Journal articles:

  1. Ellis Cain & Rachel Ryskin (Forthcoming in OpenMind). Semantic Representations are Updated Across the Lifespan Reflecting Diachronic Language Change.
  2. Ellis Cain, Rachel Ryskin, & Chen Yu (2025). Cross‐Situational Statistics Present in an Early Language Learning Context: Evidence From Naturalistic Parent–Child Interactions. Cognitive Science, 49(6), e70078.

Preprints:

  1. Ellis Cain, Elizabeth Geballe, & Tyler Marghetis (Preprint). A literary translation cycle disentangles transmission pressures from sociocultural changes in cultural evolution.

Textbook Chapters:

  1. Ellis Cain & Jeff Yoshimi (2025). Word embeddings. Neural Networks for Cognitive Science.

Conference proceedings:

  1. Alton Chao, Ellis Cain, & Rachel Ryskin (2025). Language experience and prediction across age groups: evidence from diachronic fine-tuning of language models. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47, No. 47).
  2. Ellis Cain & Rachel Ryskin (2024). Diachronic change in verb usage statistics predicts differences in sentence processing across the lifespan. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (pp. 221-230).
  3. Ellis Cain & Rachel Ryskin (2023). Diachronic Language Change and Its Influence on Lexico-semantic Representations Across the Lifespan. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45).
  4. Ellis Cain, Rachel Ryskin, & Chen Yu (2022). Quantifying cross-situational statistics during parent-child toy play. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).
  5. Yayun Zhang, Ellis Cain, David Crandall, & Chen Yu (2022). Grounding Action Verbs in Egocentric Visual Perception. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).
  6. Yayun Zhang, Andrei Amatuni, Ellis Cain, Xizi Wang, David Crandall, & Chen Yu (2021). Human Learners Integrate Visual and Linguistic Information Cross-Situational Verb Learning. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43).
  7. Yayun Zhang, Andrei Amatuni, Ellis Cain, & Chen Yu (2020). Seeking Meaning: Examining a Cross-situational Solution to Learn Action Verbs Using Human Simulation Paradigm. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 42, No. 42).