174 - 188).

Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Shukla, M., and Peña, M. (2008) Perché solo gli esseri humani parlano? Controversie sui meccanismi di acquisizione del linguaggio. In: M. Piccolino (Ed.) Neuroscienze controverse. Bollati Boringhieri (pp 319-356).

Mehler, J., Gervain, J., Endress, A. D., and Shukla, M. (2007) Mechanisms of language acquisition: imaging and behavioral evidence. In: C. A. Nelson & M. Luciana (eds.) Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Edition). MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.

Mehler, J., Nespor, M., Shukla, M., and Peña, M. (2006) Why is language unique to humans? In: R. Romo and M. Diamond (Eds.) Percept, decision, action: bridging the gaps. Novartis Foundation: London, UK. (pp 251-280).

Posters & presentations

​

(* undergraduate students; §graduate student)

*Sanchez, V.E., Shukla, M., and Carter, A.S. (2019) “Abnormal cry in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A comparative analysis of acoustic features of cry in clinical and non-clinical populations.” Poster at International Society for Autism Research, Montreal, Canada.

§Choi, M., and Shukla, M. (2019) “Can infants use multiple cues in learning phonemes?” Poster at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

§Choi, M., and Shukla, M. (2018) “Using multiple cues in phoneme learning.” Poster at XXI International Congress of Infant Studies Biennial Congress, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

§Choi, M., §Uysal, E., and Shukla, M. (2018) “Phoneme learning in a musical context.” Poster at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.

§Uysal, E., §Choi, M., and Shukla, M. (2018) “Some Complex Concepts Require Language: An eye-tracking study with 12- to 24-mo-old infants and adults.” Poster at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.

*Rasmussen, E.C., Nestor, P.G., Shukla, M., and Newell, D. (2014) “Personality, emotion, and decision-making: NEO-FFI factors and induced-mood influence IGT scores and deck selection.” Poster at the Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, USA.

*Rasmussen, E.C., Nestor, P.G., Shukla, M., and Newell, D. (2014) “Emotions and decision making in a college student sample.” Poster at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

§Guillory, S.B., Kaldy, Z., Shukla, M., and Pomplun, M. (2014) “Pupil dilation predicts memory strength in visual short-term memory task.” Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Shukla, M., White, K.S. and Aslin, R.N. (2010) “Exploring Infants' Natural Categorization Biases with a Fully Automated Eye-tracking Methodology.” Talk at the International Conference on Infant studies, Baltimore, USA.

Shukla, M., Gebhart, A.L., and Aslin, R.N. (2009) “Optical Imaging of multimodal sensory processing in infants.” Talk at the SRCD 2009 Biennial Meeting, Denver, USA.

Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Shukla, M., Peña, M., and Gervain, J. (2007) “On different mechanisms involved in the acquisition of language.” Paper presented at the 8th ICGL Conference, University of Ioannina, Greece.

Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Gervain, J, and Shukla, M. (2005) “Differential acquisition of lexicon and grammar.” Talk presented at the 5th GLOW in Asia conference, October 2005, Delhi, India.

Invited

talks

Shukla, M. (November 2018) “Event generalisation across visually different scenes using eye-¬‐tracking, across different populations” Invited talk at OASIS1 conference, CNRS/Paris 8, Paris, France.

Shukla, M. (May 2018) “HON 290: From neurons to thoughts” Invited talk at CBMM Education Workshop: Brains, Minds & Machines, Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, Wellesley College, MA, USA.

Shukla, M. (January 2018) “Language learning as a constrained computation” Invited colloquium, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India.

Shukla, M. (April 2016) “Do certain concepts need syntax for their development?” Workshop, Perception and Acquisition of Language, Trieste, Italy.

Shukla, M. (July 2014) “Prosodic cues and language acquisition.” XIX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, International Society on Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.

Shukla, M. (July 2014) “Contingent Eye-Tracking in Infancy Research.” Action Development: Theory and Methods, ACT Initial Training Network, Berlin, Germany.

Shukla, M. (June 2014) “Cue confluences, and a typology of learning.” CBC Seminar Series, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Shukla, M. (April 2014) “Prosodic cues to words and word order.” Smith College Psychology Department Talk, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA.

Shukla, M. (March 2014) How we complicate things for babies to make language learning easier, Nerd Nite Boston, Boston, MA, USA [public lecture].

Shukla, M. (January 2013) “Parallel processing of segmentals and suprasegmentals in speech segmentation.” Invited talk, Prosody Mini-conference, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.

Shukla, M. (July 2012) “When complex is simple: Prosody and word segmentation.” Invited talk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany.

Shukla, M. (May 2012) “Social cognition and language learning.” ICTS Workshop – Individuals and Groups, Almora, India.

Shukla, M. (February 2012) “Prosody and language acquisition.” Boston College Developmental Workshop Series, Boston, USA.

Shukla, M. (February 2012) “Timing issues in anticipatory looking paradigms in infants.” CRDH Workshop – Eye-Tracking for Developmental Researchers, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

Aslin, R.N., and Shukla, M. (October 2010) “Unimodal and multimodal sensory activations in human infant cortex.” Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Shukla, M. (May 2010) “The SMART-T system: Anticipatory eye-tracking in infancy.” EyeTracKids III: Eyetracking conference for infant and child researchers, Philadelphia, USA.

Aslin, R.N., Shukla, M., White, K.S., and Wen, J. (March 2010) “Use of a gaze-contingent eye-tracking paradigm to assess visual and auditory categories.” International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, USA.

Shukla, M. (May 2009) “Domain specificity and statistical computations in speech segmentation.” Interlocution Workshop, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Shukla, M. (July 2005) “Prosody vs stats.” NYU, New York, USA.

Shukla, M. (Dec 2003) “Language as a biological object.” Discussion Meeting on Genetic Determinism, Pelling, India.

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