Presentations

Invited Talks

Saylor, M. & Janakiefski, L. (2021). Designing a lexicon: Preschoolers evaluate and elicit information about word meanings. Talk presented at Cognitive Linguistic & Psychological Sciences Developmental Brown Bag, Brown University.

Department Talks

Janakiefski, L. (2022). Continuing the quest on active questioning and early word learning. Talk presented at the Cognitive Science of Learning and Development Research Forum, Vanderbilt University.

Janakiefski, L. (2021). The effects of child-driven questioning on early word learning. Talk presented at the Cognitive Science of Learning and Development Research Forum, Vanderbilt University.

Janakiefski, L. (2020). Preschoolers seek information about unknown words and persist after uninformative definitions. Talk presented at the Cognitive Science of Learning and Development Research Forum, Vanderbilt University.

Janakiefski, L. (2020). Children’s information-seeking about unknown words. Talk presented at the Vanderbilt Summer Experience Flash Talks. Online session.

Janakiefski, L. (2018). The duration of recognition-induced forgetting. 3-Minute Thesis presented at the Ohio State University Autumn Undergraduate Research Festival, Columbus, OH.

Janakiefski, L., Wang, J., & Feigenson, L. (2018). Does early recognition of counting relate to later number abilities? Talk presented at the Johns Hopkins University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Baltimore, MD.

Conference Posters

Guicherit, I.*, Janakiefski, L., & Saylor M. M. (2022). Do preschoolers ask questions about words in online formats? Poster presented at the 2022 Biennial Cognitive Development Society Conference. Madison, WI.

Janakiefski, L., Printz, S.*, Warren, K.* & Saylor, M. M. (2022). Does active question-asking help children learn words? Poster presented at the 2022 Biennial Cognitive Development Society Conference. Madison, Wisconsin.

Janakiefski, L., Tippenhauer, N., & Saylor, M. M. (2021). Inquiring about the unknown: Preschoolers' questions about word meanings. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting. Online session.

Janakiefski, L., Scotti, P., & Maxcey, A.M. (2020). Different underlying mechanisms for induced and directed forgetting. Poster presented at the 61^st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Online session. Video.

Janakiefski, L., Tippenhauer, N., & Saylor, M. M. (2020). Preschoolers’ responses to unknown words: Questions and evaluation of definition quality. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting. Online session.

Scotti, P., Janakiefski, L., Smerdell, M. & Maxcey, A. M. (2019). Recognition-induced forgetting of pictures does not operate over superordinate categories. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Janakiefski, L., Smerdell, M., Scott, P., & Maxcey, A.M. (2019). Recognition-induced forgetting of temporally related memories. Poster presented at the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences CogFest Poster Session, Columbus, Ohio.

Megla, E., Janakiefski, L., & Maxcey, A.M. (2018). Different mechanisms of forgetting for words and pictures. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Janakiefski, L., Burens, S., & Stallkamp, S. (2017). Examining the context account of access-based forgetting. Poster presented at the Ohio State University Fall Undergraduate Research Forum, Columbus, Ohio.

Maxcey, A.M., Janakiefski, L., & Burens, S. (2017). Does the reactivation of the practice phase account for recognition-induced forgetting? Poster presented at the Midwest Cognitive Science Conference, Oxford, Ohio.

*indicates an advised undergraduate co-author