• Shivaram. A. & Ryherd, K. (2024). Higher teacher and student usage of Newsela is linked to stronger ELA outcomes: A Newsela Validity Report [White Paper] Newsela. [PDF]

    Shivaram, A., Shao, R., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2024). Early emergence of relational ability in preschoolers: Insights from the Relational Match-to-Sample task. [Manuscript submitted for publication].

    Shivaram, A., Shao, R., Simms, N., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2023). When do children pass the Relational-Match-To-Sample task?. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). [PDF]

    Anderson, E. M., Shivaram, A., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2023). The less is more paradox in relational learning. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). [PDF]

    Schechter, R., Chase, P., Shivaram, A. & Staeps, M. (2023). Virtual lab implementation model predicts STEM future plans: Insights from contemporary Science courses in higher education. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 1235-1242). Vienna, Austria: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). [PDF]

    Hespos, S., & Shivaram, A. (2022). Can a computer think like a baby?. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-1. [PDF]

    Shivaram, A., Chavez, Y., Anderson, E., Fritz, A., Jackson, R, Edwards, L. Powers, S., Libertus, M., & Hespos, S. J. (2021). Brief interventions influence the quantity and quality of caregiver-child conversations in an everyday context. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 2228. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645788 [PDF]

    Hespos, S., Gentner, D., Anderson, E., & Shivaram, A. (2021). The origins of same/different discrimination in human infants. Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences, 37, 69-74. DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.10.013 [PDF]

    Murphy, A. N., Zheng, Y., Shivaram, A., Vollman, E., & Richland, L. E. (2021). Bias and sensitivity to task constraints in spontaneous relational attention. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 202, 104981. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104981 [PDF]

  • Shivaram, A., Shao, R., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2024, March 21-23). Relational insight in preschoolers: Does language matter? Symposium organizer, chair, and presenter at the Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference, Pasadena, CA, USA.

    Shivaram, A., & Zissimopolous, A. (2023). A 10-week training program enhances research communication skills. Poster presented at The Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Biennial Meeting, Nagoya, Japan. [link]

    Anderson, E., Shivaram, A., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2023). The less is more paradox in relational learning. Talk presented at The Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia. [link]

    Shivaram, A., Shao, R., Simms, N., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2023). When do children pass the Relational Match-to-Sample task? Poster presented at The Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia. [poster]

    Shivaram, A., Youkhanna, M., & Hespos, S. (2023). Mixed results testing categorization in infants using a preferential-looking paradigm on Zoom. Poster presented at The Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia. [poster]

    Shivaram, A., Brundige, E., Guy, L., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2022). Tracing the developmental trajectory of children’s relational learning. Talk presented at Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada.

    Shivaram, A., Youkhanna, M., van Heugten, M., & Hespos, S. (2022). The link between language and cognition in infancy. Talk presented at Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada.

    Shivaram, A., Brundige, E., Guy, L., Hespos, S. J., & Gentner, D. (2022). Examining the developmental trajectory of relational learning in early childhood. Poster presented at Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference, Madison, WI, USA. [poster]

    Shivaram, A., Chavez, Y., Anderson, E., Fritz, A., Jackson, R, Edwards, L. Powers, S., Libertus, M., & Hespos, S. J. (2022). Brief interventions influence the quantity and quality of caregiver-child conversations in an everyday context. Symposium talk presented at SRCD Special Topics Meeting: Learning through Play and Imagination, St. Louis, MO, USA. [slides]

    Shivaram, A., Youkhanna, M., & Hespos, S. (2021). Can infant looking paradigms transfer to a Zoom platform? Symposium talk presented at the Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation (ABC), Hybrid Meeting. [slides]

    Shivaram, A. & Dworak, E. (2021). Modeling student math achievement across countries using TIMSS 2015 and 2019. Poster presented at Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), Virtual Meeting. [slides]

    Shivaram, A., Anderson, E., Hespos, S. J., & Gentner, D. (2021). Progressively Aligning Multiple Exemplars in Infancy. Poster presented at SRCD 2021: Virtual Biennial Meeting. [poster]

    Shivaram, A., Anderson, E., Hespos, S. J., & Gentner, D. (2021). When Does one Exemplar Behave Like Many? Poster presented at SRCD 2021: Virtual Bi-Ennial Meeting. [poster]

    Moore, J. & Shivaram, A. (2020). Exploring Identity: New International Graduate Students Negotiating Race/Place in the US. Talk presented at the 2020 Symposium on World Languages Education.

    Murphy, A., Zheng, Y., Shivaram, A., Vollman, L., & Richland, L. E. (2019). Influence of culture and priming on analogical reasoning performance across development. Poster presented at The Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Louisville, KY, USA.

    Shivaram, A. (2019). Why are we so smart? The origins of abstract thought. Talk presented at the Seven Minutes of Scholarship symposium, Chicago, IL, USA. [video]

    Zheng, Y., Shivaram, A., & Richland, L. E. (2017). The trade-offs of gesture on analogical reasoning and memory for relations. Poster presented at The Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference, Portland, OR, USA.

    Shivaram, A., Zheng, Y., & Richland, L. E. (2017). Gesture influences analogical reasoning and its memory. Paper presented at The Second Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

  • Development of relational reasoning: When do children pass the RMTS task? (March, 2023). Cognitive Science Early Career Colloquium Series, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

    Alignment and complexity: Two factors that influence children's relational reasoning. (January, 2023). Cognitive Area brownbag, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

    So you want to communicate your research. (February, 2022). ARES Workshop Series, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

    Continuity or Curvilinear: The trajectory of children’s relational learning. (December, 2021). Developmental Area brownbag, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. Virtual talk.

    Spot the relation: Factors that influence children’s relational learning. (November, 2021). Cognitive Area brownbag, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

    Meet the Greebles: Progressively aligning multiple exemplars in infancy. (May, 2021). Cognitive Area brownbag, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. Virtual talk.

    Can you find it?: Integration of thought and action on a search task. (March, 2020). Cognitive Area brownbag, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

    Why are we so smart? The origins of abstract thought. (August, 2019). Seven Minutes of Scholarship symposium, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

    Mangelsdorf, H. H. & Shivaram, A. (2018). Metaphoric iconicity of gestures in classical Indian dance. Invited talk at the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, India.