Publications

Lany, J., Giglio, M., & Oswald, M. (2018) Infants’ Lexical Processing Efficiency is Related to Vocabulary Size by One Year of Age Infancy https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12228

In Prep Publications

  • Oswald, M., Levine, S., Goldin-Meadow, S. (in prep) Spontaneous Use of Iconic Number Gestures in the Home Environment

  • Oswald, M. & Levine, S. (in prep) Math Talk During Everyday Activities

  • Levine, S, Oswald, M., & Petersen, L. (in prep) Sex Differences in Parental Support During Block Play

  • Oswald, M., Levine, S., Goldin-Meadow, S. (in prep) Iconic Number Gestures Increase Talk about Numbers

Academic Talks

  • Oswald, M., Levine, S. (June 2023) Gesture’s Role in Numerical Development. 2023 Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference, Loughborough, UK

  • Oswald, M., Levine, S. (March 2023) The Role of Spontaneous Iconic Number Gestures in Children’s Home Environment. 2023 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT

  • Oswald, M. (April 2022) Gesture’s Role in Cardinal Number Learning. Northwestern University Psychology Brownbag, online.

  • Oswald, M., Frausel, R., Levine, S., Goldin-Meadow, S. (September 2021) Activities that Encourage Math Talk. Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society 2021 Conference, online.

  • Oswald, M., Petersen, L., Levine, S. (April 2021) Sex Differences in Parental Spatial Language During Block Play: Higher Quantity for Boys Explained by Length of Play. 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, online.

  • Oswald, M., Hurst, M., Thomson, K., Levine, S. (April 2021) Parents’ and Children’s Use of Magnitude and Ordinal Relational Vocabulary. 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, online.

  • Oswald, M. (March 2021) Gesture’s Role in Cardinal Number Learning. University of Wisconsin Madison Psychology Proseminar, online.

  • Oswald, M. (November 2020) Gestures: The Super-Manipulative. University of Chicago Developmental Brown Bag, online.

  • Oswald, M. (October 2020) Activities that Encourage Math Talk. University of Chicago Developmental Brown Bag, online.

  • Butts, J.*, Oswald, M.*, Levine, S. (June 2020) Spatial Transformation Beyond Rotation: Developing and Validating a New Mental Folding Measure. Accepted at the 2020 Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland, cancelled due to COVID-19.

  • Hurst, M.*, Oswald, M.*, Levine, S., Goldin-Meadow, S., Spelke, E. (August 2019) Math Games Improving Number Sense and Geometry. 2019 Ready…Set…Teach! Summer Institute, Chicago IL

  • Oswald, M., Gibson, D., Butts, J., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (March 2019) The Spontaneous Use of Cardinal Number Gestures. 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MA

  • Oswald, M. (March 2019) The Spontaneous Use of Cardinal Number Gestures. University of Chicago Developmental Brown Bag, Chicago, IL

  • Oswald, M., Butts, J., Levine, S., (February 2019) Increasing Cardinal Number Knowledge Through Gesture. University of Chicago Cognition Workshop, Chicago, IL

* co-presented

Poster Presentations

  • Oswald, M., Hurst, M., Levine, S. (April 2022) Children restrict meaning of ordinal vocabulary in numeric but not temporal contexts. Poster to be presented at the 2022 Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Madison, WI

  • Oswald, M., Levine, S. (October 2020) Playing games promotes more number talk than other home activities. Poster presented at the 2020 Home Math Environment Virtual Conference, online.

  • Oswald, M.*, Butts, J.*, Levine, S. (June 2020) Giving early number learning a hand: increasing cardinal number knowledge through gesture. Poster accepted to 2020 Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland, cancelled due to COVID-19. 

  • Frausel, R., Oswald, M., Mansfield, E. (May 2020) An observational study of the nature and frequency of parent-child activities in the home. Poster presented at the 2020 APS Annual Convention, online.

  • Oswald, M., Kumar, L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (October 2019) Parent cardinal number gestures encourage children to focus on numerosity. Poster presented at the 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, KY

  • Oswald, M., Gibson, D., Butts, J., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (March 2019) Cardinal Number Gestures in the Home Environment. Poster presented at the 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MA

  • Oswald, M. & Lany, J. (May, 2016) Individual Differences in Real-Time Language Processing are Present by 12 Months of Age. Poster presented at the 2016 Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA

  • Oswald, M. & Lany, J. (October, 2015) How Much Do 12-Month-Olds Know About Common Words? Individual Differences in Lexical Recognition. Poster presented at the 2015 Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Columbus, OH

* co-presented