The Whorf hypothesis, lateralized

Terry Regier, Paul Kay, Aubrey Gilbert, and Richard Ivry (in press). Language and thought: Which side are you on, anyway? In B. Malt and P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the Mind: Perspectives on the Language-Thought Interface. New York: Oxford University Press.

A. Franklin, G. V. Drivonikou, A. Clifford, P. Kay, T. Regier, and I. R. L. Davies (2008). Lateralization of categorical perception of color changes with color term acquisition. PNAS, 105, 18221-18225.

Aubrey Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard Ivry (2008). Support for lateralization of the Whorf effect beyond the realm of color discrimination. Brain and Language, 105, 91-98.

A. Franklin, G. V. Drivonikou, L. Bevis, I. R. L. Davies, P. Kay, and T. Regier (2008). Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults. PNAS, 105, 3221-3225.

G. V. Drivonikou, P. Kay, T. Regier, R. B. Ivry, A. L. Gilbert, A. Franklin, and I. R. L. Davies (2007). Further evidence that Whorfian effects are stronger in the right visual field than the left. PNAS, 104, 1097-1102.

Aubrey Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard Ivry (2006). Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left. PNAS, 103, 489-494.

Poverty of the stimulus

Amy Perfors, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Terry Regier (submitted). The learnability of abstract syntactic principles. (Comments are welcome. This manuscript is still under review, so please do not cite).

Stephani Foraker, Terry Regier, Naveen Khetarpal, Amy Perfors, and Joshua Tenenbaum (2009). Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus: The case of anaphoric one. Cognitive Science, 33, 287-300. [Earlier version from 2007 Cognitive Science conference is here.]

Amy Perfors, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Terry Regier (2006). Poverty of the stimulus? A rational approach. In R. Sun and N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Terry Regier and Susanne Gahl (2004). Learning the unlearnable: The role of missing evidence. Cognition 93, 147-155.

Color naming

Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Naveen Khetarpal (2007). Color naming is near optimal. In D. S. McNamara and J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Naveen Khetarpal (2007). Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space. PNAS, 104, 1436-1441.

Paul Kay and Terry Regier (2007). Color naming universals: The case of Berinmo. Cognition, 102, 289-298.

Paul Kay and Terry Regier (2006). Language, thought, and color: Recent developments. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10(2), 51-54.

Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard S. Cook (2005). Universal foci and varying boundaries in linguistic color categories. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Richard S. Cook, Paul Kay, and Terry Regier (2005). The World Color Survey database: History and use. In H. Cohen and C. Lefebvre (Eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science (pp. 223-242). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard S. Cook (2005). Focal colors are universal after all. PNAS, 102, 8386-8391.

Terry Regier and Paul Kay (2004). Color naming and sunlight: Commentary on Lindsey and Brown (2002). Psychological Science, 15(4), 289-290.

Paul Kay and Terry Regier (2003). Resolving the question of color naming universals. PNAS, 100, 9085-9089.

Spatial language

Naveen Khetarpal, Asifa Majid, and Terry Regier (in press). Spatial terms reflect near-optimal spatial categories. In N. Taatgen et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Terry Regier and Mingyu Zheng (2007). Attention to endpoints: A cross-linguistic constraint on spatial meaning. Cognitive Science, 31, 705-719.

Terry Regier and Mingyu Zheng (2003). An attentional constraint on spatial meaning. In R. Alterman and D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Terry Regier and Laura Carlson (2001). Grounding spatial language in perception: An empirical and computational investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 273-298.

L. Elizabeth Crawford, Terry Regier, and Janellen Huttenlocher (2000). Linguistic and non-linguistic spatial categorization. Cognition, 75, 209-235.

Terry Regier (1996). The human semantic potential: Spatial language and constrained connectionism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Terry Regier (2005). The emergence of words: Attentional learning in form and meaning. Cognitive Science 29, 819-865.

Terry Regier (2003). Emergent constraints on word-learning: A computational review. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 263-268.

Terry Regier, Bryce Corrigan, Rachael Cabasaan, Amanda Woodward, Michael Gasser, and Linda Smith. (2001). The emergence of words. In J. D. Moore and K. Stenning (Eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 815-820). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Terry Regier and Muhammad Ali Khalidi (2009). The Arab street: Tracking a political metaphor. Middle East Journal, 63, 11-29.

Terry Regier (2003). Constraining computational models of cognition. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (pp. 611 - 615). London: Macmillan.

Terry Regier (1998). Reduplication and the arbitrariness of the sign. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 887-892). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.