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Diane Poulin-Dubois
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Research
Latest papers
Social priming enhances young children's trust in robots.
Journal of experimental child psychology · 2027
Training word learning in toddlers: Translation equivalents are more challenging to learn than native language words and facilitate working memory growth.
Infant behavior & development · 2026 · senior author
A Test of the Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism With the Early Childhood Inhibitory Touchscreen Task.
Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $97,307
Portable Eyetracking Technology to Study Infant Language and Cognitive Development In Diverse Learners
NSERC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $40,000
The impact of early bilingualism on cognitive abilities
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $122,794
Selective trust and theory of mind: developmental changes and cognitive mechanisms
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
54 publications.
Social priming enhances young children's trust in robots.
Magnini M, Poulin-Dubois D, Goldman EJ, Tacci AL, Aquilino L, Manzi F, Baumann AE, Massaro D, Marchetti A
Training word learning in toddlers: Translation equivalents are more challenging to learn than native language words and facilitate working memory growth.
Fratino V, Zaharakis E, Poulin-Dubois D
A Test of the Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism With the Early Childhood Inhibitory Touchscreen Task.
Piuze A, Jennings S, Poulin-Dubois D
Children's attribution of mental states to humans and social robots assessed with the Theory of Mind Scale.
Goldman EJ, Baumann AE, Pare L, Beaudoin J, Poulin-Dubois D
Children's anthropomorphism of inanimate agents.
Goldman EJ, Poulin-Dubois D
Do preschoolers trust a competent robot pointer?
Baumann AE, Goldman EJ, Cobos MM, Poulin-Dubois D
Touching while listening: Does infants' haptic word processing speed predict vocabulary development?
Beaudin K, Poulin-Dubois D, Zesiger P
Of children and social robots.
Goldman EJ, Baumann AE, Poulin-Dubois D
Do I know what they know? Linking metacognition, theory of mind, and selective social learning.
Dutemple E, Hakimi H, Poulin-Dubois D
Preschoolers' anthropomorphizing of robots: Do human-like properties matter?
Goldman EJ, Baumann AE, Poulin-Dubois D
Portable Eyetracking Technology to Study Infant Language and Cognitive Development In Diverse Learners
Principal investigators: Byers-Heinlein, Krista
Keywords: eyetracking; langauge comprehension; indigenous language revitalization; bilingualism; developmental psychology; cognitive development; cognition
The impact of early bilingualism on cognitive abilities
Principal investigators: Poulin-Dubois, Diane
Keywords: bilingualism; development; executive functions; training; cognition; curiosity
Selective trust and theory of mind: developmental changes and cognitive mechanisms
Principal investigators: Poulin-Dubois, Diane
Keywords: selective trust; theory of mind; development; robots; learning
Selective trust and theory of mind: developmental changes and cognitive mechanisms
Principal investigators: Poulin-Dubois, Diane
Keywords: selective trust; theory of mind; development; robots; learning
The developmental origins of object categories: how motion cues and labels bootstrap early categorization skills
Principal investigators: Poulin-Dubois, Diane
Keywords: Agency; Animacy; Categorization; Concepts; Development; Infancy; learning
The ontogeny of socio-cognitive abilities: probing the depth of infants' theory of mind and selective trust
Principal investigators: Poulin-Dubois, Diane
Keywords: development; social cognition; theory of mind; learning
The developmental origins of the animacy concept
Principal investigators: PoulinDubois, Diane
Theory of mind in infancy: an examination of inter-task coherence, ontogenetic progression, and role of agent properties
Principal investigators: Poulin-Dubois, Diane
Keywords: social cognition; development; infancy; theory of mind; trust
Developmental origins of naïve psychology: scope and depth of infants' understanding of human behavior
Principal investigators: Poulin-Dubois, Diane
Keywords: infancy; theory of mind; social cognition; agency; animacy
Infants' object categories: principles of developmental changes
Principal investigators: PoulinDubois, Diane
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Diane Poulin-Dubois and Krista Byers-Heinlein: 2 shared papers
- Elizabeth Kelley and Diane Poulin-Dubois: 1 shared paper
- Diane Poulin-Dubois and Ellen Bialystok: 1 shared paper
- Diane Poulin-Dubois and Petra Hauf: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Other Library and Information Science
- Other
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