Barbara Landau - Recent Papers

Landau, B., Hoffman, J.E. and Kurz, N. (2005)  Object recognition with severe spatial deficits in Williams syndrome:  Sparing and breakdown.  Cognition., 1-28.  [PDF]

Reiss, J., Hoffman, J.E., & Landau, B. (2005)  Motion processing specialization in Williams syndrome.  Vision Research, 45, 3379-3390.[PDF]

O'Hearn, K., Landau, B., & Hoffman, J.E. (2005) Multiple object tracking in people with Williams syndrome and in normally developing children. Psychological Science,16(11), 905-912.  [PDF]

Landau, B. and Hoffman, J.E. (2005)  Parallels between spatial cognition and spatial language: Evidence from Williams syndrome.  Journal of Memory and Language. 53 (2), 163-185.   [PDF]

Landau, B., Hoffman, J.E., Reiss, J.E., Dilks, D., Lakusta, L., and Chunyo, G. (2005). Specialization, breakdown, and sparing in spatial cognition:  Lessons from Williams syndrome.  In C. Morris, H.   [PDF]

Lenhoff, & P. Wang (Eds.), Williams-Beuren syndrome:  Research and Clinical Perspectives. Baltimore, MD:  Johns Hopkins Press. 

Landau, B. and Lakusta, L. (2005)  Spatial language and spatial representation: Autonomy and interaction.  In M. Hickmann & S. Robert (Eds.), Space in languages: linguistic systems and cognitive categories. John Benjamins. 

Lakusta, L. and Landau, B. (2005)  Starting at the end:  The importance of goals in spatial language.  Cognition. 96(1), 1-33.  [PDF]

Georgopoulos, M-A., Georgopoulos, A.P, Kurz, N., and Landau, B. (2004)  Figure copying in Williams syndrome and normal subjects.  Experimental Brain Research, 157, 137-146.  [PDF]

Munnich, E. & Landau, B. (2003) The effect of spatial language on spatial representations:  Setting some boundaries.  In D. Gentner. & S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.) Language in mind:  Advances in the study of language and thought.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

Landau, B. (2003) Perceptual units and their mapping with language: How children can (or can't?) use perception to learn words.  In D.G. Hall and S. Waxman (Eds.), Weaving a lexicon.  Cambridge, Mass:  MIT Press. 

Landau, B. & Zukowski, A. (2003) Objects, motions, and paths:  Spatial language of children with Williams Syndrome. Special Issue, Developmental Neuropsychology., C.B. Mervis (Ed.), 23(1-2), 105-138.   [PDF]

Landau, B. (2003)  Axes and direction in spatial language and spatial cognition.  In E. vanderZee and J. Slack (Eds.),  Representing direction in language and space.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hoffman, J.E., Landau, B. & Pagani, J. (2003)  Spatial breakdown in spatial construction: Evidence from eye fixations in children with Williams syndrome.  Cognitive Psychology, 46, 260-301.  [PDF]

Landau, B. (2002)  Spatial cognition. In V. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the human brain.  San Diego, CA:  Academic Press.  [PDF]

Landau, B. (2002)  Early experience and cognitive organization.  In. L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group, England:  Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 

Jordan, H., Reiss, J., Hoffman, J.E., and Landau, B. (2002) Intact perception of biological motion in the face of profound spatial deficits: Williams syndrome.  Psychological Science, 13 (2), 162-167. 

Smith, L.B., Jones, S.S., Landau, B., Gershkoff-Stowe, L., and Samuelson, L.  (2002) Object name learning provides on-the-job training for attention.  Psychological Science, 13 (1), 13-19. 

Munnich, E.,, Landau, B., & Dosher, B.  (2001)  Spatial language and spatial representation:  A cross-linguistic comparison.  Cognition, 81, 171-207.  [PDF]

Landau, B. & Shipley, E. (2001)  Labelling patterns and object naming.  Developmental Science, 4(1),   109-118. 

Landau, B. (2001)  Perceptual units and their mapping with language.  In T. F. Shipley and P. Kellman (Eds.) From fragments to objects:  Segmentation and grouping in vision Advances in Psychology Series, Elsevier Publishing.