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